Cathaoirleach should resign over
protester remarks
Dear Sir - If Colr. Nicholas Killian made the remarks
reported in your newspaper (Meath Chronicle, 5th. April
2008) then he should resign his position as
Cathaoirleach.
They were at best inaccurate and at worst ignorant and
outright racist. Need I remind him that those camped at
Rath Lugh are expressing their own form of protest and
that many others have expressed their protest in letters,
statements, marches and appearing at the Aerial Art event
on Tara?
He suggests, outrageously, that protesters should leave
Ireland and join the Taliban. How many University
departments will be depleted while lucky Afghanistan will
be full of Old Irish, history and archaeology lecturers
and professors.
Perhaps Seamus Heaney, Jim Fitzpatrick, David Norris,
Louis le Brocquy and the 70% of Irish people who believe
that this route should be changed should also leave?
Ireland is becoming a dictatorship where no dissenting
voice is to be heard. Colr. Killian, the members of Meath
County Council and the NRA should be exiled to live with
the Taliban for ruining the heritage in their care. Apart
from the outrageous route chosen for the M3, there is the
hotel beside the castle that Mr. Killian was praising,
the unsightly pylons that could decorate the view to the
west of royal Tara and the recent planning permission for
745 houses on the site of the Battle of the Boyne.
Need I remind him that Tara is part of the world's
heritage and does not belong to him or his Fianna
Fáil cohorts? Remarks like this and the behaviour
of such philistines makes me ashamed to be Irish.
I no longer wish to visit Tara and view the desecration
of her landscape and of Rath Lugh or bring foreign
students to visit the county.
Yours,
Dr. Muireann Ní
Bhrolcháin,
Lecturer in Celtic Studies,
Maynooth,
Co. Kildare.
© The Meath Chronicle, 12th. April 2008.
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