The fight goes on at
Tara
It is laughable that the OPW now starts talking about
"under the National Monuments Act it is our duty to
protect the monument. This is about the structures
here".
Have they seen the size of the hole in the side of Rath
Lugh? Last time I heard it was still a national
monument.
The damage to Rath Lugh at Tara threatens the integrity
of the monument since it is an ice esker and any damage
allows water to enter and the monument could simply
dissolve away.
This is more about trying to silence protest on what
Seamus Heaney calls the "desecration of our culture".
Well, Mr. Ahern is gone and the hippies may be gone from
the hill, but there is still two-thirds of the Irish
population who insist even at this late stage that the
motorway should be re-routed.
And we will not be silenced.
Pauline Bleach,
Galway.
© The Irish Independent, 12th. May 2008.
