Emancipate Tara from
bulldozers
It seems appropriate on the day Daniel O'Connell brought
a million Irish people to Tara to call for freedom, that
we should question why Environment Minister John Gormley
can get an inquiry reopened into a Bord Pleanála
decision, yet says he can do nothing about the M3 Tara
decision.
The powerful Repeal movement, made up as it was of
poverty-stricken Irish people, would surely have
influenced Gandhi when he studied law in London, in 1883,
a mere 40 years later.
The bond between the Irish people and Tara continues even
with the bulldozers running. Our top poets Seamus Heaney
and Paddy[Paul] Muldoon are continuing the tradition of
Yeats in railing against the desecration of the sacred
landscape. Today is a day to contemplate the slogan Sean
Lemass promoted: "A future for our Past", and to give
Tara the future it deserves.
Pauline Bleach,
Augustine Court,
Galway.
© The Irish Independent, 16th. August 2008.
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