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Save The Valley Of Tara - A Pagan Sanctuary

Emma | 23.11.2004 09:17 | Culture | Ecology | World

The Ancient capital of Ireland and one of the most important ancient landscapes in Europe, is under threat of a proposed motorway (M3) from Belfast to Dublin. Decision time has arrived.

For more information go to:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1348030,00.html

Hill of Tara
Hill of Tara


To join the March for Tara please read below for details……………..

A demonstration against the proposed M3 motorway route through the national monument of the Hill of Tara is to be held in Dublin on Saturday, November 27th, beginning at 1.30pm. The public are invited to gather at The Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square and march up O'Connell Street to the Dublin Civic Offices at Wood Quay.

The purpose of the march is to give the public an opportunity to voice their objection to the Government, particularly Dick Roche, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who is currently considering whether to give directions to begin excavations of over 40 individual monuments in and around the Hill of Tara, at a cost to us of 30 million euros.

Groups and individuals from all parts of Ireland have already pledged their support, as have members of all the Opposition parties. Primary, secondary and third level student groups in Offaly, Wexford, Cork and multiple other towns have begun campaigns, sending letters to the Minister, and have pledged to support the march.

The march will be an opportunity for people to express their anger over the bad planning, corruption, toll roads, public-private partnerships, overspending on motorways, lack of investment in public transport, as well as the overall widespread rapid destruction of Irish heritage being funded by Irish taxpayers money.

Campaigners from the Clondalkin Round Tower; Woodstown, Co. Cork; Carrickmines Castle, Trim Castle, and many other heritage sites under threat will be calling for the Government to make further efforts to preserve Ireland's cultural heritage. Parnell Square is particularly symbolic because of Parnell's famous 'monster meeting' at the Hill of Tara in the nineteenth century. Wood Quay is even more significant since it was here that Viking remains were discovered in the late 1970's and a campaign was waged against the construction of the Dublin Civic Offices on top of the site.

Ironically, the National Monument's Act was amended to prevent a repeat of such an act of desecration. Dr. Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin, of NUI Maynooth said: "We have been inundated with requests on how to get involved." Vincent Salafia, Public Relations Officer said: " Irish people feel that Tara must be saved, and this is their way of saying that preserving cultural heritage is just as important as developing the economy."

Vincent Salafia - 087-132-3365  uatuathal@yahoo.com
Dr. Muireann Ní Bhrolchain - 087-924-9510  muireann.nibhrolchain@may.ie

For those that might like to attend the march but cannot make it Please sign the petition to be found @
Save Tara / Skryne Valley Group
 http://www.taraskryne.org

Emma

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Druids of the World are Watching

25.11.2004 18:52


Tara is a very sacred place for all Druids. We are watching these developments from the US, Britain, and many other countries. Our hearts and spirits are with the marchers. It would be wiser for the Irish government to invest in trains and busses to ease congestion on the roads. Destroying sacred and historical sites is a crime against all future generations. The ancestors must be respected.

Ellen Evert Hopman, Druidess - Order of the Whiteoak (Ord na Darach Gile)


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