The Hill of Tara

IRELAND'S SHAME: A SUPERHIGHWAY ACROSS THE HILL OF TARA
By T.S. Kerrigan
'What's next, a shopping center connecting the Lakes of Killarney? A strip mall in Dingle? Unprincipled people seem to be in charge of Ireland's cultural future... .' Click here to see the full article.

It's looked like this for 7000 years ...
Unless we do something...NOW!

...It will look like this! ...for ... EVER!

"Tara is, because of its associations, probably the most consecrated spot in Ireland, and its destruction will leave many bitter memories behind it."
W. B. Yeats, et al., in a letter of protest to The Times, 27th June 1902, when Tara was last threatened.

We call on the Irish Government to review their decision to build the M3 freeway through the Hill of Tara/Skryne Vallley. There are other options available. These include: improving the existing N3; re-opening the Navan-Dublin railway line; or moving the M3 away from this delicate archaeological landscape.

“…an act of cultural vandalism as flagrant as ripping a knife through a Rembrandt painting” Professor Dennis Harding, Department of Archaeology, Edinburgh University

Harding’s powerful metaphor comes closest to expressing the horror felt by many at the prospect of Tara being brutally ‘excavated’ by machine, and then straddled with a four-lane toll road and a fifty-acre interchange....

What exactly is so important about this place, that is has sparked such a furore over the last six years, which only keeps growing bigger, nationally and internationally?

Join the growing world-wide grass-roots movement of people who want to protect Tara.

• Learn about Anam Cara for Tara Festival campaign here
  
  
• Read Tara Position Paper here
  
  
• Sign the petition here.
  
  
• View photos and read Save Tara Press Release here
  
  
• Write letters or send an email:
  Click here for a sample letter.
  Click here for a list of all the email addresses below.
  
  
• Irish government representatives.
  
  
• Write a letter to Bertie Ahern, the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister).
  Address:
  Mr Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach, Department of the Taoiseach, Government Buildings, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
  taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie
  phone and fax numbers for his department.
  Phone: 00353 1 6194020 / or 4021 / or 4043
  Fax: 00353 1 6764048
  
  
• Other government officials to contact:
  
  - Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, Department of the Envioronment, Heritage and Local Government, Customs House, Dublin 1, Ireland. minister@environ.ie
  
  - Sean Haughey, TD. Chariman, Environment Committee,
  Dáil Éireann, Dublin 1, Ireland.
  Sean_haughey@oireachtas.irlgov.ie
  
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• Write letters to the Irish Media
  
  Irish Press
  
  The Irish Times
  The Irish Times Building,
  PO Box 74,
  24-28 Tara Street,
  Dublin 2, Ireland
  +353 1 675 8000
  Letters to the Editor lettersed@irish-times.ie
  The Irish Times Editorial newsdesk@irish-times.ie
  
  The Irish Independent
  1-800-733-733
  Or, email directly to The Editor of the Irish Independent: independent.letters@unison.independent.ie
  http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/ (free - registration required)
  
  The Irish Examiner letters@examiner.ie
  The Irish Examiner (print edition),
  Academy Street, Cork
  +353 21 4272722.
  http://www.examiner.ie (free-registration optional)
  
  The Meath Chronicle (free - registration required)
  ken@meath-chronicle.ie / brian@meath-chronicle.ie
  http://www.unison.ie/meath_chronicle/
  
  The Sunday Times
  ireland@sunday-times.ie
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk
  
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• Irish Television and Radio
  
  
• RTÉ
  Donnybrook
  Dublin 4, Ireland
  Tel: 01 208 3111
  http://www.rte.ie/
  info@rte.ie
  washington@rte.ie
  london@rte.ie
  europe@rte.ie
  
  RTÉ National Radio programs
  radio1@rte.ie
  Morning Ireland
  morningireland@rte.ie
  News At One
  newsatone@rte.ie
  Drivetime
  drivetime@rte.ie
  World Report
  worldreport@rte.ie
  This Week
  thisweek@rte.ie
  
  RTÉ Television Programmes:
  Prime Time
  prime.time@rte.ie
  Questions and Answers
  qanda@rte.ie
  Nationwide
  nationwide@rte.ie
  
  
• Nuacht TG4
  Baile na hAbhann,
  Co. na Gaillimhe
  nuacht@tg4.ie
  
  
• Newstalk
  To contact the show to comment:
  1890 453106
  info@newstalk.ie
  by text: 53106
  News Director - John Keogh
  johnkeogh@newstalk.ie
  http://www.newstalk.ie/
  
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• ARTS ACTIONS
  
  
• Organise private or public events that inspire, educate and encourage people to lend their voices to this movement.
  
  
• Join the Save Tara Yahoo Group
  
  
• Download the latest edition of the Tara Foundation Magazine
  

The following collection of links present an overview of the spiritual, archaeological, political history related to the Hill of Tara.

Save Tara

Tara Watch

Tara Foundation

Knowth.com

Mythical Ireland

Sacred Ireland

Save Tara Valley

Tara Solidarity Vigil

Hill of Tara Info

Megalithomania.com

Heart of the Rose Photo Journal

Between the Mists

Protect Tara

National University of Ireland, Galway


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