A Road Too Far

Tess grappling with stick!

We all know Ireland has been undergoing an economic boom for the past decade or so. The Celtic Tiger is now one of the richest statee in the world. A far cry from the 'Banana Republic' Bob Geldoff used to sing about. People are now flocking into Ireland from all over the world. Previously emigration was the byword here.
All this prosperity has come with a price. This new money has to be spent on something - and the thing the Republic has spent it on is roads. Wide laned motorways now span the country. Everywhere has to have a bypass. The God Car has to be appeased. With poverty so recently in the background there is little opposition to the tarmacing of our country. Hey we might lose our economic prosperity if we don't keep building and becoming more and more competitive.
The latest scheme though has disturbed more than a few people. It is a plan to build a motorway through perhaps the most sacred and revered site in Ireland - Tara.
Tara is where the ancient kings of Ireland used to meet, it is where St Patrick converted multitudes to Christianity, its where a famous battle against the British took place in 1798. Archaeologists have located scores of valuable historical sites lying in the path of the motorway.
And why do we need this motorway? Well, to get more cars into already congested Dublin.
Instead of building a rail corridor to take people out of their cars the government wants to speed them along into the city and to hell with our heritage and our fresh air.
There is a legal challenge to this madness and there will be onsite opposition. I'll keep you posted.