Ireland has for decades been a land exempt from the concrete cancer that has consumed the rest of the world this last century. This is increasingly no longer the case. The recent influx of European money (now drying up as planned) has led to mindless levels of development. Whole housing estates now stand uninhabited, as there is no money for property purchases. The most ancient and sacred place in Irish history, mythology,, and identity-THE HILL OF TARA, has been largely excavated and destroyed by careless, misleading corporate archaeologists and tarmaced over. Most of the discoveries have been covered up and misrepresented. The laws that would have prevented this destruction were removed from the statute along with the governmental body in charge of "heritage protection" in the ammendment to the National monuments act in 2004. Up until this point development at tara would have been illegal due to An Duchas' protection zone established after the discovery program in 2000. In addition to this, incredibly valuable gas deposits have been found in Mayo, in the west of Ireland. This has been sold entirely to Shell at a fraction of it's value(presumably due to government bribes). The safest way to extract this would be using an off-shore refinery. In order to minimise costs, Shell plan to build a large, high pressure pipeline on land to a refinery. Shell has a bad reputation for causing huge explosions and wiping out entire towns in other countries. Both these causes are being resisted on the ground, but numbers are thin. The situation is now critical, anyone interested should research these subjects themselves. This country is still so undamaged. It is mostly undeveloped and still has a wealth of archaeology and history unrivalled in most countries
Oh no! I am planning a summer bike oddyssey through Ireland this year and was going to try and check out some sacred sites. This definitly sucks. Let me know if there is anything happening about this which I could possibly assist with while I'm there.
Well the well known sites of the Hill of Tara are still there. I went there last year as part of an archaeology (wow I cant spell lol) field trip and it was was such an amazing magical place. I would love to go back there again. (preferably when it isn't rainy and windy!) As an Irish person I can say I was disgusted that our government would go through with this plan and destroy our ancient history for the sake of yet another road. We can build another road but we cannot re-build our history once destroyed. As far as I know theres nothing we can do to stop this though because construction has started...
