'SAVE TARA!' - TaraWatch campaign to save Hill of Tara from the M3 motorway in Ireland
Prevent the M3 from destroying millennia of Irish history embedded in Tara, Ireland's ancient royal capital Learn More
Participate in the UNESCO consultation and demand the M3 is re-routed - Deadline December
Dear TaraWatch supporter, Thank you for your continued support of the campaign to save Tara from the M3. This week, a new Tentative List of Ireland's proposed World Heritage Sites was published by the Department of the Environment, and it includes Tara. The Hill of Tara landscape should be a World Heritage Site, but … Read More
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What are you guys going to be doing about the Leinster Orbital? It's even closer to Tara than the M3 was...
I just hope that they will realise how much damage that they will do to our heritage if this motorwy goes ahead.
Updated: The cause has reached 15,000 members.
Please sign the petition to the UNited Nations to save the Hill of Tara from the M3 motorway in Ireland.
It is also critical that you pass on the address, by posting it on your facebook page, blog or even just forwarding this email:
http://www.savetarapetition.net
Out goal is one million signatures and we are only at 1,500
If you have any ideas on how to promote the petition online, please let us know.
Thank you!
TaraWatch
http://www.tarawatch.org
info@tarawatch.org
I used to live in Trim, about 8km away. Wasn't this stopped in 2006? Didn't the motorway get re-routed?
People might be interested in this - some kind of art project I think, anyone can vote for one of four historical events, one of which is Samhain at Tara. See http://ianclothier.com/makinghis...
im devonian from england you losing tara would be like us losing stonehenge,a very sad day, good luck in saving it
Updated: The cause has reached 14,000 members.
Hi Vincent, just signed the UN petition, and whilst signing it I remembered a documentary I saw on TG4 a few months ago which really opened up my eyes to the historical importance of Tara. I can't remember the name of it, or who made it, but I felt so disgusted afterwards that I thought that if this was shown on RTE or TV3 and the general public in Ireland got to see it, then there would be so much more of support for the cause.....??
There is also a conservation category known as SAAO, (special amenity area order) which unlike the others has real teeth and where it is applied no development can take place, Bray Head is one example and efforts are afoot to have the Murrough area of Wicklow Bay likewise designated. I cannot uderstand why an area of such environmental and archaeological sensitivy cannot be similarly designated. I know the designation refers to areas of beauty, but surely, in this case 'beauty' can be applied to Tara.
Paul Leahy, Brittas Bay, County Wicklow
For way way too long have we allowed government cowboys in the country line each others pockets. Its time that the irish started to uprise against these Americanised puppets. We're a disgrace of a country. WE have no pride in the countryside or maintaining areas for preservation be it historical, flora or fauna. Its time to get serious and fight for what is deemed resonible in other parts of europe i.e preservation and conservation, its all very well threatening the government with fairies and druids but what it boils down to is a need to preserve flora/fauna species, areas of historical importance and the integrity of our landscapes as well as creating an efficient infrastructure. Get scientists,conservationalists,botan ists,taxonomists,ecologists,Natural ists etc involved. Fight fire with fire, take the intellectual and political action and disregard the whole sticking flowers in ak-47's and weeping over cauldrons angle, because thats how the majority of people have seen this cause. Im with you on it but this is the grim reality of how the cause is seen.
I know a lot of people here won't want to hear this, but has anyone given any thought to making the local Druid community petition the government? This is a wanton desecration of our holy ground; I'm sure if the government wanted to build a road right where a church was situated, there'd be rioting in the streets... Anyways, has this route been taken, the use of religious affiliation as a defense of the site? There are plenty of druids across Ireland, the UK and the states who would rally in support of this, if that route is taken. We're a fairly fragmented bunch though, but if the outcry is made... Keltria, OBOD, ADF, Order of the White Oak, Avalon, New Order, etc would probably unite to protest the destruction, if our members aren't already involved, which is also fairly likely...
Anyways, just something to think on.
~Saoirse Ni Casaide
New Order of Druids
PRESS RELEASE
TARAWATCH
13 July 2009
'Green Party Banned From TaraWatch Facebook, Before Conference This Weekend'
TaraWatch has decided to ban all Green Party members from their Facebook cause, which currently has 13,500 members, in advance of the Green Party Conference this weekend. (see http://wwww.causes.com/savetara )
A notice will be sent out to all members today, informing them of the decision and asking them to remove themselves from the group if they are members of the Green Party. Notice will also be sent to the Green Party itself, stating that their members have been banned.
The move comes after a Green Party member, Ger Kelly started posting statements from John Gormley on the group page, defending the Minsiter's delay in nominating the Hill of Tara as a UNESCO site, which effectively stops UNESCO from interfering with the M3 motorway and saving Tara.
Former Mayor of Galway, Niall O Bhrolchain, who recently lost his set of Galway County Council, is included in the ban. Niall had been the number 4 recruiter to the Facebook cause, but his activity dropped off dramatically when the Green Party entered Government.
Preparations are being made in TaraWatch for protests outside and inside the Green Party conference, to be held this weekend.
Vincent Salafia of TaraWatch said:
"We should have banned the Green Party moles the moment they sold out Tara and entered Government, but we wanted to abuse them directly.
"They are still pretending to support us, but are really using our network for counter-intelligence and black propaganda.
"The Green Party is finished, but we're not finished with them yet."
ENDS
Contact: Vincent Salafia 087-132-3365
http://www.tarawatch.org