Upcoming Events

National | Environment

no events match your query!

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

Anti-Empire >>

The Saker

Indymedia ireland

Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

The Saker >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Rotherham Police Sexually Abused Us Too, Say Five Grooming Victims Wed Jul 30, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Just when you think the rape gang scandal can't get worse, five Rotherham victims say police officers abused them too ? claims currently being investigated by South Yorkshire Police itself, sparking fears of a whitewash.
The post Rotherham Police Sexually Abused Us Too, Say Five Grooming Victims appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Online Safety Act is a Censor?s Charter Wed Jul 30, 2025 13:00 | Andrew Doyle
We were assured by Conservative and Labour politicians that the Online Safety Act was designed to protect children. In the last few days, its real, more sinister purpose has become, writes Andrew Doyle.
The post The Online Safety Act is a Censor?s Charter appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Political Censors Have Cynically Hijacked Vital Child Protections Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
Andrew Orlinski in the Telegraph says the Online Safety Act has less to do with protecting children than suppressing populist political sentiment.
The post Political Censors Have Cynically Hijacked Vital Child Protections appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Edinburgh University?s Decolonisation Report is Pure Left-Wing Politics Wed Jul 30, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
Edinburgh University's 'Decolonised Transformations: Confronting the University of Edinburgh?s History and Legacies of Enslavement and Colonialism,' is Left-wing politics of the worst kind, says Professor James Alexander.
The post Edinburgh University’s Decolonisation Report is Pure Left-Wing Politics appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump Was Right to Skewer Starmer Over Britain?s ?Windmills Scam? Wed Jul 30, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Trump was right to skewer Starmer over Britain's "windmills scam" when he met him in Scotland this week, says Ben Pile. It was a cringefest worthy of The Office, but Starmer can't afford to ignore the President?s warning.
The post Trump Was Right to Skewer Starmer Over Britain’s “Windmills Scam” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Tara's landscape - protest and destruction

category national | environment | news report author Friday February 23, 2007 09:22author by M. Ni Bhrolchain - Save Tara Report this post to the editors

As the archaeologists move out - the diggers move in

A series of photographs of the activity in the Gabhra Valley over the last 6 weeks. The wonderful sites that are being exposed and explored are being prepared for the destruction. Bodies and artefacts are removed from huge sites that are so large that they now back one on the other.
Protests take place each Friday at 3pm on the N3 just after the entrance to Tara on the way to Navan in the Gabhra Valley where it meets the Hill of Tara.
Roestown aerial - ready for destruction
Roestown aerial - ready for destruction

How the powers that be treat our most sensitive landscape - what hope for anywhere else in Ireland?

*Irish Independent, Letter - Battle of Tara not yet over*, *Saturday February 17th 2007*

MINISTER Roche recently launched a study of important battle sites and
vowed to amend the National Monuments Act to protect them saying:
"Battlefields can increase our knowledge and understanding of momentous
events in Irish history" (Irish Times, January 18, 2007).
Tara, and the Gabhra Valley, has been the background of many battles and
¨momentous events", not least the legendary Battle of Gabhra and Achall
(Skreen) between the King of Tara, Cairpre Lifechair, son of Cormac mac
Airt, and the Fianna commemorated in saga and verse.
The king himself and many heroes are said to have perished in the
conflict and were buried in the area. One poem mentions a 'sad mound'
holding 'the long grave'.
Just over a thousand years ago, in 980, the Battle of Tara was fought
between the Irish King Malachy the second, and the Norse king of Dublin,
Olaf.
Presumably the battle casualties were buried in situ somewhere in the
valley. Are their bodies being dug up in advance of the construction of
the M3?
In 1798 there was another Battle of Tara between Irish rebels and crown
forces.
It was perhaps because of the extraordinary historical pedigree of Tara
and its association with battle in the past that Daniel O'Connell saw
fit to hold a monster meeting on the Hill in 1843, said to have been
attended by one million people.
Is Minister Roche's interest in battlefields too late to ensure the
preservation of the sites in the Gabhra Valley and Tara?
Can it possibly be true that battlefields before the early Middle Ages
will be excluded from this audit and will, therefore, not be eligible
for any equivalent protection?
Despite the vision of these recent initiatives, it is somewhat ironic
that this minister, along with former ministers for the Environment,
Dempsey and Cullen, choose this moment in history to do battle with
those Irish citizens who wish to see our heritage, and above all Tara,
granted a modest degree of legal protection.
The Battle of Tara is not yet over.
Dr Muireann Ni Bhrolcháin
School of Celtic Studies
NUI, Maynooth
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
**Irish Independent, Letter - Thursday February 22nd 2007
M3 as national monument

Julitta Clancy (Letters, February 16) highlights the glaring
inconsistencies of An Bord Pleanala's assessment of the impacts on the
archaeological landscape of Tara of the M3 motorway and of a buildings
materials recycling plant respectively (the former will have no impact,
the latter an injurious one).
She is, however, being overly pedantic: neither of these developments is
1,000 metres from the Hill of Tara, they are actually at the foot of the
Hill of Tara.
Though they may be about 1,000m from the State-owned land on the crown
of the hill, everyone knows this is manifestly not the full extent of
the Tara complex.
The landscape and archaeological sites that are being, or would have
been, destroyed by these developments are unique and irreplaceable
components of Tara.
Could it be that An Bord Pleanala is anticipating the prediction of the
Chief Archaeologist (DoE) that the M3 will one day be a national
monument, and that its intention is to protect the motorway from a
development that would detract from its historical significance?
CONOR NEWMAN
(DEPT. OF ARCHAEOLOGY,
NUI, GALWAY)
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Souterrain at Roestown
Souterrain at Roestown

Builders compound at Roestown
Builders compound at Roestown

Protest at N3
Protest at N3

Work at Lismullin Wood in the Gabhra Valley
Work at Lismullin Wood in the Gabhra Valley

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Precious finds     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Fri Feb 23, 2007 09:25 
   M3 European Petition     W. Finnerty.    Fri Feb 23, 2007 18:53 
   More from Roestown     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Fri Feb 23, 2007 19:11 
   A leithéid!!!!!!!!!     Duine    Fri Feb 23, 2007 19:14 
   More sites in the Valley     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Fri Feb 23, 2007 19:18 
   More photos of sites in the Gabhra Valley     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Fri Feb 23, 2007 21:38 
   And more sites again     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Fri Feb 23, 2007 21:51 
   And even more sites and photos     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Fri Feb 23, 2007 22:00 
   In depth shots of Baronstown Jan 4 2007     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Fri Feb 23, 2007 22:05 
 10   Lismullin before the serious digging begins     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Fri Feb 23, 2007 22:09 
 11   Letter to the Irish Independent Feb 16th 2007     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Fri Feb 23, 2007 22:15 
 12   Photos from the NRA M3 website     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Fri Feb 23, 2007 23:49 
 13   Removal of cremation burial at Ardsallagh 2     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Fri Feb 23, 2007 23:58 
 14   Lived and buried in the "shadow of their sacred mountain"     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Sat Feb 24, 2007 00:06 
 15   And finally ...     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Sat Feb 24, 2007 00:09 
 16   A game board     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Sat Feb 24, 2007 01:05 
 17   Additional information sent     W. Finnerty.    Sat Feb 24, 2007 09:25 
 18   Tara Day at NUI Maynooth     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Sat Feb 24, 2007 22:17 
 19   Green Party Conference Motion     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Sun Feb 25, 2007 20:53 
 20   slow down, think a moment about the end result!it will b crap     deFy    Sun Feb 25, 2007 21:54 
 21   Certainly brings it home     Geraldine Moorkens Byrne    Tue Feb 27, 2007 15:26 
 22   Tara Day at NUI Maynooth     Muireann Ni Bhrolchain    Tue Feb 27, 2007 21:28 
 23   A Government on its knees !     Meehawl    Thu Mar 01, 2007 06:56 
 24   Tara Day at Maynooth     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:20 
 25   Bailíonn brobh beart     Duine    Thu Mar 01, 2007 13:43 
 26   M3 - actual construction work started?     Meehawl    Thu Mar 01, 2007 19:13 
 27   Trust the Greens, not on your life !     Smoke-filled Backroom Boy    Thu Mar 01, 2007 19:31 
 28   Green Party Food Tax ? Hungry Irish People ?     Meehawl    Thu Mar 01, 2007 20:58 
 29   Green Party Hunger and Cold for the Poor !     Smokefilled Backroom Boy    Thu Mar 01, 2007 21:44 
 30   Hate to say it but I told you so !     Meehawl    Fri Mar 02, 2007 14:13 
 31   Violating the sacred landscape of the Gabhra Valley     Muireann Ni Bhrolchain    Tue Mar 06, 2007 23:57 
 32   More violation     Muireann Ni Bhrolchain    Wed Mar 07, 2007 00:01 
 33   More photos again     Muireann Ni Bhrolchain    Wed Mar 07, 2007 00:05 
 34   And finally this time     Muireann Ni Bhrolchain    Wed Mar 07, 2007 00:11 
 35   you have my permission     cruthin    Sun Apr 08, 2007 14:46 
 36   if thats the case?     tnc    Sun Apr 08, 2007 15:56 
 37   if thats the case?     tnc    Sun Apr 08, 2007 15:59 
 38   erinshire englands most westerly county     cruthin    Mon Apr 09, 2007 09:28 


Number of comments per page
  
 
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy