Road builders raided, Digger diving done at Tara, Ireland

Novem­ber 9th

Dig­gers Ahoy!

Road builders offices raid­ed by cul­tur­al con­ser­va­tion­ists.

TARA CAMPAIGN LATEST!

THE TARA cul­tur­al con­ser­va­tion­ists halt­ed work on a con­tro­ver­sial sec­tion of the pro­posed new M3 on Thurs­day.

Novem­ber 9th

Dig­gers Ahoy!

Road builders offices raid­ed by cul­tur­al con­ser­va­tion­ists.

TARA CAMPAIGN LATEST!

THE TARA cul­tur­al con­ser­va­tion­ists halt­ed work on a con­tro­ver­sial sec­tion of the pro­posed new M3 on Thurs­day.
Twen­ty-one cam­paign­ers stormed the admin­is­tra­tive com­plex (Dunshaughlin)of the site con­trac­tors (SIAC, Fer­rovial and Eurolink.)near Tara Hill, occu­py­ing offices and film­ing sur­prised staff.

Then they went to a near­by con­struc­tion site and climbed on to bull­doz­ers, stop­ping road­mak­ing for an hour-and-a-half.

It was a sig­nif­i­cant esca­la­tion of the long protest, timed to coin­cide the old Celtic New Year’s Day.

One of the rea­sons for the action was the EU’s recent court rul­ing on con­trac­tors to stop, in view of the con­tin­u­ing dam­age to Ire­land’s World Her­itage Site.

A spokesman for the con­ser­va­tion­ists said: “This direct action has been tak­en by con­cerned cit­i­zens of the EU because the Irish gov­ern­ment is ignor­ing Euro­pean law.”
“Con­tin­ued attempts have been made to per­suade the gov­ern­ment to stop the work on this sec­tion of the M3 while a deci­sion is reached by the Euro­pean com­mis­sion.
“It was a very suc­cess­ful action and many mes­sages of con­cern were con­veyed to the senior man­age­ment at the admin­is­tra­tive site.
Con­nor McDer­mot, tech­ni­cal man­ag­er, when asked why the graves of our ances­tors had been des­e­crat­ed gave us no com­ment.
“Infor­ma­tion was gath­ered on ille­gal road build­ing activ­i­ties.
“It has come to light that fur­ther destruc­tion of this his­toric val­ley will be caused by 129 kilo­me­tres of slip roads as well as 79 km of motor­way and the fur­ther devel­op­ment that will inevitably hap­pen if this destruc­tion is allowed.

Cam­paign­ers call on all Irish net­works to acti­vate and sup­port the Save Tara Val­ley campaign,help urgent­ly need­ed.

More reports on front­line action soon.
Video link soon Tech sup­port need­ed.

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