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A national monument has been discovered directly in the path of the M3 motorway in the grounds of Tara, it 's an ancient henge, said to be the si ze of three football fields.

It is vital now to help if you can, there is a general election in Ireland called for May 24, and a number of the opposition parties have pledged, should they come to power, to reroute the motorway away from the Tara landscape.

The plight of Tara needs to be kept in the foreground, and urgently so, as construction of the motorway will soon begin. It is also feared that the Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, will give permission for this new archaeological find at Tara to be 'preserved by record' - which means just noted down, and then physically destroyed, letting the bulldozers for the motorway plough through it.

The issue is receiving international coverage – please keep the momentum going by writing letters to the Irish papers, no matter where you're located in the world, voicing your concern at the destruction of the ancient Tara landscape. This is not against a motorway for the area, other feasible motorway routes have always been available right from the beginning and still are. The motorway can still be re-routed and the ancient grounds of Tara preserved.

A list of the ‘Letters to the Editor' email addresses for the main Irish newspapers is given below. Please take the time to write a letter and to assist Tara now, this may well be the last chance to alter the plans for the motorway through the heart of the priceless Tara landscape.

lettersed@irish-times.ie The Irish Times
ken@meath-chronicle.ie (Editor, The Meath Chronicle, the local county paper for the area of Tara).
letters@examiner.ie The Examiner
letters@unison.independent.ie The Irish Independent
editorial@tribune.ie The Sunday Tribune
sunday.letters@unison.independent.ie The Sunday Independent

If you need further background information read through our www.protect-tara.org website, or go to www.savetara.com