The Hill of Tara takes to the streets Love Tara

Worldwide street protests are being staged against the construction of M3 motorway near Ireland's Hill of Tara.
The Hill of Tara is the traditional seat of the high kings of Ireland, the surrounding landscape has numerous burial mounds, rock art, earthen enclosures, and stone monuments. Tara was named one of the 100 most endangered sites by the World Monuments Fund this year.
Demonstrations will get underway in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and London, to highlight what protestors say is the government's refusal to acknowledge that the construction of the M3 motorway is illegal.
TaraWatch is stepping up its protests to try and put pressure on Environment Minister John Gormley to act on this issue, and prevent their case coming before the courts.
A "Love Tara" march will also be held in Dublin.
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A protest march will also be held in Dublin on Saturday, July 21st at 1pm, which will go from the Garden of Remembrance to Custom House, the headquarters of the Department of the Environment.
Tara watch campaigners are angry with the Green Party’s election pact with Fianna Fáil, agree to the M3 motorway project and today’s announcement by Green and Environment Minister John Gormley that the Government will not re-route the road despite Euopean criticism.
The Irish Government has said it will not re-route the M3 despite an official warning from the European Commission that it is in breach of European law in relation to the planning of the controversial road.
John Gormley said he did not have the power to undo the last-minute decision taken by predecessor Dick Roche to sign an order which permits the road works to proceed.
However Irish MEP Kathy Sinnott says Mr Gormley "can and must re-route the M3". Ms Sinnott said the identification of the Lismullen site as a national monument this year constituted a material change of circumstances and insisted the M3 Motorway project was now illegal as it lacks a valid Environmental Impact Assessment. according to the European Commission a material change has occurred in the shape of the monument at Lismullin, which was not taken into account in the Environmental Impact Assessment conducted in 2003. This assessment was on the basis that no national monument lay in the path of the road. The discovery and identification of Lismullin as a national monument this year represents a definite change in circumstance that could not have been taken into account at the time of the 2003 EIA." Kathy Sinnott.
Mr Gormley said he was taking the EU warning "very seriously indeed" and would discuss the matter with the European Commissioner for the Environment Stavros Dimas.
Responding to Ms Sinnott’s calls to re-route the M3 Motorway, Mr Gormely said: "I don’t have the power to re-route the entire M3 . . . I can only deal with the powers that I have, and what I intend to do is to speak to Commissioner Dimas tomorrow".
Darren Delahunty, one of the London group organisers, said: "Irish people in the UK are outraged at the refusal of the Irish authorities to try and proceed with the road, even when the public are so against it, and the EU have stated it is illegal. Since the Irish abroad could not vote in the Irish elections, we are making our views known to our Government in the only way we can," he said of the planned picket.
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