The M3 motorway through the Tara-Skryne Valley has been in the news this month. The Sunday Tribune newspaper has decided to take up the cause, fronting notables such as actor Stewart Townsend. Townsend's showing on RTE chat show "The Late Late Show" was a bit of a letdown, as he did not seem to know very much about the...

On the 15th August 1843 some 100,000 people came to the Hill of Tara to listen to Daniel O'Connell speak in favour of repeal of the Act of Union. His words proclaimed the immense social, political and military importance of the location:"This was emphatically the spot from which emanated every social power and legal authority by which the force of...

In early 2007, archaeologists working on the route of the M3 Highway near the village of Lismullin, Ireland, discovered a vast Iron Age ceremonial enclosure, or henge, surrounded by two concentric walls. The 2,000-year-old site is just over a mile from the Hill of Tara, traditional seat of the High Kings of Ireland. In late 2007, a large stone...