Away with fairies
•It is with amazement that I read that the Department of the Environment is proposing to send a Kerry farmer to jail for destroying a ring-fort.
Is this the same Department of the Environment that failed to act as Rath Lugh, most likely to be the Great Rath mentioned as the grave mound of the Fianna in the Annals, was embedded in a motorway? It was not only a national monument, but one of almost equal importance to the Hill of Tara itself.
Is this the same Department of the Environment that sanctioned the destruction of the Barronstown national monument at four in the morning?
Is it the same Department of the Environment that issued a destruction order for Lismullen, Ireland's version of the Colosseum -- a 2,500-year-old national monument? Not to mention the 140 other, lesser monuments on the route?
Can we expect to see ministers Dick Roche and John Gormley in the dock soon? Or once again, is there one rule for the politicians and another for us?
No wonder they wanted to destroy Tara and its memories of "equal and indifferent justice". We might just remember how much we loved it.
Pauline Bleach
Newtown, New South Wales
Irish Independent
