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News stories on Tara and UNESCO

TaraWatch Looks Across the Atlantic for Support  (Epoch Times – April 14, 2009)

‘Woodhenge’ found in Hill of Tara’s soil  (Sunday Times – April 12, 2009)

Wood you believe it? Stonehenge find at Tara (Irish Independent – 11 April 2009)

Irish activist aims for U.S. support to stop highway at Tara (Irish Central – April 1, 2009)

Lecture at The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, TCD (Irish Times – 24 March 2009)

Tara campaigner rules out running for EU  (Irish Times – 20 March 2009)

M3 motorway ‘ahead of schedule’ (Irish Times – 5 March 2009)

Tara Endangered says Smithsonian (Irish Times – 28 February 2009)

Smithsonian puts Hill of Tara on list of endangered must-sees (Irish Independent – 28 Feb 2009)

Tara proposed as UNESCO world heritage site (Irish Times - 30 January 2009)

World Heritage Sites list to be reviewed  (Irish Times - 1 December 2008)

State needs to open up on Tara (Irish independent – Letter to the Editor – 11 September 2008)

‘Fat cats’ dish out cash in Tara protest  (Irish Independent – 26 August 2008)

Railway makes more sense than M3 (Irish Times letters – 21 August 2008)

TaraWatch against UN heritage status  (Irish Times - (15 August 2008)

Archaeologists ‘used to destroy hertage’, conference told  (Irish Times – 4 July 2008)

TaraWatch to present petition to UNESCO in Quebec (Irish Independent – 3 July 2008)

Heaney donates works for Tara auction  (Irish Times – 2 July 2008)

Sites to see before you die  (Irish Times – 21 June 2008)

Tara conservation lobby group meeting UNESCO (Irish Independent – 21 June 2008)

Le Brocquy joins the Tara fight  (Irish Independent – 19 June 2008)

Sights for sore eyes: we have 16 must-see places  (Irish Independent - 24 May 2008)

Crucial time for Tara’s heritage (Sunday Independent – Letter to the Editor – Sunday April 27 2008)

16 Irish heritage sites feature in ‘must-see’ book Before you die  (Irish Times – 23 April 2008)

UNESCO status is only a distrection (Irish Independent – Letter to the Editor -  22 April 2008)

M3 protesters focus on Gormley’s UNESCO plan  (Irish Times – 19 April 2008)

M3 not to stop Tara getting world status, says Gormley  (Irish Times – 11 April 2008)

M3 ‘won’t derail’ Tara heritage bid  (Irish Independent – 11 April 2008)

EU accused of failing to halt ‘Taliban destruction’ of Tara  (Irish Independent – 2 April 2008)

Heaney claims motorway near Tara desecrates sacred landscape  (Irish Times – 3 March 2008)

State fails to use heritage site register  (Irish Times – 1 January 2008)

Leading archaeologists to debate ‘ethics’ of Tara road (Irish Independent – 7 June 2008)

Tara site named in top 10 archaeological discoveries (Irish Independent – 21 December 2007)

US academic joins clamour to save Tara ‘amphitheatre’ (Irish Independent – 22 Aug 2007)

Tara group fury as M3 is finally given green light (Irish Independent – 23 Aug 2007)

Protesters are bulldozed in Tara row (Irish Independent - Letter to the Editor – 8 August 2007)

Independent advice now needed on Tara  (Irish Independent – Letters to the Editor – 12 May 2007)

Hill of Tara and Georgian villa on endangered list (Irish Independent- 7 June 2007)

Two major surveys failed to discover ancient site  (Irish Independent – 6 May 2007)

Discovery of prehistoric site hits Tara M-way work  (Irish Independent – 2 May 2007)

Roche alerted weeks ago to major ‘temple’ on M3  (Irish independent – 3 March 2007)

Shock in UK at Tara plan  (Irish Independent - Letter to the Editor – 29 March 2006)

Protect Tara Hill, museum director (Irish Independent – 19 Jan 2006)

Motorway opponents say TDs ‘flunked’ Tara test (Irish Independent – 13 January 2006)

Why Tara is precious (Irish Independent – Letter to the Editor – 20 May 2005)

Pressure put on archaeolgists to drop Tara statement  (Irish Times – 23 June 2005)

Minister says he cannot ‘vary’ M3 route (Irish Times – 17 December 2004)

An act designed to facilitate roads and real estate (Irish Times – Opinion – 17 August 2004)

On the road to a battle at Tara (Irish Independent – 19 May 2004)

Hill of Tara and the M3 motorway (Irish Times letters – 2 February 2004)

UNESCO extends Boyne visit to meet Hill of Tara protesters (Irish Times – 2 February 2004)