Roche and the M3 at Tara

Madam, - If, as he claims, Minister for the Environment Dick Roche strongly believes in the conservation and protection of our…

Madam, - If, as he claims, Minister for the Environment Dick Roche strongly believes in the conservation and protection of our built heritage ( The Irish Times, April 12th), why is there a motorway being routed through the Tara-Skryne valley, despoiling Ireland's oldest and most revered national monument?

Is the all-singing, all-dancing Irish Government planning a performance of The Pirate Queenon the Hill of Tara?

- Yours, etc,

PATRICK O'BYRNE, Shandon Crescent, Phibsborough, Dublin 7.