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Letters Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, And Paddy Murray
Irish Independent
Some interesting Tara questions
Wednesday August 01 2007
Rory Flood (Letters, July 30) claims that only one individual finds the
apathy of the Irish public to the situation at Tara unfavourable.
Perhaps Mr Flood is not aware, but during a recent poll on the subject
of the route of the proposed M3 motorway, over 67pc of the Irish public
disagreed with the route selected.
I, too, find the entire “controversy” over this road interesting.
I find it interesting that the opinions and advice of some of the
world-renowned experts on Tara were ignored, that millions of euro of
public money were wasted on archaeological surveys on unsuitable routes,
money that could have been spent on causes dear to Mr Flood’s heart such
as poverty, crime, the health service etc.
Finally, as someone who admires the songwriting skills of Liam
O’Maonlai, perhaps he might find time in the future to pen songs about
other areas of government mismanagement such as the previously mentioned
areas of health, crime and poverty.
JIMMY RAFTER,
HILL OF TARA
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Paddy Murray Sunday World, 29 July 2007
Gormley loses bottle.
You may hae seen an item in the newspaper this week concerning our
Environment Minister John Gormley. He did an interview on the subject of
Tara.
But for once, that's not what I'm on about. You see the interesting
thing about the interview, wasn't the interviewee - the Minister. It was
the interviewer, who was, er, the Minister.
What a fantastic idea it is. He should bottle it. (Actually, I think by
doing the interview with himself, he already has bottled it.)
So good an idea is it, that today I am proud to present to you an
interview with me, conducted by me.
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See Paddy's blogspot here: http://www.everydayispaddysday.blogspot.com/
and thanks to him for the link to the website
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Irish Examiner, 2 August 2007
Curse of Tara may have a sting in its tail.
AS the shadow of desecration looms for the sacred site of Tara, the
debate over the rights and wrongs of what is happening there has focused
mainly on evidence from rivals within the field of archaeology,
impassioned arguments by environmentalists, political posturing on all
sides and weighty scholastic allusions to the site’s historical import.
But there has been nothing yet about the occult significance of what is
unfolding at Tara. In the past fortnight, more than half a dozen large
nests of wasps have been encountered in the valley.
In Celtic lore, the wasp is associated with the anger of Mother Earth at
man’s wrongdoing. Its unexpected appearance in a given location was
believed to portend disaster or ill fortune for anyone messing around
with fairy forts or fairy rings.
In African culture, the wasp embodies powers of sublimation and
transmutation. It was, and still is in many parts of the continent,
believed to make its appearance to “transform the profane into the sacred”.
But what can a stupid old insect do? The answer is that this depends
very much on context. Remember what became of Lord Carnarvon in 1922
when he helped open Tutankhamun in Egypt? The age-old curse of the
pharaohs caught up with him!
A few months after his well-publicised intrusion into forbidden
territory, he cut an infected mosquito bite on his face while shaving.
He became violently ill. The moment he died in a Cairo hospital, all the
lights in the city went out. And at the precise moment of death, his dog
back in England emitted an ear-splitting howl and also dropped dead.
The curse of the pharaohs claimed quite a few other victims, too. Which
brings me back to Tara. An expert on folklore and mythology warned
recently that the “curse of the fairies” might be invoked by the
building of the M3 in the Tara Valley. He may have been only half
serious, but if I were a road builder, or one of those politicians
behind the project, I’d be getting quite edgy.
John Fitzgerald
Lower Coyne St
Callan
Co Kilkenny
Some interesting Tara questions
Wednesday August 01 2007
Rory Flood (Letters, July 30) claims that only one individual finds the
apathy of the Irish public to the situation at Tara unfavourable.
Perhaps Mr Flood is not aware, but during a recent poll on the subject
of the route of the proposed M3 motorway, over 67pc of the Irish public
disagreed with the route selected.
I, too, find the entire “controversy” over this road interesting.
I find it interesting that the opinions and advice of some of the
world-renowned experts on Tara were ignored, that millions of euro of
public money were wasted on archaeological surveys on unsuitable routes,
money that could have been spent on causes dear to Mr Flood’s heart such
as poverty, crime, the health service etc.
Finally, as someone who admires the songwriting skills of Liam
O’Maonlai, perhaps he might find time in the future to pen songs about
other areas of government mismanagement such as the previously mentioned
areas of health, crime and poverty.
JIMMY RAFTER,
HILL OF TARA
//////////////////////////////////
Paddy Murray Sunday World, 29 July 2007
Gormley loses bottle.
You may hae seen an item in the newspaper this week concerning our
Environment Minister John Gormley. He did an interview on the subject of
Tara.
But for once, that's not what I'm on about. You see the interesting
thing about the interview, wasn't the interviewee - the Minister. It was
the interviewer, who was, er, the Minister.
What a fantastic idea it is. He should bottle it. (Actually, I think by
doing the interview with himself, he already has bottled it.)
So good an idea is it, that today I am proud to present to you an
interview with me, conducted by me.
//////////////////////
See Paddy's blogspot here: http://www.everydayispaddysday.blogspot.com/
and thanks to him for the link to the website
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Irish Examiner, 2 August 2007
Curse of Tara may have a sting in its tail.
AS the shadow of desecration looms for the sacred site of Tara, the
debate over the rights and wrongs of what is happening there has focused
mainly on evidence from rivals within the field of archaeology,
impassioned arguments by environmentalists, political posturing on all
sides and weighty scholastic allusions to the site’s historical import.
But there has been nothing yet about the occult significance of what is
unfolding at Tara. In the past fortnight, more than half a dozen large
nests of wasps have been encountered in the valley.
In Celtic lore, the wasp is associated with the anger of Mother Earth at
man’s wrongdoing. Its unexpected appearance in a given location was
believed to portend disaster or ill fortune for anyone messing around
with fairy forts or fairy rings.
In African culture, the wasp embodies powers of sublimation and
transmutation. It was, and still is in many parts of the continent,
believed to make its appearance to “transform the profane into the sacred”.
But what can a stupid old insect do? The answer is that this depends
very much on context. Remember what became of Lord Carnarvon in 1922
when he helped open Tutankhamun in Egypt? The age-old curse of the
pharaohs caught up with him!
A few months after his well-publicised intrusion into forbidden
territory, he cut an infected mosquito bite on his face while shaving.
He became violently ill. The moment he died in a Cairo hospital, all the
lights in the city went out. And at the precise moment of death, his dog
back in England emitted an ear-splitting howl and also dropped dead.
The curse of the pharaohs claimed quite a few other victims, too. Which
brings me back to Tara. An expert on folklore and mythology warned
recently that the “curse of the fairies” might be invoked by the
building of the M3 in the Tara Valley. He may have been only half
serious, but if I were a road builder, or one of those politicians
behind the project, I’d be getting quite edgy.
John Fitzgerald
Lower Coyne St
Callan
Co Kilkenny
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