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M3 Resumed

  • 15-06-2007 12:48pm
    #1
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭


    Dick Roche gets his FF colleague dempsey off the hook and lands a live hand grenade in John Gormleys lap

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0614/tara.html

    RTÉ News has learned that the outgoing Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, has signed an order that will lead to a resumption of work on the M3 near Tara.


    Mr Roche has decided that the new National Monument found at Lismullen should be preserved 'by record', in other words, studied in detail and then the motorway will be built as scheduled.


    The order comes under the remit of the Minister for the Environment and does not require Cabinet approval.

    It will be the first controversy to hit the new Government, as the Green Party has long held that the route of the M3 is wrong.

    John can reverse this of course.


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  • #2
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Maybe not :)

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0615/m3.html


  • #3
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Apparently not.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0615/m3.html
    The new Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, has signalled he will not be in a position to reverse Dick Roche's decision allowing the M3 motorway be built over an archaeological site near Tara.

    Shortly after arriving by bike at the Customs House this morning, Mr Gormley said it would be 'fair to say that I can't do anything about my predecesor's decisions'. ......................


  • #4
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    But they will undoubtedly find yet another national monument right next door and John will act on that :p
    Roche said it would have been a discourtesy to hand over a difficult decision as it amounted to passing the buck.


  • #5
    ciaran76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭ciaran76


    M3 work 'illegal', says Synnott


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0712/m3.html


  • #6
    Mayo Exile
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Mayo Exile


    An associated N52 bypass of Kells is included in this scheme. I wonder when is it supposed to be built? Probably last of all?


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  • #7
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,226 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    Mayo Exile wrote:
    An associated N52 bypass of Kells is included in this scheme. I wonder when is it supposed to be built? Probably last of all?
    Work is on going on the Dunshotgun bypass and Kells-Navan. That probably includes the N52 bypass so it may be under construction.


  • #8
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    spacetweek wrote:
    Work is on going on the Dunshotgun bypass and Kells-Navan. That probably includes the N52 bypass so it may be under construction.
    I thought the only had agreement to proceed on Clonee to South of Navan.


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