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March for Meath MASTER Plan

March to Support Plan that Provides Toll-Free Transport Solution, Solves Legal & Heritage Issues, Improves Quality of Life in Meath

Speakers: Meath Councillors: Phil Cantwell, Peadar Toibin; and Lisa 'Squeek' Feeney

For Release 13/5/2008

A public march in support of the innovative Meath MASTER Plan will take place on Saturday May 17th 2008 at 3pm.

Participants are asked to meet at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, and the march will proceed to Dail Eireann, where there will be speeches, music and a presentation of the Plan to government officials.

The MASTER (Model Archaeological and Sustainable Economic Region) Plan is an advanced development plan that solves the current legal, environmental and heritage issues around the controversial M3 motorway, and also provides a wider model for sustainable economic, heritage and tourism development in Meath.

A key goal of the Plan is to enable Meath people to work in their locality, reduce their dependence on long-distance commuting to Dublin, and consequently allow them to spend more time with their families and within their community.

A second goal is to reduce Meath's CO2 emissions and its reliance on oil use for transport and energy, and to regenerate the local economy and communities of the region. Reduced oil use would lead to much lower costs in the future for both families and businesses in Meath. The promoters of the Plan stress this should be a national priority at a time when the oil price is above $120 per barrel and has increased by over 500% since 2002.

The Plan removes upto 2/3 of traffic from the N3 thus removing the need for the over-specified M3. It uses much of the current road scheme "footprint" and switches to the "2+1" format on the existing N3 in the sensitive Tara-Skryne Valley area. The modified road scheme would be toll-free and the Plan additionally implements the long-sought rail link to Navan and Kells, and provides for new coach services, creating a cost-effective, sustainable and reliable community transport network.

Designating the region as a UNESCO World Heritage site would further result in the preservation, protection and sustainable management of the archaeology in the Tara-Skryne Valley and surrounding areas and would encompass the five major centres of Navan, Kells, Trim, Dunshaughlin and Slane, bringing a major tourist and economic dividend for the region with a potential increase of €75 million in tourism revenue per annum.

Co-authors of the Meath MASTER Plan, environmental campaigner Tadhg Crowley and transport researcher Brian Guckian, stated: "The Meath MASTER Plan is a huge opportunity to be grasped, with very significant economic, environmental, social and cultural benefits. It is something that everyone can have ownership of, and our message is that there is a solution, and that it can be implemented right now".

The proposal is currently with government and has received strong backing from the public and from across the political spectrum.

Guest speakers at the march will outline what the Plan means to them and the event will be a positive and constructive chance to engage with the issues involved, according to the organisers.

ENDS

For details on the arrangements for the Meath MASTER Plan March, please contact:

Terri Murray 086 8886135
terricath@hotmail.com

For details on the content of the Meath MASTER Plan, please contact:

Brian Guckian 087 9140105 Tadhg Crowley 085 7159013
railprojects@eircom.net tadhgcrowley@gmail.com

Meath Master Plan

Click here to download the pdf. Print it and stick it everywhere

Meath Master Plan - Power Point Presentation Click Here!

HOW TO GET TO RATHLUGH

[ Online Map ]

CAR: Take the N3 from Dublin. Tara is halfway between Dunshaughlin and Navan. At Ross Cross, there is a pub on the left called "Tara na Ri", a yellow building with flat roof. Turn right here towards Skryne and Duleek. Go straight, and take the first right towards Skryne. This is a very windy road, and woodlands will be on the right hand side. Go straight through the crossoroads. Rath Lugh camp is on the right, on the sharp bend on the road. The entrance is a gap in the woods, usually with a few cars parked on the side of the road.

BUS: Buses from Dublin go from Busaras in Dublin 1. Take the N3 towards Navan. Ask to get off at the Tara Na Ri Pub, follow directions above.

For further information: 0035386 1537146

HOW TO GET TO TARA

CAR: Take the N3 and then turn left at the Tara signpost

BUS: Take either the Navan, Kells or Cavan bus which leave from Busarus. Ask to get off afterTARA CROSS at the Lismullen bus stop and it is a short walk from there.

[ Online Map ] The vidil camp is located near the car-park at the Hill of Tara, about 200 metres on the right and a little in from the road. There are sign posts from the car-park.

For further information: 0035386 175 8557 (Send a text and we will call you back).

SIAC are an Irish company (South Ireland Asphalt Company) who have a 5% stake in the construction of the Irish M3 on it's contested route in co Meath Ireland, and are also involved in the construction of an onshore gas refinery terminal at Rossport co Mayo.

along with their croneys FERROVIAL (Owners of Climate criminal company BAA and. 7 U. K airports) They are instrumental in the desecration and destruction of the sacred Tara valley in Ireland, Activists have called for solidarity against SIAC, and there will be ongoing actions against them and ferrovial internationally, with the formulation of international affinity groups.

Activists say there will be Actions against SIAC on and around March 17th 08, with dates for an international day of action against FERROVIAL to be announced shortly, SIAC have operations throughout the UK and Ireland in many fields ranging from construction to pharmaceutical research so there are plenty of opportunity to make you objections to them felt, so please publicise and organize in your local community, (see link's bellow) TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERANCE!

SIAC Headquarters Details:
Dolcain House
Monastery Road
Clondalkin
Dublin 22
Ireland
Tel: 00 353 (0)1 403 3111
Fax: 00 353 (0)1 403 3222
e-Mail: info@siac.ie

http://www.siac.ie/siac/index.jsp

UK Contacts

Roofing, Cladding & Glazing
Howell James, Managing Director, SIAC Construction (UK) Ltd
Bond's Mill
The Counting House
Stonehouse
Gloucestershire
GL10 3RF
Tel: 00 44 145 382 8888
Fax: 00 44 145 382 4188
Sales enquiries E-mail: bob.abraham@siac.co.uk

Structural Steel
Richard Cooper, Managing Director, SIAC Tetbury Steel Ltd
London Road
Tetbury
Gloucestershire
GL8 8HH
Tel: 00 44 1666 502792
Fax: 00 44 1666 504246
E-mail: richard.cooper@siac.co.uk

Russell Thomson, Managing Director, Graham Wood Structural Limited
Chartwell Road
Lancing Business Park
Lancing
West Sussex
BN15 8TY
Tel: 00 44 (0) 1903 755991
Fax: 00 44 (0)1903 755384
E-mail: r.thomson@grahamwoodstructural.co.uk
Website : www.grahamwoodstructural.co.uk

For legal info click on this link

"Calling all tribal warriors!
The sacred site of Tara (Ireland), the burial ground of our ancestors and the portal to the spirit world, is being desecrated and destroyed by the building of a motorway.

The spirits of the land cry out to all those who love the earth, our Mother, to come to our assistance in halting the destruction.

We call on the tribal peoples of the world to send us your warriors, your elders, your shamans; help us to harness the energies of this sacred place so that we may defeat the dark forces of greed, corruption and brutal stupidity.

Bring us your wisdom, your light and your power.
We send you our blessings."