Dominic Dunne's case challenging the constitutionality of amended National

national | environment | opinion/analysis Monday March 06, 2006 21:42 by c murray - TaraWatch dotliath at gmail dot com n/a 0877765289

monuments act deferred again.

The case against the state challenging the constitutionality of the amended National monuments act 1930-2004 has been deffered for the third time.
The date for judgement of this important case had been variously given, the last one was Feb 16th, the day of the launch of the Planning and Development Bill 2006,(The Strategic Infrastructure Bill)I am not a lawyer, and have not studied the details of the Carrickmines case too closely, but the locus of the case was based on the signing of the joint consent order to destroy the castle remains at Carrickmines and to remove sections of the revetted fosse. Ministerial consents for destruction of a national monument could occur after 21 days sitting of the Oireachtas, which in real terms gave the minister his unreviewable discretionary powers.The judgement was listed for tomorrow but is now deffered, it will
have a direct repurcussion on the situation at the Tara Complex and other heritage sites in Ireland. No reason has been given for the deferral. The case has been put back for mention for Thursday the 9th of March.

There will be an update regarding the issue as soon as it is possible.
anyone interested in collecting data regarding the case and feeding into here is welcome. The issues of the abolition of Duchas and the amended National Monuments Act, taken together with the Roads Acts and the new Planning Legislation require careful reading and analysis by environmental activists.