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11-10-04 news EXCLUSIVE WITH PHOTOS
Townsend A Skryne Legend...

Irish actor Stuart Townsend took a short break from the Hollywood Hills to come home to the Hill of Tara to protest against the new motorway which could destroy one of the most archaeologically significant places in the world...

HILL OF TARA: STUART TOWNSEND

When we turn on the news and see a bunch of new-age hippies tied to trees trying to stop the never-ending progress of tarmacadam through our dwindling green and cultural areas we all too often take no notice.

HILL OF TARA: STUART TOWNSEND

But with An Bord Pleanála's recent approval of the Government's scheme to divide the Tara/Skryne valley with the M3 motorway we will see an area, which predates the Egyptian pyramids, altered forever.

HILL OF TARA: STUART TOWNSEND

So it was great to see Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Queen of the Damned) leaving his Oscar winning girlfriend Charlize Theron in Hollywood and coming home to Ireland to join the protest and hopefully change our government's mind.

HILL OF TARA: STUART, CHLOE & DYLAN TOWNSEND

Townsend, and the group of protesters, want to propose alternatives to the M3 plan such as improving the existing N3 motorway, reopening the Navan-Dublin railway line, or simply moving the M3 away from this delicate archaeological landscape.

THE LATE LATE: EDDIE IZZARD

Stuart joined the protest at Tara yesterday along with his younger brother and sister Dylan and Chloe aswell as Shane McGowan's girlfriend Victoria Clarke.

THE LATE LATE: CHRIS TARRANT & LULU

Stuart also appeared on The Late Late Show on Friday night along with Eddie Izzard, Lulu, Chris Tarrant, and UK chart topper Lucie Silvas.

THE LATE LATE: LUCIE SILVAS

If you would like to sign the petition to help save the Hill of Tara from the M3 motorway madness please do so here...

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