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(Just typed this up also. This is the second time that Eddie has spoken
out
- at least.)
The Sun, Monday, July 7, 2008
Tara Curse on
Government
(Photo of the hill with Eddie Lenihan, a fairy and a leprechaun
superimposed. Caption reads: Given fairy warning - Eddie says the
Government is doomed if it messes with the little people by building on
sacred land.)
Also photos of Roche, Bertie and Trevor with the caption:
Spirits' spite
... Roche, Ahern and Sargent's careers blighted)
The
Government will be smote by the Curse of Tara if they keep wrecking fairy
forts to make way for the new M3, an expert has warned.
Eddie Lenihan hit
world headlines in 1999 when he managed to save a sacred fairy White Thorn
Tree by stopping a bypass being built through Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co
Clare.
His knowledge of leprechauns and fairies - he's penned 14 books on
folklore - has prompted him to speak out on the motorway plans that are
decimating the Tara Valley in Co Meath.
All those linked to the
destruction of the ancient monuments on the route proceed at their peril, he
says.
And is seems the curse has already claimed the career of ex-Environment
Minister Dick Roche. He was demoted within 24 hours of ordering
demolition of a ring fort at Lismullen.
The previous day Trevor Sargent,
who vowed to shield Tara, quit as Green Party Leader.
And then there's
Bertie Ahern's career demise, the Government's trouncing on Lisbon, the grim
economic outlook and diabolical July weather.
Lenihan wondered: "But will
they take any notice? I doubt it. Whatever happens wouldn't surprise me.
It's the consequences for innocent motorists that people should be warned of
now. Things will only get worse."
Many fairy forts have been ruined for
roads. But it's always been a taboo to mess with them.
Lenihan said: "At
Shannon's Latoon bypass all misfortune followed. An archaeologist and
several workmen died."
"In very troubled estates you'll find they were built
over fairy paths and forts.
"Some things I've heard about would set your
hair standing. If you build on a fairy path you're asking for
trouble.
"It's what a lot of old people believe. You'd be laughed at for
giving such a view now.
"But maybe the old people were right.
"They
knew the landscape and never built in certain places, but now everything is
built en masse with no consideration for a place's history."
53341@the-sun.ie
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