Column McCann laments the loss of Ireland's cultural and environmental heritage as a result of the construction of new motorways.
"There is a massive ongoing debate in Ireland about a motorway destined to destroy one of the richest archeological landscapes in Europe...The proposed road is a four-lane tollway, the sort that Ireland has grown fond of in recent times. Cultural and environmental activists predict that the motorway will inevitably be followed by all kinds of commercial and ancillary development. Much of the Emerald Isle is key-chained with crossovers, flyovers and high steel bridges these days...most meaningful Irish debates these days seem to take place only in the realm of time and money. Half-hours are crucial to the economics of the future. Those who oppose these notions are labeled contrary, dreamy, populist."
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