http://busrage.com/forum/ BUSRAGE Discussions Topic: Ring Road vs. Viking Ruins (Waterford, slightly OT) en Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:56:06 +0000 http://busrage.com/forum/topic/2257#post-2257 Sat, 15 May 2004 21:11:28 +0000 Al 2257@http://busrage.com/forum/ <p align=justify>Per RTE news article (<a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0515/waterford.html" target="_new">link</a>).<br><br>The gist is that the National Roads Authority (remember them?) want to build a ring road by-passing Waterford right on top of these newly-discovered remains of a Viking settlement.<br><br>The settlement has Martin Cullen, Minister for the Environment, and Dr. Pat Wallace, director of the National Museum, on its side, with Dr. Wallace calling for the site to be excavated fully. If they can help stop the building of said road over this historic find, I'm behind them 100 per cent. Anything to stop Ireland from looking more and more like New Jersey... <br></p>