Vincent Salafia, B.A., J.D., LL.M. (TCD) – Lecturer in Environmental Legislation and Planning and Risk Management. Lectured in the Management School – Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) as part of the MSc in Environmental Management program (2009-2013). Member of the Irish Association of Law Teachers (IALT). He was a founder of TaraWatch, that campaigned against the M3 motorway at the Hill of Tara, a founder of Save Newgrange, that successfully challenged the routing of the Slane bypass near the Brú na Bóinne UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012.
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Letters to the Editor
- Irish Independent: Do not destroy the Hill of Tara
- Irish independent: Heritage sites and sore sights
- Irish Independent: Roche won't give an inch on Lisbon
- Irish Times: Carrickmines and the EU
- Irish Times: Carrickmines Castle Site
- Irish Times: Controversy over Slane bypass proposal
- Irish Times: Hill of Tara and the M3 Motorway
- Irish Times: Jailing of Maura Harrington
- Irish Times: Motorway near Hill of Tara
- Irish Times: Oireachtas committee hearing on M3 motorway
- Irish Times: Railway makes more sense than M3
- Irish Times: Renewing the Republic
- Irish Times: Tara landscape and the M3
- Irish Times: Trucks and Port Tunnel
- Meath Chronicle: Neolithic Discoveries Likely on Slane Route
Magazine articles
Newspapers
- ALL IRISH INDEPENDENT articles (over 60)
- ALL IRISH TIMES articles (Over 180)
- Belfast Telegraph: Toibin condemns M3 in Co Meath
- Guardian: Land of High Kings is battlefield for fight between heritage and growth
- Irish Examiner | Govt 'has expressed no interest in 1916 memorabilia'
- Irish Examiner | Plea to Kenny over Hill of Tara's protection
- Irish Examiner | Tesco and Indaver give €30,000 to An Taisce
- Irish Examiner | Toibin joins M3 condemnation
- Irish Examiner | Top US museum names Tara 'must-see' site
- Irish Times Op-Ed: An act designed to facilitate roads and real estate
- Irish Times: 'Development frenzy is at the cost of everything else'
- Irish Times: Irish Sites Seek World Heritage Status
- Sunday Times – Focus: Motorway madness
- Sunday Times: Theron Brushes up on Hill of Tara
- Sunday Tribune – Mayo county council serves eviction notice onRossport Solidarity camp
- Sunday Tribune: Carrickminders launch bid to halt Tara motorway
- Sunday Tribune: Cullen accused of a 'cover-up' over Viking site
- Sunday Tribune: High court hearing will challenge M3 at Tara
- Sunday Tribune: Illegal pro-Tara road tactics ignored
- Sunday Tribune: Long road to decide the fate of our precious past
- Sunday Tribune: NRA bids to save 'Tara' route
- Sunday Tribune: Some five thousand years of history is in their hands
- Sunday Tribune: Tara 'crisis' gets international recognition
- Sunday Tribune: Thousands turn out to save Tara
- Telegraph: Seat of Celtic kings is threatened by motorway
- Toronto Star: Celtic Tiger threatens 'very soul of historic Ireland'
- Washington Post: In Ireland, Commuters vs. Kings
Radio
- American Public Media – Irish split on road near sacred site
- Chicago Public Radio – Ireland's Ancient Constitutional Law as a Source for Laws of the Future
- France Culture: Irlande – Le Tigre celtique, un enterrement de première classe
- National Pubic Radio (NPR): Celtic Cultural Sites in Crosshairs of Road Project
- RTÉ News: Drivetime – No reversal in M3 decision
- RTÉ News: Five Seven Live – Salafia facing massive legal bill after M3 bid fails
- RTÉ News: Morning Ireland – Excavation of Lismullen to begin
- RTÉ News: Morning Ireland – High Court challenge against M3 to begin
- RTÉ News: Morning Ireland – NRA examine sites in Tara ahead of M3 route decision
- RTÉ News: Morning Ireland – Supreme Court to rule in Carrickmines/M50 row
- RTÉ News: Morning Ireland: Minister set to allow M3 to proceed through Hill of Tara
Television news
- BBC News: Ancient site on endangered list
- BBC News: Battlelines over Bypass Drawn
- RTÉ News: Five county councils reject Dana requests
- RTÉ News: M3 campaigner facing €600,000 bill
- RTÉ News: Motorway may face legal challenge
- RTÉ News: Roche approves resumption of work at Tara
- RTÉ News: Roche holds M3 talks with Wallace
- RTÉ News: Row over further site find on M3 route
- RTÉ News: Six One News – Vincent Salafia drops appeal in M3 challenge
- RTÉ News: Solstice celebrations at Hill of Tara
- RTÉ News: Tara called 'endangered heritage site'
- RTÉ News:: Council granted injunction on Carrickmines
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Recent Posts
- The Irish Times – Opinion: National monuments must be protected by clear laws
- Irish Examiner – Analysis: Rocky history of our right to natural riches
- Paper presented at the 3rd Yale/UNITAR Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy
- Book Launch of “Own Our Oil – The Fight for Irish Economic Freedom” – Today at the Royal Dublin Society
- Evening Herald: Tomb discovery sparks ‘national monument’ calls
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- The Irish Times – Opinion: National monuments must be protected by clear laws October 27, 2015
- Irish Examiner – Analysis: Rocky history of our right to natural riches November 25, 2014
- Paper presented at the 3rd Yale/UNITAR Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy September 15, 2014
- Book Launch of “Own Our Oil – The Fight for Irish Economic Freedom” – Today at the Royal Dublin Society March 3, 2014
- Evening Herald: Tomb discovery sparks ‘national monument’ calls September 10, 2013
- Meath Chronicle: ‘Tara Watch group pays tribute to poet Heaney’ & other interesting stories September 7, 2013
- ‘How Could We Be Wrong, When Seamus Heaney Said We Were Right?’ September 1, 2013
- Call for Renegotiation of Toll Road Contracts – Like Portugal August 7, 2013
- DISCUSSION PAPER | Emerging ‘Resource Nationalism’ in Ireland April 24, 2013
- Irish Times – Lorry ban sought as plan for Slane bypass rejected March 9, 2012