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tjj Dec 23, 2016 15:52:09
Replying to CianMcLiam

Thanks Cian, your input appreciated. My puzzlement lies in why Michael Gibbons would put his professional integrity on the line by making a claim he knows can be refuted. As a former co-director of OPW he must be familiar with the O'Kelly archive and its content.

Just seems a bit odd.

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CianMcLiam Dec 23, 2016 23:29:33
Replying to tjj

I think there's so much politics and trenchant resentment about the restoration in certain quarters that people will believe anything that paints O'Kelly in a bad light without checking if it's true or not. For a lot of people the use of concrete at Newgrange was spiritually indefensible even if it was, in engineering terms, the only way to keep it open. They forget O'Kelly also removed as much of the earlier cack-handed concrete supports inside that he possibly could.

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ryaner Dec 25, 2016 00:34:24
Replying to tjj

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/newgrange-the-archaeological-evidence-1.2916654#.WF5BNtferWI.twitter

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