Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

In 2019 The Keeper of Irish Antiquities threatened to send both the Director of the National Museum of Ireland and the Chief Archaeologist after me, but neither had sufficient backbone to either approach me or reprimand their errant employee. Now it's the back end of 2024 and there's still no end in sight. So I'm thinking it's time to resolve this. For this reason, I'm calling on  Michael MacDonagh , Chief Archaeologist at the National Monuments Service of Ireland, and Lynn Scarff , Director of the National Museum of Ireland, as well as the entire Board of the NMI ( here ) to show some forlorn modicum of actual leadership and reach out to me with a workable solution. I would point out that such a solution must include a full apology and retraction of the curel, hurtful, and simply untrue remarks made by  The Keeper of Irish Antiquities; answers to the questions repeatedly posed but unanswered by The Keeper of Irish Antiquities; as well as payment for my time in do...

< Back to Index May 23 (pp 250-6) Document 44 is seven-page typed letter on Roads Service headed paper, from McKinley & Keenan to Cooney. They state that ‘To avoid duplication and to assist you, we do not propose to submit a formal statement as such, but instead would make the following comments against the points listed in your letter.’   Under the heading ‘Relationships and balance therein between DRD Roads Service and DOE NIEA’ they note that they ‘enjoyed an open, transparent and respectful relationship throughout the project.’ They acknowledge that they were informed by NIEA of a possible crannog in the lake during ‘the preliminary and statutory consultation stage’, but that, owing to the ground conditions, it could not be precisely identified by Hurl. They went ahead with developing their preferred route and it was only when they received the borehole evidence, indicating archaeological material remaining in situ , that they were convinced of the presence of a po...