ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a documentation and analysis of the voices and processes of opposition from experts and interest groups to the two sections of motorway. Its main aim is to interrogate in particular the concept, ownership and performance of expertise in both contexts. The chapter explores the veracity of any such perception, causing one to ask not so much who needs experts and as who would believe experts. It explains a small contribution to the as-yet small volume of published and refereed literature touching on the two motorway controversies in Celtic Tiger Ireland. The chapter addresses the nature of expertise in the context of Tara, recognise own lack of expertise with respect to both the type of archaeology encountered there, and the politics and ethics of heritage's conceptualisation and commodification. The castle's archaeological importance was elevated so rapidly by the on-site archaeologists, experts in medieval history, and other interest groups.
