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Cliff Walk’s Bray gate SUN8JUNE25
atest press release from Wicklow County Council, issued on Monday, 
June 9th 2025…
atest press release from Wicklow County Council, issued on Monday, 
June 9th 2025…It is of great concern to Wicklow County Council to learn there is a report stating that the closure of sections of the Cliff Walk between Greystones and Bray has resulted in a contraction of economic activity in Greystones, and even more concerning that it is being reported that it is affecting individual businesses.
Wicklow County Council was not involved in the preparation of the report and the Chief Executive has not received a copy.
Wicklow County Council have initiated the procurement of independent consultants to assess the safety issues relating to the Bray Greystones Cliff Walk and to advise on both short term and a long term sustainable solution.
The tender process requires a standstill period, which was extended in accordance with statutory procedures. In accordance with the procurement process the successful consultant will be appointed in the coming week, if no further queries or observations are received, and will commence work immediately.
Friends Of The Cliff Walk
Wicklow County Council will then seek the considerable resources that will be required for a sustainable solution, which may include permanent re-routing of the walk.
Wicklow County Council only closed the sections of the Cliff Walk that were dangerous and only where the safety concerns left no alternative.
Local impact study launch TUES3JUNE25
2 comments
Bray Head in general is severely lacking in walking routes, signage, seating, picnic areas etc., for years. It should be a major tourist destination, instead it hasn’t been touched in decades. And it would cost very little to improve.
But the same goes for Bray seafront which should have walkways and more access to the beach- they have gone totally overkill with mountains of stones blocking the beach.
The 500k would be better spent working on other routes than the cliff walk, which long term is just going to eat up money every few years to protect.
RESP0NSE from Friends Of The Cliff Walk, issued on Monday, June 9th…
Friends of the Cliff Walk notes that Wicklow County Council has issued a
public statement about the Cliff Walk — four years and some five months after
closing the Walk, which is a public right of way.
We welcome the comments by the Chief Executive of the Council, Emer
O’Gorman, that it is of ‘great concern’ that Jim Power’s business-impact report
on the closure, commissioned by us, has resulted in an economic contraction in
Greystones, and that the CEO notes it is ‘even more concerning’ that individual
businesses have been affected.
Such observations are indicative of the great gulf that exists between the
community and the Council. How can the Council and its Chief Executive have
been unaware of these concerns when the negative economic impact of the
closure has been glaringly obvious, and articulated, for years?
Concern at the adverse impact of the closure, and at the Council’s abject failure
in dealing with the situation, together with a perceived lack of interest on its
part in reopening the Walk, has been manifest . . . as the community has
watched the Council do nothing for years, and years, and years, and we are now
approaching a fifth year of closure.
Prompt intervention by the Council when this situation arose (and not for the
first time), discharging its public duty with dispatch, would have helped prevent
the situation reaching the sorry pass that it has.
The Council statement references that it has ‘initiated the procurement process
of independent consultants’ to assess safety issues and advise on short and long-
term solutions.
We will not be holding our breath.