Greystones

Sispar and Wicklow County Council applied, in 2010, to increase the number of houses and apartments by 32, to change some apartments to houses and change the car parking arrangements, increasing them to 1,002 of which 316 would be public. Following an objection this has now been approved subject to deleting a few apartments and […]

Access to Greystones North Beach is currently available from a path North of the harbour and has recently been improved by Sispar. The North Beach does get cut off by high tide but this has often been the case in the past. Access from the old Gap Bridge was closed a decade ago before the […]

The Council is preparing plans for cycle lanes from Mill Road to the Harbour and on to Blacklion. Also from there to Tesco to join up with the ones from Killincarrig.. They are quite extensive and were presented to the Town Council on Tuesday. I welcome efforts to make cycling safer but am concerned that […]

Mitchell welcomes Rowing Club compound ‘I am delighted to see the new facilities for the Rowing Club which they have been trying to get for 20 years. When to other 4 clubs move in there will be great action to the harbour for adults and juniors. In Ireland we have ignored the sea even though […]

Dublin Bus has amended its planned changes to services in North Wicklow following criticism. It is now applying to the National Transport Authority for permission to implement it. The 84, will run hourly as now but in future will go to Blackrock and this makes it more difficult for people from Newcastle and Kilcoole to […]

I welcome the announcement that the Chinese Sovereign Wealth Fund, CIC, has signed an agreement with the Taoiseach and the Chinese Premier to invest significant funds in Irish projects. In February, during the visit of the expected next Chinese Premier, I wrote to the Chinese Embassy about the need for funding for this PPP which […]

I am disturbed that he is issuing wrong information on the Cliff Walk which will lessen the number of tourist coming to Greystones. The Cliff Walk is popular and walkers use the restaurants. Most T.D.s support the businesses in their area and I have written to him to ask him to withdraw his press release. […]

Building the Coast Guard station at Greystones new harbour has been delayed 3 years by bureaucratic wrangling. On Monday the Minister of State for Finance, Brian Hayes T.D. met Greystones Town Council, Simon Harris, Andrew Doyle and Billy Timmins T.D’s at the harbour. He undertook to clear these issues and ensure that an invitation to […]

The illuminated signs in the DARTS saying which direction it is going are wrong about a quarter of the time. This causes great confusion to tourists. I have written to Irish Rail get them to correct the signs or turn them off. Last night about 10 tourists were about to get off a Howth train, […]

The fencing on the Cliff Walk by the harbour site is fairly ugly and is temporary. Sispar have decided to replace this with more permanent and more attractive fencing. The new fencing will be green and like the fencing at the Clubs boatyards. This is being done partly for insurance reasons to make it more […]