The public gallery was full of onlookers as a majority of councillors voted to support Bray’s first skateboard park at the February meeting of Bray Municipal District on Tuesday night.
Two Bray councillors have put forward a proposal for a prime piece of real estate at the centre of the town, which came on the market last year with a guide price of €5m.
Wicklow teacher Graham Richmond, whose younger brother is a Government minister, has been unanimously selected as a Fine Gael candidate for the upcoming local elections.
There are no two words better able to reduce people in Bray and Greystones to laughter and tears simultaneously than ‘cliff’ and ‘walk’. It’s like being tickled whilst chopping an onion. But as we look ahead to 2024, wondering if the amenity, which was once voted Ireland’s No1 Favourite Local Attraction in the Irish Independent Readers’ Travel Awards, will be amenable at all come spring, it’s just a question of glass half-empty, or glass half-full . . . of tears.