Welcome
Having been a Councillor for 10 years I want to show some of the issues, which I have been dealing with, and those, which I hope to make progress in the future. I have worked to make progress on the Harbour, DART, Busses, Swimming Pool/Community centre, Children’s Playgrounds, protecting Bray Head, Roads, New Schools, Enterprise Centre, proper footpaths etc.
Great gains have been achieved for the area, which recently won the prestigious UN sponsored Livcom Award, and there is more which I want to accomplish in the future. You can find out more by watching my video.
Please contact me if I can help.
Achievements & Issues
DART
- Spent 22 years campaigning to get DART to Greystones. Wrote 40 page document on ‘Rail Options to Greystones’ which The Managing Director of Irish Rail said had studied it in greater depth than they had. Organised 1993 Greystones DART march when 220 people marched to the Department of Transport. Pressed for more trains for Kilcoole.
Harbour
- Spent over 10 years leading the process to get Greystones Harbour rebuilt, something the town had being trying to do since it started to collapse in1895. This involved organising Think Tanks to try to get community agreement. The process went through numerous plans over the years.
Swimming Pool
- A month after I was elected in 1999 I found out the procedure to get a swimming pool and initiated moves to get the Council to produce a feasibility study for a swimming pool in Greystones. I contributed to this together with Cllr. Veronica O’Reilly.
Education
- Studied Primary Education needs in Greystones 2 years ago. Pressed Department of Education to set up 2 schools resulting in the Educate Together and Gaelscoil being built in record time in 2008.
Enterprise Centre
- Wrote a study jointly with the Greystones Chamber of Commerce on providing an Enterprise Centre for start up firms. This formed the basis for agreeing with the Charlesland developer to donate a 3,000 sq.m. one to the town. This is now held up due to the recession.
Delgany
- Support Delgany becoming a historic village.
- Pushed for the pedestrian and road improvements which are being implemented
- Pushed for the Delgany By pass to relieve traffic in the old village. This has now started after 25 years waiting.
Kilcoole
- For many years pushed to get the main street properly done. This has now been done.
- Pushed for a playground site and footpath to the station to be included in the Plan. Will be lobbying to get these built.
- Got the station car park tidied up.
Newcastle
- For 9 years have worked to get a footpath from the village to the school. Finally this has been achieved and the road improved. Children can now walk down from Church Lane down to the school bus to Kilcoole as well.
- Am pressing for the road from the Church to the N11 to be improved and a footpath provided.
Harbour Project
Great progress has been made building the sea walls for the New Greystones Harbour as shown in the aerial photo taken in May 2009. Councillor Derek Mitchell (FG) hopes that the sea walls will be finished in 2009 though this is dependent on there being reasonably flat seas.
For the latest presentation on the Harbour project click below.
The Old Kish Lighthouse base, brought to Greystones in the late 1960’s to support the crumbling harbour walls, is now being demolished. Looking at the photo it is surprising how small the old harbour was compared to the new. Divers are also working to build the Roundheads which will form the entrance. The old harbour started to collapse in 1895, the new walls have been a long time coming!!
The Harbour in Greystones has long been one of my passions and something that I am very proud of. Below you can find several pieces of information on its development.
To view pictures of the Harbour – Click HERE
You can see a slide show of the planned Harbour Building Programme here: Slideshow
You can see a slide show of the planned Harbour Harbour Features here: Slideshow
Further Details on the project can be found on:
