Sir, – I join Colum Corr (Letters, February 6th) in his disappointment at the inability of the Bray Municipal District of Wicklow County Council to reopen the Bray to Greystones cliff walk.
While the walk has been officially closed for years, the public have been happily clambering over, under and through the “multiple huge and ugly” barriers the council has placed there. Once a barrier was circumvented, the council put another bigger one in place.
It had made me wonder if the council has been putting all its ingenuity into creating bigger and better barriers.
Today on my stroll along the Bray cliff walk, I found an impenetrable steel barrier firmly in place, stopping all but holders of angle-grinders in their tracks.
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Perhaps now that Wicklow County Council has finally managed to stop all access, it might, as Colum Corr suggests, address the problem of the rockfall itself and reopen our beloved cliff walk. – Yours, etc,
MAEVE EDWARDS,
Bray,
Co Wicklow.
A chara, – As we do not have the controlled and responsible access to the countryside as in other developed countries, it’s particularly important that we maintain such enjoyable walkways as the Bray cliff walk. – Is mise,
SEÁN QUINN,
Founder President,
Irish Ramblers Club,
Blackrock,
Co Dublin.
