Save Bray Community Group

SaveBray is looking for a musician to play for just a couple of ceili dances at a fund-raising scoraíocht in The Well (opposite the Royal Hotel) in Bray on Saturday, July 18th. Are there any box and/or fiddle players out there who would be willing to help us out on the night? Please?!
The craic will be 90 - some céilí, some singing, and, of course, a cúpla focail from beginners to advanced. You don't have to be a famous musician to play for us - but you will be after a night in Brí Chualann!
We are crediting McNeal Music for the photo.

Ballymore should seriously consider entering Come Dancing, with An Coimisiun Pleanala as its partner as their ability to sidestep planning law is remarkable.
First, they circumvent the Justification Test for building on floodplains by building from the high ground down. Now our planning authority has turned down a very legitimate appeal by a Sea Gardens resident, based on broken promises by the developer, for 159 apartments on the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown side of the old Bray Golf course - see https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/06/06/ballymore-granted-permission-to-build-159-new-homes-at-former-bray-golf-club/
And what are Ballymore waltzing around this time? Well, there's a small matter of a Judicial Review - a very expensive Judicial Review - taken by SaveBray with the support of our community - which will be heard in the High Court on the 17th of this month. It concerns an application by Ballymore for Phase 1b of their development to build Block A (in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown) & Block B (in Wicklow), both of which had been refused in their first application. While both sides (the planning Board and Ballymore vs us) were putting forward their arguments, Ballymore took advantage of a change in planning from very large planning applications going direct to An Coimisiun Pleanala to reverting to the local planning authority as before. They applied directly to DLR for Block A, without waiting for a Court decision on their previous application. Dun Laoghaire Rathdown granted it.
Their decision was appealed by one of the Sea Garden residents (who pointed out that this is beautiful Bray, not Benidorm), but the planning board sided with Ballymore - while fighting a court case for a similarly named block of apartments in exactly the same place... You couldn't make it up.
Let's hope the same Board's delay in making a decision on Ballymore's disastrous Phase 2 application, while turning down other developments at the same time because Bray's LAP is out of date, is not significant.

Ballymore granted permission to build 159 homes at former Bray golf club ‘This is beautiful Bray not Benidorm,’ states appeal rejected by An Coimisiún Pleanála

Phase 2 decision has been delayed again due to "the complexity of the case". How complex can a decision be as to whether a developer can put the only open space he has promised on a Flood Zone B, while openly stating that he then intends to put high density development on a floodplain? SWAP!!!

A new quiz question📝
The answer to the previous question is: Upper Dargle Road.