"Our mission is to promote the sustainable use and enjoyment of the local environment in partnership with the people who live, work and recreate there."


Wicklow Dublin Mountains Board

The Board is a statutory/non-statutory partnership that informs the sustainable development policy-making process for the Wicklow/Dublin mountains area.

Board members 2007:

NON-STATUTORY
Farmers and Property Owners
Saive Coffey Wicklow County IFA
Frank Maguire South County Dublin Rural Preservation Group
Sean Malone Wicklow County IFA
John Murphy Cheviot Sheep Owners
Murtagh O’Keefe (CHAIR) Cheviot Sheep Owners
Roderic O’Connor Irish Land Owners’ Organisation

Community
Eileen Cullen Wicklow Pro-planning Committee
Stephen Bray Stephen Bray Blessington & District Community Council

Environmental and Recreational
Pat Ewen Mountaineering Council of Ireland
Joss Lynam (VICE-CHAIR) National Trails Office
David Rowe An Taisce

Economy and Tourism
Richard More-O’Ferrall Jigsaw Cottage Guest House
Tim Kyne Kippure Lodge

STATUTORY
John O’Sullivan Coillte
Tom Lyng (District Manager) Coillte
Milo Kane (Architects’ department) Dublin City Council
Mary Mallon (Dir. of Community & Enterprise) Dun Loaghaire/Rathdown County Council
Eamonn Murray (Manager, Turlough Hill) ESB
Pat Farrington Forest Service
Wesley Atkinson (Observer for Minister Dick Roche TD) National Parks & Wildlife Service
John Hannon, Cll. South Dublin County Council
John Keating (County Agriculture Officer) Teagasc
Andrew Doyle (County Councillor) Wicklow County Council
James O’Shaughnessy Wicklow County Council


A study group meets prior to a board meeting. The Board meets every two months. The following projects are on the 2007 agenda:

  • Rural Security
  • Vegetation management
  • Forestry
  • Wicklow Homesteads website

 

 

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