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The Government is considering introducing a minimum price for each unit of alcohol.  This will mean that the price of alcohol will increase in line with the level of alcohol in a drink and retailers that are involved in the below cost selling of alcohol will no longer be able to use alcoholic drinks as a lost leader.   This proposal has the support of many organisations, including the Vintners Federation of Ireland who have cited the closure of many pubs and the lost of thousands of

Bray Town Council recently adopted a new policy to promote Bray as a destination for foreign students to come and learn English.  Presently over €2,000,000 is spent every year in the local economy by students who visit Bray and Bray’s host families provide over 40,000 bed nights per annum for visiting students. Bray has become synonymous with foreign students coming here to improve their language skills, especially during the summer months but it is a year round activity for Bray’s

The Labour Party and its Minister Ruairí Quinn must come clean about the burden he is putting on students.    Over the past two years Ruairí Quinn targeted student votes with a pledge to reverse student charges.  Four days before polling he signed a formal pledge to this effect at a specially convened press event.  Less than three months later he has abandoned it and speculation grows that he is set to actually introduce new fees.   Ruairí Quinn said that that fee...

Next month Bray will mark the 100th birthday of former Irish President, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, who was born at 85 Main Street. Bray has an association with many other historical figures.  How do you feel the town's connection with these should be highlighted?

Bray Town Council is set to adopt its annual budget in January 2011.  The Council's annual budget last year was just over €17,000,000. Full details of the 2010 budget can be obtained here. With ever tightening economic conditions and greater demands for public services, what changes, increases, reductions or otherwise would you like to propose having regard to both the positive and negative impact of your decision.