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Mountain View AUTUMN 07 BC THE NEWSLETTER OF WICKLOW UPLANDS COUNCIL AUTUMN 2007 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Difficult though it is for some of us to comprehend, Wicklow Mountain Views 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of our foundation. Issue number 17: Autumn 2007 When one recalls how things were before we formed our network of those who live in, work in Published by: Our 2007 Annual General and use the Wicklow/Dublin landscape for Wicklow Uplands Council Ltd Meeting was a lively and well- recreation, we get some sense of what the Council Editor: Lenka Mulligan attended event. It also marked has achieved. Today, for example, we are in a the departure from the Board of strong position to reflect on Minister John Gormley’s David Rowe and Richard More- recent call for consultation around the development O’Ferrall, both of whom decided of a national landscape strategy. Our diverse that it was time to make room for some ‘new membership will enable us to respond to this issue blood’. I am grateful to both of them for their with some sort of rational debate. Of course, given outstanding contribution to our Executive and to the the widely divergent views that are ‘out there’, it will Board of Wicklow Uplands Council. not be easy to achieve consensus. David is a founding father and our first honorary Nevertheless, open discussion and a fair hearing member. His balanced and wise counsel informed for all points of view are very important and can our early days and continued unabated over the only help to facilitate mutual understanding and years. His patience, forbearance and attention to respect. Indeed, our experience shows that we can detail are legendary and his skill as a draftsman achieve consensus amongst diverse stakeholders 23-24 October 2007 led us to the conclusion that he embodied what with useful outcomes for the common good. I am was possibly a unique combination of accountant thinking, for instance, of our research into and artist. Happily, David is not lost to us altogether vegetation management, our work on rural security – I am delighted that he will continue to serve on What is Working? etc. On-going debates of this nature comprise at Wicklow Dublin Mountains Board. least 50 per cent of our activity. The balance of our Richard also made a distinctive contribution as energy goes into advocacy, networking and project The objectives of this board member, honorary PRO and convenor of our development. economic and tourism panel. His sense of fun and workshop These past 10 years have, I believe, delivered at exactitude constantly challenged us to pull up our least some of the vision of our founders – and • Examine the advantages socks and ‘do it right’. Richard was instrumental in funders. For this reason therefore, I suggest that we and reasons for local developing the www.wicklowway.com website, can give ourselves a modest pat on the back and participation in which puts the oldest long distance walking route in renew our thanks to all who contribute ideas, countryside management. Ireland - and its accommodation providers - literally criticism, voluntary and professional effort and, of ‘on the map’. • Review models for local course money. I have no doubt that the next 10 involvement, including Happily, the newly expanded complement of years will be at least as bumpy and every bit as statutory/non-statutory Uplands Council board members that was made rewarding. partnerships. possible by a resolution at an extraordinary •Provide an opportunity to general meeting on the same date as the AGM share experiences of local enabled the following new directors to come on Yours truly involvement in board: - Eoin Browne, John Byrne, Michael Cogan, environmental management Mark Fenton, Tony Flynn, Pearse Foley and Edmond DERMOT J. HAND and recreation. Kenny. We welcome these new colleagues and Chair, Wicklow Uplands Council know that their particular experience and skills will enrich the work of the Council. 10 YEARS OF WICKLOW UPLANDS COUNCIL MEMBER ORGANISATION Recollections of Wicklow Uplands Council’s establishment - Saive Coffey PROFILE The idea of this organisation came largely from a group organised by the late FARMERS AND Adrian Phillips of the Irish Uplands Forum and others. It was started (in 1995) at a time when there had been a long period of difficulties between farmers and other PROPERTY OWNERS voluntary and statutory organisations. The latter had drawn up proposals for the ASSOCIATION future of the uplands areas of Wicklow which avoided largely or entirely any (WICKLOW UPLANDS) discussion or consultation with the principal owners of the land or the recreational users. Likewise, the original proposals for a National Park in the Wicklow Mountains LIMITED - Alan Campbell had increased this mistrust and misunderstanding. So it was a brave decision to call a meeting in Roundwood to discuss the formation of a new organisation to In the 1980s some farmers and represent the views of the diverse non-statutory interests. This meeting was very property owners in the Wicklow well attended, and from it the formation of the Wicklow Uplands Council arose. uplands were concerned about their Thence, the members resolved to unite in forming an organisation which could property rights being infringed on by solve problems by compromise rather than through conflict. This has led to good members of the public trespassing on friendships amongst people who would never have believed it possible. their lands and causing damage to I remember a few clashes but these were always resolved peacefully. their fencing and their stock and premises. It was deemed necessary to Support for this co-operative culture grew and sufficient financial backing was do something to protect and preserve reached to fund an office and staff. Wicklow Uplands Council has started and these rights, the interests of the promoted many good things and is now widely recognised not only in the County farmers and property owners, their but by others including the Heritage Council, Wicklow County Council and Wicklow families and their lands in the uplands Rural Partnership, which have become principal funders. from unacceptable regulations and Amongst our important achievements has been the promotion of welcoming development (either local or signage and route marking on agreed trails, now continuing in the Wicklow government or others). Meetings were Sustainable Trails project. We have promoted various projects for youth in the held by a number of farmers and county including a national school environmental garden scheme. We have property owners including Sean Byrne, participated in a number of exchange visits with Northern Ireland and with the Lake Garech Brown, Edmond Kenny, Ronnie District. Council members have attended various meetings of the EUROPARC Petrie and others and it was decided to Federation, which focuses on sustainable development and eco-tourism. We have form an association for this purpose. A also made various research submissions on forestry, vegetation management etc. company was finally formed and that focus on the special needs of uplands areas. registered in June 1996 under the Chairmanship of Edmond Kenny. The Most of our projects have been very successful, but we have had disappointments. members of the Association have We started a voluntary ranger scheme, which we called Wicklow Countryside lands mainly in the Wicklow uplands of Wardens to avoid clashing with the Wicklow Mountains National Parks Rangers, some 30,000 acres. but this ran into problems. We nevertheless hope to revisit this project in the context of our continually developing relationship with the Park administration. In dealing with property rights we responded to the RPS Cairns report. The Draft County Wicklow Development Plan 2004-2010 was dealt with and VIEW FROM THE SIDELINES - Profile of Murtagh J. O’Keeffe amendments discussed and objections recorded with Wicklow Murt O’Keeffe’s farm lies in the land south of Keadeen Mountain County Council representatives with and Lybagh – a place of quiet, satisfying loveliness, close to the regard to private lands and rights of Wicklow-Carlow border, little known to the tourist. His family, four way included in error in the plan. The boys and a girl, all live and work within a radius of nine miles – a Association dealt with and defended family close-knit and deeply involved in community. Murt himself the right to private property as has contributed to nearly every positive initiative in the little village enshrined in the Constitution and of Knockananna. Flick through the pages of Knockananna, The attended at the Oireachtas Committee Hill of the Marsh (incidentally, a very fine production), and you will hearings on this matter. encounter Murt over and over again – on the village Development Committee, Macra na Feirme, the School Board, and so on. In a wider field he was chairperson, We were pleased to be able to assist and remains a committee member of the Cheviot Sheep Owners Association. with other associations in the formation of the Wicklow Uplands Council and to Murt is Vice-Chairman of Wicklow Uplands Council, Chairperson of Wicklow Dublin promote the theory of consensus and Mountains Board, and a member of the National Park Advisory Committee. Unsure consultation in place of confrontation at the start as to the relevance of a body such as Wicklow Uplands Council, he is and have been congratulated by the now deeply committed and certain that it fulfils a need. He regards as highlights Minister, Dick Roche TD, on our its involvement in initiating the PURE campaign for the elimination of litter and dumping, and in the efforts to secure co-ordinated action against crime and success. The Association has been vandalism. Of Minister O’Cuiv’s promoting nationally the concept of access to active in the protection of wildlife on walking routes by consent and agreement, Murt is totally supportive, but says “But Wicklow uplands and the control of sure we’ve been doing that for ten years – haven’t we led the way?” He has no non-native species which endanger doubt that there is a dynamism in Wicklow Uplands Council, but if he has a concern the existence of native species and the at all it is that we are perhaps trying too much too quickly.
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