Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development
Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Aaron Byrne:
We find that even the signage will not make any difference because it is a policing problem. Wicklow is full of Coillte forests. You could not possibly be on top of it. A lot of it happens early in the morning. It is probably the same people, and the same areas, most times. It is not a widespread problem; it is a pocketed thing. It is very difficult to keep them out. We have put in lots of infrastructure to try to keep them out. For instance, a section of the Wicklow Way was upgraded last year with €40,000 worth of trail repairs and we cannot keep the horses off it. It is just a nightmare trying to keep the horses off it.
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