Liffey Valley Park Alliance

News & Events

LVPA iMade a submission to South Dublin county Council regarding the outline proposal for a school including a 4 storey bulding in the lands of St Eds. We later (unsuccessfully) appealed this to An Bord Pleanala. we will continue to fight unsuitable developments in the Liffey Valley.

Lucan Community Festival 2011. We had an information stand at this year's Lucan Festival.

Welcome to our Website

The Liffey Valley Park Alliance ( LVPA ), is a coalition of organisations at both a national and local level with the objective of achieving the designation of a park for the Liffey Valley in order to protect the lands from inappropriate and unsympathetic development and to promote awareness and recreational use of the valley. In our website we aim to provide some further details about the Valley and how you can enjoy it and also about ourselves and our vision for a Liffey Valley Park. We also invite you to help us with our overall objective and to address in particular the terrible threats currently facing the valley in Lucan and Celbridge.

We are delighted to present the first in our series of walks around and within the Liffey Valley.
Our first walk takes you from Lucan Village, through Lucan Demesne and on to Leixlip Village but don't worry as we point out the bus routes that take you back to your start point. Alternatively, as the walk only takes about an hour, you can just walk back the way that you came.

LVPA Launches its second walks leaflet

Here is the second in our series of walks in the Liffey Valley. The

location for this walk is Waterstown Park - the newest park in the Liffey Valley. This has some of the best access to the Liffey itself and, spectacular views of the Guinness bridge. All of this walk is tarmac'ed and although there is a slight gradient for some of the walk, it is one of the easiest and most accessible of our walks.

LVPA Launches its third walks leaflet

The LVPA are proud to present our third walks leaflet. This one covers from Islandbridge to Chapelozid through the War Memorial Park.

Click here get more details on our latest walk and to download the leaflet.

News Update
Gerry O'Flynn, an appreciation
Paddy Donnelly, an appreciation

Biodiversity Week

Walks to celebrate the biodiversity of the Liffey Valley

The Liffey Valley Park Alliance has teamed up with An Taisce (one of our charter members) to run a series of walks in the Liffey Valley during National Biodiversity Week.

All of our events are free and will be both educational and fun.

26 May Walk to Wren's Nest Weir and through the woods alongside the Liffey Valley, led by Katherine Duff, president of the Dublin Natrualist's Field Club. Meet at the Hermitage Clinic Car Park 7.00pm Strong footwear esential.

28 May Biodiversity of St Catherine's Park. Led by Dr Declan Doogue, Botanical Recorder for Co Kildare. Meet at Leixlip Fire Station 11.00am

28 May Walk through Castletown Demesne and the Liffey Valley Led by Dr Declan Doogue, Botanical Recorder for Co Kildare. Meet at Main gates of Castletown House 3.00pm

We are also running studies of the devestating effects of feral mink on two different strecthes of the Liffey Valley, in conjunction with local sporting clubs. we will publish our fuindings later in the summer.

All of these events are being run with the generous support of the NPWS through the Irish Environmental Network

County Development Plan Success for Lucan

The LVPA, together with the Lucan Planning Council, worked with the 5 Lucan County Councillors to proposed sweeping changes to the zoning of land - to protect the Liffey Valley. We congratulate and thank Cllrs Jones, Keating, Lavelle, O'Connell, and Tuffy for their work and support through the process. "It was fantastic to see all of the Lucan Councillors working together to protect the Liffey Valley" said LVPA PRO Joe Byrne.

Click here for details of the previous attempts to develop lands in the Liffey Valley.

* NEW * Liffey Valley Park Alliance Launches its series of walks and leaflets