The 13-year-old Simon Harris and his On The Run cast – John Buckley, Fiona Armstrong, Sinead Lavelle – 2000
ong before the likes of your soaraway Guide brought local news into the 22nd century, baby, ye olde townsfolk relied on one very special rag for their hot gossip.
ong before the likes of your soaraway Guide brought local news into the 22nd century, baby, ye olde townsfolk relied on one very special rag for their hot gossip.
Clarkey gets the chop for the Gemma Appeal 1999
Initially, it was just The Wicklow People, but, as time went on, and this particular part of the county sprouted, The Bray People was born.
And sure, if you made your communion, found a todger-shaped carrot or murdered an annoying neighbour, yay, The Bray People would make you a star.
Planning, sorted!
For a week. And then it was some other local eejit’s turn.
Looking back over the decades of The Bray People, it’s clear that we were a far more innocent breed even just 20 years ago, 
positively wide-eyed with surprise that a stranger would want to take our pic, and, not yet familiar with the selfie, completely unaware of just how many bad angles we had.
positively wide-eyed with surprise that a stranger would want to take our pic, and, not yet familiar with the selfie, completely unaware of just how many bad angles we had.
The Sopranos: The Early Years
Your trusty Guide spent week after week visiting The Bray People office, to try and find all those hidden gems and forgotten hair-dos of a town growing in population, reputation and realisation.
You’ll find the results of all our slaving over a hot archival journal on the links below. Just, you know, brace yourself. These pics capture a people far closer to caricature than Kardashian.
You can jump back to the 1980s here, see if the craic was ’90s here, and the 2000s right about here.
Charlie Roche celebrates 21 years at his Blacklion chemists 1995
St David’s Youth Club 1983
St Kilian’s Hall sells for €510,000 1999
Delgany Tidy Towns 1998 John Gaisford-St Laurence, Tess Hillman, Ann Barton, Lalli De Buitlear and James Brady
Protest & Survive – Pat Keown, Noeleen Scott, Ted Spendlove, Billy Tyrrell, Denis Byrne, Joyce Patterson & Pádraig Farrelly 1994 Bray People Colourised
Tommy Grealy & Leslie Spurling. Colourised by Gary O’Brien
Bel’s new Freya range – with Alan Bell, Joan Farrer & Lucy Bell
Delgany ICA ladies Marie Byrne, Nora Ferns & Anne Murray Jan 1986 Bray People
Junior Infants’ happy first day at St Patrick’s
Laura, Brian, John & Emma Mitchell with their swimming trophies
The Greystones U11s after beating Arklow Town for the Chadwicks Cup
Loretta Daly at the Wicklow Craft Fair
Members of the Barbara Donnelly School of Dance
Greystones Under-9s Sheld Champions 1995
Greystones Under-8 champs 1995
1994 Shell Shine Safety winners Madeline, Rhu & Jonathan Leonard
Greystones wins the Popplewell Cup Feb 1994
Bel’s Of Greystones
Charlie Roche & Maureen Toolan at the opening of Vincent De Paul
Delgany’s Pam & Donal Dunne at Tinahely Point To Point 1994
Delgany’s top-of-the-range park
Young Delgany ladies – including Kim Gahan, Enid Talbot, Suzanne Halligan & Nicola Barry – learn homebaking from Tess Byrne & daughter-in-law Dee August 1983
Greystones kids get their Community Games art competition prizes 1997 Bray People