Moher Trail Faces Closure
The Cliffs of Moher Cliff Trail is set to be at least partially closed for the 2025 tourist season.
Last year, the Cliffs of Moher attracted almost 1.5 million visitors, but now the coastal walking trail beside it is closed for safety reasons. The grade 5 walking route closed last year after a Sport Ireland inspection.
Eoin Hogan of Clare Local Development Company (CLDC), which manages the trail, said the organisation did not expect the trail to reopen fully for the 2025 tourist season.
Speaking to RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said:
“Last summer, Sport Ireland did its biennial assessment of the trail, and there were safety issues highlighted. These issues needed to be dealt with before the trail could be reopened. It’s serious construction work that has to be done. The trail is too close to the edge in certain sections and has to be moved back from the edge.
“We have to get landowner agreement, we have to get planning in place in terms of regulatory planning for those works, and Clare County Council are involved in working on those projects as well.”
At the moment, CLDC manages the trail, and both it and Clare County Council are negotiating with landowners to get agreement to get the work needed completed to make the walk safer.
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