Motorway and rail links combine with industries like plastics fabricator Wavin, passport manufacturing and expanding educational and residential sectors to make it an increasingly attractive place to live and work. Future prospects are promising following the launch in 2019 of the Our Balbriggan Rejuvenation Plan, the transformation of Ireland’s youngest town is taking shape, with substantial progress being made including the delivery of 2 new playgrounds and a skatepark  see www.balbriggan.ie 

The town's bright future is matched by a rich maritime and manufacturing tradition. The River Bracken once formed a lake that nourished the local cotton industry. The water was sluiced through a canal and tunnels down to the Lower Mill where it turned a waterwheel to drive cotton manufacturing machinery.