not any better, with players voting to strike due to unpaid wages and medical costs. The players were eventually paid before the strike went ahead. On 26 July 2018, after several weeks of speculation over Bray's future, the club was taken over by St. Joseph's Boys academy director Niall O'Driscoll. Mulvey remained in a minority role. Bray were officially relegated to the League of Ireland First Division in October 2018, ending a 12-year stay in the top flight of Irish football. Merger with Cabinteely In November 2021, Bray Wanderers and Cabinteely F.C. announced a merger, technically a takeover of Wanderers by Cabinteely. The newly created team would be known as Bray Wanderers and continue to play in the Carlisle Grounds, with the intention to apply for a First Division licence. Bray's former manager Pat Devlin and then Director of Football (DoF) at Cabinteely became the DoF for the new Bray Wanderers. Since the merger and Devlin's return to Bray Wanderers, there have been a number of conflicts. Incidents have included Devlin reputedly telling fans not to support the team or attend matches on local radio station East Coast FM, and Devlin and fans engaging in an "ugly exchange" at an away fixture against Wexford FC. Attendances dropped at the Carlisle Grounds as Bray experienced one of the worst seasons in their history, going from a title challenging side to one near the bottom of the table. In mid-2022, club chairman Tony Richardson reportedly stated that the club were "making progress" in "eliminating crowd trouble which [..] marred some of their games this season", and the club stated that it had appointed a "Fan Liaison Officer [..] for dialogue with fans who wish to make their point". A report in the Bray People, after the clubs's eighth home league defeat of the season, referred to a "lack of goals" and a video reputedly showing "people throwing pyrotechnics [..] over the walls of the Carlisle Grounds". With a 5-1 home defeat in Bray's final home game of the 2022 season to Cobh Ramblers, the season ended with a 18.75% win record, among the worst season performances in the club's history. In November 2022, former Wexford FC manager Ian Ryan was appointed as head coach, with Devlin remaining as "Head of Football". Ownership The current ownership of the club is as follows: 51.0% - Niatim Holdings (Tony Richardson) 41.7% - Milway Dawn (Gerry