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Lucan Skateboard Park "before the end of summer"
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11-05-2005 11:49pm#1Hi,
Sorry if this has been posted before, but anyhoo's. The following is from the Liffey Champion (14/5/05: its for this Saturday, not a type-o), as there's no online page for it.
There was jubilation in Lucan this week at the news that the five and a half year campaign to secure a skate park for the town was finally over.
Plans for the park went through the final stage at Monday's (9th) South Dublin Couty Council meeting where the Manager's report, recommending the facility, was adopted by councillors.
The long hankered after park will be located at Griffeen Valley Regional Park and is expected to be complete before
the end of the summer at a cost of at least €150,000.
Plans for the park, which have now gone out to tender will see Lucan securing the first local authority skate park in the Greater Dublin Area.
"I am absolutely delighted that the park has got the go ahead," said CIIr Derek Keating (Ind), who has spearheaded the campaign since the idea was first suggested.
"We have finally achieved our objective at Monday's meeting of delivering the skate park for the skateboarders of Lucan. Their interests have been represented and at last we have been successful and the campaign is over."
The campaign has involved the input of hundreds of skate boarders in Lucan and resulted in the formation of the local Skate Board Club.
The level of interest in the sport was noted in the Manager's report, who was aware of the campaign that has been ongoing and the increased awareness of the need for such a facility, said CIIr Keating.
"We have an established support base in the area of skate board users and their parents. The site will be located bedside the Lucan Sports and Leisure Centre, the tennis courts, which are well utili sed in the summer, and the football pitches. This will provide a range of sports in an integrated environment and we will try to build this up.
"A very important aspect of the park as far as I'm concerned as well as for the skate boarders is what design will be adopted. The typical design will be a modular design which will allow for individual manoeuvres and ramps that are located close to each other with varying angles and distances. This is typical of skate parks that have been built in Ireland over the years.
"Another type is the 'in situ' wqich is a concrete mould covering the whole area of the skate park and provides a number of benefits in allowing for a complete flow for skaters and this is what they want.
"Five and a half years ago 1 knew nothing about skateboarding and as 1 realised how important it is to a lot of people it was something 1 got interested in."
CIIr Keating extolled the benefits for users in that it will not only provide an amenity but there will also be considerable health benefits.
"Obesity in young people is a problem and one of the rea sons for this is that we don't have adequate facilities for activities."
Lucan has an estimated 300 skate boarders and it is expected that once the park has been built it will also attract users from outside the area.
This will be cool. I may even take it up. I'll have to buy all the safety gear, tho. Better to look like a prat, than to look cool, and spill my blood all over the place:D
Any and all type-o's (except the date of when the newspaper was published), I blame on either the person who wrote the story, or on OCR (I can write, but scanning is so much easier
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