Southside People: Skateboard park for Monkstown

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This is in this weeks Southside people, page 6:

http://www.southsidepeople.ie/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=1181
Skateboard park for Monkstown Print E-mail
17 Jun 2005
PLANS for a skateboard park in Monkstown were announced last week, following public consultation.
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is to site its first facility for the county’s skaters at the Monkstown Fitness Centre and it is expected that a plan will be produced for the project in the autumn.
An Cathaoirleach Councillor Niamh Bhreathnach made the announcement at the opening of new all weather football pitches at the centre, which included a fully accessible wheelchair pitch.
Cllr Bhreathnach had been lobbying the council to provide skateboarding facilities for many years.
“Active opportunities must be given to young and old and our council is now determined to increase the activities on offer on our own lands and parks,” Cllr Bhreathnach said. “I now call on the Government to respond to our plans and to make funding available to the council from the monies set aside for skateboard developments.”
She congratulated the council’s Sports Officer, Sinead McNulty, for her inclusion of young people in the plans for the park.
“The skateboarders will continue their dialogue with the sports officer so that when the Part 8 planning application is lodged in the autumn, the proposed design will meet their needs,” she said. “I am confident that the planners will satisfy the needs of this sporting section of the public when the design is prepared and goes on public view.”

Funkstard

Where will it go? Behind the pitches? You're into pikey territory there...

Ah no its great to finally have something decent in the Dún Laoghaire area. Anyone remember the benches in Monkstown?