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October

Cllr. Malcolm Byrne has called for plans to be put in place for the Skate Park at Gorey Town Park to be extended just months after its official opening. The €250,000 park has been phenomenally successful since it opened and skaters from all over the southeast have travelled to use it.

Malcolm was involved in helping to secure Department of Environment funding for the project and believes that the level of usage demands that planning begins now to expand the facility.

He pointed out -
"The skate park is a popular addition to the town and regularly is quite crowded. In addition to facilitating local young people, it is beginning to become a tourist attraction. We should build on this. There is no reason as to why we could not look at having Ireland's largest skate park in a few years' time. I always knew it would be popular but the fact that it is already too small means that we need to realise the long term potential of this facility" He will be raising the matter at the next town council meeting and is urging support for the idea that Gorey become the capital of Irish skateboarding.

ENDS
Malcolm Byrne
malcolmbyrne@hotmail.com 086 2237102

Creature Tours hits Gorey

September 16th

Creature Island Tour. The UK Creature crew discover Irelands new 'crete. A few of the team came over to Ireland and skated the concrete parks. Shame about the weather when they came to Gorey though!. The long awaited story on the Creature tour of Bushy, Greystones, Waterford and Gorey can be read about in March 2008 copy of Sidewalk.

Boarderco Tour

August 24 - 27th

The skaters from Ireland hardest working team vistied Gorey. Here's the line up for the tour: Dave Hurley, Brian Corscadden, Mark Robinson, Mini Brown, Wayne G, Snowy, Gav Coughlan. Check the action out here:

July 27th - 29th

Cula Festival grips Gorey again! 3 days of madness guaranteed as over 15 different musicians and bands play live music over 3 days, with street entertainment, skate demos, graffiti workshop, family attractions and other crazy stuff going on too.

The Sunday 29th will be in Goreytownpark where Goreyskateclub and Wreckless Skate Shop are organising a skate demo with some of Irelands finest skaters coming down to skate and also some other family attraction being organised too.

Anyone wishing to help out on the day please get in contact with us. We need volunteers and helpers.

July 15th

The Rukos Skateboard Team are doing a tour of Ireland and are stopping by Goreyskatepark @ 11am Sunday morning. There are doing a wee tour of some of what Ireland has to offer now. These guys are some of Irelands best skaters so get ur asses down there to see some serious action. We look forward to having them down here. See you all there.

April 25th

The Den will be showing the recorded action from Goreyskateclub between 3 and 5pm on RTE2. Make sure to tune in. Interviewed were Julie McGarry, Conor O Toole, Darragh Gill, Brian and Daniel Sunderland and Zac Murphy. Many thanks to Kathryn and her crew from RTE for such an exciting afternoon.

April 17th

The Club, from the Den on RTE 2 are visiting Goreyskateclub!!!

The show goes out on The Den between 3 and 5 weekdays on RTÉ 2. The presenter is Kathryn McKiernan who will be coming down on the day. Click here to see their website. The feature for the skate club is called ‘Clubsters’ which they do about once a month. The show will go out the following Wednesday, 25th April. We are looking for 8-12 year olds who can get permission from their parents to come to the skatepark that day, the 17th at about 2pm.

April 11th

The official launch took place on Wednesday 11th April 2007 @ 11am. Minister of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Dick Roche did the honours. The day was great success with a massive crowd turning up. Thanks to everone who came and made it a day to remember.

April 8th

The vancity tour hit Gorey for a day of skaten. Massive thanks has to go out to all who were involved in making it happen. To all the guys up north at bogginzine, G1, Boarderco, the Cork crew, the Limerick crew and every other skater who also made it such a memorable day. The tour hit Lucan, Bushy park, Greystones and Gorey. We hope that this becomes a yearly event as the craic was deadly. Some photos in the gallery.

March 17th

Massive thanks to all who turned up and skated with us in our first St. Patricks parade here in Gorey. We rolled and walked down the main st. through a massive crowd of spectators. And to those who didnt come with us, well...shame on you.

St. Patricks Day Parade 2007

The parade starts at 3pm from the monument out the Enniscorthy road and anyone who wants to skate with us in the parade is asked to be up there from 2.15- 2.30pm onwards. This invite is open to anyone, even if you are not a member of the club but has a friend who is, come along, the more the better. We are number 46 in the parade, so my guess is we will be pretty far out the Enniscorthy road. Dont forget to wear something green or bring along a flag etc. See you there.

March 15th

Skate park opens its gates. Yes indeed, after weeks of climbing the gates, we can now walk through them. See the gallery for a pic of Rafael and Ashley looken well pleased.(it didnt last long though, started raining about an hour after these photos were taken, typical!) The proper sign will be put up soon. Now, send the Council a thank you email.

February 28th

February 13th 2007

So...........

the skatepark is still not officially open. Signage and insurance underwriters are holding up the opening.

Please forward all enquiries and complaints to the follwing people:

(we have no other choice)

January 18th 2007

ROSPA are to be here today to inspect the skatepark. All being well and with the insurance company hopefully approving it too, the skatepark could be offically opened ASAP. Some details still to be worked out but...Keep an eye here for more news.

January 9th 2007

We met with the Co. Council and some engineers and the Town manager to discuss the project now that its coming to an end soon. Issues we talked about were access, insurance, landscaping, events, grand opening etc. As the skatepark is still a biulding site and so much of the ground around it is very wet and muddy, the contractors feel the soakpit area which is a huge pond at the moment wont be finished until March/ April until it dries up a bit. The same goes for some of the area outside the skatepark itself. Very wet and muddy. A footpath is still to be laid from the existing town park footpath up to the entrance gate. Good news is that they hope ROSPA will be here next week some time to inspect the project and all being well, give it their certificate of approval.

January 8th 2007

Work resumes on Gorey skatepark. Duracrete the concrete specialists that should have been here before christmas have arrived and are putting the finishing touches to the bowls areas. The weather could be a bit more favourable but it didnt stop these guys working. Within 2 days, they had the large bowl completed and moved on to the other parts of the skatepark.

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