{"id":4396,"date":"2013-12-31T16:05:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T16:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bmxireland.ie\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2013-12-31T16:05:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T16:05:55","slug":"dublin-gazette-newspapers-19-dec-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/31\/dublin-gazette-newspapers-19-dec-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Gazette Newspapers \u2013 19 December 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazettegroup.com\/news\/e58k-set-build-bmx-course-marlay-park\/\" >Dublin Gazette Newspapers<\/a> article 19 December 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AN ALLOCATION of more than \u20ac58,000 is being made to Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to build a BMX course in Marlay Park, it was announced by the Department of Sport last week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new Marlay Park track will be of modest size and will fill the needs of local youngsters until a larger, state-of-the-art course will be built in Jamestown Park in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A leading advocate for the BMX track in Marlay Park has been Cllr Lettie McCarthy (Lab), who submitted the original motion to create it.<br \/>\nOf the announcement, she said: \u201cThis is a very nice Christmas present. I began working on this idea at the beginning of the summer following representation from a Ballinteer mother asking if a BMX track could be reinstated in Marlay [Park].<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that \u20ac58k funding has been allocated, we have moved a step closer to making this a reality. Not every teenager or young person engages in formal play [ in areas such as] football, rugby or soccer, and it is imperative that we cater for the needs of all our young people.<br \/>\n\u201c[Public] parks should be as diverse as possible, and this BMX track can teach children skills so they can cycle into the mountains to use those tracks when they are older.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ballinteer resident Karen Saunders, who petitioned Cllr McCarthy and others for the BMX track at Marlay Park, said: \u201cI have a son who will soon be 16 and throughout the last few years, he and his friends go to Bushy Park Bowl to BMX or skateboard there.<br \/>\n\u201cBut, it is too far for them to travel there each day, and it is totally out of their district.<br \/>\n\u201cI feel that our area and community are big enough to support our own BMX track, and Marlay Park once used to house a very popular track until they made a kids\u2019 playground out of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazettegroup.com\/news\/e58k-set-build-bmx-course-marlay-park\/\" >HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&euro;58k set to build BMX course at Marlay Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4416,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}