{"id":4421,"date":"2014-02-10T16:24:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bmxireland.ie\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2014-02-10T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:24:55","slug":"fingal-independent-21-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/10\/fingal-independent-21-january-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Fingal Independent \u2013 21 January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/regionals\/fingalindependent\/localnotes\/campaign-to-secure-bmx-track-gathering-momentum-29934676.html\" >Fingal Independant<\/a> article 21 January 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Campaign to secure BMX track &#8216;gathering momentum&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">By\u00a0<strong>NICOLA DONNELLY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2.independent.ie\/regionals\/fingalindependent\/news\/article29934675.ece\/ALTERNATES\/h342\/NWS_20140121_New_012_30310195_I1.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PROGRESS for a BMX track in Swords is being made with a committee now formed and affiliations made with Swords Cycling Club, BMX Ireland and Cycling Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The committee has also written to Fingal County Council to request a meeting in relation to talks about what land may be available within the Swords area to build the BMX track on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We now have the key people in place and now we are waiting to sit down with the council to show them where we are at,&#8217; said Ken Doyle of The United Left Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is all going positive and there has been a great reaction among residents and the young people in Swords to have such a facility built,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s all gathering momentum and the support is amazing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The initial concept for a BMX track came about when Swords teenagers <strong>Brian Gillen<\/strong> (16) and his friends, all who participate in the sport nationally, wanted a BMX track built in the locality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/regionals\/fingalindependent\/localnotes\/campaign-to-secure-bmx-track-gathering-momentum-29934676.html\" >HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guys in Swords doing great work to get a local track.<\/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-4421","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\/4421","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=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}