anybody on here know anything about the scene in ireland? i'll be going there for a month next spring, might end up living there for a little while if i can find a job. i follow high rollers in dublin and see a bit of stuff from them once in a while, but it's mainly just photos of product. if anyone has any suggestions as to what parks or spots to skate i'd appreciate hearing about em.
Dublin, where I'm from but no longer live, is a great city to skate
around, though it's not Paris or Barcelona. Expect frequent disputes with police, who are largely harmless, but visible everywhere. They won't fine you, take your board or arrest you, just give you a bollicking about flailing about with a child's toy, ask you why you have nothing else better to do and all that kind of shite. As far as spots go, there's been a fuckload of new construction over the past 15 years, which has seen a load of new spots pop up. I get back there probably twice a year, so my info is nowhere as specific as it could be.
High Rollers is close enough to a decent plaza spot in the inner city, definitely a good place to start and as already said,
www.skateeire.ie/ Most skaters tend to gravitate toward the parks which are all quite suburban. Bushy Park is probably the closest decent one to the city centre, with a bunch of other good ones way out in the 'burbs. Public transport is pretty good and fairly cheap
Ireland is pretty small, so driving across isn't so tedious as I remember it growing up, and getting to visit parks dotted around the country is way easier. If you surf, there's always quality waves an hour or two away. Bizarrely, up to when I was living there 10 years ago, there were no outdoor parks whatsoever, all of them have been built in the past decade.
The country on the whole is eye-wateringly expensive by EU standards, probably more so than London or Stockholm. And it rains a lot.
This Dublin scene video came out recently, worth checking out to see what's going on.
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