WCC Apply For Kilcoole Skate Park Funding

Delgany Wood kids 3MAR21

ot every kid around here is lucky enough to have a perfect road for skating outside the door.

Which is why teenager Jake Mitchell started his campaign back in July 2020 for a Kilcoole Skate Park.

Given just how much of a no-brainer such an addition to the town would be, Simon Harris and Tom Fortune were soon on board, the politicians’ presence on Jake’s campaign moving it up the ladder at Wicklow County Council budget meetings.

And so it has proven that, two years and one month after the Mitchell lad started his campaign, the powers that be at WCC have now applied for funding for the project.

“We are expecting to hear good news very soon,” Councillor Fortune said this afternoon. “Jake is an amazing young man, and a great example of what young people can achieve.”

Which may explain why he recently won a Garda Youth Award. And one of those Greystones People Of The Year gongs.

You can check out Jake’s progress on his beloved skate park over the years right here.