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IrishXCMTB
24-05-2010, 05:00 PM
Campaign for Donegal biking facility starts today!

An ambitious campaign to develop a Co. Donegal downhill mountain biking trail that could attract 100,000 tourists to the county annually is being driven by the local community.

Speaking in Letterkenny last Friday, local TD Joe McHugh set out details of a campaign for a state-of-the-art downhill mountain biking trail on forestry lands owned by Coillte in Co. Donegal.

The organisers would like all MTB’ers to email Joe McHugh describing your interest in the project. It is needed for further evidence gathering. The address is:

joe.mchugh@oireachtas.ie

They suggest the following wording in the email or something similar:

Dear Joe,

“As a mountain biking enthusiast, I am delighted to hear of the plans for a state of the art mountain biking centre in Donegal. I am currently living in [INSERT] and would consider such a centre in Donegal to be ideal to meet the needs of bikers from here and around Ireland. A centre of this nature would certainly attract myself and many of my friends to Donegal on a regular basis.

Many thanks,”

Read the full detail here (http://donegalmatters.com/article_info.php?products_id=688&osCsid=4f08b15d88 c19b2deb31a239283e86a4).



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Morgan
24-05-2010, 05:17 PM
Email sent.

Richie
24-05-2010, 06:56 PM
Done

Morgan
26-05-2010, 10:45 AM
Just got a nice reply to my mail. You should all take a couple of minutes to contact them - the more support this plan gets the greater the chances of it happening.

Fergal
26-05-2010, 10:51 AM
Done

djcromie
26-05-2010, 10:58 AM
sent

paddyb
26-05-2010, 11:02 AM
Email sent

djcromie
26-05-2010, 11:07 AM
Can everyone in the club take a couple of minutes to send this email, we need to support this kind of development in the country for mountain bikers, it can only be a good thing for our sport and hopefully lead to more trail development.

Thanks

Mark
MAD Club Secretary

TomH
26-05-2010, 11:11 AM
Done.

bazz
26-05-2010, 11:11 AM
Done

Gavin
26-05-2010, 11:15 AM
Sent a spiffing mail

Aidan
26-05-2010, 11:15 AM
E-mail sent

bmcelligott
26-05-2010, 11:28 AM
Emailed and cc'ed my "local" TD in Kerry.

Phil
26-05-2010, 11:29 AM
Done.

feed
26-05-2010, 12:34 PM
Send,

I'm on hols in Donegal next week, hope it's ready by then :)

stevenc
26-05-2010, 01:41 PM
Done.

Foxy
26-05-2010, 03:05 PM
Mail sent!

every county should be at it. Was in Ballyhoura a couple of weeks ago and the place was heaving. XTC have every rental bike out all the time! It's a no brainer.

paddyobrien
26-05-2010, 03:16 PM
mail sent!

Morgan
26-05-2010, 03:17 PM
There are big (massive?) plans afoot in the West too. I hope to be able to put up some news about it soon but for the moment you can look here (http://connemaramtb.com/).

Gavin
26-05-2010, 03:24 PM
Exciting stuff!

Phil
26-05-2010, 03:46 PM
There are big (massive?) plans afoot in the West too.

As big as this?

http://www.videodetective.com/titledetails.aspx?PublishedID=2316

stevenc
26-05-2010, 04:15 PM
The wall of Death!

groovy
27-05-2010, 07:44 AM
done and dusted

jeff
27-05-2010, 02:18 PM
email sent

AussieSteve
27-05-2010, 08:45 PM
Sorted!

eamoncummins
28-05-2010, 09:55 PM
e-mail sent

Fergal
28-05-2010, 11:12 PM
Thanks for all the support - hopefully it'll all help the cause!!
In my head, Donegal seems to be a real hardy rugged county - ideally suited for biking, I'll assume they don't server skimmed-milk lattes up there

TomH
29-05-2010, 08:15 AM
Apparently it's full-fat all the way

rach
29-05-2010, 09:33 PM
email sent :)

johnno
01-06-2010, 09:46 AM
sent

tom
01-06-2010, 12:41 PM
done

Niall
01-06-2010, 08:56 PM
Done.