Donabate has grown from a population of 1,100 in 1991 to almost 12,000 in 2022
A small village in North Dublin is expected to double its population in just a few years, but residents are screaming out for more amenities.
Even before thousands of newly-built homes began popping up in Donabate, the peninsula felt very detached from surrounding areas. As a child who grew up in the village in the early 2000s, I remember the one-shop town had barely any footpaths and no traffic lights. Indoor community spaces are few and far between, as a library takes up almost all of the second storey of the one community centre in the village. Five years ago, Donabate man Sean Colgan, who is a Muay Thai fighter, coached two of his friends for a white collar fight under a bridge beside the M1 because he couldn't find anywhere else to go.
He told the Irish Mirror: “At the moment, we have no concrete solution. We cater to juniors, fundamentals and intermediates and we have a team of fighters. He said: “I can see people that didn’t do great in the system and the club is helping them later in life and I can see teenagers that could have gone down the wrong path but getting into this environment helped them.
“We have an issue that we have a lot of groups currently who don’t have any space here. There's no indoor community space. Donabate’s population is growing rapidly at the minute, we have about 2,000 houses under construction or granted planning permission, but we have a serious deficiency in the lack of amenities and one of these is community facilities.”
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