Wallride nollie out. Photo: CJ

Conhuir Lynn

Hailing from Andersonstown (AKA ‘Andytown’) west Belfast, at the ripe old age of 30, Conhuir is the elder statesman of the skaters included in this piece.
With a long skateboarding career behind him, Conhuir had been everywhere and done everything (virtually) by the time he was 20. Following in the wake of Bernie Rea, Conhuir’s natural talent and willingness to travel saw him land serious contracts on the likes of Quiksilver and Etnies back in their early 00’s peaks, along with stints riding for Unabomber, Blueprint, flow for Flip (sort of), Zero and finally Ben Horton’s skateboard brand Slave.
Whilst Conhuir may never have landed himself a pro board, his presence was well and truly felt globally, and his back catalogue of footage speaks for itself.

Blueprint Skateboards – ‘Lost & Found’ (Easter Egg part)

This section found its way onto Blueprint’s seminal Lost & Found as a hidden Easter egg section after Conhuir jumped ship from Blueprint for unchartered waters around the time that L&A was released in 2005.

Sidewalk Magazine – ‘In Progress’ (2011)

After a few years spent in Barcelona and the USA and then a year or so on the injury bench, Conhuir returned to form with his section for our second full-length video. Coming in at the last minute, Conhuir put in some serious hard work and sofa surfing hours to pull this one out of the bag, landing himself a grip of new sponsors as a result.

An additional shared part with younger brother Denis appeared the following year as a Bonus section that came on a cover-mounted DVD with our old paper incarnation.

Since that point Conhuir has continued to skate and followed a different career trajectory after leaving all his sponsors and concentrating on living a more sedate lifestyle back in Belfast. Needless to say, he still kills it and he also makes a mean coffee these days.

Hardflip. Photo: Craig Dodds

Cian Eades

Hailing from the mid-West city of Limerick, Cian Eades is unique in so far as being one of the only Irish born skaters that we can think of who has ‘made it’ with major paying sponsors, without having to go through the UK sponsorship machine.
Picked up by Spanish brand Jart as a consequence of the amount of time Cian has spent in Spain over the years, this young lad from Limerick (or ‘Stab City’ as he assures us that it’s colloquially known) is a tech machine. With a deep bag of specialist tech tricks, serious ledge game and a no fucking about attitude – Cian has been a force to reckon with for a long, long time.

Jart Skateboards – ‘All You Need’ (2013)

Cian’s first full part for Jart came correct with serious technicality, hammers and that switch laser flip on lock. Peep those stats.

Limerick clip

This is the skatepark where Cian learned his craft and where you’ll regularly see clips popping up on his Instagram from. Given the park’s layout, it’s really no surprise that he’s the stair munching lunatic that he is. Power.

Cian is currently out in Spain somewhere killing it as usual. If you bump into him, make sure to say hello. This is the kind of guy you want on your side if the streets turn nasty.

Lipslide. Photo: Craig Dodds

Gav Coughlan

Young Gavin first came to the attention of the wider skate community as a result of his widely circulated online sponsor-me video that appeared during the early days of YouTube. MACBA bangers whilst clad in what could only be described as Chevy Chase tier tourist outfits definitely made him stand out immediately.

Over the years, this pasty-faced Dubliner’s willingness to fill a backpack with Haribo and New Eras and embark on any trip he’s invited on, has seen him rack up and impressive amount of mag coverage and video parts. Gav has filmed so many video parts in fact, that we’ve had to seriously reign in what we post here or it’ll likely break the website.
Born and raised at Dublin’s infamous Baggot St and under the wing of Dublin pioneer Wayne Gallagher, what Gavin may lack in terms of healthy skin tone, he more than makes up for with pure ability.

Gav Coughlan Skates Dublin, Ireland A to B (2015)

This RIDE channel piece serves a dual purpose here as both an insight into Gav’s impeccable skateboarding, whilst simultaneously providing a glimpse into most of the major Dublin street spots.

Street Skating in Dublin, Ireland (2016)

It seems fitting the end this on another RIDE channel piece focusing on Dublin that heavily features Gav Coughlan, along with fellow Dublin ripper Keith Walsh and Limerick’s Cian Eades. If you’re wondering why the RIDE Channel seemed to focus on Ireland so much, I’d hazard to suggest that it’s partly because Tony Hawk spends so much time in Ireland himself. Don’t believe me? Check this out – Birdhouse in Dublin.

Finally, I’ve just stumbled across a full upload of Ciaran O’Connor’s late 90’s Dublin scene video ‘It Can’t rain Forever’ after finishing this, so consider yourselves lucky.
Some seriously heavy skateboarding in this one.

All that remains to be said is that if you’re interested in finding out more about the current day Irish skateboarding scene, then you could do a lot worse than direct yourselves towards the excellent and very active Skate Eire website.

Sásta Lá Fhéile Pádraig!