The same LOCO Lite e-scooter was €299 on the manufacturer’s own site and €400 at a Cork shop on the same day in August 2026. That is €101 for the identical machine, and it shows why the shop you pick matters as much as the product.

Ireland has perhaps eight places worth buying skate and scooter equipment from. Each is good at something different, and each has a specific catch.

High Rollers, 65 Aungier Street, Dublin 2

The proper skate shop, and the one to use for a first board.

Delivery is a flat €6.50 anywhere on the island, free over €150, collection in store free. The range is real skate brands rather than licensed graphics, and if you go in they will build the board and tell you what you are doing wrong. That conversation beats any price difference on the site.

The Birdhouse Armanto Bubbles 8.0 at €110 and the Creature Web 2 Relic Mini 7.75 at €130 both come from here, and the Creature is the best kids board sold in the country.

The catch is the listings. A good share of their “completes” section is an undercarriage kit: trucks, wheels, bearings, bolts and grip, with no deck. Unremarkable to anyone who already skates. It is also how somebody buys a first board and opens a box with no board in it. Count the parts, and if the price looks low for a complete, it is not one.

Crazy Monkey, 2 Church Road, Douglas, Cork

The widest range in Munster, and the only shop in the country carrying skateboards, stunt scooters and e-scooters properly under one roof. To see all three categories in person outside Dublin, this is it.

Their range covers things nobody else stocks: the Madrid Picket cruiser at €155, the Hydroponic DT 3.0 longboard at €150, the Verb Reverb 7.75 at €79.99, and the North Satisfact G5 Pro at €230.

The problem is delivery. They publish no delivery cost anywhere before the checkout. Not on product pages, not on a shipping page, not in the footer. So you cannot compare their price against High Rollers without putting the item in a basket and going most of the way through an order. For an otherwise well run shop that is a strange thing to hide, and their pricing on resold goods is worth checking against the source too.

Smyths and Sports Direct at the cheap end

Smyths is better than skaters expect at the entry level. Free delivery over €25, free two hour click and collect, and returns that mean walking into a shop rather than posting anything. For a child’s first board, that matters. The Tony Hawk 180 Wingspan at €39.99 is genuine maple with a single kick tail and no nose, which limits what can be learned later.

The listings are the weak point. Deck width and construction are frequently missing, and those two decide whether a board is any good. Assume nothing from the photograph.

Sports Direct is cheapest by a distance, under house brands like Rocket and Donnay. The decks are better than the price suggests and the trucks are the weak point: soft cast aluminium that bends off a bad kerb landing. The Rocket Complete 8.0 at €40 is the best example, real maple with unusually sensible 92a wheels. The Tony Hawk SS 360 at €50 covers eight to thirteen year olds at 7.25 inches.

Delivery is €6.99 with no free threshold, so a €40 board is €47 to the door. Click and collect avoids it. House brands also mean no shop here stocks spares, so repairs mean generic parts and hoping the bolt pattern matches.

The scooter specialists

Micro Scooters Ireland is the place for genuine Micro and Chilli Pro. That matters because the Micro name gets copied heavily and the copies use different plastics and much lower weight limits. The Micro Sprite at €99.95 with a 100kg limit and the Chilli Pro Reaper Grim at €182.95 both sit here.

LOCO Scooters builds e-scooters to the Irish rules, which sounds like a small achievement until you see what else is on sale. The LOCO Motion Pro at €699 with a 400W motor is fully road legal. The LOCO Lite is €299 direct and legal, though it arrives without a bell, and a bell sits in the regulations alongside the lights and brakes. About €8 solves it. Most e-scooters sold here cannot legally be ridden on a road, which the e-scooter law guide covers.

Check the manufacturer’s own site before a reseller.

SkatePro, Break Your Bones, and the EU angle

SkatePro ships from Denmark, so it is an EU sale: no customs duty, no import VAT bill at the door, no carrier handling fee. The price you see is the price you pay, which since July 2026 is one of the strongest positions in the market for parts nobody stocks here.

Break Your Bones in Carlow is a small independent worth knowing in the south east, the sort of shop that survives on knowing its customers rather than on price.

Delivery terms for all of them are on the shops page.

GoSk8 has gone, so ignore old search results

GoSk8 still turns up in search results and old forum posts as an Irish skate retailer. As of August 2026 its skateboard pages return a server error and the domain serves a holding message. Treat anything pointing there as out of date. Shops close quietly in a market this small. If the product pages will not load and the social media has been silent for months, assume it is gone.

Where the sums land now

Until 1 July 2026, a British order under €150 came in without customs duty and the UK price was close to what you paid. That is finished.

A parcel from Britain now carries a flat €3 per item in customs duty, Irish VAT at 23% on the goods plus shipping plus duty, and a handling fee from €3.50 with An Post to €17.50 with the couriers. On a typical complete that is 40% or more on top of the tag, and the per item duty means a parts order of five things carries €15 before VAT touches it.

So a UK price has to be roughly 35% below the Irish one before it wins, and it usually is not. The import charges guide works this through and the import duty calculator does your own numbers.

Buy Irish, or buy inside the EU. For the first time in years that is the cheaper advice as well as the nicer one.