A rollercoaster 10 years of Tayto Park 

The theme park is 10 - and with Covid, it very nearly didn't open at all to mark the occasion. Thankfully, the rollercoasters are back in business, says owner Ray Coyle

Raymond Coyle, founder of Tayto Park. Photograph Moya Nolan

This should have been Ray Coyle’s year. Celebrations had been planned to mark the tenth anniversary of Tayto Park - and this summer he should have been cheering on his daughter, Natalya Coyle, in Tokyo in her Olympic bid in the Modern Pentathlon.

The plans had to be put to one side as the country, and the world, ground to a halt at the hands of Covid.