Where to take beginners?

I've convinced 2 more friends to take up mountain biking and their inaugural outing is this weekend. I hear said a lot that the official trails at Ticknock & Ballinastoe are lethal for newbies; so where is the best place in Dublin / Wicklow to bring them?

Their fitness & technical skills would be quite low.

Paul

Ballinastoe, you dont have to do the whole loop, the short loop will do and if anything happens your very close to the car park. Ticknock is a killer climb to start which would put anyone off.

Kindlestown is good too. You're never far from the car park although the top section from the aerial down can be rooty enough.

If they are super new and the skills and fitness are that low you could do worse than take them along to the Phoenix Park, its not the best place in the world but there is enough to give a beginner a feel for what Mountain Biking is all about.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I think Smithers is right; the lower loop of B'stoe should be ok, it doesn't require much fitness or skills but feels like "real" mountain biking. Can always do it a few times.

where ever you take them, if its their first time, start off slowly and easily and gradually go harder on them