How to Make Castlebar your startup internet page!

Duck Race for Turlough Community Centre

Walk for St Brids Special School

We are trying to increase the number of hits to Castlebar's web sites. Last month we had our greatest monthly total yet with 68,000 hits! While the main method we are using to increase the number of visitors is by having great content, we are asking people to help by setting their startup Internet page to www.castlebar.ie. Many people don't realise that they can change their startup page - but it's very simple - try it:

If you are using Internet Explorer:
Select the following menu items in sequence:
View, Options, Navigation (this is a tab)
and then set the address box to http://www.castlebar.ie

If you are using Netscape:
Select the following menu items in sequence:
Edit, Preferences  and then set the location box to http://www.castlebar.ie

The next time you dial up, Castlebar will appear automatically!

From this base you can search the Internet using Altavista, the Irish Times is just one click away as are local weather, TV pages and a popular software download site. If you would like us to add other links that you use regularly let us know and we will add them to the home page.

The benefits will be increased traffic through the Castlebar site and a greater incentive to keep building up Castlebar's web sites and to keep them going in the long term.

Turlough Community Development Association's Annual Duck Race was held in Turlough on the Castlebar River on Sunday 2 May 1999. With a first prize of £500 going to holder of ticket 1069! this was a keenly contested affair with yellow plastic ducks bobbing down the river frightening the fish and bewildering the real ducks. The race started at Gortnaphuilla Bridge in Turlough all the way to Park Bridge downstream of Turlough House. To get an idea of the number of ducks involved have a look at the Patrick's Day Parade photo below!



It was reckoned that some £1500 ducks were sold and the funds will be put to good use by the hard-working crew of the Turlough community Development Association. The face of Turlough has been changed over the past number of years by the Association. The new development of Turlough house as part of the national museum of Ireland will give them great encouragement with an expected 200,000 visitors per annum to see the National Folk Life Collection which will be housed at Turlough House.