Reader Profiles

Who visits this Site? For a detailed breakdown of our readers' location, age, sex, preferences, etc. read our visitor profile.

What You Think: Read Your Comments on the Castlebar web pages.

Broadband Arrives! Finally it has arrived in Castlebar and Westport. Andrew Fordham business eircom's marketing manager explains the new i-stream broadband service to Peter Jordan.

  Audio Panto: Our selection of RealAudio files - click individual links to get a flavour of Robinson Crusoe 2003 Introduction
- Silly Billy
- Captain Bill Atkins
- Over the Rainbow
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight
- Interview with the Fairies
- Here comes the Sun
- Interviews with the Audience
- Drunken Sailor
- or listen to all of the above as a continuous Selection of Panto Clips (23 minutes in total) - (RealPlayer needed)

Panto Video: Castlebar pantomime 2001 Aladdin - Castlebar's 2001 Pantomime - an archive video.

 Mayo Moments: Featuring a selection of video and audio tracks.

Mass in the Old Abbey for the Urlar Pattern 4th August 2003. Click photo for Peter Jordan's photos essay from this traditional event...

Sunday Newsletter: All the latest Parish information in the weekly Sunday Newsletter.

Moonlight in Mayo: From Swinford, John Feeney is one of Ireland's forgotten treasures. Yesterday an archive CD is launched to celebrate his birth 100 years ago.

Irish Roots? Find your long lost Irish relatives using our roots page. Especially useful if you have Mayo roots.

Of Clay and Wattle Made: Visit the Museum's house-building project this month. See skilled craftsmen using traditional house-building techniques and materials.

Currach Building Project: Remember last year's boat building project at the Museum?

Climate Change: Things are changing indeed when you see Maize growing in Sligo along the coast road near Enniscrone.

Diesel Dipping: Ever thought about using cheap home heating oil to run your car?

Local Papers Comment: Casting an eye on last week's local papers... Married Priests... CAMP West up and running... sewage smells and slurry smells... archaeology around Clew Bay... Mayo jobs...

Angling Reports: Read the latest angling reports from the North Western and Western Regional Fisheries Boards.

Second Photo

Progress at the Museum's House Building Project. Click for more photos.

Up up and Away! Your chance to win a trip in a hot air balloon in aid of Mayo MS. Sponsor a Balloon or release one at the top of Croagh Patrick on 16th August!

Castlebar Sports

Swimming: Results Irish Open Age Group Championships - Division 1 Results. . Catch up on the earlier swimming columns.

Mitchels Notes: Read the latest from Castlebar Mitchels notes - weekly updates.

Old Front Pages:

Our Photographs

The West - from Addergoole to Windy Gap: Over 2000 photographs for you to browse through with a West of Ireland emphasis.

Galleries: Because we add 20 or 30 new photos every day we now have many thousands of photos on the Castlebar site.

Why not visit Castlebar, County Mayo in the West of Ireland?