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 istream 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.

MGH staff at the launch of the Blackrock Ambulance Service. Click for more from Michael Donnelly.

Angling News: The weekly angling report from the North Western Regional Fisheries Board covering the Moy River, Lough Conn and other NW fisheries. And also reports on the latest angling catches on Corrib and Mask and western rivers from the Western Regional Fisheries Board.

Local Papers: The local papers? Life the universe and everything is in there - The Connaught Telegraph, Western People and Mayo News! Our reviewer casts a sometimes jaundiced eye on life as we know it Jim.

Electronic voting: Why the election system should be more like the Lotto and less like a lottery. Read the opinion of our newest columnist, Mark Waters.

Parish Newsletter: Read the Parish Newsletter for Pentecost Sunday.

Special Olympics Castlebar: For all the latest info on the upcoming Special Olympics - check out our Special Olympics Section. Venezuela!

Blast from the Past:  Another photo quiz on the Nostalgia Board. Can you put names on these faces? Click photo.

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

The World Comes to Castlebar: Click for our photos of the bands in action at last weekend's Castlebar Blues Festival.

Old Blues Photos: Photos from the 2001 Festival - on 2nd June 2001 - and even mo bloos pics. Joy Heverin also has some pics from the 2001 fest in her photo gallery.

Blues 2000: Photos from the Year 2000 Castlebar Blues Festival... and yet another batch.

The Castlebar Blues Festival  Watch our specially made video at the 2000 Blues Festival (RealPlayer required)

Blues 1999: We have a couple of batches too from the 1999 Event - Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3

The Second Photo

More Castlebar FCA photos from the 1970s. The latest addition to the Old Castlebar Photo Archive Project. Click for more old photos.

Castlebar Sports

High Rise Rugby: Check-out the Line-out in Michael Donnelly's Ballinrobe v Bucaneers photos. Assisted Lifts Galore!

Hurling Action Photos from the recent Division 3 Hurling Championship game in McHale Park Even the sliotar maker gets their name frozen in mid air in these Michael Donnelly photos.

Connaught Champs: Read Johnny Mee's own after match account of Castlebar Celtic's historic win against Headford to claim the Connaught Junior Championship.

Castlebar Celtic: Lots of photos of the U-10 and U-12 teams who participated in the recent five-aside Blitz at Manulla. Connaught Champions of the future

Swimming Club: All the latest news from Castlebar Swimming Club.

Mulligan on Sport: Read John Mulligan's regular column on sport - keeping you in touch with local sport especially.

Mitchels Check out the the Latest Hurling and Camogie Notes.

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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.

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