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.

Some more unusual photos from Frank Cawley. Click photos for more.

It Starts Today! The Olympic Flame arrives in Castlebar this morning - don't miss the torch ceremony at 11:15 on the Mall to mark the occasion. Later this evening the Veneuzuelan delegation arrive in Castlebar.

Special Olympics Timetable and Details: All the details of the Host Town Week - Timetable, Parade, Venezuelan team details, Sing the feeling CD.

Looking Back: Three years ago we were on a high - looking down on Castlebar. In 2001 we had a honeymoon trip - sailing across the Atlantic - and last year we were getting the wind up on our front page.

Angling News: from the North Western Regional Fisheries Board, Ballina and from the Western Regional Fisheries Board, Galway.

Parish Newsletter: Read the Parish Newsletter for last Sunday.

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 the 2003 Castlebar Blues Festival.

The Second Photo

Davitts Hurling team from the mid sixties. Lots of comments about this one on the Nostalgia Board

Holy Family National School, Newport: Latest Mayo school to join our online community

Castlebar Sports

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.

Getting up there: Check-out the Line-outs in Michael Donnelly's Ballinrobe v Bucaneers photos. High-rise Rugby!

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

Old Front Pages:

Buy a CD: If you buy CDs online why not buy from CD WOW!? By clicking through to CD-WOW! and buying your music using this link you are supporting Castlebar.ie.

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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