Long Articles
How I long to feel that summer in my heart 25/09/03
Another summer has come and gone and despite a mini heat-wave and some lovely days --a vast improvement on last year's washout-- we still have the feeling that it wasn't really a proper summer. More
One-off Housing killed my cat 18/09/03
OK, this one's personal. One-off housing killed my cat. More
How hard can it be to post a letter 03/07/03
The trials and tribulations of posting a letter –the dot.com way. More
We should build our station before we rise above it. 26/06/03
The Skibbereen Eagle, a local West Cork newspaper became famous by declaring in an 1897 editorial that it was "keeping an eye on the Tsar of Russia" over his expansionist designs on China. Over a century later the spirit of the Skibbereen Eagle lingers on in on-line discussion forums all over the Internet. The bulletin board at www.castlebar.ie is no exception.
Squeezing through the Technology Gap 19/06/03
How Technology will save us from reality TV… eventually.
Throwing Out The Baby with the Baptismal Font 12/06/03
I remember as a teenager in Castlebar going to mass regularly on a Saturday evening. It wasn’t that I was especially religious. I was on the edge of the social scene and it was a great way of meeting up with people and finding out where the action was later on that night. More
Why the election system should be more like the Lotto 05/06/03
... and less like a lottery. More
BeLIEve 29/05/03
We can't blame the politicians for our current woes. We elected them because we wanted to believe. More
The Land Question still haunts modern Ireland 22/05/03
Michael Davitt's dreams still linger in the subconscious of Ireland's house buyers. More
