Ah Castlebar...

CstlbrGrl73 · 01-06-2008 11:17pm

So why does the whole site have to close? Why not just the BB and keep the rest of the site running?

It is one of the few connections I have left to the 'what's going on' there.

I think they gave in too easily. The site would have world wide support from former residents and those who are still there! Not sure the Echo could boast the same

clomage · 02-06-2008 1:56am

The BB generates most of the traffic for the website so they get most of their advertising money etc from that. Without the BB, traffic would plummet and such a voluntary site would become too expensive to run.

Its an absolute disgrace. I too log on to castlebar.ie almost daily to catch up and have a bit of banter on the BB. That paper should be ashamed of themselves.

Hoepfully the site will get the support it needs to keep going.

I shall be encouraging all back home to boycott that paper and hopefully the advertisers will too. And without advertising it aint get nothing.

My opinion of it has always been pretty low but this is rock bottom. Shameful.

Incidently, if you look up its wikipedia page the warnings provided by wikipedia about the contents of the entry seem quite appropriate to that paper...

Shiminay · 02-06-2008 4:37pm

The unfortunate truth about publishing laws here in Ireland is that the website is considered the "publisher" of such things and so is responsible for any and all comments made - this is exactly the same as the situation here on boards.ie concerning a certain music promoter. The main difference is, boards has the ability to stand up for itself as it's considerably bigger and most likely more well finded than castlebar.ie.

You all know what to do folks: write to the publishing standards people and complain about the article (which I personally thought to be the finest example of everything that's wrong with modern reporting), boycot those that advertise with the Echo and tell them why and refuse to accept it if it's put in your letter box.

As an aside, at the SSF raffle the other night, I won approval for the creation of any forum I liked, does anyone think it a good idea to offer the Castlebar BB be moved here to boards?

CstlbrGrl73 · 02-06-2008 4:56pm

Kharn wrote: »

As an aside, at the SSF raffle the other night, I won approval for the creation of any forum I liked, does anyone think it a good idea to offer the Castlebar BB be moved here to boards?

I would be up for that. As long as we can somehow get a Castlebar forum up & running again...

We need to get the whole site up & running again though...somewhere. Not sure how much weight my complaints will have, but I'm ready to send a letter to the appropriate people about this catastrophe

JupiterKid · 02-06-2008 5:31pm

Absolutely disgusted to see that that the Mayo Echo has forced Castlebar.ie to close down - they are a complete disgrace and I dearly hope will be ruined over this reprehensible action. A number of other web based message boards have locked threads on the Mayo Echo article as a precaution.

Their article was pure homophobic bigotry, no more, no less and deserves to be reported to the Press Ombudsman.

BizzyLizzyK · 02-06-2008 6:37pm

....going online tonight, will come back with link and details. It is vital that as many people sign this as possible.

Castlebar.ie is a valuable community resource to many people in Castlebar and those further afield.

I might be wrong but there seems to be a sense of that nothing can be done to turn this situation around. Things can be done so the more people that get behind a campaign the better.

witnessrenegade · 02-06-2008 7:39pm

Terrible thing to happen, Castlebar.ie had a good mb that always gve me a bit of info about what was going on around town while i was in Galway during the week. Heard around town that their are at least 3 legal actions being taken against the echo. They did a feature on castle street a few weeks ago and wrote some unfavourable comments about a former resident of the street who's family still live their...........................................

shabby · 02-06-2008 8:12pm

The mayo echo is a disgrace. The editor seems to think he can write anything he wants about anybody. Along with any photo's etc he feels like...

Oh and that sounds like a great idea kharn, if possible!

Overheal · 02-06-2008 10:11pm

publishing someones license plate like that; is that legal?

Steve · 02-06-2008 10:26pm

TBH, I don't think the paper could claim to have any moral stature over the website after publishing that shite.

I would hope that any legal action the paper could take would be laughed out of court!

(sorry for a Dub invading the mayo forum, I love Castlebar though, lots of good times there.)

dublinmadyoke · 02-06-2008 10:36pm

Overheal wrote: »

publishing someones license plate like that; is that legal?

You can take a picture of whatever you like, however you need proof to back up your comments made about the number plate.

I hope that the person in the pic takes legal action + the guy in the car. They woud so so win their case!

the_syco · 03-06-2008 12:28am

Kharn: excellent idea.

As for the Echo, t'was always a piece of sh|te, but this is a step too far. Hope the little fúcker gets sued.

/edit

Just read the article. His article will draw vigilantes, as well as guys looking for a no-strings fúck, and somewhere along the line, I'd say someone will loose their life. Incite hatred, and you'll get hatred. But hatred can't always be directioned, and may come back to haunt thouse who incited it, in the first place.

CstlbrGrl73 · 03-06-2008 2:19am

Hey! If anyone is on Facebook, there's a group that's trying to get people to join as a way of showing support.

There's not a lot of Castlebar-ites on FB, or certainly not many that I know or have as friends, so I can't ask them to join...so if you can, join and invite all that you know that are supportive. And that goes for people you know who aren't from Castlebar, but just know it's an important place to you and having the site running again is what needs to happen.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16336032874

Looks like there's a petition in the works to get the site back online.

03-06-2008 2:27pm

That is disgraceful. The article in the Mayo Echo was a travesty of reporting and all involved should never be allowed to write again.

CstlbrGrl73 · 03-06-2008 5:04pm

Along with the Facebook group (link in my above post), I've set up a myspace group in support of the cause.

Save Castlebar.ie MySpace Group

Please join and sent the invite out to all your friends.

This issue has reached national news now...RTE is on it!!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-06-2008 5:14pm

Kharn wrote: »

I was back in my home town of Castlebar last week (ok, I'm officially from Breaffy, so shoot me ) and I was delighted to see there's still nothing to do there except go to Mulroys second rate cinema / bowling alley / etc or the usual crap pubs.

Does anyone ever think there'll ever be anything worth doing in the town. Ever?

My housemate described it best: "Castlebar is like a black hole that sucks away all your ambition and drive and turns it into the shape of a pub" (he moved there from Dublin when he was 6 and has been back in Dublin for college for 3+ years).

My mates who work in the TF said that they're lucky to see 50 - 60 people in the night club on a weekend and Mantra seems to be jammed with reds (as in necks). I worked there about 10 years ago and it was the same back then. You'd think with all the vast amount of shops and things that have gone into the town in recent years there'd be some manner of decent night club?

Thoughts/comments/objections/outrage?

According to the Mayo Echo, there's a lovely gay dogging spot near the local park...

Shiminay · 03-06-2008 5:18pm

Some of the admins here on boards have got in touch with the castlebar.ie people to offer a hand, so we'll see what happens there.

Shiminay · 03-06-2008 5:21pm

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

According to the Mayo Echo, there's a lovely gay dogging spot near the local park...

Yes, which would of course be great news if I were a "gay pervert" as the Mayo Echo suggests those who frequent the lake are

CstlbrGrl73 · 03-06-2008 5:45pm

Kharn wrote: »

Some of the admins here on boards have got in touch with the castlebar.ie people to offer a hand, so we'll see what happens there.

That's awesome. I wonder if the Echo is getting this kind of support. DOUBT IT.

Did you see their justification of the article?
Justification

Shiminay · 03-06-2008 5:56pm

Yea, I read it earlier. It was about as good a back-pedal as he could make whilst still attempting to maintain some credibility.

Esel · 03-06-2008 5:59pm

Page 8 (continuation of article) for the internet-challenged! http://www.mayoecho.com/this%20weeks%20edition/pdfs/MAYO08.pdf

Samhain · 03-06-2008 6:44pm

He was on Joe Duffy this afternoon, http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_liveline.xml

afatbollix · 03-06-2008 6:52pm

Thats a load of ****e... the mayo echo is a ****e newspaper... i remember the shell thing was in its prime... they found out that shell put in a septic tank... they went nuts with about 6 pages of photos of the hole in the ground.... gob****es... also "mayo echo" i hope you try sue this place....

Bob the Builder · 03-06-2008 7:02pm

The fact that they tried to close down castlebar.ie just made them look bad.

The good aspects of the article were run over by the way he wrote it, and the homophobia he inserted it. If he had approached the composure of the article differently, perhaps people may have viewed the article differently.

Kudos for investigating the place and making people aware. But besides that, the article was brutal, and his actions were uncalled for.

Councillors jumping on the bandwagon are no better.

Panda · 03-06-2008 7:13pm

I was just about to post in regards to this but searched and found that anything i was thinking of already has been thought of!

Would boards be happy to adopt the bb for the site?
According to the write up on castlebar.ie "The bulletin boards were effectively the heart of the site - generating the bulk of over 3.8 million hits to Castlebar.ie last month"

As for boycotting that mayo echo, good idea.
Its a waste of paper and very poorly written and always has been.
If either of the two should be shut down, then its the paper that should go.

Bob the Builder · 03-06-2008 7:16pm

Panda wrote: »

As for boycotting that mayo echo, good idea.
Its a waste of paper and very poorly written and always has been.
If either of the two should be shut down, then its the paper that should go.

It was such a good article. Journalists would have loved to get their hands on it to write it, but Mayo Echo got it, and screwed it over big time.

ronbyrne2005 · 03-06-2008 9:01pm

Someone should just set up a gay sauna in Castlebar like there is in Dublin, seems to be a demand down there for one. Dogging goes on in public places all the time but because it us hetros it gets ignored. Once these gay men were being discrete and only going at night time and going into bushes then
I don't see a problem. People like those ringing Joe Duffy don't understand that this is part of gay culture and these gays have to go to locations like this as there are few if any gay friendly locations in rural Ireland I'd say.

Bob the Builder · 03-06-2008 9:24pm

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

...gays have to go to locations like this as there are few if any gay friendly locations in rural Ireland I'd say.

In all fairness there isn't. But on the same token, doing it 50 feet away from a playground and leaving behind used condoms and magazine's isn't good either.

Proposals with anything homosexual in it would be automatically rejected by Mayo CoCo, because we're still have catholic culture down here whether we like it or not.

Castlebar is a ****hole regarding culture or tolerance of other people. So is westport(where I live). We welcome hetero/homosexuals, blacks, whites, whatever, once they're not our next door neighbour. Thats part of the thing that screwed up this article - the fact that it stunk of homophobia and intolerance.

Miguel_Sanchez · 03-06-2008 10:17pm

nevf wrote: »

In all fairness there isn't. But on the same token, doing it 50 feet away from a playground and leaving behind used condoms and magazine's isn't good either.

According to Geraghty on Liveline the magazines in question seem to be copies of Dandy Extreme - a children's magazine. The way the article is written makes it seem that they were pornographic magazines.

This fact, that he found magazines, seems to be proof enough for him that some of these men are paedophiles.

Panda · 03-06-2008 10:46pm

nevf wrote: »

Mayo Echo got it, and screwed it over big time.

that being my point

Ah Castlebar...

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