1996/99
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BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
18 March 1998
Yesterday (Tuesday) St. Patrick's Day -- we celebrated our 170th birthday here at the Connaught Telegraph, an achievement unmatched in the provincial newspaper sector.
Since our establishment in 1828 a lot of water has passed under the bridge and a lot of ink has dried on our editions which have traced the development of Mayo through times, good and bad.
Our ancestors worked in a different publishing world, one devoid of the deadline pressures that are part of today's industry. Things were simpler then, more easy going, in an era when the outside world did not matter.
But today repercussions in Asia, America, Australia or the EU have an immediate knock-on effect on our economy and that of our neighbours.
With direct satellite links, e-mail, phone, fax links and the Internet, the globe is on our doorstep. We no longer live in the seclusion of 1880's. That in itself is a good thing.
But the Connaught Telegraph lived through the Famine, survived two World Wars, economic depression and today we are the leading provincial newspaper in Connaught.
It was not always easy. Times were hard and opportunities few on the ground. Yet through thick and thin the paper survived.
We are pleased to be able to continue the tradition of Frederick Cavendish, James Daly, Tom Courell and the many Gillespie editors of reporting the happenings of the day and their effect for the people of Mayo.
In an ever changing society it is refreshing to bring good news -- of jobs, incentives and well-to-do members of the community who have achieved certain goals, either at home or abroad.
Unfortunately, too, there must be the bad news, of
tragedy, death and misfortune. But through it all we are a
resilient people and we tend, as we do in the Connaught
Telegraph, to look on the brighter side of
things.
Connaught Telegraph - News & Sport - March 1998
