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If we didn’t love keeping the Guide fire burning daily, hey, we would have quit a long time ago.

Always read the small print

Always read the small print
s some of you smarter readers might have already guessed, it takes
quite a bit of blood, sweat and tea to put the Greystones Guide together.
Having started out with the idea that if we put together a living, breathing, ass-kicking guide to all things Greystones – past, present and future – we could survive on the kindness of local business gurus and everyday gurriers to hit that Holy Grail of the minimum wage. Community-led and community-fed, people.
At least, back in 2011, that was the glorious plan. For a small membership fee – starting at €50 per year, or €5 a month – the Guide would produce hand-stitched, top-of-the-range, oven-ready, Grade A features that would reach out and touch thousands upon thousands of fellow Greystonians. And a one-off feature costs just €25. By contrast, The Bray People charges €800 for one feature.
Somewhere between town crier and village idiot, the Guide cruised past the 500,000 hits a month in recent years (streets ahead of any other Wicklow media) by keeping de peoples well informed every single day of all the events, new sensations, groovy get-togethers and juicy gossip happening in this idyllic neck of the woods. Heck, we even managed to sell a guy’s house for him
down in Charlesland. And it cost him just €25.
We’ve had some incredible support from not only fine businesses over the years but individuals too, the latter heeding our original 2019 call for a little help from our friends. But, thanks to our refusal to allow Google ads and all the rest, it’s still a struggle.
Ultimately, putting together the Guide is a life, not a living, and once we’ve hit that golden target of a minimum wage, we’ll step back from all this uncouth panhandling, and just spend our days reading Private Eye whilst lounging around on a selection of soft furnishings. Hopefully.
To become a Guide Cadet, just sign up below. Or you can check out our other options – including a simple one-off donation – to help keep this lighthouse blinking right over here. For one-off donations, make sure to scroll down past subscriptions. You can also Revolut on 0872848684.
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or you could contribute and get a job.
Not sure if you’re aware of this already, but you’re a fuckwit. Thanks for the IP address – Bray must be proud of you.
From Avril Burgess…
Thanks Paul, for the continuing and very welcome Greystones Guide. It’s always a treat when the Guide email pops in. I think we’re very lucky here in Greystones to have a weekly compendium of local news, photos, obituaries and lots more, served with hefty dashes of snappy headlines and good humour. It adds to the sense of community in our town. Which we need. Especially now as we try to make our eyes smile over the masks.
Am listening to the GG’s Back to the Eighties (the decade that taste forgot) music. Amazing to think that those sounds are in their 40th year. http://greystonesguide.ie/lets-groove-tonight/ Blast from the past.
Well done Paul. Happy New Year to you and to the Guide! And thanks again. Avril
P.S. If you can afford it, please support the Greystones Guide and keep its maestro going…. we’d really miss it if it wasn’t there!