Public meeting about The Bridge Magazine tomorrow night

Watershed meeting on The Bridge MagazineWhen something comes around regularly for 42 years it can perhaps become taken for granted, writes Brian Byrne.

Which is why a unique publication like The Bridge Magazine needs a bit of help if it is to survive through to a golden anniversary and, hopefully, beyond.

There's a public meeting tomorrow night, May 1, to see if the community it serves, on a purely voluntary basis, wants to see it continue.

With the base of volunteers shrinking, and questions over whether a print publication of its kind is even relevant in these digital and social media times, the production team wants the community itself to get involved in the discussion.

The event, in Fallons, starts at 8.30pm.

There are a few who have been involved from the beginning. They'd rather it didn't end on their watch.

My own involvement in the early Bridge kicked off a lifetime career in journalism which has taken me all over the world as a writer, photographer and broadcaster. Even though I haven't been directly involved for a long time, I owe it.