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Paul Baker, who leased and ran The Cross Bar at Gurteen, was sentenced at Sligo Circuit Court to 27 months for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old employee at the bar.
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Community memory
Boards.ie memory links The Cross Bar with old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and music and sessions. PubHub V1 treats this as published forum memory: not a settled fact, but a linked record of what people said, remembered, joked about, or claimed online.
43 source leads · 2002-2016
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Boards.ie community memory
“Essexboy wrote: This is a common and regular problem in North Sligo. We never hear of this happening in neigbouring Northern counties...”
Sligo Water Supply · 2008“The route of any road through Sligo is largely decided by who owns the land it is to cross (unless you are...”
Proposed Eastern Bridge at the Riverside (mod warning, #137) · 2005Forum memory, linked to the source thread. Request a rewrite, refresh, or removal if the wording or match is wrong.
Archive time depth
14 years of archive-metadata distance across 43 dated Boards.ie archive leads.
Flagship memory draft
Boards.ie gives The Cross Bar a useful forum-memory trail around old memories, stories and gossip, characters and regulars, room atmosphere and music and sessions. PubHub is treating it as linked public memory, not settled fact.
The archive has 43 readable signals for The Cross Bar, with enough repetition to make this a good candidate for a fuller memory page. The useful material is the pattern: what people returned to, joked about, remembered, or argued over.
The character lane is active here: 10 signals point toward regulars, staff-memory, crowds, roles, and room texture. PubHub should keep private people protected while preserving the sense of the room.
The source trail currently preserves 43 unique Boards.ie URLs for review. The dated archive span visible on the page is 2002-2016.
Generated V1 flagship draft. Before turning this into stronger editorial copy, open the linked sources, check pub identity, and keep corrections/removals easy.
Boards.ie editor brief
Boards.ie gives The Cross Bar a source-linked forum-memory trail around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and room characters, atmosphere and music and sessions, with 43 readable signals preserved for review. The character lane adds 10 room-texture signals, pointing to regulars, crowds, roles or recurring pub talk without treating forum memory as verified fact.
This is an editor brief from source-linked forum memory. It is not a verified pub fact, and sensitive private-person claims stay out of public copy.
Stories and local colour
The archive has 43 readable signals for The Cross Bar, with enough repetition to make this a good candidate for a fuller memory page. The useful material is the pattern: what people returned to, joked about, remembered, or argued over.
story gossip
Boards.ie gives The Cross Bar 43 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place and music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory. This is not verified pub history; it is a mapped trail of what people said online and where PubHub can go next for local colour.
2016 · characters, atmosphere, memory, story
2003 · memory, story
This is labelled forum memory: useful gossip, local claims and colour from source-linked public discussion, not PubHub treating the claims as settled fact.
PubHub read of the archive
These cards turn the raw forum trail into practical page leads: gossip, character texture, time depth, source depth, and review warnings where the match pattern is broad.
story_gossip
Boards.ie gives The Cross Bar 43 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place and music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory. This is not verified pub history; it is a mapped trail of what people said online and where PubHub can go next for local colour.
characters
The character lane has 10 signals for The Cross Bar: regulars, staff-memory, crowds, habits, or the social feel of the room. PubHub keeps this as labelled forum memory and uses source review before turning any named-person fragment into stronger copy.
time_depth
The Cross Bar has 43 dated source leads from 2002 to 2016, giving the page a 14-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 43 unique Boards.ie source URLs tied to this pub-memory record. Each public lead stays linked so corrections can point to the exact forum source.
Story leads
The Cross Bar has 43 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and music and sessions. The strongest current lead points into "Rural characters"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories. The character lane is especially useful here, with 10 regulars-or-room-texture signals.
2016 · characters, atmosphere, memory · lead score 167
2008 · characters, memory · lead score 136
2008 · characters, memory · lead score 135
2003 · memory, story · lead score 128
2008 · characters, memory · lead score 128
2016 · characters, atmosphere, memory · lead score 167
2008 · characters, memory · lead score 136
2008 · characters, memory · lead score 135
2008 · characters, memory · lead score 128
2005 · characters · lead score 123
Archive profile
The Cross Bar has 43 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and music and sessions. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.
V1 source
Boards.ie readable-first raw review queue
Memory shape
Old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and music and sessions
Correction loop
If the page is wrong or unfair, use the correction path and PubHub can update or remove it.
V1 shows linked forum memory and local talk as memory, not as PubHub fact-checking.
Old memories
Boards.ie memory links this pub with older recollections, changed habits, former routines, or remembered visits.
Stories and gossip
Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.
Regulars and characters
Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.
Room atmosphere
Boards.ie memory links this pub with room feel, recommendations, and how people described the place.
Archive source trail
These are linked Boards.ie leads from pre-2026 discussion. PubHub V1 shows the linked trail as forum memory and uses the correction path for bad matches, missing context, or pages that need checking.
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2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81
2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86
Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links The Cross Bar with old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and music and sessions. PubHub V1 treats this as published forum memory: not a settled fact, but a linked record of what people said, remembered, joked about, or claimed online.
Think this Boards.ie memory is wrong, unfair, missing context, or attached to the wrong pub? Send PubHub a correction and we will check the page. Contact PubHub.
Boards.ie sprint target
This pub is in the current Boards.ie Memory Productization Sprint. The goal is to turn useful forum traces, gossip, characters, regulars and source leads into readable public memory without treating them as verified facts.
Operator next step
Open the source links and turn the strongest themes into tighter, readable page copy without overclaiming.
Make the page feel alive without overclaiming: name the recurring themes, describe the room texture, and invite corrections or extra memories.
Browse the full lane on the Boards.ie sprint board.