Bandon youth café blames closure on impact of social media on teens

A popular youth café launched by Boyzone singer Shane Lynch has closed its doors — primarily due to the impact of social media and smartphones.

Bandon’s Funky Fish Youth Café began offering leisure facilities to teenagers in 2006 but has been forced to close because of a lack of interest.

According to its former coordinator, Keith Kingston, things have changed over the past year or so with organisers noticing fewer and fewer young people were using the centre “no matter what we did to promote it”.