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 Aldi, the German discount supermarket giant, have submitted a planning application to set up a new development at the former SuperValu store at Springfort Retail Park, Nenagh Co Tipperary. Aldi purchased the store last month having been refused permission previously to trade at a nearby site, following an objection lodged by Nenagh Chamber of Commerce.
While Nenagh Town Council had previously given the ‘go ahead,’ for Aldi’s previous plan, the Town Council’s decision was further appealed by Nenagh Chamber of Commerce, which, while not opposed to the retail giant coming to Nenagh, argued that the company should find a town centre site for its store. An Bord Pleanála generally accepted this view, and ruled that a peripherally located Aldi would greatly detract from Nenagh’s town centre.
Nenagh Town Council will decide whether or not to grant planning permission in the coming weeks, or may seek further information and clarification from Aldi. Shopkeepers in the town’s centre, in general, are expected to welcome this application, which is basically in line with Nenagh town’s current development plan, latter which strongly recommends that Town planners and Management first protect the town centre, where many business sites are presently available for use. Springfort Retail Park is situated however 1 kilometre to the south-west of Nenagh town centre, on the main Limerick Road
This German owned discount retailer currently operates over 8,000 stores worldwide, of which 84 are based here in Ireland, including one profitable outlet in Thurles.
 Just spotted an amazing genuine sale currently being offered at Thurles Photo-station, Friar Street, Thurles, which will finish over the next few days.
However if you place an order by close of business on Tuesday next, Thurles Photo-station will give a whopping 30% off all photo frames and photo albums, that are currently in stock.
They are also printing 6in x 4in print orders of over 200 for just 10 cent each, for next day pick-up. Note: Ideal for that wedding ‘Thank You,’ personalised card you have been putting off, or holiday photo’s not yet processed.
If you have a favourite wedding or family portrait, which you would like converted and presented as an expensive Canvas Print size 16in x 12in, or upwards, then take full advantage now, same will be printed for just half price, but remember, only if presented by close of business next Tuesday.
Thurles Photo-station was established in 1999 by Paul and Roisin Scully, who both have over 25 years experience in the photographic and retail trade. Both are the leading experts in photo processing, photo restoration and framing. Their staff are trained to the highest standards and are fully up to date with all the requirements of today’s technology.
They process both digital and negative film images and besides their outlet at Friar Street, in Thurles Town, they also operate outlets in Nenagh, Thurles Shopping Centre and Clonmel, so check this sale out.
 Thurles Fresh Milk Counsellor and Well-being Coach, Fiona Hoban, will be at The Dome, Semple Stadium in Thurles on Thursday February 2nd next. Fiona will be discussing “A Positive Approach to Well-being,” as part of a health evening organised by the National Dairy Council and Thurles Fresh Milk.
A native of Castlebar, Fiona Hoban runs a private counselling practice in Westport and is a part-time lecturer with the National Counselling Institute of Ireland. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin (MA Philosophy & Sociology), Fiona delivers Communications and Life Skills training to both public and private sector clients.
As well as getting great tips about your health, well-being and diet, those who attend will also benifit from a cookery demonstration by Ailish Maher Hennessy, from from Fiacri Country House Restaurant and Cookery School in Knock, Roscrea. Ailish, who has received numerous accolades ranging from Féile Bia to Georgina Campbell, strongly believes in using the best quality, locally produced food and ingredients, to “ensure traceability and to support much needed local employment and revenue“.
Another specialist speaking at this event is Paula Mee, one of Ireland’s leading independent dietitians. Paula was a presenter of RTÉ TV’s Health Squad programme which ran for five years until 2006 and she makes regular appearances on TV and radio programmes advising on nutrition and health issues.
Fran Curry from Tipp FM will be master of ceremonies for the evening at The Semple Stadium Dome, which it is hoped will also raise much needed funds for Friends of the Community Hospital of the Assumption, Thurles.
Tickets, costing €10, are available from Thurles Fresh Milk by phoning 0504-91900; The Hospital of the Assumption Thurles on 0504 21055 or from any Centenary Thurles Co-op branch.
Tickets will also be available on the night, with doors opening at 7.00pm and presentations begining at 7.30pm sharp.
 Thurles, The Cathedral Town This weeks local newspaper, the “Tipperary Star,” here in Tipperary, bears to the reader the catchy headline, “Lonely Thurles Not On The Planet.” Their article indirectly, yet correctly highlights the total neglect of tourism in North Tipperary.
This article highlights the failure of travel guide Lonely Planet to recommend Thurles as a tourist destination. The latter publication of course hallucinates more with each publication, while imagining and marketing themselves as the “Backpackers Bible,” giving the impression that their representatives have visited and surveyed quality holiday destinations, thus attempting to control where tourists will visit and travel in countries around the world.
In Lonely Planet, published 1999 / 2000 edition, Thurles was ‘tarred,’ with the following brush; Quote: “Thurles ( Durlas) is a large market town 22km north of Cashel which was founded by the Butlers in the 13th. century. Little of note has been built there since & the town square is little more than an ugly car park.”
This was despite a new 3rd Level College, a new Theatre, two new Museums, a state of the art Research Library and Exhibition Centre, latter staffed by quality helpful trained staff, etc, etc. This was despite the fact that Thurles is the ancestral home of the present heirs to the British Throne, the home of the Gaelic Athletic Association, etc, etc, the list is long.
The publication “Ireland : A Rough Guide,” had similar misinformation to offer tourists; ” Thurles is of very little interest in itself.” “Having seen the Rock of Cashel, most people head out of Tipperary for the west, and frankly this isn’t a bad idea – the north of the county has little to distract you.” “Templemore is even less interesting than Thurles.”
Truth is both of these so called “Tourism Guide Publications,” continuously display their total ignorance and lack of research, choosing instead to operate like protection racketeers, coercing reticent potential Hotels, Restaurants etc, into buying into their publications.
Unlike the protection racketeering of the Kray Twins, of the 1950′s in the UK, these publications do not set about doing physically damage to their victims’ property during the night. Far worse, they ignore and fail to truthfully recommend top quality licenced hostelry’s, hotels and eating houses, who refuse to respond to this type of racketeer marketing.
This in turn means that these publications point tourists to the most expensive areas of Ireland, which, I regret to report, latter do not always grant best real value to the visitor. To prove a point I recently sent an email to Lonely Planet under the guise of a being a tourist, intending to visit Thurles.
See email and reply hereunder. (True copies of this communication and it’s reply may be viewed on request.)
Hi,
I wish to visit Thurles, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Are there any Hotels / good accommodation closer than Cashel? Are there any Castles, Museums, Heritage Centres etc, in this area.
Best regards, etc.
Reply Received by return from Lonely Planet
Dear Sir,
Please select the below link to find lots of information on Ireland:
Sadly we do not offer any accommodation in your selected area through the Lonely Planet Hotels and Hostels website yet. I hope you have a fantastic time travelling and please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any more queries.
As you can see we could have repaired, far more easily, any damage undertaken by the likes of the Kray Twins.
North Tipperary on your knees and ‘Thank God,’ that Lonely Planet have failed to give us a mention this year.
I will be discussing, on this site, the failure to properly market Tourism in Thurles and ‘that area,’ just east of the Shannon, in more infinate detail, in the coming days. After all ‘blame is the name of the game,’ in today’s Ireland and we must therefore ‘name and shame,‘ those responsible for our neglect, before we begin to change the way we do business in the future.
In the meanwhile, any Tourists coming to Tipperary this year, stop wasting money on glossy brochures, use the Internet.(e.g. The new Hidden Tipperary.com site.) Here in Tipperary we do not sell a pig in a poke, rather we like to display our wares and guarantee our products to our customers.
 Cantwell Mobile Water Treatment Plant The highly reputable and successful sister companies, combining Cantwell Quality Water Services Ltd and Cantwell Electrical Engineering Ltd, yesterday privately unveiled their newest piece of engineering equipment, a Mobile Water Treatment Plant, which is the first such plant ever to come on stream here in Ireland.
This new fully Mobile Water Treatment Unit is capable of treating up to 45,000 litres of water per hour and comes complete with it’s own power supply and electrical generator, thus allowing the unit to start operations on arrival at it’s required destination or environmental emergency.
On arrival, this state of the art treatment unit is ready immediately to begin carrying out the following treatments:- Iron and Manganese removal, UV treatment, Carbon filtration, Ultra Filtration, pH correction and controlled Chlorine treatment.
The company, Cantwell Electrical Engineering Ltd has been successfully trading since 1978, while it’s sister company, Cantwell Quality Water Services Ltd, began trading in early 2010. Both Companies trade from their own business and engineering unit at Graigue, Urlingford, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, offering a non stop 24 hour service.
Cantwell Quality Water Services Ltd, currently supply an estimated 100,000 litres of quality drinking water per hour, to the towns of Foyne’s, Kilcornan, Askeaton, Shanagolden, Killdimo and Creevey’s Cross. This follows the recent pollution, caused by oil, which leaked into the River Deel in Co Limerick, last week and also includes the pumping of water directly from their tankers to serve a number of nursing homes & schools etc. A total of 7 tankers are involved in this operation with a further 5 tankers on reserve if required.
Cantwell Quality Water Services Ltd also supply water to ocean going ships, such as the heavy cargo ships servicing the Aughinish Alumina Ltd, plant, which take 50,000 litres, pumped directly to on board water supply tanks.
Both companies Managing Directors, Simon Cantwell and Ger Cantwell, stated; “This type of new advance technology will now support and ensure that Ireland, as an island nation, will continue to retain it’s already acknowledged green, clean environmental reputation, well into the years ahead.“
 We regret to report that a 28-year-old Tipperary man, on a working holiday with his brother in Australia, has lost his life following a freak accident.
Mr Martin Costigan, a native of Templetuohy, Thurles, Co Tipperary, was in the sea with his brother and friends at lunchtime yesterday at Scarborough Beach, which is close to Perth, when he was swept away by a freak wave.
Mr Costigan, a non-swimmer, was one of a highly respected farming family of eight children and played hurling and Gaelic football for his local GAA club, Moyne Templetuohy.
Mr Costigan’s body was later recovered near the Perth coastline.
Mr Costigan had been in Australia for only a couple of months and had returned home at Christmas to be with his family and friends. Mr Costigan’s brother, who presently resides in New York, is flying out to Perth today.
The deceased man’s father Mr Connie Costigan, is chairman of the local Co-Op and is a former chairman of the Moyne-Templetuohy GAA club.
Our deepest sympathies go to his family and friends.
Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam dílis.
 Anonymous Group Target Ireland In the wake of last week’s revolt against the Stop Online Piracy (SOPA) Act and Protect IP (PIPA) Act, there’s a fascinating battle starting to unfold here in Ireland, as activists promise to attack the Irish Department of Justice website and other government websites today in protest.
This appears to be happening as I write. Internet activist group “Anonymous” has carried out many online attacks against high-profile websites for some time now and are promising to hack the Irish Department of Justice website, tonight in a recent ‘tweet.’
The threat comes following Sean Sherlock, Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, announcing he intends to enact a radical new law curtailing access to websites in Ireland, without a vote in the Oireachtas.
Within the last few minutes Oireachtais.ie is also gone down, and a list has been posted on the internet of all TD’s Telephone numbers inviting you to contact them to voice your opposition to this Irish SOPA bill.
 We have already warned of the true reason for Minister Phil Hogan’s controversial €100 Household Charge. This money is being collected to “cut a stick to beat us.”
Those who believed that the expected €160 million in revenue from this new Household Charge would go towards providing additional funds for Ireland’s cash-strapped local authorities is in for a rude awakening, as we suspected.
Minister Phil Hogan’s controversial €100 Household Charge is being collected centrally and will provide little extra at local level, unlike the €200 annual charge for second properties, which goes to source.
In most European countries the local charges are designated for use in the areas where they are collected. It now looks like Tipperary funding will be used to clean up Dublin’s inner city litter problem, with any surplus funding used to install water meters, generating a new source of revenue, in desperation.
Take a look at Frank McDonald’s article in today’s Irish Times. it would appear the money flowing into Government coffers from this expected new payment will simply allow a reduction, by an equivalent amount, of the cost of the centrally controlled local government fund.
When you finish reading the above link, do familiarise yourself with the Household Charge website:
The Household Charge is an annual charge introduced by the Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 which is payable by owners of residential property. It is a matter for owners of residential properties to register and pay the Household Charge on or after the 1st of January 2012.
The EU/IMF Programme of Financial Support for Ireland commits the Government to the introduction of a property tax for 2012. We are one of the last countries in Europe that does not fund local services through local property-based charges.
These services are essential to your community. They include: fire and emergency services; maintenance and cleaning of streets; planning and development; public parks; street lighting; libraries; open spaces and leisure amenities. These facilities benefit everyone.
Minister, with respect, businesses and consumers, latter through Parking Charges, here in Thurles have been paying for these services for years. We don’t have public parks, open spaces and free public leisure amenities. Our streets are neglected and beyond the powers of our local Town Council to fix. Planning and Development is non existent. Follow the McCarthy Report recommendations please and reform local government. History will thank you.
It would appear that this Fine Gael government, unlike Fianna Fáil, does not even have the ability to cover up it’s own deceit.
It’s the day that we are informed that the former Irish Nationwide chief executive, Mr Michael Fingleton transferred €500,000 to an offshore bank account in Podgorica, just after he was hit with a €13.6m debt order by Ulster Bank. It is the day we learn that Financier Derek Quinlan, who reportedly owes €200 million personally to Nama, continues to live and pays €4,144 in weekly rent, for the right to reside in a period mansion in London. It is a day when it is confirmed that rising costs now leave elderly people in difficulty or unable to heat their homes.
Where Are Our Taxes Going?
Do please take the time to watch this short video hereunder and weep. This is real democracy, at least appearing to exist, in a country containing some 310,000,000 residents, while here on our island, home to 4,400,000 souls and rapidly decreasing, we have no voice as to how our future is to be directed. The last General Election has taught us that the Irish electorate are, in desperation, close to accepting the Government of this nation by nihilists – Sinn Feiners, Mings, and Micks who fuel protest, without offering any fair solutions to our current difficulties.
I do hope our readers have kept a copy of yesterday’s (January 21st 2012) ‘Sun,’ newspaper, where we are entertained with the headline, on page two, “Minister (Phil Hogan) Admits New Tax Is Unjust.” My Dictionary defines ‘Unjust,’ as “inequitable, partial, unfair, prejudiced, biased, undeserved, unmerited, unjustifiable, not just; lacking in justice or fairness.” With most homes in this country in joint ownership, the keeping of this paper could be used as justified defence evidence, when wives and husbands stand before “Your Honour” to explain why they refuse to pay Minister Phil Hogan’s admitted ‘inequitable,’ €100 Household Charge, which came into effect this month.
Here in Tipperary we ask a series of questions:- What are our taxes used for? Why do we continue to pay bankers annual salaries of €500,000 for work more perceptively undertaken by Credit Union managers, latter earning less than €120,000? Why are we being asked to pay for water carrying lime and other impurities, which rots our copper piping and in most cases from day to day, is undrinkable ? Why is rural Ireland continuously being robbed, to support a Dublin economy, while senior Cabinet Ministers continue to squirrel away any available funding to their own constituencies, bolstering their outcome in future elections? How long will Unions continue to dictate how our Civil Service is run?
Our Libraries, Schools and Courthouses are being threatened with closure, our waste collections systems have been privatised, our streets, pavements and roads are a national disgrace. Local justice, law and order are sliding down the slippery slope, while rape, stabbings and murder are now daily acceptable happenings.
Here in Tipperary, due mainly to a sort of ‘resigned acceptance,’ we continue to elect and support public representatives, with no power at the Cabinet Table and even less ability to protect and reform that which was gifted to us via Bertie, Builders, Bankers and the Galway Tent.
How long can we afford this resigned acceptance?
 Joseph Finnerty The Irish Court of Criminal Appeal has today ruled that a three-year sentence imposed on a Tipperary man, who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl, was too lenient.
Forty Seven year old Mr Joseph Finnerty, Grove Villas, Roscrea, who previously resided with his elderly mother, is just weeks away from prison release, having been convicted of false imprisonment and sexual assault in 2009.
During the assault Mr Finnerty’s victim had tried to escape from his car, as he drove her to Glassderry Wood in Co Offaly, prior to attacking her. His victim claimed that the events of that night, had completely destroyed her life making her anxious and hyper-vigilant.
Following his six-day trial at the Central Criminal Court, the accused was found guilty and jailed for three years, but today the DPP appealed that sentence handed down, on the grounds that same was unduly lenient.
The court heard that it was hard to imagine how one single incident of sexual assault could have been worse, than in this case, where a young girl had been preyed upon by an older man.
Lawyers representing Joseph Finnerty stated that their client had no previous history of any sexual offences. However during the trial in 2009 Sgt Aidan Farrelly had stated that Mr Finnerty had 25 previous other convictions, which included three assaults, road traffic offences and criminal damage.
The court today added an additional one year to Mr Finnerty’s sentence, which is to be suspended on the grounds that Mr Finnerty is due for release, from his custodial sentence, in the coming weeks.
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