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With Christmas only a few weeks away, all shop windows in Thurles are now displaying their finery. The display window of Dwans Hardware Stores in Cathedral Street is particularly eye-catching this year, forcing even the busiest shopper to halt awhile and stare. Thurles Town Council are just putting the finishing touches to the Christmas street lighting [...] The Saturdays are a new five piece girl group who are set to take the charts by storm with their debut album ‘Chasing Lights‘. Building on the success of the now immortal Spice Girls and reality TV show winners come superstars Girls Aloud, The Saturdays are starting to prove their might among their female pop [...] November 25th, 2008 | Category: Entertainment, Music | Leave a comment |
 Email This Post |  Print This Post The Presentation Secondary School in Thurles has won the Tipperary heat of the European Schools Public Speaking competition which was recently held in Nenagh. The Thurles school debated against Saint Mary’s Secondary School (Nenagh), Loreto School (Clonmel) and the Ursuline Convent (Thurles). The Presentation School emerged the overall winner of the [...] Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles, son of Walter Butler “Walter of the Rosaries, “was probably the first of the family to take up residence in Thurles Castle. Thomas was summoned to England in 1619 to answer charges of treason, but the ship conveying him was wrecked off the coast of Skerries and he was drowned [...] Described by their musical piers as ‘a superb band’ with ‘musicianship of the highest quality’, it is no surprise that Bua, taking their name from the Irish Gaelic word for victory, have quickly emerged as North America’s premier traditional Irish music act. With a sound steeped in the traditional flair and romance of the Irish idiom [...] November 21st, 2008 | Category: Entertainment, Music | Leave a comment |
Email This Post | Print This Post Independent North Tipperary County Councillor Micheál Lowry has announced that new lighting is to be installed on the Templemore road north of Thurles town. Speaking to Thurles.Info, Micheál stated “I am pleased to advise that I have now obtained funding and full approval for the installation of seven new street lights on this stretch of roadway”. Thurles.Info [...] November 20th, 2008 | Category: Community News, Politics | Leave a comment |
Email This Post | Print This Post The 11th November, each year, we remember our dead from the two Great World Wars,1914-18 and 1939-45. This date is the day that World War One ended in 1918, and when the armistice was signed in Compiègne, Northern France, at 5am. On the closest Sunday to this November date, we remember the dead in our [...] Possible one of the best kept secrets in Thurles at this time is the Mitchel House Restaurant. Proprietors of this fine establishment are Michael and Denise O’Dwyer, both veterans of the world of good food. The restaurant is tucked away in the oldest part of Thurles town, with private free car parking at the rear, [...] November 14th, 2008 | Category: Food, Recreation | Leave a comment |
Email This Post | Print This Post Tipperary women, in particular, have a lot to answer. The next time the wife throws a plate in the direction of your head, the chances are she has Tipperary connections. This remark is borne out when we trace the true origins of the nickname attributed to natives of County Tipperary – “Stone Throwers“. This nickname came [...] November 11th, 2008 | Category: History, Humour | Leave a comment |
Email This Post | Print This Post Confraternity Hall previously Thurles Jail This weekend Loughmore Community Hall will stage their annual play, “The Cormack Brothers“, a true and tragic story which occurred during turbulent years in the Ireland of the mid 19th century. The play centres about the murder of a Tipperary Land Agent & the hanging of two innocent boys for [...] |
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