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Some facts about New Year Celebrations: The celebration of New Year is the oldest of all public holidays. December 31st, 2008 | Category: Community News, Education, History, Poetry | Leave a comment |
 Email This Post |  Print This Post Carlo (Charles) Bianconi was born in Tregolo, in the Lombard Highlands, near Como, Italy on September 24th. 1786. A wild youth and showing no real talent at school, his father paid for him to be sent on an eighteen month apprenticeship to art dealer Andrea Faroni. Faroni with Bianconi and three other apprentice [...] For me, he left our world here in Tipperary, as he had first entered it, rather suddenly. I can not remember exactly where or when I first met Wilbert Houben, whom readers will also identify with affection, as “The Dutch Man”. Passionate about ecology and all things environmental, Wilbert’s quiet confident character magnetically drew people, [...] December 27th, 2008 | Category: Community News, Poetry | 2 comments |
Email This Post | Print This Post HKPB Scientific is a new biotechnology company, headquartered in the Technology Park in Thurles, Co. Tipperary has come away with a prize as the best Start up company in Munster at a recent awards ceremony. The company was founded in 2008 by two local scientists, Dr. Brendan Kennedy and Dr. Donncha Haverty, and has developed rapidly [...] December 24th, 2008 | Category: Community News, Employment, Technology | Leave a comment |
Email This Post | Print This Post Dáil Deputy Michael Lowry, T.D. has confirmed to Thurles.Info today that funding, totalling €71,000 has been approved for six Tipperary organisations involved in the direct delivery of animal care and animal welfare services. The funding is to assist these organisations in meeting their running costs during 2009. The organisations to benefit from this funding are: Cottage Rescue [...] December 24th, 2008 | Category: Community News, Environment | Leave a comment |
Email This Post | Print This Post Did you Know? The inhabitants of Uruguay are guaranteed free medical care because public hospitals are free of charge. The Kingdom of Bhutan is a smoke-free country. In 2004, Bhutan became the world’s first country to ban smoking in public places and the selling of tobacco. Andorra has no airport or rail network. The only forms [...] December 23rd, 2008 | Category: Education, General | Leave a comment |
Email This Post | Print This Post Traditional festive treats were not the only delights served up at this year’s Thurles Chamber of Commerce Annual Christmas Dinner. Some 250 business men and women were in attendance and this year’s special guest speaker was business tycoon and former supermarket supremo, now turned gym boss, Mr. Ben Dunne. Ben Dunne was born on the [...] December 23rd, 2008 | Category: Community News, Politics | One comment |
Email This Post | Print This Post Significant funding has been announced to-day for the three cattle marts in North Tipperary. Cattle Marts in Thurles, Nenagh and Roscrea will receive almost half a million euro to carry out works to make their facilities even more environmentally compliant. The three marts named, together with funding announced, are as follows:- Mid Tipperary Co-Op Mart , Thurles [...] December 22nd, 2008 | Category: Community News, Farming | Leave a comment |
Email This Post | Print This Post The figures given in the report released today under the National Development Plan 2007 -2013, while provisional, give us some indication of how Tipperary fared in the national share out. Actual expenditure and grant aid approved will be available early in 2009 from each of the relevant Government Departments. FÁS – Skills & Training: In 2008, [...] December 20th, 2008 | Category: Employment, Farming, Sport | Leave a comment |
Email This Post | Print This Post Thurles Town Councillor Michael Grogan has strongly backed a motion that the newly revamped ‘Field of Legends’ Semple Stadium should play host to the 2009 Senior Munster Hurling Final. Monday’s Munster Council GAA meeting received a motion from outgoing Tipperary chair John Costigan that Thurles would be the venue for the final to celebrate the 125th [...] December 16th, 2008 | Category: Community News, Entertainment, Politics, Recreation, Sport | Leave a comment |
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