December 8, 2008 - Thurles Information

Littleton and Horse & Jockey Bypassed and The Farm Installation Scheme

The Tipperary villages of Littleton and Horse & Jockey are today enjoying a new lease of life with the removal of 16,000 vehicles per day from them.

Independent Deputy Michael Lowry (Pictured here turning on the Thurles Christmas Lights) has welcomed the official opening of the Cullahill to Cashel road project by the Minister for […]

Question – Does Santa Claus Really Exist?

Eight-year-old Laura Virginia O’Hanlon Douglas, from 115 West Ninety Fifth Street, Manhatton New York, wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, in 1897, asking this same question. She wrote:

Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see […]

Tom Noone – Premier Short Story Competition Winner 2008

Thurles man Tom Noone is the 2008 winner of the Tipp Reads/Premier Short Story Competition and was presented recently with his prize by best selling author Frank Delaney.

His short story entitled ‘The Boy Who Knew Things‘ draws its readers, possibly, back to the late 1950 or early sixties in rural Ireland.

In this remarkable […]