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Semple Stadium – Tipperary Remain Hurling Champions of Munster

Score: Tipperary 4-14 – Waterford 2-16

Tipperary have successfully defended their Munster hurling title at Semple Stadium, Thurles, today with their five point win over Waterford.

The first half saw five goals in total, one each for John Mullane and Eoin Kelly,Waterford, and countered by one goal each from Tipperary’s Seamus Callanan, Lar Corbett and […]

Thurles Author Tom Burnell – A Second Book – The Wicklow War Dead

Thurles author Tom Burnell colaberates with his brother Seamus Burnell to produce his second book entitled The Wicklow War Dead.

This new book contains a full record, for the first time, of some 840 soldiers, officers, sailors, airmen, nursing sisters from County Wicklow, 752 from WW1, together with the names of casualties who listed their […]

County Tipperary – Green Light For Electricity Plant

A electricity generating plant planned for Cahir Co.Tipperary has finally got the green light.

An Bord Pleanála has ruled in favour of plans for a gas powered electricity generating plant near Cahir.

Mountside Properties Ltd previously had been granted permission by South Tipperary County Council to develop the project at Kilcommon, Cahir, Co.Tipperary at the […]

North Tipperary – Extra Social Welfare Staff To Deal With Jobseeker Payments

Work is in progress to assign two permanent staff members to Thurles’s Social Welfare Office because of the increased number of claims for jobseeker payments.

Deputy Noel Coonan Fine Gael speaking this morning to Thurles.Info stated:

“One temporary member of staff has been approved for the Thurles local office pending the assignment of permanent staff. […]

HQ Nightclub Thurles – Features Paul Byrne This Weekend

Paul Byrne is a Thurles local and lead singer of the up and coming band The Basics. Despite Paul’s relatively recent debut on the Irish music scene, his song writing talents have already received national attention.

In 2006, Paul’s demo “Observation” received Jackie Hayden’s coveted “Demo of the fortnight“. In Hayden’s Hotpress review Paul was […]