A fourteen day trial of a new traffic management plan came into effect today in Thurles.
This new system, which has the full approval of An Garda Síochána includes a number of new one-way routes, put into place from early this morning.
However Gardaí are continuing to remind motorists who are entering Thurles from Templemore that they must stop [...]
The Government has serious questions to answer regarding the present inefficient running of the Thurles FÁS office.
Phone calls to this office go unanswered daily, while people attempting to gain access, find the doors locked and this during a period when 6,511 people sign on the dole in North Tipperary.
Thurles FÁS (Foras Áiseanna Saothair) office now [...]
Gardaí in Tipperary Town are today hunting for a four-man gang, following a series of attempted robberies during last night.
The Centra Supermarket at Main Street, Dundrum, was targeted at around 4 o’clock. This followed an earlier robbery in Doon, Co Limerick.
Gardaí disturbed the balaclava clad gang, as they attempted one of these burglaries. The criminal [...]
HQ Nightclub Thurles
A man goes to Molly’s Bar in HQ Nightclub with his Labrador dog last Friday night.
The barman says “You can’t bring that dog in here!”
The guy, without missing a beat, says “This is my seeing-eye dog.”
“Oh god,” the barman says, “I’m sorry, here, your first drinks’s on me.”
The man takes his drink [...]
Michael Cusack 1847- 1906 founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association
Among the many functions being held country-wide to mark the 125th anniversary of the Gaelic Athletic Association, is a novel idea arranged by a number of teachers in the Co. Tipperary Education Centre here in Thurles.
All of the primary schools in town were invited to [...]
Ken Hogan Tipperary
Former Tipperary senior hurling manager Ken Hogan, who won five Munster titles and two All-Ireland crowns during his playing career as goalkeeper with the Premier County, has been handed a two-year term in charge of the county’s U-21 hurlers.
Ken won two under-14 ‘B’ championship medals in 1976 and 1977 and an under-21 [...]
Lisheen Mine
Mining giant Anglo American, one of the world’s largest diversified mining and natural resource groups, has announced plans to sell off Lisheen lead and zinc mine near Moyne, Thurles, as part of their plan to save the company some €80 million in the coming year.
The mine, now in its second decade of operations and [...]
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