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Famine Soup – Thurles Ladies Make History

It was on the 15th November 1996 that the Minute Book of the Thurles /Rahealty Famine Food Committee was first discovered in St. Mary’s Church Thurles Co. Tipperary. The book had been put in an old apple box with some unwanted prayer and hymn books in 1850 and then placed on the top floor in […]

Una Healy Celebrates Her 28th Birthday

A host of big names will step out tomorrow night to join Thurles born singer, Una Healy of the girl band The Saturdays celebrate her 28th birthday, in true Irish style.

Una Healy pictured recently at HQ Nightclub Thurles.

The leggy beauty, who threw a star spangled bash at London’s Club 24 last […]

GAA’s Forgotten Founder 125 Years Later

A quiet plot at Deansgrange Cemetery in Dublin gives no clue as to whose final resting place it might be, let alone the role this Tipperary man previously played in changing the course of this country’s sporting history.

Thomas St George McCarthy Cup.

The occupant of this lonely spot, for the past 66 […]

Shannondoc Ltd Loses €66,000 Last Year

Shannondoc the company which provides an “out-of-hours” medical service in the Midwest, servicing 275,000 people last year, has posted an annual loss of €66,329. The company in 2007 recorded a slight profit of €5,800 after sustaining a loss of €40,715 in 2006.

However, according to recent accounts filed with the Companies Office by Shannondoc Ltd, […]

Redundancy Payment Section Processing Eight Month-Old Applications

The redundancy payments section in the Department of Enterprise is currently only processing employer rebate applications made eight months ago. The latest figures available to end September indicate that the number of redundancy claims awaiting processing stands at 43,250.

Deputy Noel Coonan

Incoming redundancy claims for the first nine months of 2009 is […]