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FSAI Announce Food Allergen Alert Service

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) have announced that it is now providing a new free email and SMS text service which will directly inform food allergy sufferers of the presence of allergens in inappropriately labelled foods. Anyone with an interest in this area can now subscribe to this email service here (Click on […]

Mitchel House Introduce Tapas Menu

Mitchel House Restaurant, Mitchel Street, Thurles, is the first Tipperary restaurant to introduce a Tapas Menu .

Tapas Menu At Mitchel House.

The word “Tapas” is derived from the Spanish verb tapar meaning “to cover”. Indeed the word “Tapa” in Spanish means “lid” or “cover”. There are possibly several explanations for why it […]

Five New Primary Level Teaching Posts for Tipp

Further to the new programme for government announced last October, Five new primary level teaching positions will be allocated to schools in Tipperary.

Schools benefiting are:-

In Thurles – Scoil Naisuinte na Maighne, Thurles, Co. Tipperary and Slieveardagh NS, The Commons, Thurles, Co Tipperary.

In Bansha – Tankerstown NS, Bansha, Co.Tipperary.

In Carrick on Suir […]

The Cormack Brothers – Guilty Or Innocent Republished

It happened 150 years ago this year and of the seventeen men publicly executed outside North Tipperary’s County Gaol in Nenagh, between 1842 and 1858, the true story of William and Daniel Cormack is one of the few that still remains fresh in folk memory, not just only here in County Tipperary and on the […]

Ghost Housing Estates In County Tipperary

Tipperary For Sale

Per figures recently published by the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) based in NUI Maynooth since 2001, there are now no less than 33 “Ghost Housing Estates” vacant in Co.Tipperary. (17 in South Tipp – 16 in North Tipp)

During the period 2006-09, it appears that […]