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 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 has come to denote [...]
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 – Upper Newtown NS, [...]
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 [...]
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 we have, as [...]
Organic Farming
Training courses given by Teagasc for farmers in Tipperary, who are considering converting to organic farming, will take place later this month here in Thurles Co.Tipperary and across the country.
This follows a strong uptake of the Teagasc organic training courses held during the autumn of 2009.
Organic farming continuous to grow steadily here in [...]
Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism Martin Cullen has spoken for the first time of his horrendous treatment by the media after he was wrongly accused of having an affair with a Waterford businesswoman Monica Leech.
PR consultant Monica Leech was awarded €1.87m in a record libel award in June 2009, after she won her action [...]
CBS Harty Cup Team 2010
Thurles CBS, last year All-Ireland champions, won a titanic battle against their arch-rivals St Flannan’s at Claughaun.
Thurles CBS held out for a thrilling one-point victory in a superb Harty Cup quarter-final clash before a huge crowd.
St Flannan’s,who last won the title back in 2005 when they defeated Thurles, served notice [...]
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