2010 March | Thurles Information

Reduced Train Fares For Ardscoil Match

Iarnród Éireann is providing a special reduced fare for the Ard Scoil Ris supporters travelling from Limerick to the Dr Croke cup All Ireland schools hurling final in Thurles this Saturday, April 3rd.

Still jubilant from the team’s recent historic Dr Harty Cup victory, a large local crowd is expected to travel to the match. The special [...]

Government Failing To Provide High Speed Broadband In North Tipperary

The roll-out of high-speed broadband throughout North Tipperary depends on the Government providing backhaul connectivity to link the counties (MANs) to the wider national and international broadband network.

Tipperary Unplugged

A Metropolitan Area Network (or MAN) is a large computer network that usually spans a large geographical area and usually interconnects a number of Local Area [...]

€800-000 Allocation Agreed For Thurles Area Roads

Forgive me if I am wrong, but I think this country may be secretly headed for an imminent General Election. I base my statement on the fact that eight stretches of forgotten roadway, in the surrounding Thurles area, have been immediately earmarked for re-surfacing by North Tipperary Co Councils engineers.

This work is expected to get underway [...]

St Patricks Day Live from Thurles Co Tipperary

Weather conditions for the annual St.Patrick’s Day Parade 2010 in Thurles were excellent this year and this led to a great atmosphere here in Liberty Square.

This was the biggest and best parade, in living memory, to be held in Thurles, with a record 60 entries, each filled with great imagination, colour and a wide variety of [...]

CAP Conference At The Tipperary Institute

The Common Agricultural Policy is worth over €1 billion to the Irish economy in purely financial terms, but it is possibly three times that figure when the jobs created by this money are taken into account, stated Labour MEP Alan Kelly addressing the CAP Conference organised today at the Tipperary Institute.

He further stated:-
“The new CAP must [...]

Thurles CBS Students Visit Dáil Eireann

Thurles C.B.S. Visit Dáil Eireann

Pictured here are Transition Year students from Thurles C.B.S School who took time off to visit Dáil Eireann last Wednesday.

Here they were met by North Tipperary Fine Gael Deputy, Noel Coonan and Dáil Eireann tour guides who took the pupils first to the Chamber’s Public Gallery.

At the time of visiting, Leader’s [...]

Annual National Handball Congress Comes To Thurles

Handball Court

The GAA’s Annual Gaelic Handball Congress will take place this Sunday, March 28th, at the Anner Hotel, Thurles, Tipperary, commencing with a special Mass at 10.00 a.m., officiated over by His Grace Dr. Dermot Clifford, Patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association.

A significant boost to the local economy is expected with Delegates arriving from all [...]

Mary Hanafin Welcomed As New Head Of Tourism

Minister M.Hanifin With US President B.O'Bama

Thurles born Fianna Fail Minister Mary Hanafin has been given a new role in government, following Tuesday’s Government Cabinet reshuffle.
Mary Hanafin takes over the post of Tourism, Culture, and Sport which was previously known as Arts, Sport and Tourism from Minister Martin Cullen, who resigned from government due to health [...]

Tipperary Native Buys Drugs Catamaran At Half Price

It was a lucky day (pardon the pun) for Tipperary native Emer Stafford, who now lives in Killybegs, Co Donegal, who got the deal of a lifetime on Tuesday last when she purchased, at auction, the catamaran “Lucky Day.” Bidding for the catamaran, which was sold with a VAT certificate, began at just €20,000, finally ending [...]

Phoenix Productions Present - Heart and Music

Heart and Music

Rehearsels are well advanced for local theatre group “Phoenix Productions” who are set to return to The Source Theatre, Thurles, Co.Tipperary this April, for their annual fundraising cabaret performance.

This years show, entitled “Heart & Music”, will take to the stage on the 9th and 10th of April next .

The Phoenix Production Cabaret will [...]