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Tipperary Food Sector €25,000 For New Ideas

Small food production companies in Tipperary have a chance to win €25,000 in a competition aimed at generating new business ideas in the food sector.

This ‘Food Innovation Competition’ is anxious to find the best new food or drinks business ideas in the South East of Ireland.

The contest is open to existing food businesses […]

Reading Association of Ireland Annual Conference

Reading Association Of Ireland

A large number of Thurles teachers are expected to attend the 34th Reading Association of Ireland’s Annual Conference beginning this coming week.

This years conference theme ‘Promoting Effective Language and Literacy Instruction in 21st Century Classrooms‘ will be held in the Marino Institute of Education, Dublin from the […]

Some Barbie Dolls Are Expensive

Barbie and Ken

It was for Percilla, his young daughter, who was celebrating her tenth birthday, that Dad, Frank, was frantically trying to find a birthday present, on his way home from work, before joining the special birthday celebrations.

He enters a local toy shop and beckons the sales assistant, who was […]

Tipperary Devoid Of All Real Hospital Emergency Services

Labour Senator Phil Prendergast.

Some 15,000 people took to the streets in March of this year and a further 70,000 people signed a petition rejecting the downgrading of South Tipperary General Hospital.

The Labour Party now claim to hold a confidential HSE document which shows plans to reconfigure hospital services in the South […]

Electricity Disconnections Cause Serious Alarm

Following a doubling in the rate of electricity disconnections in the four months up to July last and a warning yesterday by Bord Gáis of a “social middle-class recession,” the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has called Bord Gáis, ESB, Airtricty and the Commission for Energy Regulation to a meeting of the […]