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A Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year To All

As I write this, 235,470 page readers have visited Thurles.Info over the past number of months.

To all of our viewers, go our wish to you for a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year in 2011.

To quote the words of an old Irish Toast:

When the wind is howlin’ in […]

The Great Frost Or Forgotten Famine Of 1740

Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

Natural calamity always tests the administrative structures and social bonds of our society and the recent weather experienced here in Co.Tipperary over the past few weeks certainly tested all of these.

Yet this type of weather, contrary to popular media reports, is indeed not new to Ireland. “The Great Frost”, “Bliain […]