May 22, 2011 - Thurles Information

Garda Tactical Training Unit For Clonmore

Templemore Garda Training College here in Templemore, Co Tipperary, was once among the most elite of police academies within in Europe. Its future seemed excellent with the purchase of a further 220 acre site at Clonmore, situated close to Templemore, for the inflated price of €5.5 million, but that was five years ago.

Latter had […]

Barack Obama Gets Gift Of Famine Ship Painting

Artist Nuala Holloway with her painting of the 'Jeanie Johnston.'

US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle will to be showered with specially commissioned gifts, when they both arrive at the President’s ancestral home in Moneygall, on the Tipperary/Offaly border, by Marine One helicopter tomorrow.

The US President and America’s first lady, […]

100 Years Of Girl Guides In Ireland Celebrated

Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Girl Guides in 1937.

On the 7th of May 2011, the Dome, here in Thurles Co, Tipperary saw over 6,200 disciplined, spirited, inquisitive and members of the Irish Girl Guides gather to celebrate 100 years of their organisation, and what an organisation.

One of the disappointment felt by […]