July 24, 2011 - Thurles Information

International Miss Macra Musings

Starting next Thursday July 28th, Tipperary’s longest running festival, International Miss Macra, will celebrate it’s 40th Anniversary. Joan Pollard Carew, (Michael’s Jewellers’, Friar Street, Thurles.) Macra Sponsor, Published Poetess, and Thurles Community Activist writes:-

Joan Pollard Carew

“I am both proud and honoured to state that I have been involved with International Miss […]

Memorial Service For Utoya Island Shootings & Oslo Bomb Victims

Thurles natives currently visiting Oslo in Norway sent us these pictures from outside of Oslo Cathedral early this morning. Up to 98 people are now feared dead and 97 wounded, following the shooting spree and bomb attack, admitted by 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik.

Floral Tributes outside Oslo Cathedral

One of many memorial service […]