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Private Letter To Joan Burton

Hi Honey, As you are aware I have worked every day for the past 44 years, contributing my fair share to the wasted finances of this State. During those 44 years, I have never once obtained a solitary Social Welfare payment. My employers have always, over the years, “Stamped Me Card,” Deducted Me Taxes, Me […]

Household Tax Thurles Meeting Standing Room Only

The public meeting by campaigners against Septic Tank, Water, and Household Tax charges, held in Hayes Hotel, Liberty Square, Thurles, on Friday last, February 10th, adequately demonstrated the outrage felt by rural dwellers with regard to this controversial and discriminatory tax, with well over 200 in attendance.

Local elected politicians supporting the tax were more […]

Tipperary Former Bishop Suing RTE

Former Archbishop Richard Burke

A former Tipperary cleric, named in the Prime Time Investigates programme, which seriously libelled Fr. Kevin Reynolds, is now also suing RTE for character defamation.

The former member of the Kiltegan Fathers in Wicklow, Archbishop Richard Burke, who hails from Lisronagh, Fethard, Co. Tipperary, served with the Society of […]

Actor David Kelly RIP

Actor David Kelly

Irish actor, David Kelly, dear to the hearts of so many Irish people worldwide, has passed away today, after a short illness.

Born in July 1929, David was in his 83rd year and began his acting career in 1951, playing everything from Samuel Beckett to William Shakespeare.

At home in […]

Tipperary GAA Bloody Sunday Football Ticket For Sale

A rare GAA Gaelic football match ticket for a game between Tipperary and Dublin and which was played on “Bloody Sunday,” November 21st 1920, goes on sale next week.

The ticket is one of only a handful still in existence from that infamous football game held in Croke Park, in which 14 people were killed […]