May 10, 2012 - Thurles Information

A Minute Of Silence For Great Famine Victims Tomorrow

St. Mary's Famine Museum, Thurles. Tipperary.

All schools around Ireland will hold a minute’s silence tomorrow as a mark of respect for all those who died, suffered or were forced to emigrated, during the Great Famine period 1845-1849, here in Ireland.

Known, mostly outside of Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine, this period […]

Thurles Represent Eire At Squash Championships Finland

Pic. Ciaran Maher & Gerard Holahan

Gerard Connaughton, Thurles Squash Club, is asking for all fingers to be crossed this week for Ireland & Ciarán Maher, a 16 year old Transition Year student from St. Joseph’s College, Borrisoleigh.

Ciarán is playing for Ireland at the European Under 15 / Under 17 Junior Squash […]

Autonomous i Release Debut Album

Autonomous i

Friday next 11th May 2012 will see Thurles based band ” Autonomous i,” release their debut album “Attack the Mattress.”

This five piece band fuse rock, grunge, funk, metal, electronic, classical and folk sounds, to form an interestingly schizophrenic but always melodic wall of sound.

The aim of these five lads […]