June 19, 2012 - Thurles Information

Air Ambulance Forced Landing At Borrisoleigh

An investigation is under way after an Air Corps Ambulance Helicopter was forced to make a “heavy but controlled landing,” in a field a few kilometres outside the village of Borrisoleigh, on the main Nenagh road, in Co Tipperary, shortly after 2.00pm today.

It is understood the helicopter may have clipped an overhead power line.

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South Tipperary Tops Child Neglect League

According to a report this week in the Irish Examiner a new HSE review of its Child and Family services, shows Tipperary South had the highest level of child neglect in the country at 30.3%, just ahead of Dublin West.

Of the almost 6,000 children in care nationally at the end of 2010, 442 came […]