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Blood Donation Clinic Semple Stadium Thurles

Right now you are wondering what is the best gift you could get a close friend this Christmas.

What better pre-Christmas gift than the gift of life? The Irish Blood Transfusion Service will be visiting Thurles over the coming days, and your gifts of blood, given now, could save the life of a close […]

Upperchurch Winter Walking Weekend 2012

EXPERIENCE “ELEGY WRITTEN IN AN ‘UPPERCHURCH,’ YARD.” (With sincere apologies to poet Thomas Gray)

“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to torchlight and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape […]

Enda Kenny To Get European Award

Enda Kenny at breakfast in the Anner Hotel, Thurles.

An Taoiseach Mr Enda Kenny will be getting a European award in Berlin next month. Mr Kenny has been named “Golden Victoria European of the Year 2012” and will receive his award on November 8th next.

The German Magazine Publishers Association (VDZ) state Mr. […]

Bus Depot Fire Video

 

A number of disused buses caught fire at the Bus Éireann maintenance depot at Abbey Road, Thurles, Co Tipperary this afternoon.

The blaze broke out in one of the old buses which then spread to three other such vehicles at around 2.30pm. The buses were stored in the yard mainly for use as spare […]

Major Fire At Thurles Bus Depot

As we speak, news is just coming in regarding a major fire at Thurles Bus depot, situated on Abbey Rd Thurles, beside Thurles railway station. Police and members of the North Tipperary fire brigade are in place attempting to control the blaze.

Factual information is not available presently as to the cause of this […]