December, 2012 - Thurles Information

Despite Today’s Budget Fiasco – Don’t Quit

Don’t Quit (A poem by Gerard Haughey.)

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, when the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, and you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, rest, if you must, […]

De Burca’s Pub Wins Best Shop Front Award 2012

De Búrca’s Pub, Cathedral Street, Thurles, Tipperary

As expected, De Búrca’s Pub, situated in Cathedral Street Thurles, has won this year’s ‘Best Tipperary Shop Front Award,’ at the North Tipperary County Council’s Environmental Awards held at it’s Civic Offices in Nenagh.

These annual awards now boast a prize fund of some €10,000, and […]

Thurles Credit Union Dec Cash Draw Winner

Picture shows L – R, Donal Scannell & Lucky December Cash Draw Winner Teena Maher

Congratulations to the winner of the Thurles Credit Union December Cash Draw 2012. Yes Christmas came early for the lucky winner, who is Teena Maher, Carrigean, Bohernamona Road, Thurles, Co Tipperary.

Teena is pictured above receiving her cheque […]

Tipperary – Sports Capital Programme Funding Announced

Minister of State for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring is “excited.” Sure why wouldn’t he be, he has just announced almost €26 million in new funding, under the Sports Capital Programme, for local sports projects across the Republic of Ireland, & conveniently just prior to ‘Budget Day,’ next Wednesday. However out of 96 clubs situated […]

Tipperary & Fethard Remember George Bradshaw

Lest we forget, today marks the 40th anniversary of the Sackville Street bombing, which took place in Dublin forty years ago, on the 1st December 1972. A Fethard, & Co. Tipperary native was one of two victims who lost their lives in this tragic event.

George Bradshaw was just a young man of 29 years, […]