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R A I Spring Seminar At St. Patrick’s College Thurles

“…it is not the reading of stories on its own that leads children towards the reflective, disembedded thinking that is so necessary for success in school, but the total interaction in which the story is embedded. At first they need a competent adult to mediate, as reader and writer, between themselves and the text; […]

Magdalene Laundry Women Blameless

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny didn’t hold anything back, including tears, as in the presence of some twenty women, latter previously incarcerated in the Magdalene Laundries, watched silently with hands held, from the Dáil Éireann public gallery.

“I, as Taoiseach, on behalf of the State, the Government and our citizens deeply regret and apologise unreservedly to […]

Coonan Allays Concerns Re Tipperary Veterinary Office

North Tipperary Deputy Noel Coonan TD has moved to allay concerns concerning the transfer of staff from the Tipperary Veterinary Office to the Garda Vetting Unit, by saying that a front-line presence will remain in the local DVO including a counter service and the office will remain open for business.

Speaking to Thurles.Info today the […]

Fethard Company Investigate Possible Horse Meat Contamination

Another Irish owned Tipperary based food company, today, becomes the latest casualty accused of involvement in current horse meat investigations.

Oak Farm Foods stand accused of producing the Cottage Pies which last week were withdrawn from British school kitchens by Lancashire County Council. Oak Farm Foods is a UK division of Dawn Fresh Foods, a […]

Government Continue Their Weekly New Taxation Introductions

Despite the austere ‘Budget 2013,’ measures introduced on December 5th 2012 last, the search for gaining other ways of imposing further taxes on the Irish nation continues unabated.

Children’s Allowance May Be Taxed

Joan Burton, Minister for Social Protection, has suggested this week that taxing Child Benefit is now a possibility & the fairest way […]