February, 2013 - Thurles Information

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The Deserted Village – By Oliver Goldsmith.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheer’d the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed, Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could […]

Allegiance – The Night That Possibly Changed History

Written by Mary Kenny and soon to be performed at The Source Theatre Thurles, “Allegiance,” is a dramatization of reported events that possibly did change Irish history.

In 1921 Eamon de Valera ordered Michael Collins under sufferance, to travel to London, with the Irish delegation, his task to negotiate a Treaty that followed the truce […]

Traditional Tipperary Pancake Recipe

Today is officially Shrove Tuesday, ‘Shrove,’ being the past tense of the English verb ‘Shrive,’ meaning the day before Ash Wednesday & on which Christians obtain absolution for personal sin, prior to the start of the solemn observance of Lent.

The period called Lent is traditionally described as lasting for forty days, in commemoration […]

Noel Coonan TD – Government To Review New Garda Recruitment

Noel Coonan TD today warmly welcomed positive news from his Fine Gael colleague, Justice Minister Alan Shatter, that the Government is now to review it’s position regarding the future recruitment of new Gardaí.

Deputy Coonan said this news comes following his most recent representations on this subject, with Government Chief Whip Paul Kehoe and with […]

Thurles Sarsfields Lose Semi Finals Of AIB Hurling Club Championship

The semi finals of the AIB All Ireland Hurling Club Championships pitted first time Munster champions Thurles Sarsfields against its Leinster counterparts Kilcormac/Kiloughey, under referee Colm Lyons, in O’Moore Park, Portlaoise this Saturday afternoon.

However for Thurles Sarsfields, the 2013 semi finals of this AIB All Ireland Hurling Club Championship was not to be on […]