May, 2012 - Thurles Information

Autonomous i Album Launch A Great Success

It was a great night at the Source Arts Center on Friday 11th May where Autonomous i lauched their debut album ‘Attack The Mattress‘. The venue was packed with fans when Autonomous i took to the stage at 9.30PM. The band blazed through a number of songs from the new album. Among the songs performed […]

A Minute Of Silence For Great Famine Victims Tomorrow

St. Mary's Famine Museum, Thurles. Tipperary.

All schools around Ireland will hold a minute’s silence tomorrow as a mark of respect for all those who died, suffered or were forced to emigrated, during the Great Famine period 1845-1849, here in Ireland.

Known, mostly outside of Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine, this period […]

Thurles Represent Eire At Squash Championships Finland

Pic. Ciaran Maher & Gerard Holahan

Gerard Connaughton, Thurles Squash Club, is asking for all fingers to be crossed this week for Ireland & Ciarán Maher, a 16 year old Transition Year student from St. Joseph’s College, Borrisoleigh.

Ciarán is playing for Ireland at the European Under 15 / Under 17 Junior Squash […]

Autonomous i Release Debut Album

Autonomous i

Friday next 11th May 2012 will see Thurles based band ” Autonomous i,” release their debut album “Attack the Mattress.”

This five piece band fuse rock, grunge, funk, metal, electronic, classical and folk sounds, to form an interestingly schizophrenic but always melodic wall of sound.

The aim of these five lads […]

HSE & Gardaí Investigate Nenagh Peeping Tom

According to Stephen Breen in today’s Irish ‘The Sun,’ newspaper, a suspected “Peeping Tom,” incident is being investigated, following the discovery of a hidden secret camera recording device, at a busy ambulance station in Nenagh, Co.Tipperary.

The device, found in a ladies toilet, was hidden in a surgical glove box and it is suspected that […]