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Tipperary – M&J Gleeson Staff Borrisoleigh Threaten Strike Action

Employees at the former M&J Gleeson plant in Borrisoleigh may decide to take strike action this evening in an ongoing dispute over the takeover, just last year, by the multi-national C&C group plc. This threat comes following a recommendation by the Labour Court calling on the multi-national drinks firm to recognise a newly established union […]

Two Day Garda Crime Summit Begins At Templemore College

Top level Irish Garda officers will begin from tomorrow a two-day crime summit in the Garda College, Templemore, Co Tipperary.

Their aim is to discuss nationwide operations against organised gang crime, while also maintaining public policing in the face of continuing Government cuts. It is expected that the targeting of drug gangs, travelling burglary gangs […]

Will Tipperary’s Shane MacGowan Appear On Coronation Street?

“Fairytale of New York.”

“They’ve got cars, big as bars, They’ve got rivers of gold, But the wind goes right through you, It’s no place for the old.”

(Lyrics written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan.)

Is North Tipperary native and ‘Fairytale of New York’ singer Shane MacGowan about to make […]

Tipperary ATM Users Beware.

Cash Automated Teller Machine (ATM) users are being warned once again about a new skimming device being used by a gang of organised criminals.

Reports indicate that the gang, to date over the past two months, has targeted cash machines in Donegal, Galway, Limerick, Dublin and Cork, while Co Tipperary is not as yet known […]

One Home In Tipperary Found With High Radon Gas Levels

In total some 434 homes were identified with high levels of the cancer-causing gas Radon, over the past 1.5 years. These new figures have been released by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII).

Radon is a radioactive, colourless, odourless, tasteless gas, occurring naturally as an indirect decay product of Uranium or Thorium and is […]