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HIQA – Damming Report On Nenagh Hospital

Nenagh Hospital

Hospital Chiefs at Nenagh Hospital here in North Co Tipperary, have been ordered to clean up their act by the Health Information and Quality Authority who found the building’s environment and equipment inspected as “generally unclean.”

Inspectors from the State health watchdog, (HIQA) have reported dusty and gritty bedsteads, dirty sinks, […]

Ram Raid On Post Office In Cahir Tipperary

Gardaí here in Co Tipperary are today appealing for witnesses following an attempted robbery at Cahir post office, situated on Church Street in the town, in the early hours of this morning.

The incident is understood to have happened at around 5:00am. when raiders stole a digger from the railway station, using same to gain […]

Downton Abbey Exhibition Returns To Thurles For One Week Only

Teachers, All Students, History Societies Take Note

To coincide with the University of Limerick’s launch of “The Armstrong Papers” in the East Room of Plassey House on Monday next October 21st, St Mary’s Famine Museum will feature, for one week only, (October 16th to October 23rd inc) the rare and exciting exhibition entitled; “Downton Abbey, […]

Budget 2014 – No Country For Old Men

“No Country for Old Men” or Women and indeed youth for that matter, and I am not referring to the 2007 American neo-Western thriller based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name.

I am referring to the Coalition Government’s politically safe budget announced today, which purports to frame the future of Ireland for […]

Enhanced Redundancy For Dawn Fresh Food Workers

The Labour Court has recommended that over 100 workers, who were set to lose their jobs at Dawn Fresh Foods Ltd in Fethard, Co Tipperary on October 25th next, will now be paid aggregate lump sums totalling €52,000, as part of an enhanced redundancy deal.

The Parent Company had opted to shut down the food […]