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Tipperary M8 Motorway Claims Yet Another Male Victim

Gardaí in Cahir are appealing for witnesses, following a single car collision yesterday just outside Cahir, Co Tipperary, on the M8 motorway and which claimed the life of a male in his 60’s.

The car is understood to have left the motorway, before colliding with an embankment, between Junction 6 and 7 shortly after 4.00pm […]

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

From all here on Thurles.Info, may we wish our readers, wherever you are tonight, a Happy, Healthy, Peaceful, Joyous and Holy Christmas.

“Happy Christmas Everyone.”

Anger At Moving Of Memorial Plaques In Thurles

Anger has been expressed over the dumping of memorial plaques in St Mary’s Graveyard, to make way for a plaque to commemorate the Korean War.

The badly worded inaccurate Korean war plaque, displaying grammatical errors, commemorates the death of 130 (Should read 159 Irish Born, 30 soldiers, seven members of the Columban order and […]

Brendan Cummins To Receive Mick Doyle Award

Tipperary Hurling Legend and goalkeeper Brendan Cummins is to be rightly honoured tonight in his own county.

Born in Ardfinnan, County Tipperary, into a family that had a strong association with Gaelic games, particularly Gaelic football, Brendan played hurling at club level with Ballybacon-Grange and football with their sister club Ardfinnan.

Cummins initially arrived on […]

Tipperary Farmer Wins Selfie Contest

Mr P.J. Ryan, latter a native of Newport here in west Tipperary, has won the coveted “Selfies on the Farm” competition, run by the Irish Farmers Journal this week on Facebook.

Our County Tipperary border native the US President Barack Obama from Moneygall, has done it, as has Pope Francis and British PM David […]