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Horse DNA In Nenagh Supplied Beef Bolognese Sauce

Greencore shares fell 9.5% in London today, following the withdrawal of its “Chosen By You,” 500g Beef Bolognese Sauce by the British supermarket & online grocery chain Asda, due to the presence of equine DNA.

Greencore Foods have admitted that it was the possible supplier of Bolognese Sauce which contained horse meat.

Asda state that […]

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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 […]