Before we update details of our annual St Patrick’s day celebrations; note, today is Sunday March 10th 2024, and tonight the 96th Academy Awards Ceremony takes place at the Dolby Theatre, in Hollywood, Los Angeles. In addition to reporting on who won what, magazines like ‘Vogue‘ and ‘Harper’s Bazaar‘ will be reporting on what the movie stars were wearing. Designer gowns by ‘Fendi‘, ‘Valentino‘ and other famous Italian designers will, no doubt, top the best dressed lists. But do our readers realise that Liberty Square, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, has historical links to ‘Vogue’, ‘Harper’s Bazaar’, ‘Fendi’, ‘Valentino’, and the wider Italian fashion industry? No we will not be just talking about labels on existing garments. So if you want to know more, tune in tomorrow, to read a fascinating piece of history, to add to Thurles Town’s already existing treasure trove of heritage.
Thurles St Patricks Day Parade Update.
A special thanks to Mr John Kenehan for his parade update.
Following many months of preparation the Thurles St Patrick’s Day Parade Committee has confirmed that the annual event is shaping up to be a good one, and they are praying for good weather on the day for the viewing public and the participants
We remind the public and visitors that the Thurles St Patrick’s Day Parade 2024, will take place on Sunday 17th March 2024, beginning at 2.30pm sharp in Liberty Square, Thurles.
This year’s theme is “Youth: Our hopes for the Future’. Our special “Guest of honour”, will reflect this theme, with CBS Secondary School pupil and twin category Young Scientist Award winner (2024), Luke Blackwell in attendance.
The continued success of the parade, over past years, is based largely on the generous sponsorship of local businesses, groups and Tipperary County Council.
The quality of entries and effort by clubs and organisations also ensure this annual level of success and we look forward to viewing this year’s presentation.
Note: Entry forms are still available from hello@thurlestouristoffice.ie or direct from the Tourist Office, Slievenamon Road, Thurles.
Live Music in Liberty Square will begin from 1:00pm with face painting and side attractions.
In keeping with the national day of celebration the Parade Committee are asking that all shops and businesses dress up their display windows and business fronts in green and national colours to signify our special day of celebration. Note: There will be awards for the Best dressed Window and runner-up and best Traditional Window and runner-up.
We look forward to fair weather for this most enjoyable of national holidays, and we look forward to meeting with you at the Parade on Sunday 17th March next
The committee would like to thank the people of Thurles, Upperchurch/Drombane, Holycross/Ballycahill and Moyne for their generous support to our annual fundraising appeal.
We would also like to thank also our local business sponsors for their generous support again this year:
Business Sponsors.
The Anner Hotel, Thurles Lions Club, Hanna Curtains & Blinds Ltd, The Thurles Irish Countrywomans Association, Linnane Carry-Out, Sammons Pharmacy, Vale Oil Company Ltd, Lyons Tyre Services, Denis Kinnane Motors, EuroGiant Thurles, Tipperary County Council, Barry’s SuperValu Thurles, SHE Boutique Thurles, Ronayne’s Hardware, Air Impact Ltd, Premier Surgery, Supermacs’ Thurles, O’Dwyer Transport, The Premier Credit Union, The Mall Curios, Hanafin’s Furniture & Flooring, Tim Looby Accountants, Thomas Murphy & Sons Machinery Ltd, Londis The Square, Thurles info, Butler & Young Tyres, Stakelum’s Home & Hardware, Dinan’s Timber, E. Cleary Motors Ltd, Ryans Cleaning, Hugh Ryan’s Funeral Directors, Centenary Thurles Co-op, Michael’s Jewellers, Noel Ryans Pub, Michael Lowry T.D., Pat Brennan’s Bar Thurles Ltd, Flowers R Us, Jackie Cahill T.D., Jennings Opticians, Bowe Travel, Tipp FM, Kings Mobile, Kennedys County Bar, Hickey’s Pharmacy, Mobile Tek, Kambo Chinese Restaurant, Q Mobile Thurles, The Tipperary Star, Tipperary Live, Thurles Tourist Office and Thurles Chamber of Commerce.
Pre-deceased by his parents Annie and Edmond; Mr O’Shea passed away peacefully while in the care of staff at Padre Pio Nursing Home, Holycross, Thurles, surrounded by his loving family.
His passing is most deeply regretted and sadly missed by his wife Mary Rose, sister Mary (Tobin), brother Willie, nephew Thomas (Tobin), niece Elizabeth (O’Brien) and her husband Thomas, grandnieces, grandnephew, extended relatives, neighbours and friends.
The extended O’Shea family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time, and have made arrangements for those persons wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.
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From everyone here at Thurles.info we would like to wish mothers, everywhere, a very Happy Mother’s Day. We would be lost without you, so take a break if you can and enjoy some well deserved downtime.
Pre-deceased by her son Fintan; Mrs Haughney passed away while in the care of staff at the Community Hospital of the Assumption, Thurles.
Her passing is most deeply regretted and sadly missed by her loving and devoted family; husband Tom, children Katrina, David, Louise, Úna and Tomás, grandchildren Fintan Óg, Neásan, Odhrán, Aoife, Tara, Aodhan and Luca, sons-in-law Declan and Andy, daughters-in-law Angele and Deneise, brother David, cousins Jimmy, Davy, Helen and Noreen, nieces, nephews, extended relatives, carers, neighbours and friends.
Requiescat in Pace.
Funeral Arrangements.
The earthly remains of Mrs Haughney will repose at Kennedy’s Funeral Home, Upper Kickham Street, Dublin Road, Thurles, on tomorrow afternoon, Sunday March 10th, from 5:00pm until 7:00pm, before being received into the Church of Our Lady and St. Kevin, Littleton, at 7:30pm, same evening. Requiem Mass for Mrs Haughney will be celebrated on Monday morning at 11:30am, followed by interment, immediately afterwards, in Two-Mile-Borris Cemetery, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
For those persons who are unable to attend the funeral service for Mrs Haughney, same can be viewed streamed live online, HERE.
The extended Haughney family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time, and have made arrangements for those persons wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.
Note Please: Family flowers only. Donations in lieu, if desired, to the Irish Cancer Society.
Suaimhneas síoraí dá h-anam dílis i dteannta na Naomh agus na n-aingeal.
Currently growing in the centre of Liberty Square Thurles, replacing what use to contain parking spaces, which in turn generated town centre footfall for once thriving businesses, we now find growing ‘Hydrangeas’. Same are of the medium-sized deciduous shrub variety known as ‘Limelight’.
‘Hydrangea Limelight‘, (Liberty Square, Thurles, Co. Tipperary). Note: Because the street is now so narrow, due to poor planning; heavy traffic (In this case, more recently, a tractor and trailer) is forced unto the flowerbed in order to progress forward. (See also recent picture below). Pic. G. Willoughby.
The leaves on this shrub are pale green, same attached to grey-green stems and from mid-summer to autumn their flowers display magnificent conical shaped panicles, emerging as a delicate ‘pistachio green colour’, before fading slowly to ‘death brown’ as it naturally drops its leaves. An easy plant to grow and particularly beautiful; they will bloom year-after-year in the right location with little maintenance required, other than pruning them, once a year, enabling it to generate new flowering wood.
Hydrangea Limelight holds the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Award for Garden Merit.
Traffic forced to invade Liberty Square flower beds in Thurles town centre due to simply poor planning. Pic. G. Willoughby.
It is a very important task, each year, to prune ‘Limelight’ hydrangeas, as they flower only on new wood (In other words the shrub develops its flower buds only on new growth), with annual pruning producing a flush of new stems to carry the future year’s flowers. ‘Limelight’ hydrangeas are commonly pruned between late fall and late winter, when the plant is most dormant, and before the plant sets its buds for the next upcoming summer. With the shrub having lost its leaves; one can get a better look at its shape and also get easier access, to the branches, to make clean pruning cuts.
Sadly, the ‘Russian Sage‘ plants, sown on the outside, to frame these ‘Limelight’ hydrangeas, are not looking so healthy presently. Also a recipient of a Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Award for Garden Merit; this deciduous hardy plant, with its upright, bushy grey-green leaves, attached to tall silver-grey flower-stems, should this year produce violet-blue flowers, attractive to pollinators.
‘Russian Sage’ was chosen because of its tolerance to salt, and it is hoped Co. Council trucks spreading salt on the icy winter street surface, would shield the ‘Limelight’ hydrangeas, enabling them to survive. We wait in eager anticipation.
Again, poor engineering plans and even poorer administration, will decide the future of these shrubs and the town centre itself, with the upper unfinished half section of Liberty Square, now threatened with the loss of an estimated further 19 car parking spaces, if and when it is decided to undertake this now long awaited update. Sadly, soon we may have a deserted town centre, with little or no footfall, if misguided government officialdom is allowed to make its delusionary progress.
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