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 A Tipperary Division Community Policing Seminar is scheduled to take place in St Patrick’s College, Cathedral Street, Thurles, Co Tipperary, this evening (Thursday 15th) at 7.00pm.
Chief Superintendent Mrs Catherine Kehoe believes that it is vital that An Garda Siochana, here in County Tipperary continues to maintain the strong trust and long standing support from all members of our community in which her officers serve.
Through this Seminar it is hoped to provide, you the public, with an opportunity to meet with your local Community Gardaí and gain further insight into the work performed by An Garda Siochána as a whole, everyday here in the Tipperary Garda Division.
In attendance at this Seminar will be senior Garda Officers, together with community police officers from across the five Garda divisions and to this end members of the public are being strongly encouraged to attend.
Your attendance at this event as a member of the public will also assist you in obtaining up to date information, latest initiatives and other various community schemes now in operation, which are aimed at tackling urban and rural crime, including community text alert schemes already in operation.
Remember the expression “better to light a candle than curse the darkness,” so please do show your support for this most welcome of Community Garda initiatives.
 A cold case review sanctioned by former Justice Minister Alan Shatter in September 2013 on a man hanged for murder almost 74 years ago, is to receive a pardon.
Mr Harry Gleeson was executed for the murder of Miss Mary (Foxy Moll) McCarthy, latter who was found shot dead in Tipperary on November 21st 1940; executed by the then British hangman Albert Pierrepoint (1905 – 1992) in Mountjoy jail in April 1941. Pierrepoint executed at least 433 men and 17 women during his time as a hangman.
According to a fictional novel, The Dead Eight by Carlo Gebler, Moll McCarthy’s story truly begins with her mother, who was reportedly a woman of ‘ill repute,’ and who sold sex to improve her impoverished lifestyle during a sojourn in Dublin city. Moll, her daughter, lived in a children’s home here in Thurles, Co Tipperary for the first sixteen years of life and was never acquainted with her actual father.
Carlo Gebler paints Moll, like her mother, as somewhat of a promiscuous woman, even by the then standards of her time, having had numerous relationships with local men, both married and unmarried and also used these encounters to gain basic economic support, e.g. Unexplained Loads of Turf, Bags of Spuds, Groceries paid for at local shop etc..
Minister for Justice Mrs Frances Fitzgerald is due to bring a memo to Cabinet in the coming weeks recommending that Irish President Michael D Higgins now pardon Mr Gleeson.
Senior Counsel Mr Shane Murphy has since reviewed the case on behalf of the Department of Justice; based on new submitted and compelling evidence from the Irish Innocence Project, based at Griffith College in Dublin. New evidence is understood to relate to withheld information by the prosecution which shows a discrepancy in their case in relation to a local gun and ammunition register.
Evidence submitted is also understood to show that the then police involved may have encouraged witnesses to submit less than true statements relating to these events.
Mr Harry Gleeson, a neighbour of Ms Mary McCarthy, latter a single mother of seven, had first reported the discovery of her body and some 5 months later was hanged for her murder.
Previously this story was documented by the late broadcaster and journalist Mr Cathal O’Shannon (1928 – 2011) in a TV series entitled “Thou Shalt Not Kill, ” back in 1995. Perhaps it is time to dig into the archives and refresh our memories.
 Gardaí here in Thurles have renewed an earlier warning this month to consumers, particularly those shopping in Supermarkets, to be extra vigilant with regard to securing their purchases and motor vehicles.
Thieves are actively targeting vehicles parked in car park areas in such outlets, both here in Thurles and other Tipperary towns. Thieves are watching shoppers who have placed their purchases into their cars and while returning their trolley to a nearby appropriate trolley bay; seconds later return to find items have been stolen, because car doors have remained unlocked. In most cases the consumer has already returned to their place of residence before these thefts are actually discovered.
Thieves are well aware that with most vehicles fitted with central locking; lights flash when a vehicle has been fully secured. With no flashing lights observed, immediately consumers become an easy target and in crowded car parks your shopping can vanish without trace within seconds.
Several consumers have already had expensive commodities removed from vehicles at the car park of Aldi Supermarket in Kickham Street, Thurles in the run up to Christmas, with the thieves targeting, in particular, groceries, clothing, alcohol and shoppers handbags.
Thefts from unsecured vehicles have been reported as also occurring, under similar situations, at car parks in Nenagh and Roscrea over the past number of weeks.
Gardaí are asking people to please take the time to fully secure their vehicles, even if only away from same for a matter of seconds.
 Nenagh Gardaí are investigating the suspicious death of a young man here in Co Tipperary. The body of the young man, aged in his early twenties, was discovered at a house in Bruach Tailte, Nenagh, yesterday afternoon at approximately 4.30pm.
The man has now been named locally as Mr Pearse O’Brien from Belleen, (Portroe Rd / N.52) Nenagh and it is understood that the deceased, who worked in the construction industry, may have been attending a party at the location in which his body was discovered.
Mr O’Brien’s body remained at the scene up to this afternoon; awaiting the arrival of Assistant State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis to conduct a preliminary examination and Gardaí confirm that a full post mortem is expected to be carried out later at University Hospital in Limerick.
According to some local sources, it is understood that Mr O’Brien, who is survived by at least one sister, returned to Nenagh just prior to Christmas, intending to spend some time with his family, having emigrated to the area of Perth in Australia some two years ago.
The scene currently remains preserved for a technical examination and the Garda Technical Bureau are at the scene.
Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam dílis.
UPDATE: (31/12/2014) A post-mortem carried out by the Deputy State Pathologist Mr Michael Curtis yesterday has now confirmed that Mr O’Brien’s death is not being treated as suspicious. The post-mortem revealed that Mr O’Brien’s death was brought about by natural causes and is being treated as a case of sudden death.
Our sympathies remain with his family and friends at this time.
A 25-year-old male prisoner has been found dead in his cell at Limerick Prison.
The man, who is understood to have been serving a sentence for manslaughter, was found at about 4.00am this morning.
The man who is understood to be originally from Co Tipperary; from initial investigations is believed to have died from a drugs overdose.
Following standard procedures members of an Garda Siochana together with the Prison Service, are now conducting separate investigations surrounding this man’s sudden and unexpected death.
A post mortem is expected to be carried out on his body later today and the Prison Service confirm that they will not be releasing the man’s name until all of his next of kin have been informed.
Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam dílis.
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