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 The Source Executive Librarian Miss Ann Marie Brophy at Thurles Library, The Source, Cathedral Street, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, informs us that the Europe Direct Information Centre (based in Thurles Library), in conjunction with South Tipperary Volunteer Centre, is offering a free Volunteer Management Training course to community based and not for profit organisations here in North Tipperary.
This year is the European Year of Volunteering and to cap a successful run of events, Europe Direct Thurles is now pleased to run this important training session in North Tipperary.
This course is divided into 4 modules and delivered over 2 sessions. These sessions will take place in Thurles Library on Tuesday 22nd and Tuesday 29th November, from 10.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.
Light refreshments at both events will be provided.
On completion of the training participants will be armed with a toolkit of systems, policies and procedures to address current and potential future issues regarding the engagement and management of volunteers in the organisation.
Module 1: Planning for Volunteer Involvement & Developing Volunteer Role Descriptions
Module 2: Volunteer Recruitment, Selection & Induction
Module 3:Volunteer Support & Supervision
Module 4: Designing & Implementing a Volunteer Policy.
Please Note: If you or your organisation would like to book a place on this course, please contact Ann Marie Brophy or Lorraine Treacy at Europe Direct Thurles Library on: Phone: 0504 29720 or Email: eudirect@tipperarylibraries.ie
Photo courtesy G. Willoughby.
 Thurles Beavers The Thurles Beaver Scout Group have started back again, beginning on the 26th September last, following their Summer break, and the enrolment of new members is still continuing.
For those parents whose children may be still interested in joining this worthwhile group, note that Beavers are the Junior Section of Scouting Ireland. They meet every Monday night in the “Thurles Band Hall,” here in Stradovoher Road, beginning at 6.30pm until 7.30pm.
The Beaver section of Scouting is for both boys and girls, all aged between 6 and 8 years of age and costs are €3 per week.
I know as a parent myself, it is quite natural that I would want to be assured of my child’s safety and welfare, wherever they attend. So do be assured that as an organisation, Thurles Scouts personnel are fully committed to ensuring that all youth members learn, develop and have fun in a safe and totally secure environment. To this end they have developed robust child protection, recruitment and selection policies and procedures consistent with child protection policy and with all good practice guidelines.
Beaver Scouts are taught and indeed encouraged to take on tasks to find out about responsibility in a fun environment. They learn lots of new skills, but the most important thing is that they do it with other people, especially their friends, in an team building atmosphere, conducive to both fun and learning.
If you would like your child to be part of this organisation, why not find out further information by contacting Mary Tel: 086 2079213, Lyndsey Tel: 087 2139533 or Stella Tel: 087 6888799.
Note: Also if any adult is interested in helping out on a Monday night please make yourself known to the organisation, they are always grateful for any assistance.
 Winning Tipperary PhD researcher William Ronan William Ronan, a Cloneen, Co Tipperary native and PhD student in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at NUI Galway, has won first prize in the PhD Student Paper Competition at the American Society of Mechanical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Conference, a leading US conference in the field of Biomedical Engineering and Bio-mechanics.
Currently in his third year of PhD research at NUI Galway while under the supervision of Dr Patrick McGarry, Mr Ronan has developed advanced computational models, that predict the active response of biological cells to different mechanical environments.
Mr Ronan’s prize winning paper entitled ‘Simulation of Stress Fiber Remodeling and Mixed-mode Focal Adhesion Assembly During Cell Spreading on Elastic Substrates,’ is indeed a testament to the exceptional talent being nurtured in Irish Universities presently.
Mr Ronan is funded by an Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) scholarship and his research is also supported by Science Foundation Ireland Research Frontiers Programme (SFI-RFP) and the Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC).
We wish Mr Ronan every success for the future.
It should be noted that this is the second major International Award won by a member of Dr Patrick McGarry’s research group in 2011, with his PhD student Emer Feerick also winning first prize at the Annual Symposium on Computational Orthopaedic Bio-mechanics in the US last January.
Of almost 58,000 Leaving Certificate students who sat their examinations in Ireland this year, close to 2,000 will have got their Leaving Certificate results here in County Tipperary today.
This mornings results will bring mixed emotions to students, with some students pleased and others possibly disappointed. Regardless of your results take the time to listen to this excellent piece of advice for your future.
The narrative you have just heard is based on an essay by Mary Schmich’s in her column in the Chicago Tribune which headlined “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.”
This popular and well-known essay became the successful music single “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)“, released in 1998, (Something for Everybody album) by Australian film director, screenwriter and producer, Mark Anthony “Baz” Luhrmann.
Heed it, this advice is still not outdated.
 Wetland Writers Have you ever had the idea you would love to write a book, a short story perhaps, or maybe write about and leave behind details of your early life, your experiences, the highs and lows of your life and times. Maybe shyness or a lack of self confidence has held you back.
Well, no more excuses are now acceptable, because on Thursday, the 8th of September next, 8.00pm sharp, the inaugural meeting of “Wetland Writers” will take place at Cabragh Wetlands, Thurles, Co Tipperary.
This group will welcome, with open arms, all comers and hope to see current authors, aspiring writers, reciters or just listeners joining their group.
Whatever your favourite genre, be it poetry, verse, essay, short story, comedy, novel, theatre, factual writing, compilation of thoughts, ideas or memories, it will be an exciting experience to find a platform for your expression, and you never know, perhaps a ‘cupan tae,’ will be thrown in, to assist, evoke and inspire the Muses.
Perhaps there may be a J. K. Rowling, a Jeff Doyle or a Robert Hass waiting, screaming to be realised down through the nib of your pen, and all that is needed is just a little help and encouragement.
Interested – Then why not contact: Joan Pollard Carew, Tel: 086 8718819 or Una Crowe, Tel: 087 7930319.
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