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 Hibernian Meats Site Yeagher Ltd have been given clearance to build a major shopping, office, and housing complex on the site of the old Hibernian Meats plant at Wrensborough Town-land, Dublin Road in Thurles.
An Bord Pleanala have given its blessing for a ‘Mixed-use Neighbourhood Centre’, made up of thirteen two-storey dwelling houses (two semi detached, two terraces of three and one terrace of five), with associated landscaping which includes road access, internal roads and car parking, hard and soft landscaping, perimeter boundary improvements; surface water and foul drainage connections, water supply, piped and cabled services ducting; and a ESB sub-station.
Planning also includes one building which will consist of a ground floor family restaurant to include a takeaway and drive-through facilities. The plans also envisage a play centre for children and early teenagers at ground, first and second floor level.
The plans for a second building entail neighbourhood convenience shops, other compatible retail shops and an associated service yard and loading area, including a ramp, a ground floor office unit, and a first floor office unit.
Project will also include a third building with a three-level “Wellness Centre”, consisting of a ground floor reception and consulting area, stairwell, service accommodation; first floor consulting room and physiotherapy suite, second floor gymnasium, and staff facilities.
A fourth building will contain a two-storey “own door” office and work units with service yard and car parking, with landscaped open space and amenity area for residential complement.
This decision overrules a previous decision by North Tipperary County Council on October 27th last year that had rejected the plans on the grounds that the layout was “inappropriate”, and incompatible with the planning objectives for the area.
This overall development will involve the demolition and removal of existing front walls, industrial buildings and all associated structures known formally as the ‘Hibernian Meats Plant’.
While this development is welcomed, there appears to be no solution to the present traffic problems experienced by daily commuters on this stretch of road, which is now forcing residents on the east side of Thurles to shop in Cashel.
 The death occurred last Wednesday of David Hough, chief executive of the Limerick based oil and gas exploration firm Circle Oil. Mr Hough, one of the first Irish entrepreneurs to be involved in Irish oil exploration, died in Abu Dhabi, aged 58.
A University College Galway geology graduate, Dave Hough joined the exploration game and travelled extensively abroad. In 1987 he was in Canada to established a company called Circle Resources in Vancouver. A year later he was back home, financing an exploration operation in Limerick called Ivernia West. Mr Hough set up the exploration firm Ivernia West in 1988. The firm, with oil giant Chevron, would claim to discover zinc ore at Lisheen in Co Tipperary.
Mr Hough is one of only a handful of Irish mining men who disproved the geography books, by both finding and bringing into production an Irish metalliferous mine in the 20th century and was the very mainspring behind the Lisheen orebody find, in Tipperary.
Mr Hough’s story is one of not only persistence, but it is also a sullen depressing tale of the mining industry in the past 30 years. It starts usually displaying great promise, is then halted by the usual and seemingly endless stream of ownership and legal disputes which waste badly needed company resources. When it does finally gets into production, the international price cycle for metals take a down turn world wide.
However, two years later, with the exploration major Chevron in to assist, the company hits pay-dirt, zinc is confirmed at Lisheen, Co Tipperary. It would be however, nine long years of delays and legal wrangles before Lisheen would come into full production.
Mr Hough, as then chief executive of Ivernia West for 15 years, stepped down from his position in 2003. His departure from the helm of the company he founded, coincided with the sale of its last Irish asset, namely the 50% stake in the Lisheen zinc mine here in Co Tipperary.
In 2003, Mr Hough set up Circle Oil with licences in Namibia, Panama, in the Caribbean and in the Celtic Sea.
To his family and numerous friends go our deepest and heart-felt sympathies.
Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam dílis.
The roll-out of high-speed broadband throughout North Tipperary depends on the Government providing backhaul connectivity to link the counties (MANs) to the wider national and international broadband network.
 Tipperary Unplugged A Metropolitan Area Network (or MAN) is a large computer network that usually spans a large geographical area and usually interconnects a number of Local Area Networks (LANs) using a high-capacity backbone technology, such as fiber-optical links. This provides up-link services to wide area networks and the Internet.
Fine Gael TD Deputy Noel Coonan speaking to thurles.info said he had been in consultation with the Limerick-based company e|net which is managing the rollout of the fibre-optic broadband platform called Metropolitan Area Networks throughout Ireland.
The Deputy stated:
“At Fine Gael’s National Conference recently I said live on television that before MANs in Nenagh, Roscrea and Templemore can function effectively they must have what is called backhaul connectivity to link them to the national and international network. Backhaul connectivity relates to an improved wireless communications system capable of efficiently transmitting smaller-sized data packets (e.g. 10 to 20 byte length) that are frequently delivered (e.g. every 10 to 20 msec.) to mobile nodes on the communications system, such as voice communications. We need this connectivity to increase the competitiveness of North Tipperary and attract foreign direct investment. Cities such as Limerick, Kilkenny and Portlaoise have MANs platforms which stretch to smaller local towns but unfortunately North Tipperary is relying on this incapable and inefficient Government to provide sufficient backhaul facilities to link us up. E|net is very committed to improving broadband service in the locality and has highlighted that high-quality broadband is an essential pre-requisite to being able to attract any major business to towns around the constituency. The Limerick-based company has also indicated to me that it is vital that the present Government gets on with establishing the proposed one-stop-shop whereby all State-owned ducting and fibre would be administered by a single State entity.”
North Tipperary lost 188 IDA jobs last year and the inability to provide proper broadband hinders the county in their efforts to attract future investment. IDA figures have shown that MAN enabled towns have increased their share of Foreign Direct Investment from around 25% a few years ago to nearly 90%. Dismal news, recently announced, show that North Tipperary lost 188 IDA jobs last year and was one of only three counties that failed to attract a single IDA job in 2009, increasing its unemployment figures to 6,949. Only 13 IDA jobs were created in the past couple of years.
Deputy Coonan continued:
“Government must boost its funding to the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) so that the job-creating body can provide jobs for some of the 6,949 people who are unemployed in North Tipperary. North Tipperary is one of the worst hit areas in the country when it comes to securing IDA jobs. This was made blatantly clear by a recent IDA report which revealed that the constituency did not attract one single job in 2009 and I firmly believe this Government is to blame for the disastrous result as it continues to forget about job creation.
A recent example of this negligence was seen in the Government reshuffle which left no Government Department with the word employment or jobs in its title at a time when jobs should be first priority. Alongside this, our poor quality of broadband is severely deterring foreign multi-national companies from investing in North Tipperary.
Securing foreign direct investment is crucial if we are to pull our economy out of this hole. North Tipperary Government supporters Deputy Lowry and Deputy Hoctor should be ashamed that they did not help attract one single IDA job to the constituency last year. What is the point of people voting for these Deputies if they cannot provide for North Tipperary?”
An IDA delegation who addressed the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment recently this month, said that in the next 10 years, the IDA hope to secure nationwide 240,000 new jobs arising from overseas companies investing here.
 Mid West - Unplugged Speaking in the Dáil recently, Deputy Noel Coonan described as ‘really maddening’ Minister Eamon Ryan’s comments that he anticipates an increase in the demand for high speed broadband into the future.
Deputy Coonan asked about progress in creating a ‘one-stop shop’ to which the Minister for Communications said the context for the proposal is ‘the anticipated increase in demand for high speed broadband into the future.’
In response, the North Tipperary Fine Gael TD said:
“In the three years since I have been a Member of the House, I have heard the Minister pontificate about what he is doing in terms of broadband and set targets which he has consistently failed to meet. To hear him say he anticipates a demand for high speed broadband is really maddening, especially if one comes from my region of the mid-west which has a higher than average rate of unemployment. Shannon Development has stated clearly that the most significant barrier to job creation in the mid-west is the lack of a high speed broadband system. It is simply not there. Metropolitan Area Networks have been in the ground and waiting connection for years and it is frustrating for broadband providers and the general public. I would like a time-frame and for the Minister to state when this will happen. He could have given this answer last September. I do not want to listen to the same story from the Minister next September,” said Deputy Coonan.
Ireland is still behind the EU average broadband penetration rate and there is less broadband penetration in rural areas than in urban areas. Ireland’s ranking in the EU’s Broadband Performance Index is 23rd out of 29 countries.
Ireland, is grouped in the fifth and lowest cluster group with Latvia, Hungary, and Estonia. The socio-economic context is more favourable in Ireland than in the other countries, but high prices and low speeds, limit its performance, as a result of weak competition. High prices, low speeds and limited rural coverage, hold back performance for the whole group.
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