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 Eamonn O'Dwyer One of TippFM Radio‘s weekly specialist programmes “Down Your Way,” with popular local host Eamon O’Dwyer, will feature Thurles and it’s environs tonight (Thursday).
The popular weekly local radio show, which goes out every Thursday evening at 7.00pm will feature among it’s guests this week, Fr Gerry Kelly, Michelle Heaney and George Willoughby.
Among the topics for discussion are Hidden Tipperary, the Thrashing Festival in Dualla and Chinese Medicine.
Incidentally, note by 10.00 am, each morning, TippFM has a massive 59% of Tipperary people as their audience or over 83,000 people tuned in to listen to their daily programmes each week.
The Tipperary Radio station is the clear market leader in communications for reaching all age groups and is the only marketing tool which broadcasts into every home in the county.
TippFM also broadcast live from Thurles Shopping Centre every Thursday from their new Pod stand in the complex, broadcasting a great mix of talk and music, as well as offering plenty of exclusive competitions and great give-aways.
 Nenagh Agri-Show A large turnout is expected to turn out for the 2011 North Tipperary Agricultural Show taking place in Nenagh this August Bank Holiday Monday. (August 1st 2011)
Nenagh Co Tipperary grew and continues to flourished as an agricultural market town, and its Irish name means “The Fair of Ormond,” a reference to the old East Munster Ormond Agricultural Fairs, of which it was historically the site.
In its 134th year this popular annual show, promises be one of the biggest yet, with side shows which include paint-balling target competitions and a bucking bronco, aside from the many normally expected core animal attractions held at the Borrisokane Road, Showgrounds.
This annual event in North Tipperary, is renowned for being the counties showcase to a large variety of sheep, cattle, and poultry classes.
Comb the hair and wear your best frock, as UTV camera’s will also be present this year making a documentary on the art of cattle judging, focusing on local expert livestock judge David Wilson.
The show will also include craft work, expect to find exotic floral displays, quality baking and cooking demonstrations, needlework, art, photography and of course the much prized fruit and vegetable produce on display.
Overall family entertainment will be at a premium, with a pet farm on site inhabited by hares, rabbits, snakes, owls, hedgehogs, and even a vulture or two thrown in for good measure.
Other displays at this event will include trade stands selling and displaying their local crafts, a farmer’s market, and an equine store. Keep an eye out also for dog shows, Cossack horse riding, boxing displays, martial arts, horse and pony classes and show-jumping.
To be honest you do not have to come from a farming background be enjoy this event, but good cheap family fun for all, is truly guaranteed.
 Harry Potter A Tipperary native now resident in Australia, Katie O.Connell-Knott, is looking for a ‘Tipperary Tourism Slogan,‘ to put on T-Shirts for her next Irish Expats Barbecue.
Katie, a regular visitor and commenter on Thurles.Info and our new tourism site Hidden Tipperary, is looking for a slogan, which will promote Irish Tourism in Australia.
To assist Katie in her quest, we here on Thurles.Info and Hidden Tipperary are putting up a prize for the best T-Shirt slogan received.
Prize: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The prize winner will be given an opportunity to join in the Battle of Hogwarts and take control of Harry Potter and his friends in their final adventure in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the Nintendo DS video game adaptation of the blockbuster book and movie. This game goes on sale for the first time on Friday next, so send us your ‘Tourism Slogan,’ ASAP, using the ‘Comment Tag,’ underneath this Post, before Wednesday July 20th and the slogan competition winner will get the opportunity to wield powerful magic and engage in epic battles in their quest to destroy the Horcruxes and Lord Voldemort.
Rules:
(1) Rules are simple, the Judge for this competition will be Katie herself, over in that wonderful Australian State of Queensland, bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean, and her decision will be final.
(2) Send as many slogans as you like, via the Comment Tag, and note, all entries are free and the competition is open to everyone.
(3) Your slogan must contain the words “Hidden Tipperary,” and please do take in to account that your slogan must fit on the front of a T-Shirt, so the fewer words possibly the better, while still getting your Tourism Message across.
We look forward to hearing from you, and the best of luck.
June each year, ‘Come hell or high water,’ dozens of Ireland’s top musical societies make their annual pilgrimage down to the capital of the Kerry kingdom, to Killarney, to the highly coveted Association of Irish Musical Societies awards (AIMS). Why not, afterall this event is the Oscars of Irish Amateur Musical theatre, embracing the thirty two counties of this green and present land.
This year was to be no different, with winners of the AIMS/HB awards being announced on Saturday last, June 18th, in the Gleneagle Hotel, with some nine hundred amateur performers waiting eagerly in attendance.
As ever, Tipperary’s most talented thespians held their own and came up trumps at this years, 2011, award ceremony. Thurles Musical Society, St. Mary’s Choral Society Clonmel and Nenagh Choral Society, were among the top nominees on the night, with a further strong Tipperary representation spread out among the bevy of other worthy societies.
Clonmel and Nenagh scored individual wins on the night, with former AIMS winners Thurles Musical Society just very unlucky not to come away with a win for their much deserved “Best Visual,” and “Best Stage Management,” nominations.
 Spring Awakening-2011 AIMS adjudicated 'Best Show.' The night however belonged to Tralee Musical Society and Dublin’s new National Youth Musical Theatre-Ireland, both winning ‘Best Overall Show,’ in their respective categories for the musicals “Michael Collins,” and “Spring Awakening.”
This best show victory for “Spring Awakening,” in the Sullivan Section, is the latter’s second such win, since last September, having already won the International Festival of Light Opera in Waterford, just last November.
Particular congratulations must go out to Tipperary native Spring Awakening cast members Ed Leamy (Roscrea), Shane Willoughby (Thurles) and Chris Britton (Clonmel). You’ve done your local Musical Societies in this Premier County very proud folks.
Congratulations to everyone involved with AIMS 2011, and here’s to another fantastic year of musical theatrics.
 Singer Mick Hanley Singer, songwriter, Mick Hanly, is presently touring Tipperary following his latest album release, “Live at the Set,” and will be performing live at Kilcooley Parish Church, Gortnahoe, Thurles on Friday night next.
His latest album was recorded with band and guests at The Set Theatre, Kilkenny last May. It features guest appearances by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Christy Moore, and Mary Black. The album finds Hanly in top form vocally and performing a selection of his very finest songs. A DVD of the concert will be released later this year.
Mick has been around the block more times than most and has tried on a variety of hats in search of his own voice. Starting his career on the Folk circuit in the seventies he made a couple of folk albums for the Mulligan label, before turning his hand to song writing and fronting Moving Hearts for a spell in the early eighties.
He briefly donned a Stetson and formed his own band, Rusty Old Halo, leaving one album with Warner’s called Still Not Cured. After a series of album for the now defunct Round Tower label, Hanly established his own song writing style, which he has been honing to exceptional effect since.
He had a major hit with his song ‘Past the Point of Rescue,’ Stateside in 1992 and picked up three BMI awards, most recently for passing the ‘Two Million Radio Plays,’ target. He also has two Hot Press, and two National Entertainment awards.
His songs have been recorded by artists Hal Ketchum, Mary Black, Delbert McClinton, Dolores Keane, Christy Moore, etc.
So make a date to hear Mick live at Kilcooley Parish Church near Gortnahoe, here in Co Tipperary this coming Friday May 27th @ 8.30pm.
Tickets:- For tickets costing just €10 – Phone 052 9156165 / 056 8834147. It promises to be a great night.
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