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 Nationwide's popular presenters Michael Ryan and Mary Kennedy The ever-popular RTE team from ‘Nationwide‘ will be in ‘The Premier Ballroom‘ Thurles on Sunday 28th of November to film dance action from ‘The Club for Dancing’.
Incidentally, to demonstrate how popular the Thurles Club for Dancing really is, the club will be celebrating their 40th Anniversary during the month of February, next year. So congrats to all responsible for keeping the club so alive and popular.
To celebrate Nationwide’s visit the club is organising a free dance class at 3.00pm sharp on that aforementioned Sunday afternoon, also in The Premier Ballroom, which has been their home since conception. Anyone over 18 years of age is welcome to attend and a very special invitation is being extended to anyone who has attended their numerous successful dance classes over the past number of years. (You never know we might see you on the telly.)
A dance will be held that night from 9.00 pm to 12.00 midnight. Dance music on the night will be provided by the ever popular ‘Dave Rae‘ and the admission charge for anyone attending before 9.15 pm will be €5.00 The admission charge increases after 9.15 pm to €7.00, so keep this in mind during these recessionary times.
The Nationwide programme will be shown on RTE sometime in January, so keep an eye on this site for a more detailed update.
The ever-popular Nationwide, with Michael Ryan and Mary Kennedy, usually goes out at 7.00pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on RTÉ One with their eclectic round-up of news, views and events from around Ireland.
So stick a note on the fridge folks or mark the diary;
Date: Sunday 28th November next.
Venue: The Premier Ballroom, Thurles, Co.Tipperary.
Further Information: Contact Thomas Gleeson, Tel No: 087-9732837.
Update:
See Link: http://www.thurles.info/2010/08/23/dancing-classes-thurles-club-for-dancing/ to view this programme.
Now aged in his seventies, Ramón Antonio Gerard Estévez, better known by his stage name Martin Sheen returns to his Irish ancestral county of Tipperary, as cameras are set to roll on the set of Newgrange Pictures’ new feature film ‘Stella Days’ on Sunday, November 7th.
Tipperary will play host to this Golden Globe winner from ‘The West Wing’, ‘Apocalypse Now’ and also Oscar nominee Stephen Rea of ‘The Crying Game’ and ‘Ondine’ fame, both of whom will lead the film’s impressive cast.
Martin Sheen was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Mary Ann Phelan, 1903–1951 and Francisco Estévez 1898–1974, who were a factory worker and machinery inspector respectively at the National Cash Register Company at the time. Both parents were immigrants; his mother was born in Borrisokane, County Tipperary, Ireland and his father in Parderrubias, Galicia, Spain.
Written by Antoine O’Flathartha and directed by IFTA winning Irish director Thaddeus O’Sullivan of ‘Into the Storm’ and ‘December Bride’, fame, the Newgrange Pictures production will see Martin Sheen play parish priest, Daniel Barry, whose love for the cinema leads him on a path to help set up a local cinema in the town. But Daniel comes up against opposition from doubtful local parishioners who question his faith and a Bishop who is more interested in raising funds for a new church.
‘Stella Days‘ is scheduled to shoot for about five weeks under the photographic direction of John Christian Rosenlund and will be edited in a Dublin post house following its shoot. The drama is being produced by Jackie Larkin and Maggie Pope and funds of €600,000 have been awarded by the Irish Film Board towards the making of the film.
So let’s show Martin and company a true Tipperary homecoming welcome.
 Ursuline Secondary School Crest The popular ‘All Island School Choir’ competition returns to our screens Sunday week and will run for five weeks on RTÉ One.
The event will culminate with the live final which will be held in Belfast’s Waterfront Hall on Sunday, November 14.
Twenty schools have qualified for this year’s regional finals, which take place in the School of Music in Cork, the Royal Theatre in Castlebar, the Solstice Theatre in Navan and the Market Place Theatre in Armagh.
This years chosen competitors will include the Ursuline Secondary School Chamber Choir, from Thurles who will compete in heat number 1 of the event in Cork city.
The competition is organised by Co-Operation Ireland in association with RTÉ. Anne Cassin presents the series which was devised by RTÉ’s Northern Editor, Tommie Gorman, latter who is also the executive producer.
The adjudicators for the competition are Seamus Crimmins, Executive Director of RTÉ Performance Groups, Dr Angela Feeney, well known Belfast Opera singer and teacher, Brendan O’Connor, Musical Director, Cois Cladaigh Chamber Choir in Galway and Dr Geoffrey Spratt, Director of the Cork School of Music and Conductor of the Fleischmann Choir.
 The Late Mick Lally Mick Lally, probably best known for playing Miley Byrne, latter for which he won a Jacob’s Award in 1979, passed away this morning after a short stay in hospital, at the age of 64.
Born in November 1945 in Tourmakeady, Co Mayo, Mick was the eldest of a family of seven children; five sisters and one brother. He was educated at the local national school in Tourmakeady and went from there to St Mary’s College in Galway. He later studied History and Irish at UCG going on in 1969 to teach History and Irish in Tuam for approximately six years.
This Mayo born teacher, later turned actor appeared in numerous TV shows including ‘Glenroe’, ‘Ballykissangel’, ‘Bracken’, and the ‘Ballroom of Romance’. He also featured in Oliver Stone’s ‘Alexander’, ‘Ros na Rún’ and ‘The Secret of Kells’ and was also cast in Tyrone born Brian Friel‘s ‘Translations’ back in 1980. He went on to become a member of the Field Day Theatre Company and co-founder of the much lauded Druid Theatre Company with Garry Hynes and Marie Mullen, as well as treading the boards in many of John Millington Synge‘s plays.
No stranger to Thurles town, Mick regularly appeared at the Source Arts Centre where in recent months he performed opposite his Westmeath born and ‘Glenroe’ co-star Mary McEvoy in J.B. Keane’s ‘The Matchmaker’ and with George McMahon in ‘Caught in the Net’.
A fluent speaker of the Irish language, Mick confessed and classified himself as an atheist and regarded religion as the stuff of nonsense and “codology”, but his love of studying local characters and his passion for all things Irish was for ever evident in his unique stage performances.
In July last he launched ‘Tuar Mhic Éadaigh: Stair agus Seanchas’, a new book on the history and folklore of the Tourmakeady area by Fr Pádraig Standun.
One of Irelands most loved actors of his generation, Mick will be dearly missed by the public and by his many colleagues both in theatre and television. His national and international reputation truely earned him the deserved status of an icon of Irish theatre.
Thurles would like to express their sympathy to his wife Peige, their children Saileog, Maghnus and Darach and to his parents.
 Spring Awakening comes to The Helix September 16th to 25th Described by many critics and writers as the musical that will define this generation, the groundbreaking ‘Spring Awakening’ is merely weeks away from its highly anticipated Irish premiere in the Helix Theatre in Dublin.
National Youth Musical Theatre will present Spring Awakening from September 16th to 25th with director John Donnelly at the helm of what promises to be one of the definitive Irish musical experiences of the year.
Winner of 8 Tony Awards on Broadway, including best new musical, Spring Awakening won the 2010 West End musical of the year and has thrilled audiences and critics alike, the world over.
Set in 1890’s Germany, but with a contemporary rock soundtrack, Spring Awakening is like nothing you’ve ever seen before.
Featuring a cast of the most talented young performers in Ireland, including Thurles’ own Shane Willoughby, whom audiences will know from his performances with Phoenix Productions, Thurles Musical Society and Vincé Productions.
This is one show true music lovers in Tipperary really can’t afford to miss.
As stated, Spring Awakening runs from the 16th to the 25th of September 2010 at the Helix DCU. Tickets are on sale now priced at €20 from the Helix box office, Tel:(01) 700 7000 or visit the Helix online here
Note: There are also a limited number of on-stage seats available for every performance at just €15.
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