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Once again Clonoulty Rossmore Macra na Feirme are very excited to announce details of this year’s Miss Macra Festival, which will take place over August Bank holiday weekend from Friday 2nd of August to Monday 5th of August 2013.
This year Clonoulty Rossmore Macra will embark on the 42nd International Miss Macra festival. After a very successful 41 years of this prominent festival, this year sees a new revamp with many firsts. Once again this year’s festival will see girls travelling from all over the country and beyond to Tipperary to compete for the honour of being crowned International Miss Macra 2013, succeeding the much admired, 2012 winner Aileen Hennessey from the Muskerry region of Cork. For the first time, the festival will commence on the Friday instead of Thursday, as traditionally was the case. This will ensure an action packed weekend for the contestants.
The luxurious Dundrum House Hotel, winner of the Certificate of Excellence 2012, has once again been chosen as the prominent venue for this year’s festival. Dundrum House Hotel has been described as an oasis in the Golden Vale, setting the perfect scene for those who are seeking relaxation and fun.
 Simone Loughman (International Miss Macra Secretary), Aileen Hennessey( International Miss Macra Winner 2012), Kieran Maguire, Tipperary Co-Op (Sponsor) Donnacha Ryan (International Miss Macra Chairman) & Declan Ryan (Clonoulty Rossmore Macra na Feirme President). Sponsors
The committee would like to send an enormous ‘Thank You‘ to all their sponsors, host families and local businesses who continue year after year to be generous supporters of the festival. In particular Dundrum House Hotel, Michael’s Jewellers Thurles, Tipperary Co-Op and Gleeson Concrete to name but a few.
Weekend Festival Entertainment
This year’s festival kicks off on Friday the 2nd of August when this year’s contestants will arrive at Dundrum House Hotel, where they will have lunch with the National President, Kieran O’Dowd, in the ‘Lady Clementina,’ restaurant. Friday is a very eventful day for the contestants and there is an emphasis on trying something new. As part of ‘First Time Friday,’ the contestants will embark on a tour of the world famous Coolmore Stud, home to the largest Equestrian Stud farm in Ireland and which boasts some of the best equine stock in the world. For any of the contestants who have an interest in horses and horse breeding this is a dream come true to see this impressive renowned stud farm.
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 European Union negotiators agreed today to dismantle the bloc’s system of sugar production quotas, same to come into effect from October 2017.
This deal to end sugar quotas from 2017 will be subject first to final approval from EU governments and the European Parliament and is seen as part of wider reforms within the EU’s common agricultural policy.
This 45 year old system of national production quotas and minimum sugar beet prices has been blamed for creating artificial shortages of the sweetener in Europe and also for limiting EU exports, because of world trade rules on unfair subsidies.
The return of the sugar industry to Ireland if successful would be immediately identified as a real coup by farmers operating in the Tipperary agricultural sector. With a return of the Sugar industry allowed, hundreds of direct jobs could be created via three industries, sugar production and processing, feed production and possibly ethanol production.
While 2017 remains several years down the line, this is just the kind of additional kick-start that the Tipperary economy now needs, but I ask do we have the necessary political clout to deliver any future such project to our county?
One of Ireland’s leading Water Treatment and Pumping Solution providers’ Cantwell Electrical Engineering Ltd.(CEEL) have officially opened their new €1.3 million state-of-the-art business premises.
Situated on its original site at Graigue, Urlingford, Thurles, Co Tipperary, Cantwell Electrical Engineering Ltd is an ISO certified company that specialises in the design and supply of water and waste water treatment systems and pumping solutions.
Less than 1km from the N8 Dublin/Cork Road, this new premises was officially opened by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Mr Phil Hogan, T.D. & truly reflects the standards & services which CEEL offer to their valued customers.
In response to an ever expanding client base, CEEL, in association with their sister company’s Quality Water Systems (QWS) & Cantwell Pumping & Treatment Systems, realised the need to update their premises to include new Offices, Workshops, Staff Training Facilities and a Retail Shop, latter which is open to the public six days a week.
Recent accreditation with ISO Standards in Quality Management, Environmental Management and Occupational Health & Safety, have resulted in increased levels of business and has opened up new avenues for this market-leading provider of Pumping, Control and Water Treatment Systems.
A full catalogue of their trade products, can be obtained by contacting Cantwell Pumping & Treatment Systems sales team on 056-8834198.
 As was expected, Tipperary Fine Gael TD Tom Hayes has this morning been appointed the new Junior Minister to replace the late Shane McEntee in the Department of Agriculture.
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny informed his Fine Gael cabinet colleagues of his choice this morning, before informing the entire Cabinet at their weekly meeting. A vacancy had arisen in the Department of Agriculture following the untimely death of Mr Shane McEntee just before Christmas.
Mr Tom Hayes, a beef farmer from Golden, in Co Tipperary, has served as a Senator from 1997 to 2001 and as a Tipperary South TD since his election in a by-election in 2001, will now have special responsibility in the areas of forestry, horticulture, the greyhound industry and food safety.
The popular TD has been the most publicly outspoken public representative from Tipperary, in matters regarding unemployment in the county.
 Tipperary farmers state that they are strongly opposed to any proposals by the National Roads Authority (NRA) to ban the selling of farm produce at the roadside.
These, mostly seasonal, trading stands sell mostly fresh strawberries, apples, jams and new potatoes.
In their latest road strategy, the RSA propose introducing new legislation to totally prohibit what they identify as “High Risk Activities,” on the roadside. This activity includes the selling or marketing of farm produce and localised charitable bucket collections.
The RSA’s latest road safety strategy entitled, ‘Closing the Gap‘ and whose aim is to reduce the number of road deaths in Ireland to 124 each year by 2020, down from 162 fatalities in 2012, is seen as yet another daily attempt by Government to turn this country into a servile Nanny Republic.
Members of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) state that the selling of fresh fruit and vegetables at the roadside was an important income for those farmers involved and same had never, in the past, constituted any safety concern whatsoever with those traders implicated in such activities.
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