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 Scoil Ailbhe Thurles U13 Quiz Success
Our heartiest congratulations must go to the Scoil Ailbhe Thurles U13 Quiz team and their teachers, who so ably represented Thurles Town & Thurles Credit Union (TCU) in the National Credit Union Quiz held in the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) on Sunday last.
This ‘brainy foursome,’ qualified earlier this year for the National Finals of this event by first winning the local Primary School Round (Thurles CU) at the Premier Hall in Thurles, and then followed this up by winning the Regional Round at Chapter 14 level.
The team done Thurles proud by coming in 4th place nationally in last Sunday’s competition.
April TCU Member’s Cash Draw Winners
Speaking of congratulations, the lucky winners of the TCU April Member’s Cash Draw have been announced and are as follows:-
Margaret & Gerard Loughnane, College Green, Thurles – €10,000, Patricia Ryan, Gurteeny, Borrisoleigh, Thurles – €1,000, Thomas Coleman, Raheen, Holycross, Thurles – €1,000, Margaret O’Halloran, Gortataggart, Thurles – €1,000 and last but by no means least, Mary Murphy, Drish – €1,000.
Well done to all winning TCU members.
 Property Tax Meeting, Hayes Hotel, Thurles, Co Tipperary Local Property Tax (LPT) correspondence is currently being issued by the Revenue Commissioners. Currently about 75% of letters due, have been forwarded to home owners, many of which are incorrectly addressed.
Each home owner will be expected to assess the value of their home, which will involve choosing a valuation band, using a system of self assessment.
Three trade unions including Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI), UNITE and the Civil Public and Services Union (CPSU) have joined the campaign against this property tax, justifiable claiming it is causing huge distress and despair amongst the lower paid sections of Irish society.
Deputy Seamus Healy will host a public meeting on the “Family Home and Property Tax,” on Wednesday next April 10th at 8.00pm in Hayes Hotel, Thurles.
At this meeting it is hoped to express publicly, not only the current fears of home owners, but also to furnish up-to-date information on the details, of what is generally agreed by many as an unfair and unjust tax.
Challenge & Boycott Local Property Tax
This meeting will be your perfect opportunity to explore ways in which this unjust tax can be challenged & boycotted and to establish how in the long term this regressive tax will affect you and eventually your children’s future.
Deputy Healy believes, as do the majority of PAYE workers, Unemployed persons, Pensioners, & small Businesses, all residents of Co Tipperary, that this attack on our property is morally wrong, regressive to consumer spending, deliberately targeting low and middle income families and therefore should now be fully shelved and abandoned.
This legislation was initially bulldozed without a public mandate through Dáil Éireann in December last, granting the Revenue Commissioners draconian powers to collect this most unjust & duel tax on people’s homes.
To add to this debate, current data from the Irish Banking Federation now demonstrates that mortgage draw-downs which were beginning to pick up in the final quarter of last year, have become retrograde. The arrived in December of Phil Hogan’s property tax is targeted now as the main reason. Between November and February last, house prices fell by 2.6%, equal to an annualised rate of 8%. Prior to December 2012, the property market was beginning to enter a period of some activity, through recovering prices and a definite identifiable confidence, but now we are back once again to falling negative equity.
Deputy Healy is now inviting you, the public, to come along to this meeting on Wednesday next and have your say.
Tipperary must no longer remain the “Silent People,” once referred to in the historical trilogy of Walter Macken’s prose. We must not be the future second-class citizen left to become the victims of this oppressive tax. This Local Property Tax will eventually lead rural Ireland into outright poverty, so that the likes of Dublin City Council, who benefit from all current job creation, can waste another €40m of rural taxpayers’ money to boost their O’Connell street upward only landlords & rental businesses.
 J.Kelly Reginal Sec. UNITE The UNITE trade union in Ireland, which represents 100,000 working people, are calling for a public boycott of the Property Tax.
The trade union, which is one of the country’s largest, is urging the public to hold firm and start by refusing to engage with Revenue.
UNITE have joined forces with the Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes and will be participating in a day of protest on April 13th next. This date will coincide with a meeting of European Union Finance Ministers at Dublin Castle.
Regional Secretary of UNITE Mr Jimmy Kelly believes that the fight against this tax can still be won by building a strong campaign and standing shoulder to shoulder in a simple boycott.
Kelly stated that UNITE believed there should be a tax, based on property, but has dismissed the bullying measures employed by some members within Government.
“We want to build a campaign as strong as possible based on a boycott. The Government is just threatening people imposing a further austerity tax, calling it a property tax and threatening people by telling them they will take it out of their wages or social welfare or farm payments.” stated Mr Kelly.
The word boycott first entered the English language during the Irish “Land War,” and is derived from the name of Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in Lough Mask House, near Ballinrobe in County Mayo, latter who was subject to social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880.
A boycott therefore is best described as an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for social or political reasons.
Today, grassroots members of the Labour Party are meeting in the Gresham Hotel to discuss the resignation, yesterday, of Nessa Childers MEP, plus the disappointing Meath East by-election result and the total collapse in Labour party support in recent polls.
 Thurles Credit Union January 2013 Cash Draw Winner Identifying (L-R,): Mr Ephrem Crowe with his wife Lesley both pictured, here above, being presented with a cheque by Mr Donal Scannell (CEO TCU.)
Ephrem was the winner of the January 2013 Thurles Credit Union (TCU) Cash Draw. Ephram & his wife are presently residing in the UK, hence the delay in bringing you news regarding this presentation.
Our congratulations to you, on your good fortune and enjoy your stay in Thurles.
 Pictured above are members of the combined Vintage Clubs of Tipperary Bart Howard reports.
The combined Vintage Clubs of Tipperary are all set to come together in Dualla, Co Tipperary on Sunday 24th next (Tomorrow) in a massive Vintage Rally to raise much needed funds for a Paediatric Resuscitator for the Paediatric Unit in Clonmel General Hospital. The event takes place sharp at 12.00 noon, regardless of weather conditions.
Paediatric emergencies in primary healthcare centres are serious events that occur more commonly than envisaged. This initiative therefore is very necessary to procure this essential piece of equipment and comes with the full backing & support of all nursing staff working at the Hospital.
A ‘Resuscitator,’ is essential in a modern Paediatric Unit and can play a major role in the Recovery Unit for young patients.
Clonmel Paediatric Unit
The Paediatric Unit in Clonmel currently has 17 beds and cares for children, from newborn infants up to the age of 16 years, all who suffer with a wide variety of illnesses. On the ward there is a Paediatric Emergency Room, in which all the children who attend South Tipperary General Hospital are dealt with, except trauma cases, who attend in the main Hospital Emergency Department.
This Unit also runs a ‘Day Ward,’ from 9.00am to 2.00pm, 5 days each week. The Unit provides shared care with Crumlin Children’s Hospital and Temple St. Children’s Hospital. This saves Oncology and Cardiac patients from having to travel long distances to Dublin for treatment which can be provided locally, thus saving an added financial burden and unnecessary travelling disruption in daily family life.
It is expected that this latter will be a truly major event, with lots to do and see and all are invited to come along and share, so please do remember the date & put your support fully behind this event.
Despite the burden of taxation, publicly imposed at this time on the citizens of this island of our, latter supposedly to provide us with this same much needed health equipment, it is now being provided privately by these same taxpayers. Regrettably VAT at the rate of 23% will be charged on this Paediatric Resuscitator, so if any of our powerful caring public representatives could now instruct Revenue to forego this VAT charge, same would be very much appreciated.
Well done to the combined Vintage Clubs of Tipperary and every success in this venture.
Photo courtesy G.Willoughby.
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