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 Proprietors Liam & Stella Ahearne of Ahearne’s Supermarket & Service Station Thurles, Tipperary. The Ahearne’s /Londis Supermarket & Service Station, situated here on Abbey Road, Thurles, Co Tipperary, may have given the town its second millionaire this year.
The premises sold some lucky customer a Daily Million ‘Quick-Pick,’ ticket from their busy premises, in time for last Monday nights National Lotto draw.
The last lucky winner, now a multi millionaire, to emerge here near Thurles just last January, also purchased a single ‘Quick Pick,’ ticket, scooping a life changing jackpot worth a reported €10,613,747.
Due to their high volume of daily sales, delighted proprietors Mr & Mrs Liam & Stella Ahearne today claimed they have no idea as to the identity of the lucky recipient, but believe that there is a very good chance that the winner is someone from the local community here in the town.
As our readers can imagine, this news has most certainly created quite a stir around the locality, with locals speculating as to the identity of the lucky recipient.
This is not the first big win for the Ahearne’s Supermarket venue, having sold one of their regular customers a successful “Winning Streak,” ticket recently, which in turn yielded that lucky individual almost €30,000.
Last Monday’s “Daily Million” draw bore the winning numbers 2, 4, 6, 13, 17 and 19, while the bonus number was 25.
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 One of Tipperary’s best-known secondary schools, Rockwell College, founded in 1864, and situated on the outskirts of Cashel, Co Tipperary, with over 500 boarding and day pupils, will become a fee-paying educational venue from September next.
This historical Co Tipperary College, whose former pupils & teachers included Patrick Hillery (Former President of Ireland.), Dr. Maurice Manning (Irish Human Rights Commissioner.), Richie Boucher (CEO BOI.), John Rogers SC (Senior Counsel.), Thomas MacDonagh (Poet, Teacher & Executed Co-Leader of the 1916 Rising.), Monsignor Pádraig de Brún (NUI Galway.) and Éamon de Valera (Former Taoiseach & President of Ireland.), has been forced out of free education, having failed to agree with the Department of Education on what it could charge its attending pupils.
Rockwell had been in discussions with the Department of Education regarding its financial matter for the past two years, but now report it has failed to reach a consensus on current costs, due to both day and boarding pupils being above the strict limits imposed on such schools, under the free education scheme.
With many former fee-paying schools now considering entering the free education scheme, the department is keen to ensure that no one is guilty of bending the current strict financial regulations.
 Dr. J.Teeling Directions Thurles born Chief Executive of ISME, Mr Mark Fielding, reports:
This year’s speaker and worthy recipient of the SME Medal, is Dr. John Teeling, who will be guest speaker at this year’s Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association (ISME) AGM Lunch.
A consistent entrepreneur and a leading pioneer of Irish industry, Dr. Teeling is one of Ireland’s most entertaining and knowledgeable speakers, renowned for “telling it as it really is.” He is also the founder and chairman of Petrel Resources, Minco, African Gold, Persian Gold, West African Diamonds and Botswana Diamonds, latter all listed on the London Stock Exchange.
An educator at UCD, where he lectured in Business Administration for 20 year, Dr. Teeling is also a former director of Kenmare Resources and a former director of Arcon. As the founder and Chairman of Cooley Distillery, he oversaw its sale to ‘Jim Beam,’ in 2011 for in excess of €70 million.
The Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association’s AGM Lunch will take place on Friday 31st May 2013 in The Burlington Hotel, Dublin 4, beginning at 12.30 p.m. sharp. As usual there will be plenty to discuss and friends to meet and indeed this is one business event not to be missed.
Cost: Individual Places are €55.00 each and Tables of 10 persons are available for €500.
Contact: MARK FIELDING, ISME, Tel: 00353-16622755 or Email info@isme.ie
 Members of the Garda Representative Association (GRA ) and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) are to be balloted in the coming weeks on new proposals regarding pay and conditions.
It is understood that both these Garda representative bodies are cautiously welcoming the Labour Relations Commission’s new deal on premium payments and allowances, which are to remain untouched. Instead Gardaí will in return undertake 30 hours of free overtime.
This required GRA ballot could take up to six weeks to finalize, which immediately raises the question of whether the July1st deadline set down by the government for achieving necessary savings, can be now met.
The GRA’s Central Executive Committee have stated that these savings will now have a direct benefit to the State and will minimise the impact on an already stretched police service.
In April last Justice Minister Alan Shatter announced he would delay hiring more Gardaí, following the then rejection by unions of Crokepark 2, stating that without an agreement on the public-service pay deal, he would have no funds to pay for new recruitment.
The Minister had hinted earlier that he was to begin a new enrolment campaign towards the end of this year and whether this extra recruitment and funding will now emerge will be of much interest to the economy of Templemore, Thurles, which is home to the Garda Training College.
Earlier this year the General Secretary of the Association of Garda Superintendents had warned that the strength of the Garda force was at a critically low level. Superintendent Pat McCabe used the AGSI annual conference to call for Garda recruitment to begin again as soon as physically & financially possible.
Will these extra hours, if agreed, remove the need for new recruitment?
 Irish Simplified Tax Return For 2013 An employee working on the Property Tax Helpline has been suspended, amid allegations of unauthorised use of credit cards according to Breaking News.ie
The employee, a member of staff at Cork-based Abtran appears to have unnecessarily asked some 11 callers for their credit card numbers, however it is understood no credit card holder suffered any financial loss. It is understood however that the individual involved did attempt to effect transactions but failed to do so.
The Revenue Commissioners gave this contract for running the Property Tax Helpline to a private call centre, despite opposition from its own civil servants. Revenue awarded a one-year contract to the Cork-based company Abtran, following its previous role in processing College Grant Applications. (We do not know how much the latter cost taxpayers.)
Lower paid civil servants had argued that it was a waste of public money to outsource this work, when there was already enough staff in the public service to undertake same, however Revenue insisted it did not have enough available staff. It claimed that this private call centre gave it the best chance of responding to the exceptional pressures expected during the initial roll-out of this tax.
Abtran are supplying some 40 staff, who deal with daily calls from the 1.6 million liable households, while complex enquiries are being passed directly on to current Revenue employees.
The cost to Revenue is based on how many calls Abtran handles daily, but expectations are that the cost to taxpayers will total €4.9m.
Following these allegations of unauthorised use of credit cards, Gardaí & the Data Protection Commissioner have now been informed.
Anybody with concerns can call a dedicated Revenue Tel number, 1890-22-63-36, from 9.00am today.
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