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 Comedian Tommy Tiernan will begin his world tour of Tipperary beginning late next month.
Tiernan states he is delighted to be touring Tipperary, “a county as split as Korea,” but regardless, the Irish comedian, actor and writer will be bringing his show to both sides of the North/South divide.
Tommy’s mother Helen O’Brien was born and raised in Clonmel Co Tipperary and he spent many a family holiday as he recalls “skittin around the town.”
Not always at home in a county which has no coastline, Tommy will take to the roads of North Tipperary with a show full of stories gathered from his touring of both rural Ireland and the rest of the world.
Tipperary Venues Listed
Fri 22 Nov – Ormond Hotel, Nenagh
Sat 23 Nov – Cahir House Hotel.
Sun 24 Nov – Racket Hall Hotel, Roscrea.
Thur 28 Nov – O’Keefe’s, Clonmel Comedy Festival
Fri 29 Nov – Anner Hotel, Thurles.
Sat 30 Nov – Strand, Carrick-on-Suir.
Tickets costing €28 each are now on sale Here for all events shown above in County Tipperary.
 The Royal College of Physicians Ireland (RCPI) have launched a scathing attack on Arthur’s Day, organised by Diageo, latter to supposedly celebrate the anniversary of the Guinness brewing company.
To this end RCPI have organised a public discussion aimed at highlighting the dangerous side of alcohol and to further underscore their concerns that alcohol related illnesses in Ireland have now reached epidemic proportions.
Dr Stephen Stewart a Liver Disease Specialist, together with Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr Bobby Smyth will speak at this event tomorrow evening, with the Chairperson of the RCPI’s policy group on alcohol, Professor Frank Murray opening the meeting.
The RCPI claim that deaths relating to cirrhosis of the liver have doubled between 1994 and 2008, and that hospital admissions for alcoholic liver disease has almost doubled between 1995 and 2007. The RCPI also claim that increasing numbers of young people are dying from alcohol related illnesses due to alcohol substances being more affordable than ever, being more acceptable than ever and being more available than ever. (A pint of Guinness in Dublin is €0.70 cheaper than in Thurles.)
The RCPI debate will take place at 6:00pm tomorrow Monday, at the college’s headquarters on Kildare Street, Dublin, and will wave the banner “Join the National Conversation on Alcohol: Who’s calling the shots.”
Diageo is not aware yet, but Guinness porter of course was first accidentally conceived in the early to mid 1700’s at the Palace of Archbishop Price, here in Cashel, Co Tipperary, now known as the Cashel Palace Hotel. Estate manager and Arthur’s father, Richard Guinness, was in charge of supervising the brewing of beer for the estates employees on the Archbishop Price estate. Supplying beer to employees at that time was considered part of their weekly entitlement. A servant was dispatched from the estate to purchase and convey the necessary beer making materials from Ryan’s brewery stores here in Main Street, Thurles, latter now known as Cathedral Street. (Time for Urban Councillors to erect another Memorial Plaque in St Mary’s Graveyard perhaps.)
In the brewing process, later back in Cashel, some of these ingredients, barley possibly, was accidentally over heated in error, in fact roasted until virtually black, thus giving that unique burnt flavour known to us today as porters ale or Guinness porter and described by the then Archbishop as being “a brew of a very palatable nature.”
It is not too long ago in Ireland that pregnant women were told to drink a glass of Guinness every day to fortify themselves and their baby. Indeed US scientists in the state of Wisconsinin in 2011 gave Guinness to dogs who had narrowed arteries. They found that Guinness worked as well as aspirin in preventing clots forming. They believe that antioxidant compounds in Guinness are responsible for these health benefits because they decrease harmful cholesterol gathering on artery walls. But then what do I know?
Still this National Conversation on Alcohol could now lead to the start of Fine Gael and Labour’s promised two year Dáil Reforms, with Mr Enda Kenny closing the Dáil Bar instead of the Senate. (Possible new Logo for those opposed to Irish Senate closure. “Close The Bar Not Our Senate.”)
(Just a thought, sure you never know, Mr Enda Kenny and Minister for Health Dr James Reilly could decide to lead by example, instead of their “Do as we say, not as we do,” current philosophy.)
Borrisoleigh Gathering Festival 2013 is all set to take place on October 4th, 5th & 6th 2013.
Borrisoleigh Festival Organising Committee Pictured Above
Back Row:- Nuala Ryan, Breda Ryan, Fiona Ryan (Joint Treasurers), Kathleen Scanlon, Fiona Max (Joint Secretary), Lisa Ryan, Phil Mason, Theresa Kiely, Derry O’Donnell (PRO).
Front Row:- Paddy Dolan (Joint Secretary), Declan Curtis, Michael Delaney, Joe Loughnane (Chairman), Sean Shanahan, Tony Murray, John Cummins.
Over the past several weeks a busy stream of volunteers have been beavering away on organising this annual festival which this year is sure to provide a wonderful opportunity for residents and visitors alike, while experiencing all that is great in Borrisoleigh, Thurles, Co.Tipperary.
Whether you are a current resident, a visitor from overseas or living in partial exile in another part of Ireland, you are guaranteed to have a fantastic time, while enjoying locally presented drama in the village hall, or music and dancing on the streets. Do bring the kids to the family fun day. Take a trip down memory lane with a historical walking tour of the town. Enjoy the wonderful views and fresh mountain air on a guided walk of the Devil’s Bit Mountain.
Meet Ireland’s Strongest Man – Test your ability to score a goal past Tipperary Goalkeeper Brendan Cummins – Try your hand at Sean Nós Dancing – View and purchase local craft products – Buy a large delicious sample of locally produced Tipperary food – Welcome back the hurling Team of 1963.
Events Calendar Over This October Borrisoleigh Weekend Festival
Friday 4th: – 8:00pm – Official opening of this festival by a very ‘special’ guest in Marian Hall.
followed by a Borrisoleigh Drama Group presentation – “Spreading the news” (A one-act truly comical play by Lady Gregory, which she first wrote for the opening night of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, on December 27th 1904.)
Saturday 5th: – 11:00am – A three hour walk on the Devils Bit Loop (Beautiful Scenery) or also at 11:00am – A Sean Nós Dancing work shop.
12:00pm – Craft Fair in Square
2:30pm – “Down Memory Lane” – Historical walk around the streets of Borrisoleigh.
8:30pm – Variety Concert in Village Square.
Sunday 6th: – 12:00pm-4:00pm – Busking Competition.
(Note: Musicians entering the busking competition can still register their intent by logging onto the festival website by clicking Here.)
1:00pm – Family Fun Day including bubble soccer, score goals past Brendan Cummins, Ireland’s strongest man display, Tug of war, Sheaf toss, BBQ and lots, lots more.
Local entertainment in Square and celebration honouring the Juvenile North Hurling Champions of 1963
For more information do visit borrisoleighfestival.com or join them on Facebook and Twitter.
Mother Nature badly let us down this year, well her and that interfering busybody and Chairman of the Road Safety Authority, Gay Byrne.
As a well respected Tipperary councillor, I feel it is my duty to remind you all that earlier this month Gay Byrne, accused the Government and in particular the Minister for Justice Alan Shatter, of having little or no interest in road safety. Mr Byrne said that the lack of emphasis on road safety by the Government in general had him downcast and completely depressed. He also said he believed that Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has about as much interest in road safety as Gay himself did in snipe shooting. Byrne said: “Last year was the most successful year in terms of fatalities but it looks like now, steadily before our eyes, all the gains we’ve made in the last six or seven years are being lost.”
Now Gay, while you might be the most famous of broadcasters in Irish history and have had more influence on changing life in this county, than certainly any of our Tipperary political leaders, road safety issues in this area are something you do not want to be getting involved in.
Understand Gay, due to those 15 days of dry weather back last July, Mother Nature, as she is normally wont to do, failed us miserably in hiding completely all our road signs from the public gaze this year. You must be familiar with the Shakespearian phrase “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” You see Gay if we were to make our road signs available to the public’s gaze; the next thing that would happen is an influx of those nosey tourists sniffing around.
Here in Thurles, thanks be to God, due to no proper Tourism funding, poor marketing and North Tipperary Tourism Company Ltd (NTTCL), we never have to worry about tourists, and it helps when we as councillors also do our bit in making it difficult to drive around, through the use of concealed and confusing road signs. You can see from one directional sign in our video above, we cut one kilometre out of the centre of North Tipperary County Councils measuring tape, in the hope that the extra 1km would prove just 1km to far for outsiders.
North Tipperary Tourism Company Ltd are helping also by printing a new brochure again this year. No one has told them about the Internet yet and they haven’t worked out that if no visitors actually come to Thurles, there is no one to pick up their poor quality publication. Certainly tour operators at junket trade shows are not interested in our humble offerings of Thurles “Home of Erin Foods,” latter which closed down some seven years ago. Ah yes we here as councillors manage to successfully confuse most of the more daring of our would be world wayfarers, by pretending we still have a factory called Erin Foods left in the town. I personally believe if its Bisto gravy, Oxo gravy or Campbell’s soup these people are looking for, let them find out the hard way, before moving on elsewhere, hopefully never to return.
Yes there are some misguided, easily led individuals who have been fooled into placing adverts on the Internet, but ask yourself Gay, without laughing, if you were looking for a good bed & breakfast near Thurles on the Internet, would you type into Google’s search engine the words “Cantata2.” or Bed & Breakfasts Thurles, in the hope of finding one?
Thank God for Section 46 of the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000, which gives the Irish government an excuse for failing to use a Slash Hook around our local road signs, all in the interest of wildlife Health & Safety, during the months from February to September. What further proof do we need, yes “you sure can fool all the people all of the time.”
Just a thought; has anyone read a manual recently, explaining the operational mechanics of a Slash Hook and is there a Health & Safety Course available I wonder?
P/S. I hope my party colleagues Noel Coonan & Allan Kelly don’t see this, as they Key Fob Out and skip home early on some Friday evening. No I don’t think they will, sure they haven’t been seen or certainly contributed anything to Thurles since they were both elected.
It gets harder for town Councillors, like myself, to attract media attention these days, what with Leader Funding, Arts Council Grants, Lottery Funds and other preferential government slush funds now totally depleted for another year. Now with the long summer vacation coming to an end, I find myself heading for bed unable to sleep, so great is my concern for the current state of the Irish nation.
 To add to this dilemma, the national installation of water meters, which began on August 9th last, at a cost to the tax payer of €539 million over the next three years, is now being forced on the Irish people by the Troika. I should point out the FineGael /Labour government, of which I remain a staunch advocate, is being forced into this unpardonable act, as indeed was attested to by the present Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government.
The Minister himself, despite threats by right-wing fundamentalists, came out of hiding briefly today to attend a press conference in Buswells Hotel, Dublin; his aim to publish his new 10 point manifesto on how to reduce domestic water charges.
In compiling his new manifesto entitled “Splashing Cold Water On Recession 2015 ,” the minister thanked his 25 personal civil service advisor’s, all who assisted him in assembling this new major initiative document, published hereunder, I am delighted to say, exclusively for those who elected me in the last local election.
Toilet Cleaning Instructions.
Save Irish Water Consumers Vast Teuro. (Teuro is a slang term thought up by our German EU overlords for Euro zone money and based on a play on the German word ‘teuer,’ latter meaning ‘expensive.’ Note also; words like “The brown envelope,” “dosh,” “loot,” “lolly,” “filthy Lucre,” “moolah,” “readies,” and “spondulicks” are now totally outdated and should no longer be used, by members loyal to the EU.)
Recommended Toilet Cleaning Initiative:
- Ensure lid of toilet is in the open/upward hinged position before adding 1/4 cup of standard pet shampoo to liquid already existing in base of standard toilet bowl.
- Choose and pick up one live cat (Variety Felis silvestris catus). If you are currently in mortgage arrears and therefore forbidden by your bank to buy cat food, borrow one of the ever increasing stray variety currently abandoned in your local community.
- Soothe this lithe-bodied, round-headed, fissiped, carnivorous mammal into a false sense of security by gentle stroking fur underneath chin, while you take him/her in transit towards one of the many en suit scented bathrooms, proudly displayed in your current pre 2008 Irish residence.
- In one swift, speedy movement, place the cat into the open toilet and with lightening speed close down lid. Note: It may be necessary to sit or stand on the said toilet lid, depending on age and strength of animal now incarcerated.
- In its playful attempts to escape, this trapped feline will automatically self agitate, thus making ample soapy suds. The noises that come from the toilet should be totally ignored, as the cat, contrary to common belief, is actually enjoying this rather unusual first time experience.
- When approx two minutes of time has elapsed, flush the toilet once. This provides a “power-wash” and “rinse” effect to both toilet and enclosed animal.
- Next have someone open the front door of your home, ensuring that there are no persons, particularly the elderly, disabled or underprivileged, positioned directly between your bathroom and the front door.
- It is now important that those entrusted to carry out this cleansing operation should stand behind the toilet as far back as physically possible, before quickly releasing their tight grasp on the lid.
- In most cases the cat will rocket out of the toilet, faster than an Irish serial paedophile rapist who has been released from Mountjoy jail after three days for good behaviour, having been previously adjudged incarcerated for ten years. Felis silvestris catus will streak from your bathroom, reaching speeds which would normally result in a fixed-charge fine of €80 and 2 penalty points on your driving licence, before then running outside where this animal, totally unperturbed by this incident, will quickly lick itself dry again.
- Both the toilet bowl (commode) and cat should remain sparkling clean for up to seven days, before this procedure will necessitate repetition.
The minister was quick to point out that this operation can bring about massive savings through the non purchase of further toilet brushes, while also saving up to 10 litres of your very valuable aqua.
When quizzed on issues in relation to possible cruelty to animals the minister stated he was not prepared to discuss problems which related to other ministers and their departments in government.
I was bathed in a lather of sweat, I can tell you, when I was awakened by the milk man making his early morning rounds. The wife blames that blue mouldy cheese which I continue to eat before bed, for my constant nocturnal dreams containing situations of danger, discomfort, psychological and physical terror, but you and I know it’s the heavy responsibility laid daily on my burdened shoulders, with regards to matters of state.
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