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 It appears the number of people arrested for public order offenses around Tipperary seems to be on the increase, according to information posted on the TippFM website. More than 20 arrests were made for offences in recent days, with the largest number of offences taking place in Nenagh where 8 people were arrested.
The following is a list of towns and the number of people arrested in recent days;
- Nenagh – 8 people were arrested
- Clonmel – 5 people were arrested
- Thurles – 4 people were arrested
- Tipperary Town – 2 people were arrested
- Templemore – 1 person was arrested
The exact details of the arrests made in Thurles is unclear at the moment, but if you would like to know more about what constitutes a public order offence, the Citizen’s Information website provides a useful page about Public Order Offences and Powers of Arrest.
 Ardscoil na mBraithre the CBS High School, in Clonmel has successfully appealed against an earlier Equality Tribunal finding, which ruled that the school indirectly discriminated against members of the Travelling Community and others when it refused a Traveller child admission.
The school had argued that their actions did not constitute discrimination, because 83 other children from the locality had also been refused admission, due to their parents having not attended this same establishment.
Judge Thomas Teehan allowed the appeal against the decision of the Equality Tribunal, that it should offer John Stokes a place and also their direction for the school to review its current admission policy, thus ensuring that in future it did not indirectly discriminate against any child of the state.
Thirteen year old John Stokes, through his mother Mary Stokes, latter instructed by the Irish Traveller Movement Independent Law Centre, first lodged a complaint against the Clonmel school based on the grounds that the school had breached the Equal Status Act 2000.
John Stokes had applied in November 2009 to attend the CBS School, having attended a local primary school in Clonmel town. However there were 174 student applications applying for just 140 places available, at this educational facility, at that time.
The school selected pupils on the basis of an agreed admission policy and based on three criteria:-
(1) The students father or another older sibling had previously attended the school.
(2) He was Roman Catholic.
(3) He had attended a primary school in the locality.
While John Stokes met the last two criteria of the school boards criteria, John Stokes was the eldest boy in his family, and his father had never attended the school in question.
The student, through his family, had unsuccessfully appealed this initial refusal by the school, to the Department of Education, and failing here, had appealed to the Equality Tribunal, on the grounds that requiring a parent to have previously attended the school, disproportionately affected the rights of the Irish Travelling Community and others.
Judge Teehan said that he was satisfied that the parental rule was discriminatory against Travellers and indeed others, whose parents were unlikely to have had the opportunity of attending this school previously. However, it fell to the school to demonstrate that its admissions policy could be fairly justified, and he found that supporting family ethos within education had amounted to a legitimate aim by the school.
Judge Teehan also found that the policy was appropriate in a case where numbers of students applying, exceeded available existing places. This parental rule, by the school, assisted in striking a fair balance between academic results and admissions, based on these exceptional circumstances.
He further noted that the CBS School had highlighted the importance of ties between their school and their past pupils in terms of meeting funding shortfalls and therefore this parental rule was necessary in creating a balanced and a proportionate admissions policy.
The school was therefore within its legal rights to reject a student because his father was not a past pupil.
Gardaí in North Tipperary and Offaly have warned parents to be extremly vigilant, following the attempted abduction last night of a 13-year-old girl, near the town of Ferbane, Birr, Co.Offaly.
Superintendents in both counties are said to be extremely concerned about this particular incident and are using this opportunity to create greater public awareness of such dangers, considering the fact that all children are currently enjoying school holidays and are possibly therefore subject to greater unsupervised public freedom than is usual.
Parents in the area are warned that they should be aware of their children’s whereabouts at all times, and children should communicate to their parents, if they decide to change already conveyed planned destinations.
The 13 year old teenage girl is understood to have been cycling to the home of a friend, close to Moyclare in Ferbane, at approximately 8.30pm last night when a white van, described as similar to a van used by An Post, pulled up alongside her. The driver, understood to be a male, then attempted to pull her into the vehicle. Following a struggle, the girl escaped, sustaining some minor injuries, before running to a neighbouring house to raise the alarm.
The man being sought by Gardaí is described as being middle aged, low in stature, with dark hair and wearing glasses.
Gardaí are actively appealing for witnesses or any other information the public may have on the movements of the driver and the white van involved in this assault. Anyone operating security CC TV anywhere in this area are asked to check their system, with a view to identifying the movement of white coloured vans.
Gardaí also confirm that they are following a number of lines of inquiry at this time.
 Nenagh Courthouse There has been angry vocal reaction to the decision by the Irish Courts Service to close both local Courthouses in the Tipperary towns of Roscrea and Borrisokane.
Under these new proposals, from next January, both town’s local court sittings would be transferred to the upgraded accommodation presently provided by Nenagh courthouse, which just 32km from Roscrea and 16km from Borrisokane.
Presently there are no consultation rooms or cells in Roscrea or Borrisokane, with security, facilities for legal practitioners, defendants, witnesses, victims of crime and the public, at well below modern requirement standards.
The Courts Service, in a statement, also explain that at present private business is being conducted on corridors and security remains an serious issue. The proximity of Borrisokane and Roscrea to Nenagh, together with the low frequency of court sittings, and therefore small annual case loads, in both towns, make it logical to transfer court business to the larger town.
Roscrea’s legal community are set to meet to discuss the issue this week, however, in our current financial climate there is little prospect of being able to improve facilities in Roscrea or Borrisokane, bringing them up to the standard which users are now entitled to expect.
While most local anger is being expressed by Solicitors and the business community in these areas, many residents feel that both communities would now be better served seeking more profitable alternative uses for these structures, which have changed little since first constructed back to the 1800’s.
The body of a 53-year-old man has been recovered from a house fire in Co Tipperary early this morning. Two women, also occupants of the house, escaped from the blaze.
An alarm was raised shortly before 2.00 this morning, when flames were spotted emanating from a private residence at Grange Road in Ballina. Fire fighters and Gardai were quickly on the scene and the remains of a male resident was later recovered and removed to the mortuary at Limerick Regional Hospital.
The Office of the State Pathologist has been notified, and a post mortem is expected to take place later today.
Gardai believe the male victim was overcome by smoke and got trapped inside the burning dwelling. Gardai in Killaloe are investigating all circumstances surrounding the fatal fire and the scene is currently preserved until a technical examination is fully complete.
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