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I believe it was Winston Churchill who once said “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”.
 Thurles Tenor Michael Molumby This Christmas will be a change for most of us on previous years. Many more of us will be worse off financially and some will face the new year without any sight of secure future prospects, mainly brought about by the greed of others.
Being “less than,”and being poor, despite our reported progress in matters of education, carries a stigma. Modern capitalism has thought us to equate decency only with wealth and therefore indecency with poverty.
Those whose jobs allow, will continue their inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than they need or indeed deserve, in respect of material wealth. Most of us will plan Christmas around ourselves and close friends. A few of us, on the other hand, will be thankful for all the gifts we have, while trying to share what we can, of those gifts, with others. One such member of this few, sharing his gift for the benefit of others this Christmas, is local singer/tenor Michael Molumby.
Regarded as one of the finest Irish tenors in County Tipperary, building contractor Michael Molumby releases his first well overdue CD this coming week, Friday November 6th in the Premier Hall Thurles at 8:00pm, on the stage of a theatre he has graced so professionally and on so many occasion down through the years.
Michael Molumby’s tenor voice has enthralled huge audiences now for over three decades, through his performances with Thurles Care Group, Thurles Cathedral Choir, Clonmel and Kilkenny Musical Societies, John Player Tops and our own Thurles Musical Society.
Married to Maria, with two sons Declan and Diarmuid and daughter-in-law Jennifer, this new CD, entitled “Circling The Square”, has been an all family effort and its finality Michael admits took longer than expected. Here we bring you just a random taste of Michael’s wonderful voice, singing the all time favourite ‘Moon River’.
[audio:http://www.thurles.info/music/track2.mp3|titles=Moon River|artists=Michael Molumby]
The title of this CD “Circling the Square” is taken from a book ‘Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams’ by Thurles author Denis O’Driscoll, Mill Road, Thurles.
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Colcannon, translated from the Irish words cál ceannann, meaning “white headed cabbage” is a traditional Thurles dish made from mashed potatoes and cabbage. It is interesting to note that in Holland a similar dish exists called ‘Stamppot Boerenkol’ made from potatoes and kale mashed together.
Irish people will eat this very traditional Irish dish over the Halloween three-day bank holiday weekend that coincides with the ancient Celtic harvest festival of Samhain (pronounced “sowan”). So popular is colcannon that a song was written about it, sung here by popular Tipperary singer Nora Fogarty in true Irish Sean-Nós (old style) style and which can be found on her current album ” One Star Awake”
[audio:http://www.thurles.info/music/norafogartytrack07.mp3|titles=Colcannon|artists=Nora Fogarty]
Ingredients:
 2.5 lbs of floury potatoes
1 small head of green cabbage
Note: In Ireland Stinging Nettles were used in early Spring when cabbage was scarce. Stinging Nettle are both nutritious and delicious having a flavour similar to spinach when cooked and are rich in vitamins A, C, D, iron, potassium, manganese and calcium.
1 cup milk
1/2 stick butter
Salt and pepper to taste.
One finely chopped green onion can also be added for taste, but not essential.
Method:
1. Scrub potatoes and leave skins on. Place in cold water with a generous pinch of salt, cover and bring to a boil.
2. When the potatoes are about half cooked, which takes approximately 15 minutes, strain off two thirds of the water. Then replace the lid and allow the potatoes to steam until they are cooked using a gentler heat.
3. Discard the outer dark outer leaves of the cabbage. Wash the rest and cut into quarters; remove the centre core and slice finely across the grain.
Cook in a little boiling salted water until soft. Drain, then season with salt and pepper and add the butter.
4. When the potatoes are fully cooked, put the cup of milk into saucepan and bring to the boil. At this stage add your green onion if you so wish. Peel the skins off the potatoes, mash quickly and beat in enough of the hot milk and onion to make a fluffy purée.
5. Stir in the cooked cabbage and taste for seasoning.
6. Serve on a hot dish and make a well in the center to add butter additional butter.
Note: Colcannon at Halloween used to contain a plain gold ring, a sixpence, a thimble or button. Finding the ring meant marriage within the year for the person who found it, the sixpence meant wealth, the thimble spinsterhood and the button bachelorhood. Today, however many Irish mother’s simply wrap one or two large washed coins in heat-proof paper and hide them in the dish.
  How do you follow up on over ten years of amazing musical memories? How? Just how do they do it?
Memories are something that we all depend on, they are something that give us a sense of being, a sense of existence, a reason to keep going. Ten years of Phoenix musical memories culminated in last year’s Seasons of Love anniversary gala concert, a concert that all of those who were involved will surely never forget.
So where do Phoenix Productions go next? How do you start your second decade in any relationship, let alone with one which is so entwined and matted into the mental thatch of an entire town’s youth culture?
Seasons of Love was an emotional, intimate and cathartic rough biography of the first ten years of the Phoenix experience. Those gala performances closed the book on their first decade together and it is the memories of that gala which will smooth the edges of every page in that book.
August 4th they begin a new book and open the second sequel so that they can pen that difficult new first chapter. So here we go………
……(typewriter sounds)…….CHAPTER 1……..…..Phoenix Productions – Decade 2 ………… HOT MIKADO…………
The Hot Mikado takes place August 4th to the 8th inc in the Premier Hall Thurles Co. Tipperary.
Tickets available from boxoffice@sourcearts.ie or phone 0504 90204.
Opening night proceeds will be donated to North Tipperary Hospice movement .
 ‘Das Riiiight’, the popular Thurles born, Tipperary comedian Pat Shortt will appear in the main auditorium of the National Concert Hall this coming October.
Irish comic actor Pat will play Herod in a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s Jesus Christ Superstar.
Joining him in concert are Steve Balsamo, who starred as Jesus in the London West End Revival production at The Lyceum, Irish West End Stars Jacinta Whyte, David Shannon and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Steve Balsamo will play Jesus Christ, David Shannon will play Judas while the part of Mary Magdalene falls to Jacinta Whyte.
Originally released in 1970 as an album before becoming the hit Broadway and West End show, Jesus Christ Superstar, a rock opera, chronicles the last seven years of Jesus’ life as seen through his apostles.
An amateur production of Jesus Christ Superstar, performed by members of Thurles Musical Society , recently played for five nights to packed houses here in Thurles.
Pat Shortt fans should mark their calenders as follows:
Date: October 28th 2009
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: National Concert Hall, Dublin – MAIN AUDITORIUM
 IARNROD Éireann are to run special return train services for the U2 concerts in Croke Park Stadium, Dublin, this coming weekend.
Fans will be able to avoid the expense of staying overnight in Dublin or having the hassle of delays and parking associated by driving, and can avail of these special return services from Heuston Station after each of the concerts.
U2 Fans Can Book Online
U2 fans can book online at www.irishrail.ie to avail of these online fares.
The concerts are timed to finish around 11pm each evening and the train service, travelling to both Limerick and Cork, are at scheduled to leave Dublin at 1.00 am.
Luas services will be in operation to take all U2 fans from the city centre to Heuston station.
The return service, with a change at Thurles, Co.Tipperary, for Limerick, is due to arrive back in Limerick at 3.20am.
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