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Visitors to the Shannon Region this Summer are invited to enter their holiday snaps in a competition with the chance to win a whopping €1,000 cash prize! So, dust those camera’s down and start snapping! Take a photo of what you discover while on holiday this Summer in the wild and magnificent Shannon Region and email it to SummerSnaps@ShannonDevelopment.ie or Visit www.shortbreaksireland.ie/photo_competition.pdf for full competition details.
Question: Where is the Shannon Region?
Answer: The Shannon Region of Ireland consists of counties CLARE, LIMERICK, NORTH TIPPERARY and SOUTH OFFALY
The competition will run until September 15th 2009 and the winner will be contacted by email before September 30th 2009.
Shannon Development reserve the right to use any photographs submitted for the Summer Snaps competition for future promotion of the region. Photographs submitted  for this competition must be taken in the Shannon Region and a good idea would be to attach a short note detailing how, where and when your photo was taken.
A selection of your photographs will feature later on www.ShortBreaksIreland.ie from approximately October 1st, 2009.
Helpful Tip: Visit North Tipperary and discover a real hidden Ireland. Surprisingly few photo’s appear to exist, capturing this area’s sheer natural beauty, history, architecture and magnificent landscapes.
All you camera clubs out there, why not take, what could be a very financial rewarding break. Why not contact us on our home page, we may be able to help you organise a cheap trip.
Note: Competition excludes all employees of Shannon Development and their immediate family members.
The wedding took place on Saturday afternoon last, March 14th, in beautiful warm sunshine, of Miss Joanne Kennedy, Borrisoleigh, Co.Tipperary and Mr George Grogan, Thurles, Co.Tipperary.
The wedding ceremony took place before a large attendance in the picturesque village Church of the Sacred Heart, in Borrisoleigh and was presided over by local priest, family friend and chief celebrant Fr. Michael Barry CC.
Following the ceremony, the happy couple received their guests at a lavish reception in the Anner Hotel, Thurles, Co.Tipperary. Following the celebrations, the new Mr and Mrs Grogan quietly slipped away to enjoy their honeymoon.
Joanne and George will spend their honeymoon in eastern North Africa along the lower reaches of the River Nile, better known as Egypt.
A video recording of the days events were undertaken by top videographer Pat Corbett
Congratulations and best wishes for a long and happy life together from all your friends in Thurles and Borrisoleigh.
Tipperary couple, Lorraine Ryan and David Quinlan choose Valentine’s Day to publically declare their love for each other, in front of a large gathering of family and friends in the historic Abbey of Holycross, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
Viewers would be forgiven for believing this photograph was taken in Switzerland or in some other European ski resort. However the mountain peaks visible at the rear of this picture are the beautiful Galtee Mountains, visible from Aherlow, Co.Tipperary.
Couple later entertained their guests to a banquet at the Aherlow House Hotel, staying overnight in one of the adjoining, four star deluxe, lodges situated within this hotels magnificent wooded grounds.
The couple spent a few days partying with friends before going on honeymoon to a secret, yet much warmer location.
Lorraine and David, thank you for a lovely day and everyone here in Tipperary sends you their love and best wishes for the future.
 Tipperary beauty Marie Costello and well known Tipperary GAA star Philip Maher are pictured here, following their recent wedding at the Church of St Laurence O’Toole, Inch, Thurles, Co.Tipperary.
Following their wedding ceremony, the happy couple entertained their guests to a reception in the historic and magnificent Georgian setting of Inch Country House, situated at Bouladuff, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
Couple remained with family and friends over the festive season before flying out to the USA on honeymoon on St. Stephen’s Day.
All in Tipperary send their best wishes to you both for a happy and prosperous life together.
Eight-year-old Laura Virginia O’Hanlon Douglas, from 115 West Ninety Fifth Street, Manhatton New York, wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, in 1897, asking this same question.
She wrote:
Dear Editor:
I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, ‘If you see it in The Sun it’s so.’
Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
Signed : VIRGINIA O’HANLON.
Her answer came from 58 year old war correspondent (American Civil War) and newspaper man Francis Pharcellus Church.
“Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not  believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be, which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood”.
Any person in Thurles doubting the existence of Santa Claus need only take a close look at the picture displayed on this post. This photo was taken just last night as North Tipperary Council workers put the finishing touches to our street lighting in time for Christmas. Just before the shutter closed on our photographers camera a small shadow briefly passed over the moon. Looks like Santa was on a test run getting ready for his visit to the Thurles Christmas Street Party. Remember photographs never lie.
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