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 Liberty Square Thurles A little good news for the future of Thurles today, with the town to be listed for a Primary Care Centre, in the Government’s new €2.25bn National Infrastructure Stimulus Package, which is expected to be announced this afternoon. Nationally in the health sector, in total 20 primary care centres will be built, with procurement beginning before the end of next year and construction starting in 2014. (Well that is if we all have’nt emigrated by then.)
This Infrastructure Stimulus Package, is expected to be announced nationally later today by An Taoiseach, An Tánaiste and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, and is expected to includes details of significant national investment in schools, primary care centres and roads.
It is hoped in the longer term that this package will assist in stimulating job creation and restore confidence. This primary care centre in Thurles is expected to provide at least some extra work in the construction sector.
This Infrastructure Stimulus Package is expected to see the delivery of the N17/N18 Gort to Tuam road, the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy and the N25 New Ross bypass. (Nice one Brendan Howlin, your Labour seat is safe.) Twelve years on, the badly needed Thurles bypass is not expected to feature, yet again.
IBEC have said that any announcement by Government of funding for infrastructure projects would be an important first step in helping to restore domestic demand in the Irish economy. The group also said that the importance of Public Private Partnership in this package also highlights the significant improvement in how international investors see Ireland’s growth prospects.
Clonmel and Carrick on Suir Co Tipperary are also expected to benefit, with Carrick on Suir to benefit from a new building for Comeragh College.
North Tipperary’s Mayoral acceptance speech (Find hereunder) by Councillor Michael O’Meara, during the Annual Meeting of North Tipperary County Council, which took place here in Thurles on Monday last, June 25th 2012 at St. Patrick’s College.
“Fellow Councillors, County Manager and Executive, Family members. It is a great honour for me to be elected as mayor of North Tipperary. I look forward to working with you all during the coming year for the good of the communities of North Tipperary. I would like to thank my proposer Cllr John Rocky Mcgrath and my seconder Cllr Virginia O Dowd and thank the members for their trust and support in me, to hold this office. At this point I would like to also pay tribute to Cllr Micheal Lowry for his hard work and commitment to the office during the past year.
At this present time in North Tipperary we are going through huge social, economic and geographical changes. Never more since the foundation of the state are Families, Households and Businesses going through such financial and social upheaval than they are at this time. On a daily basis, we as local representatives know only too well the enormous stress that people are suffering, through loss of income, unemployment and emigration. It is quite evident that parents with young families are struggling to meet mortgage repayments and provide a basic standard of living to their children. Property owners are facing household water and sewerage charges and are uncertain as to what other financial burdens will be forced on them into the future. Young adults once more face the prospect of emigration or exorbitant college fees and poor job prospects in the near future. Farmers and rural dwellers face draconian measures and regulations handed down from the EU and National Government which will have a devastating effect on rural life in the future.
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 The Annual Meeting of North Tipperary County Council took place here in Thurles on Monday last, June 25th 2012. The venue as usual was St. Patrick’s College.
Following this meeting Councillor Michael O’Meara was deemed elected as Mayor of North Tipperary for 2012/2013. Councillor O’Meara, (Non-Party) who hails from Lorrha, was elected unopposed.
Councillor Pauline Coonan was elected as Deputy Mayor.
Councillor O’Meara takes over the position of Mayor from outgoing Councillor Micheál Lowry. Mayor O’Meara is married with three children.
In February of this year Councillor O’Meara expressed an open mind regarding the pumping of water from Lough Derg to Dublin. Instead calling for an independent environmental impact assessment by some organisation, other than Dublin City Council. He also then supported the idea of a “Rates Base,” in supplying any future water to Dublin, believing that North Tipperary County Council should be paid an annual fee by Dublin City Council for the use of any future water supplied from Lough Derg.
In April of this year Councillor O’Meara chaired a meeting in Lorrha, held by the Redwood Bog Turf Bank Owners, and urged those assembled to enter their submissions speedily to the Peatland’s Council before the due closing date. Redwood Bog, close to the village of Lorrha, is one of some 55 raised Irish bogs on which turf cutting is now banned, constituting “Special Areas of Conservation,” under present EU law.
Photo courtesy G.Willoughby
 Jimmy Deenihan The Minister for Arts, Heritage & Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan will turn the sod on the Moyne Community Hall project, here in County Tipperary this evening (17th June) at around 7.00 pm.
This local project involves building a new extension to Moyne Community Hall and the reconstruction of the old existing building including it’s re-roofing.
The Arts Minister is currently leading other Oireachtas members on a walk on the Galtee mountains in Co. Tipperary today. This year’s “Houses of the Oireachtas Hill Walk,” got underway from the Glen of Aherlow at around midday, with the event raising money for a charity supporting Crumlin Children’s Hospital.
 Thurles Hospital Action Group protest on the morning of An Taoiseach Enda Kenny's visit to Thurles Tipperary In a press release received by the Thurles Information Website this morning, the Community Hospital of The Assumption Action Group have requested their right to address what they see as the many misconceptions, now in the public arena, regarding the number of bed units which are to be reopened at the stated hospital.
Hospital Action Group’s Press Release
“The loss of 22 beds in the Community Hospital of The Assumption last September was a devastating blow to our community and was totally out of proportion with the treatment meted out to other community hospitals here in the Western H.S.E. area. The Community Hospital of the Assumption Action Group were formed following this, with the intention of addressing this anomaly. A meeting was held with the Minister for Health on 9th Nov. 2011, in the presence of officials from his department and our elected T.D.’s for North Tipperary.
At this meeting we were informed that the Minister was working off the 2011 budget, brought in by the previous government and that when the 2012 budget came into effect, with some reconfiguration, the 22 beds would be restored by 31st January 2012. In the unlikely event that this did not come about, he would meet the delegation again.
Having made no progress, nor having had any meaningful correspondence with his department, a second meeting was arranged for 18th April 2012. This meeting was held with the minister, officials from his department, and officials from the H.S.E. West, included the 3 North Tipperary T.D.’s.
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