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 Thurles Race Course Horse Racing Ireland has announced that there will be a replacement National Hunt meeting at Thurles on Friday, 15 January next.
This means there will now be a two-day meeting at Thurles on Thursday14th and Friday15th. However due to the recent inclement weather and the current state of the ground at Thurles, Horse Racing Ireland have rearranged the programme of races for this two day meeting to read as follows:
The meeting on Thursday, 14th January will comprise a Seven Race Programme of which six races will be hurdle races and one race will be a bumper.
The meeting on Friday, 15th January will be a Six Race Programme consisting solely of six steeplechases.
Trainers are strongly advised that both of these meetings will close for entries by 12.00 noon on Monday next, January 11th and any entries already made must be repeated, using the new meeting numbers and letters that will be published on RAS/Minitel in due course.
Thurles Race Course The prospects for horse racing at Thurles on Thursday next were described as ” extremely doubtful ” by racecourse manager Mr Pierce Molony this afternoon.
With Sunday’s meeting at Naas now cancelled due to snow, Thurles is the next scheduled meeting in Ireland.
However, Mr Molony stated:
“We are unraceable presently due to frost. It got as low as -11C here in Thurles last night and we are -4C this afternoon. The very cold weather is due to continue through the week and I would have to say the Thursday’s meeting is very doubtful, unless the weather changes dramatically.”
Source Racing Post
 Mayor Scott Manjak joined Gaelic Athletic Association members in remembering Patrick Ryan recently in Cranbrook . Ninety-one years after his death, Joseph Patrick Ryan, a son of Ireland who greatly contributed to the early development of Cranbrook and British Columbia, was honoured recently as one of the last of the seven original founders of the Gaelic Athletic Association (November 1, 1884 in Hayes Hotel, Thurles, Tipperary) by the Canadian County Board.
Ryan was remembered at a beautiful and moving mass in St. Mary’s Church with Father Harry Clarke celebrating. The President of the Canadian GAA, Brian Farmer, spoke passionately about the role of the GAA at the end of Mass and the importance to Canada that one of the Founders would be forever remembered.
The North American Board (GAA) was represented by Eamonn Kelly (PRO) Chicago and many Irish Canadians in the Cranbrook area were on hand with representation from a number of counties including Antrim, Armagh, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Derry, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Limerick, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Sligo, Tipperary and Westmeath.
As the last event of the GAA’s 125th anniversary year, GAA members from Ireland, Seattle, Vancouver, Red Deer and Toronto gathered for the seventh founding member.
It was edifying to see the interest and pride on display for a true Son of Erin buried in a foreign land and for one who contributed in establishing the greatest amateur sporting organization in the world.
Wreath laying ceremonies conducted at Ryan’s grave included Clonmore, Armagh’s Brian Farmer of the Canadian Board, Eamonn Kelly of the North American Board, John Keane
(Honourary Irish Counsel in Seattle) with Loughgiel, Antrim’s Paul McGarry of the Seattle Gaels and Cranbrook’s Mayor Scott Manjak .
Ryan’s grave was surrounded on Dec. 18 by the GAA’s 125 anniversary flag and those of Ireland, Canada, USA and British Columbia. Those gathered in the snowy cemetery sang three national anthems with due dignity. A brass plaque was attached to the grave that remembered the events of this auspicious day for the GAA in Canada and for acknowledging the place of Ryan in GAA history. Terry and Hilary Segarty, who organized the day at the local level and the Knights of Columbus, who are celebrating 125 years in Cranbrook, acted as honour guards.
Story courtesy Kootenay Advertiser
An Taisce has raised objections to what it calls a “Las Vegas-style” Casino, plans for which were recently announced for the village of Two-Mile-Borris, Thurles, Co Tipperary at the Horse and Jockey Hotel.
 Model of planned Two-Mile-Borris Casino An Taisce, through it’s heritage officer, Mr Ian Lumley, suggests that the plan is based on a “Failed International Development model” and who has written to North Tipperary County Council objecting to the plan .
The developer, Mr Richard Quirke, who is a former garda and who presently runs the ‘Dr Quirkey’s Good Time Emporium’ a gaming hall on O’Connell Street, in Dublin, has sought planning permission for this €460 million project calling it ‘The Tipperary Venue’.
Mr Quirke is understood to have the support of Coolmore Stud, Co Tipperary and Tipperary’s leading horse trainer Aidan O’Brien.
An Taisce has taken issue with Mr Aidan O’Brien’s belief that this project would greatly benefit the Irish exchequer and the general economy as a whole, by attracting high-rolling people who fly from country to country.
An Taisce believe that tourism based on long-haul air trips and short stays in Ireland is doomed to failure and claims that the the 26 existing racecourses in Ireland represent the highest, per capita, ratio of racecourses in the world, adding that if there is an argument for providing another indoor racing track, then this should be created at an existing venue.
The sustainability of such a proposal, states An Taisce, is undermined by the proposed provision of 8,000 car-parking spaces now planned and the greater use of helicopters, which would lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions.
North Tipperary County Council is due to issue a decision in the coming weeks, however, a delay is possible, if a request for further planning information is sought.
 As was expected, a motion which proposed that video referees should be introduced for Inter-County Championship GAA games, was carried at Monday night’s Tipperary County Convention, held in Thurles.
The motion, tabled by the Fr. Sheehy‘s GAA club, which is the club of County Chairman Barry O’Brien, was carried by 75 votes to 39 and will now go for discussion to next year’s annual Congress to be held in Newcastle, Co. Down.
The motion proposes that two video referees in future be appointed for all Inter-County Senior Championship games, from provincial final level to the All-Ireland finals. This would allow the match referee to consult with them on all contentious issues arising.
Chairman Barry O’Brien had promised to bring this motion to convention, following Kilkenny’s controversial penalty in the Tipperary /Kilkenny All-Ireland hurling final, which saw Tipperary defeated by Brian Cody‘s Kilkenny side last September.
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