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While many people attended St Patrick Day festivities and various planned parades around the country, few realise that the Irish 2011 festival day was also celebrated in space during Expedition 27 aboard the International Space Station, as this video demonstrates.
A very Happy St Patrick’s Day to you the very beautiful NASA Austronaut and Flight Engineer, Catherine “Cady” Coleman,Ph.D. (Colonel, USAF, RET.) from all here in Co Tipperary.
To You Catherine, may you have always:-
A world of wishes at your command, God and his angels close at hand. Friends and family their love impart, and Irish blessings in you heart.
A reminder of course that the Thurles festival parade will take place on Sunday next In Liberty Square here in the town.
Music will be provided, on the band-stand in Liberty Square, by ‘The Moynihan Brothers,’ from 2.00pm to 3.00pm, and immediately after the Parade. This group is being sponsored by ‘The Club for Dancing ‘. There will be a dance in The Premier Ballroom from 9.00pm to 12.00 midnight to the music of ‘Patrick O’Sullivan‘. Additional entertainment in Liberty Square, from 2.00pm, include stilt walkers, jugglers, face painters, balloon modellers, comedy etc.
The Parade And Fancy Dress.
This year there is a prize fund of up to €3,000 and a grant of up to €300 is available for any group entering a large float in the parade. Prizes include Cash, Cups, Trophies, Plaques, Shields, Crystal trophies, Ladies watch, Sony Walkman,750 Medals and lots of other prizes. Everyone is invited to take part.
 The International Space Station (ISS) is making several passes over Ireland for the next few days. There has already been some spectacular passes and the reason is that the Space Shuttle Discovery is up there with the ISS at the moment. This means that the space station fly-overs will be brighter than usual.
If you want to catch the ISS flying overhead Tipperary, you can check this list below;
Thursday March 3rd 2011
The ISS – Discovery will rise at 07:10:15pm from the West. Max elevation will be 66° and will have a magnitude of -3.8 (very bright)
Friday March 4th 2011
The ISS – Discovery will rise at 07:36:13pm from the West. Max elevation will be 44° and will have a magnitude of -3.1 (very bright)
Saturday March 5th 2011
The ISS – Discovery will rise at 06:28:12pm from the West. Max elevation will be 64° and will have a magnitude of -3.7 (very bright)
Sunday March 6th 2011
The ISS – Discovery will rise at 06:52:40pm from the West. Max elevation will be 42° and will have a magnitude of -3.0 (very bright)
We’ve been lucky with weather this week so far, and hopefully clear skies will stay around for a few more days.
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 Many people in Thurles are finding that their UPC Broadband and Phone service has become unreliable lately. We have received several complaints from people experiencing broadband connection difficulties within the last few days. Just last Sunday, 13th Feb 2011, UPC customers in Thurles had no broadband at all, for almost half a day. More worryingly, some people have noted that when their UPC broadband goes down, they also lose their telephone connection if they had signed up for UPC’s Broadband & Phone package.
Several people have noted that broadband service drop-outs and slow connection speeds have occurred on and off for several months now. Something definitely has occurred to cause this and the situation does not seem to be getting fixed in the Thurles area. As a ‘Technology Town’ we feel we deserve better service from UPC than we are currently getting. We would like Your help to highlight the problem!
To help we would like fellow UPC customers in Thurles to do a simple Broadband Speed Test (link opens in a new window) and post your results here for comparison. To start the Speed Test simply click the yellow star, the test should only take a few seconds to complete. To post your results, simply click the “Leave A Comment” link below and enter your results. To best compare results from around Thurles we would like you to include 3 simple pieces of information;
- Your Current Broadband Package (e.g. 10Mb, 20Mb or 30Mb package),
- Your Actual Download result from the Broadband Speed Test page ( feel free to include the Upload Result too, if you like )
- The Ping Result (e.g. 40 milliseconds)
The more advanced users can also include a picture of their results by clicking the ‘Copy Direct Link’ on Speedtest.Net, then clicking the ‘add images to your comment’ link on Thurles.Info (Positioned just above submit comment button). Then paste the link into the pop-up box. The picture will then appear in the “Leave A Comment” box when submitted.
It will be interesting to see results from around Thurles and perhaps by participating in this we can look forward to better service from UPC in the near future. It is the 21st Century, after all!
 PJ Hough. Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Programme Management Next time you open your Microsoft Office, on your PC or Laptop, here in Co Tipperary or elsewhere, know that a Tipperary native is playing a significant role in the future shaping of the device you are about to use.
PJ Hough, a 47 year old Borrisokane Co.Tipperary native (Lived close to President Barack Obama’s ancestral home) is the Corporate Vice President of Programme Management for the Microsoft Office Group at the Seattle software giant’s HQ.
Following the Microsoft Office 2010 launch in June last year, Microsoft estimated there were about one billion copies, including pirated versions, of the companies state of the art software installed globally.
Microsoft’s profits have grown considerably, with an estimated €4 billion accounting for just the last financial quarter and with Hough at the helm since 1994.
Hough was attending the Borrisokane Vocational School in the 1980s, during a time when unemployment levels in Ireland were edging towards 15 per cent. Hough recalls: “There was an Apple 2 computer in the Vocational school in Borrisokane at the time, but none of the teachers had been trained how to use it and I remember saving pocket money to go to Eason’s in Limerick to buy a book on how to programme it.”
Now with an interest in computers, Hough signed up to a Bachelor degree, followed by a Masters in Computer Applications at, what is now known as, Dublin City University (DCU) and graduated in 1986. After college he joined the Digital Equipment Corporation in Galway, where he stayed for the next eight years, involved in a variety of engineering and consulting roles.
Close to 30 years old, Hough applied for a Donnelly Visa, to gain access to the United States and on being successful, he applied to join Microsoft, in Redmond in Washington State in 1994.
Hough focused primarily on Office programmability and Microsoft Access where, after seven years in program management, he went on to join the Microsoft Office product planning team, based here in Ireland.
In 2003, Hough returned to Redmond to lead the Windows SharePoint Services team, where he was the group program manager, three years later he joined the Office Shared team in 2006.
A regular visitor to Ireland, Mr Hough currently lives in North Bend, Washington, with his wife and daughter.
 Bowe Travel, Friar Street, Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Bowe Travel, Friar Street , Thurles Co. Tipperary have signed up with Amadeus, a leading travel technology partner and transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry.
Amadeus, thanks to its continued investment in IT and Research and Development, is able to offer state-of-the-art sales and reservations solutions to equip its business and leisure travel agency partners with a constantly evolving technology toolkit. Whether it is personal service and expert advice, the best fares, or a combination of the two; Amadeus is enabling the continued success of a growing number of travel professionals throughout Ireland.
Michael Bowe, Manager and proprietor of one of Ireland’s oldest and most respected travel agencies, who have been serving the travel industry since 1906 stated: “You don’t succeed in business as long as we have, without being able to adapt. And that’s what I like about Amadeus. It has adapted its solutions from point and click technology, which it was first to introduce to Ireland, to the latest easy-to-use, web based booking solutions which require virtually no training. Together with its local team of technology experts, I’m confident that we’ve made the right choice in selecting Amadeus as our technology partner to help us to build upon our reputation for excellence.”
Bowe Travel’s success in the ever changing modern day travel market, however, can not simply be explained just as using the right technology, it’s greatest success can be observed in its day to day management, willingness to compete and it’s unique ability to provide a full-time workforce which is versatile, highly trained and extremely qualified.
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