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 The driver of a motorcycle has been killed in a collision here in Co Tipperary.
The male, believed to be in his 20s, died after his motorcycle collided with a motor vehicle on the N65 Portumna Road, at a junction near Killeen on the outskirts of Borrisokane.
The collision is understood to have been at around 12.30pm this afternoon.The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the accident scene and his body was removed to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick, while the driver of the car is reported as uninjured in the collision.
The road was closed earlier for a forensic examination but has since re-opened. However Gardaí have appealed to the public for any witnesses to this collision to contact Borrisokane Garda Station Tel: 067-27101, or the Garda Confidential Telephone Line Tel: 1800 666 111 or indeed any Garda Station.
Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam dílis.
 Pedestrian safety barriers at the junction of Slievenamon Road & Liberty Square Thurles were badly damaged in the early hours of this morning. The accident is believed to have been caused by an articulated vehicle having manoeuvred the corner at this junction, a little short of turning space.
Thurles Gardaí are anxious to talk to persons who may have witnessed this accident or who have any information regarding the vehicle involved. Same can be contacted at Telephone No.0504-25100
This is the third time, in just over one year, that these barriers have been severely damaged by large vehicles attempting to manoeuvre around this particular junction.
Perhaps there is now a need for our Roads Authority to examine the current design of these existing barriers in the interests of health and safety. Luckily all three accident have happened at night or in the early hours of the morning, when pedestrians, for whom these barriers were introduced to protect, were absent from our pavements.
This happening now further highlights the urgent need for a ring road, to eradicate large transport vehicles forced to access the centre of Thurles, same which continue to stem the flow of normal traffic within the centre of our Cathedral town.
Photo courtesy G.Willoughby.
Notice has been given by North Tipperary County Council of their intention to close the following roads to facilitate new water main installations.
The roads named are as follows:
The L4123 at Bohernacrusha to Raheen, Thurles. Period of Closure: From 12th November to 21st December 2012 (All dates inclusive).
The L4127 at Farney, Ballycahill, Thurles. Period of Closure: From 12th November to 24th November 2012 (All dates inclusive).
Alternative Routes:
Diversion for L4123 via R661 & L4124 and vice versa.
Diversion for L4127 via Castlefogarty & Ballycahill village and vice versa.
Note: All diversions will be clearly signposted.
Objections to these proposed temporary closure may be submitted in writing to the Director of Services, Roads, Transportation & Water Services, North Tipperary County Council, Civic Offices, Limerick Road, Nenagh, not later than 12.00 noon on Thursday 25th October 2012.
North Tipperary County Council and Thurles Town Council have also made an order closing the following roads in Thurles Town to the public. The purpose of these road closures are to facilitate a Bike Road Race, which is being held in Thurles on the 28th October, 2012 as part of the Thurles Halloween Festival.
(1) River Suir Bridge (N75), Liberty Square (N75), O’ Donovan Rossa Street (N62), Parnell Street (R498) and Slievenamon Road (N62) from Liberty Square to its junction with Fianna Road/Thomond Road.
(2) L4026 – Cuchulainn Road, L4021 Emmett Street, L4022 Thomond Road.
Period of Closure:
(1) From 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday 28th October, 2012.
(2) From 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday 28th October, 2012.
Note Alternative Routes: Via The Jimmy Doyle Road, L4039 – Leugh Road, R498 – Castlemeadows, L4027 – Bohernanave Road, R660 – Abbey Road, L4018 – Butler/Iona/Innisfallen Avenues, R659 – Stradavoher,L4017 – Clongour Road, N62 – Clongour/ Turtulla, Archerstown, L4001 – Mill Road.
Note also that pedestrian access only, will be permitted during the period of closure.
The following temporary traffic arrangements have been agreed following consultation with Thurles Gardaí, North Tipperary Co Council, Consultants and Contractor:-
 Barry’s Bridge Suir Bridge
Two lanes of traffic will continue to operate over Suir (Barry’s) Bridge however there will be only one footpath open on this Bridge at various times while necessary works on railings and footpath surfaces continue.
Turtulla Bridge
There will be Lane closures in operation with single lane shuttle traffic in operation controlled by Traffic lights.
Flagmen, using manual ‘Stop/Go,’ signalling will operate during peak times from 08:00 – 10:00 hrs and 16:00 – 18:00 hrs.
Drish Bridge
Works will continue here with single lane traffic in operation controlled by Traffic lights.
This current operation of temporary Traffic Management will be reviewed regularly.
Other Proposed Road & Street Closures In Thurles Planned
North Tipperary County Council and Thurles Town Council propose to make an order closing the following roads to the public to facilitate the Women’s Tipperary Mini Marathon which is being held in Thurles on September 30th, 2012.
This order is sought under the ROADS ACT 1993 – 2007 (SECTION 75 OF THE ROADS ACT 1993) ROADS REGULATIONS 1994.
- N62 – O’ Donovan Rossa Street, Thurles to the junction of Templemore town. Period of Closure: From 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Sunday 30th. September, 2012.
- L4039 – Jimmy Doyle Road, Thurles. Period of Closure: From 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Sunday 30th. September, 2012.
Alternative Route for motorists is via R501 Richmond, Templemore to Borrisoleigh and via R498 Borrisoleigh to Thurles.
Pedestrian access only will be permitted during these temporary closures.
Any objections, which persons may wish to express, to these proposed closures of the above routes should make same in writing to reach Mr Marcus O’Connor, Director of Roads & Water Services, North Tipperary County Council, Civic Offices, Limerick Road, Nenagh Tipperary not later than 12.00 noon on September 5th 2012.
 According to Tipp FM Radio & North Tipperary Co Councillor Mr John Carroll, some 30 temporary staff, presently employed by North County Council, have all been issued with Notices of Employment Termination, to come into effect from September next.
The staff affected are employed in the Roads section of the Council & their “lay off,” will have a direct impact on the future of the North Tipperary Roads programme. Speculation is that these cuts are the result of failure by Minister Phil Hogan to collect his unjustifiable & inequitable €100 Household Charge. Nationally 600,000 properties nationwide have yet to be registered by owners, a job that may go to Revenue, when it takes over collection of the levy next year.
Looks like yet another Fine Gael/Labour vote loosing exercise, here in the forgotten county, latter whose population appear happy to accept weekly, action-less political spin, while some of their Tipperary Senators & TD’s fail to turn up for work, and thus earn their exorbitant salaries.
Staff at the Local Government Management Agency, (LGMA), the group charged with collecting the household charge, have recently received unacceptable death threats & abuse, including a shotgun cartridge sent in the post, & that’s according to LGMA’s CEO Paul McSweeney.
While normal civilised people these days will totally frown on this type of behaviour, declaring is totally unacceptable, Phil Hogan is obviously no historian and is not aware of the happenings, when forced collection of a similar form of unjust taxation was attempted, in his own county of Kilkenny, in 1831.
The Tithe War
The Tithe War (Irish: Cogadh na nDeachúna) was a campaign which began with nonviolent civil disobedience, but later became punctuated by sporadic violent episodes here in Ireland between 1830 & 1836, in angry reaction to the enforcement of Tithes on subsistence farmers and others, for the upkeep of the established state church, the Church of Ireland. The idea of Tithe Taxes goes back a long way to the Reformation of 1517 & its idea sprang from the Christian Bible, possibly from Leviticus 27:30: “And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s; it is holy unto the Lord.”
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