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New Year’s Eve is one night when the world comes together to celebrates love, forgiveness and even hope. People come together to celebrate their survival and look forward longingly, in some cases, for that second chance and perhaps a new start.
Younger people, aged 18 to 34 years, are more likely to go out to a public place this New Years Eve, while older people will probably spend New Year’s Eve at home or at a friend or family member’s home. So whatever you get up to, please do stay safe and do remember that New Years Eve is the worst holiday night of the year for those who insist on driving after drinking.
So parents do have a chat with your children before they head off this evening. Despite their protest, warn them about the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs and fatigue, as well as how to be both a good driver and yes, also a good passenger.
Remember teenagers are less likely to drive drunk, when parents lay down some concrete safety ground rules, so do insist and even offer your services to transport those family members anxious to celebrate in the party mood.
From Brian and myself here at Thurles.Info, may we wish you and yours, far and wide, a happy and prosperous New Year in 2012.
As 2011 draws to a close we would like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2012. It has been a difficult and trying year for Thurles, and for many Irish people, but it is only right that we try to forget our troubles, at least during the holidays.
I’m sure if we all stop and think, we would discover that have a lot we can be thankful for this Christmas. The Tipperary saying ‘Health is Wealth’ has never been more true, indeed it was Mahatma Gandhi who originally coined the phase when he said “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver”.
I have come across a couple of great videos that celebrate the joy of the Christmas season and I would like to share them with you.
The first video is a terrific idea for people to do over the holidays, especially if you have friends or family abroad, why not send them a Video Card! This would be great fun to do over the Christmas with your family, maybe get a few of them together and record them singing a song. These days this could even be done using a mobile phone! The video can be uploaded to a video site like Vimeo.com for free, and then shared with all your family and friends by sending them the link to the video. It’s also very easy to share it on Facebook so all your friends can see!
Wishing You a Merry ‘Vintage’ Christmas! from Jared Foster on Vimeo.
This next video is an inspiring tale, it is the true story behind the Christmas carol ‘Silent Night’
Story Behind The Song: Silent Night from Shelter Cove Community Church on Vimeo.
Have a great Christmas everyone!
It’s hard to describe the magic of candlelight, particularly in church at Christmas time, however we would like you to share with us and experience it for yourself.
To this end “Vocalize,” will perform their new original show “Christmas By Candlelight,” at St Mary’s Church, Church Lane, Thurles, on Saturday 17th December next. The performing group “Vocalize,” are no strangers to Thurles theatre lovers and consist of some of the towns most harmonious and talented voices.
“Vocalize,” Videographer and Sound Technician, Garry Butler has been to rehearsals and sends us just a small clip of what music lovers can expect on the night.
Do come listen to the golden voices of Katie & Claire Lawless, Maria Griffin, Stacey Taylor, Peter Donnelly and Damian Sweeney, together with David McElgunn, and others under the wonderful musical direction of Geraldine Delaney. All will be performing by candlelight and you’ll feel like you’ve just taken a step back in time, when you join them for this most enchanting and emotional of local event.
Expect Christmas songs with a difference and of a new world, songs like; ‘I Need A Silent Night,’ ‘Hope Is Born Again,’ ‘A baby changes everything,’ and my own favourite ‘Christmas is.’
Of course one of the earliest stagings of Christmas music by candlelight began in the 19th century, when Cornish Miners in Moonta, South Australia (As this sites Irish /Australian able ambassador Katie O’Connell Nott will attest. “Happy Christmas from all in Tipperary & Thurles to all of you Katie.”) would gather on Christmas Eve to sing carols lit with candles, stuck to the brims of their safety hats. Today the tradition has spread around the world and is happening here in Thurles this year for the first time in St. Mary’s Church.
Tickets for this event will cost you €10 and are available from Bookworm, in Liberty Square, Thurles, with total proceeds going to a most worthy cause, the Suir Haven, Thurles Cancer support centre.
So come along to St. Mary’s and for a while, enjoy an 18th-century style Christmas by candlelit, and why not take a look around the famine museum while you chat and enjoy a cup of tea after the show.
A word to the wise: Tickets are very limited so do book early, to ensure your space.
It is numbered amongst the last Irish environmental treasures, which as yet, remains relatively free of unwanted interference by mankind, instead remaining supervised solely by Mother Nature. It is the home of the green-listed Grey Heron and feeding ground to the dwindling population of native Bumble Bees. Within its boundaries grow undisturbed, Bronze Fennel, Wavy Bitter-cress, Shepherds Purse, Golden-saxifrage, Common Mouse-ear, Barren Strawberry, and a huge variety of Wild Orchids. Here also one can view numerous varieties of Dragon Fly, the rarely viewed Hummingbird Hawk Moth, Froghopper’s Cuckoo Spit, Juda’s Ear and a huge variety of sedges, grasses, reeds, animal and bird life habitats.
It is a place frequented by walkers, photographers, lovers, artists, and sometimes those with heavy hearts. It is an amazing area for inquisitive children in search of knowledge, where Mother Nature hands to teachers a clean blank blackboard, with which to educate future generations. I speak of course of Cabragh Wetlands.
However if either North Tipperary Planning (Ref: 10510413) or An Board Pleanala (Ref: PL22.238800) and their elected officials kowtow to business and personal political interests, and as we have seen recently in the case of Two Mile Borris, they go against the advice of their own planning inspectorate, then this rare environmental treasure, will slowly become a disease infected wasteland.
In an article published on this site in April of this year, we highlighted that a proposed Thurles Recycling Centre, was to be located at the old Thurles Sugar Factory site, in Cabragh and had been given the ‘green light,’ after planning permission was granted for the facility by North Tipperary County Council. This decision was subsequently and justifiably appealed by local angry residents, to an Bord Pleanala.
After much delay O’Dwyer Skip Hire Ltd, (T/A Envirobin) have replied to An Board Pleanala’s request of August last, for further planning information. I am reliably informed that An Board Pleanala has not been so generous regarding time constraints, to those objecting to this project, allowing them only 10 days for to prepare any future defence.
Drug dealers, murderers and other major criminals, in this country, can apply successfully for free legal aid / funding, to defend in many cases the indefensible. However persons attempting to protect their local environment against outside events, in this case Cabragh/Ballycurrane Residents Association, must fund their own defence against events totally foisted on them.
While I totally support the theory of Waste Management and the building of Waste Transfer Stations, the erection of such a facility in a rural town, in the centre of a populated residential area, within metres of the River Suir, latter which crosses county Tipperary from north to south, and close to a National Heritage Site, defies all logical reasoning.
Continue reading Thurles May Become A Public Dump For Five Counties
Author George Mordaunt will speak on Family Business, Recession & Recovery, at the Horse & Jockey Hotel on Tuesday next, the 8th November
at 6.30pm.
George Mordaunt’s family car business in Clonmel was one of the huge success stories during the boom years, but alas came crashing down in spectacular fashion, when this current recession hit.
George has now put his story in print, in a remarkable book called “Shepherd’s Pie: Family Business, Recession & Recovery – The Real Story”
This book is a brutally honest and brave account of what happened and of how he has managed to survive and start all over again. Ireland is insolvent because of mismanagement, corruption and greed. We have been bombarded with and infuriated by reports of self-serving bankers, developers and government ministers.
To date, the general public has not had an account of the devastating effect of this crisis on Irish-owned business, as it tries to pick up the pieces. Irish businesses are trying to cope with insolvency, arrears, liquidation – the rate of suicide among the self-employed in Ireland has trebled in the last 3 years. George Mordaunt believes that many Irish businesses are now dysfunctional, not because of the recession, but because of the reaction of business owners to this recession – and specifically their reaction to their banks.
With raw honesty he outlines the effect this reaction has had on himself, his young family, his marriage and his business. He shares his most private moments of despair and fear, while demonstrating how business owners can salvage their businesses and that we now have a core responsibility to get back to basics in all levels of Irish life.
His talk will be of interest to many struggling to survive in business today and this talk therefore is an event not to be missed on Tuesday next.
The talk is presented by Network North Tipperary and anyone interested in attending can email president@networknorthtipp.ie for further details.
George Mordaunt’s book “Shepherd’s Pie: Family Business, Recession & Recovery – The Real Story” is a ‘Must Read.’
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