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Plastic here in Thurles, Co. Tipperary; as with every other town in the world, is ubiquitous. It fills our bins, shopping trolleys and households.
It’s hard to imagine life without plastic and yet it’s a relatively recent invention. It wasn’t until the 1960s that plastic began to be mass produced and many of our readers may well remember how life in Ireland functioned before plastic.
Despite its usefulness and convenience, plastic is one of our world’s greatest environmental problems. It now dominates our landfills, rivers and oceans.
Why?
It does not decompose like other materials. Indeed, it is estimated that it can take 450 years for one plastic bottle to decompose in landfill.
In the fascinating “TedEd” talk in the video shown immediately above, [which hopefully you have all watched], scientific research on microbes may help humanity find an effective and more natural way to decompose plastic in our environment.
Whilst this is indeed welcome news, it represents only a small step in the fight against plastic. Ultimately, we need to drastically rethink our relationship with the substance and aim to remove as much plastic as we can from our lives and communities.
As the wise old adage states, “prevention is better than cure”.
More pictures from the highly successful Thurles Musical Festival 2022, which was held in Liberty Square, Thurles, Co. Tipperary last weekend.
See anyone you know?
View some earlier 200 pictures all uploaded to date from HERE – HERE and HERE.
More pictures to follow in the coming days, so do stay tuned.
For those of you, who for one reason or another, were prohibited from attending the Thurles Musical Festival last weekend; here is a further opportunity to taste the atmosphere, at this most enjoyable event.
[See also pictures HERE and HERE, with more to come over the next day or two].
More pictures hopefully tomorrow, so do stay tuned.
This evening, July 10th, at 10:00pm will see the conclusion of the Thurles, Liberty Square, Free Music Festival, 2022.
The festival has remained incident free and a big “Thank You” to the many people involved in its overall organisation.
A massive “Thank You” to the magnificent, performing Tribute Acts, who brought the Thurles audience, such enormous pleasure, over the past two days.
More pictures to follow over the coming days – so do stay tuned.
Thurles Musical Festival, featuring some of Irelands most talented tribute bands, got underway yesterday, July 9th, 2022.
It was lovely to see music fans of all ages turn out in large numbers again after what has been a turbulent past two years, caused by the Covid-19 virus.
The free family festival continues again today, so if you are out and about and wondering where to aim, target Thurles, with music expected from Tribute bands:- The Beatles, Ed Sheeran, Rod Stewart, Oasis and I Love the 80’s, beginning sharp at 1:30pm.
A Funfair is also located in the immediate area for those visiting with children.
This Free Event is fully outdoors and the temperature here in Thurles, is expected to be at least 25° with weather – Sunny.
We will be back with more pictures of yesterday’s event and hopefully this afternoon’s promising series of events, over the coming days, so do check-in.
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