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Smart Ways to Manage Your Child’s Smartphone.

With all pupils now firmly back to school, parents may feel the need to reduce screen time on phones and other devices.

Too much screen time can be linked with disrupted sleep; and unlimited streaming services and social media can distract from study, sport and result in very late bedtimes.

As smart phones have evolved, some very smart and simple ways of controlling screen time have also emerged. The old fashioned way of reducing screen time was to take away phones and devices, with the inevitable “please just a few more minutes” plea dominating bedtime.

Now parents can remotely control screen time, as well as limiting what children can access on their phones and tablets, all from the comfort of their own devices.

If you and your family use iPhones and other Apple devices, watch the video hereunder.

If you and your family use Android devices, check out the video below.

If you are looking for more information on reducing screen time or online, app and smartphone safety, excellent up to date information is available HERE

Renowned Irish Singer To Celebrates Culture Night At Cashel Library.

Tipperary Librarian Ms Maura Barrett Reports: –

Cashel Library [situated at Friar Street, St. Francisabbey, Cashel, Co. Tipperary] invite you to celebrate ‘Culture Night’ on Friday next, September 23rd, at 7:00pm, with the internationally renowned Irish Singer, Song-writer Mr Mick Hanly.

Also featuring on the night will be Ukranian Folk Artist & Choreographer, Ms Yuliya Shilnikova.

**Mick Hanly & Yuliya Shilnikova entertain at Cashel Library, September 23rd next**.

American country music singer and songwriter, Garth Brooks currently touring Ireland presently, said of Mick Hanly, “His songs are real, they mean something. He is one of the best songwriters around at the moment”.

The above song, “Past The Point of Rescue”, (as performed by rising Nashville country star, Hal Ketchum), stormed the U.S. country singles and album charts, earning the coveted Gold Disc for both Hal Ketchum (the performer), and Mick Hanly (the song writer).

Note: It is essential that those intent on attending this event, should répondez s’il vous plaît (RSVP) this open invitation, to Cashel Library Tel: 062 63825.

Installation Of Smart Meters Underway In Co. Tipperary.

The ESB Networks, or individuals working on their behalf, are currently replacing all electricity meters across Ireland to Smart meters.

The programme initially began in 2019, which means many meters have already been replaced. ESB Networks will let you know when they are coming to your area to replace your meter.

The installation of Smart meters, in Co. Tipperary, is currently underway. Same Smart meters are an upgrade to the previous analogue meters found in people’s homes and use the latest digital technology to give up-to-date details on a household’s electricity usage.
Smart meters mean that there will be no need for a visit from your friendly meter reader, latter calling every 4 months or indeed your grossly exaggerated estimated electricity bill.
Your Smart meter now can be read remotely, and you will then be supposedly able to access new smart services offered by electricity suppliers.
Once installed it takes 30 days for your smart meter to establish its connection to the ESB Network secure communications network.

Some one million Smart meters have already been installed in homes across Ireland to date, and NO, if you want electricity, you must have a Smart Meter installed. It is expected that all two million households in Ireland will have a smart meter in their home by 2024 or early in 2025.

The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), Ireland’s independent energy and water regulator, are advising households, who have had a smart meter installed in their home, to contact their electricity supplier regarding the smart services they offer.
According to the CRU, all suppliers of electricity must offer Smart Price Plans to customers with a Smart Meter installed.

Smart services are supposed to give electricity users more choice, allowing them to move their electricity use to certain times of the day, thus allowing customers to choose price plans to suit their particular lifestyle.

Seventeenth Edition Of Culture Night Set For Friday September 23rd 2022.

Ms Fiona Flavin (Assistant Arts Officer with Tipperary County Council) reports: –

“The seventeenth edition of Culture Night, nationwide will take place on Friday September 23rd 2022.

Culture Night (Irish – Oíche Chultúir) is brought to you via the Arts Council; latter being a national moment, where we celebrate culture, creativity and the arts, while seeking to actively promote our rich and varied culture, demonstrating that it remains very much alive, treasured and nurtured in the lives of Irish people, today and every day.
It is delivered nationwide throughout our cities, towns, villages and rural locations, as well as online and through our media partners.

Over 2 million of our people and visitors, are expected to engaged with Culture Night in 2022.

Doors, in many cases, will open to events at 6:00pm until late, and special and unique events are specifically programmed at participating locations. All activities are made available to the public free of charge.

You can see all of the upcoming events in Co. Tipperary at a glance HERE.

Events taking place in Thurles are as follows:-

‘The Source’ Arts Centre Thurles presents a live interactive sound and light installation created by ‘Timpeall’ (Irish Translation – ‘Around’), a multi-disciplinary art collective specializing in immersive multi-sensory events and experiential installations and exhibitions.
The installation reflects on the industrial past of Thurles evoking images, sounds and memories of the former Thurles Sugar Factory, using audio, footage of the factory site and newly created projections.
The installation is part of the wider Sugar Tapes project – an archive of interviews and images of the factory, which was once the economic core of the town, up until its closure in 1989.

Also on Culture Night at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, ‘Cruthaigh’ (Irish Translation – ‘Create’), present their podcast ‘Everything from Nothing’, also reflecting on the Sugar Factory’s past – and projecting forward, to see what kind of future might occur in the town. Could the creative industries be a key factor in the town’s economy in the medium term?
Start time is 7:00pm. Phone: 353 504-90204 to ensure a seat.

TUS Campus, Nenagh Road, Thurles, presents “Our lives, our identities Young traveller children, We Act”.
Latter features an Art and Media Exhibition based on a series of workshops on “identity objects” facilitated by Artist Francesca Hutchinson with children from the Traveller Family Learning Programme.
This programme focuses on youth leadership and celebrating Traveller identity.
TRTP and TUS Access Department share a vision to inspire, explore and support learning through art in a positive and inclusive space.
This project is being spearheaded by two Irish Traveller postgraduate students, who are extremely passionate about supporting Traveller children to develop a greater sense of belonging.

Start time for this event is 6:00pm, on Friday September 23rd 2022 and attendees are invited to pre-book on eventbrite, HERE.” Event is free.

Shattered Dreams – Singer Nora Fogarty.

Popular local ballad singer Nora Fogarty performs hereunder the song “Shattered Dreams”.

(Lyrics written by Co. Kilkenny poet Kathleen Blanchfield).

Our readers will sadly remember what is commonly referred to as the ‘9/11 attacks’ (September 11th 2001), where four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks were carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda, against the United States of America.

On the morning of Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, each scheduled to travel from northeastern U.S. to California.

The hijackers crashed the first two planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City, and the third plane into the Pentagon (headquarters of the American military), latter situated at Arlington, Virginia.

The fourth plane which was intended to hit a federal government building in Washington, D.C., crashed into a field, following a revolt by passengers on board the flight.

Sadly, these acts of terrorism killed some 3,000 people, before instigating a global war on terror.