From tomorrow Tuesday October 17th until the morning of Friday October 20th, Cashel Library will remain closed to the public.
The library’s temporary closure is required in order to facilitate necessary building works.
From Friday morning next all normal opening times will once again apply, and Cashel Library staff wish to apologise for any inconvenience the temporary closure may cause.
NOTE: Customers are asked to please remember that they can request books on line HERE.
Food Safety Authority Ireland Recall Batch Of MountainGrown.ie Irish CBD Oil, due to the presence of unsafe levels of Delta‐9‐tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
Product Identification: MountainGrown.ie Irish CBD Oil; pack size: 10ml, 20ml and 30ml Batch Code: 2-1; best before: 10-23 Country Of Origin: Ireland
The above batch of MountainGrown.ie Irish CBD Oil is being recalled due to the presence of unsafe levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (∆9THC) in excess of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) acute reference dose. THC can produce serious adverse effects including tachycardia (medical term for a heart rate over 100 beats a minute) and anxiety. These effects can be especially pronounced in women.
Action Required by Manufacturers, Wholesalers, Distributors, Caterers & Retailers: All are requested to remove the implicated batch from immediate sale and display, placing recall notices at point-of-sale, while consumers are advised not to consume contents of the implicated batch.
Waterford LEADER Partnership will receive €149,820 for the South East Farming Pilot, which will operate across South Tipperary,Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford.
€3 million will be allocated to 30 successful community projects under the Community Safety Innovation Fund.
Funding will invest the proceeds of crime back into building stronger, safer communities.
Projects focused on holistic, community based responses to anti-social behaviour and crime.
The Minister for Justice Mrs Helen McEntee, T.D. has today announced the allocation of just over €3 million worth of funding to 30 projects which are adopting projects to improve safety in their communities.
Grants have been awarded under this fund to organisations or community groups that have innovative proposals to improve community safety and have not been able to access other sources of funding.
Under Budget 2024, €7.9m will be allocated towards community safety initiatives, including €3.75m for the Community Safety Innovation Fund, which is an increase of almost €1 million on last year.
Speaking today, Minister McEntee stated: “I’ve said consistently that the people who are best placed to know and respond to local safety issues are communities themselves. It’s vital that we empower our communities to proactively address safety concerns and in the process build stronger, safer communities. This fund reflects the continued successes of An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau seizing the ill-gotten gains of criminals. That’s why I’m delighted that we have been able to increase the size of this fund to €3.75 million under Budget 2024. Putting this money back into the community is a really tangible way of showing that there can be a direct link between the activities of law enforcement and improved feelings of community safety.”
Some of the themes focused on by this year’s successful applicants include projects aimed at reducing anti-social behaviour, improving feelings of safety in the community, supporting victims of sexual and domestic violence, promoting pro-social behaviour through education and sport and supporting those experiencing drug-related intimidation.
Minister McEntee will today visit two projects who will be receiving funding from this year’s Community Safety Innovation Fund. The Minster will visit The Esker Project in Athlone, who will receive €101,903 funding for a Domestic Abuse Community Awareness and Training project. This project aims to create awareness of the prevalence and signs of domestic abuse and to build capacity within the community to respond appropriately and effectively to create safer communities for victims of gender based violence and domestic abuse.
This will be achieved by engaging various groups in the community to become Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) aware. Workshops, training, and support will be offered to employers, education settings, statutory agencies, and community groups among others to become DVA aware and responsive.
Minister McEntee will also visit the ‘Be Safe in Your Space’ project, run by Cultúr Celebrating Diversity in Navan, Co. Meath, who are strengthening relationships between migrant communities and An Garda Síochána. This project, which will receive €150,000, seeks to improve relationships and build trust between An Garda Síochána and migrant communities, while simultaneously raising the migrant communities’ awareness of rights and laws in Ireland.
In addition, it seeks to give migrant parents the skills and confidence to deal with antisocial behaviour in their children, by activating parents’ ability to recognise signs of said behaviour (including on social media) and to give parents the necessary practical parenting advice. It also seeks to create a robust community strategy to sustainably tackle these by engaging migrants living in local urban conurbations, and Gardaí working in community, drug traffic and detective units.
Other examples of successful applications include €147,175 to Bohemian Football Club for the North Inner City Sporting Alliance Programme. The NIC Sporting Alliance Programme aims to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in the NIC area with a core focus of establishing a formal network of sports clubs and organisations. Underpinning this project is:
A multicultural educational resource designed for children aged 9-12 championed by sports ambassadors and delivered in primary schools and sports within the NIC area.
Workshops/Seminars delivered to all clubs in the Alliance. Two large scale annual showcase events for the community/clubs.
Lusk Community Council in Co Dublin will receive €150,000 for its Creative Lusk project.
This will seek to creatively address anti-social issues using arts, curiosity and innovation in the town to connect with the “hard to reach” youths and present alternative role and peer models for the youth to engage with.
The Waterford LEADER Partnership will receive €149,820 for the South East Farming Pilot, which will operate across South Tipperary, Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford It seeks to provide vulnerable young people with a social/care farming placement on a social farm in the southeast 2 days a week for 70 weeks. It will working with the youth diversion projects in the southeast region to identify potential participants.
A full list of successful grants showing Applicants, their Projects and Locations are shown hereunder:
1
1st Port of Ireland Sea Scouts
Scouting for Safe Harbour
Co. Dublin
2
WASP
WASP Community Education Programme CLG
Co. Dublin
3
Waterford LEADER Partnership
South East Social Farming Pilot
Co. Tipperary, Co. Waterford
4
Connect Family Resource Centre
Building Community Resilience
Co. Louth
5
Athlone Community Services Council CLG Re: Esker HouseDomestic Abuse Support Service
The Esker Project: Domestic Abuse Community Awareness
Co. Westmeath
6
Family Addiction Support Network CLG
Trauma in the Community
Co. Louth, Co. Meath, Co. Cavan
7
Waterford Local Community Safety Partnership
Consent Matters
Co. Waterford
8
Sexual Violence Centre
Connect Community Hub
Co. Cork
9
Ballyfermot Youth Services Limited
Outdoor Education In the City
Co. Dublin
10
Drogheda Women & Children’s Refuge
Finding Safety
Co. Louth
11
Enniscorthy Community Alliance
Enniscorthy Community – Plants and Places
Co. Wexford
12
Sailing into Wellness CLG
Atlantic Project
National Coastline
13
Foroige’s Cable Project
Thrive Together
Co. Louth
14
Dublin South City Partnership CLG
Four Community Safety Forums
Co. Dublin
15
Tiglin Challenge
Contrast Hydrotherapy Rehabilitation Programme
Co. Wicklow
16
Acts of Compassion
Ethnic Policing Forum Project
Co. Dublin
17
South Western Regional Drug & Alcohol Task Force
Safer Newbridge Community Partnership
Co. Kildare
18
Lusk Community Council CLG
Creative Lusk 2025
Co. Dublin
19
Citywise Education
Citywise Community Leaders
Co. Dublin
20
South Dublin County Council Healthy Ireland
Generation Connections in MacUlliam Estate, Tallaght
Co. Dublin
21
Cumas New Ross
Safety in the Community
Co. Wexford & Nationwide
22
Foróige
The LEAD Project (League of Equality & Anti-discrimination)
Co. Dublin & Nationwide
23
Longford LCSP and Partners
All Island Community Safety Network
Co. Longford
24
Ana Liffey Drug Project
Law Engagement & Assisted Recovery Smithfield /Broadstone Project
Co. Dublin
25
Bohemian Football Club Company
North Inner City (NIC) Sporting Alliance Programme
Co. Dublin
26
Cork Simon Community
Social Integration Outreach Service
Co. Cork
27
Cultúr Celebrating Diversity Ltd.
Be Safe in Your Space
Co. Meath
28
Moyross Development CLG
Community Safety Weapons Awareness Programme
Co. Tipperary, Co. Limerick, Co. Clare,
29
Inner City Organisations Network ICON
Community Safety Response to Child and Human Trafficking in the NEIC
Co. Dublin
30
Waterford Local Community Safety Partnership
Waterford Community Safety Wardens
Co. Waterford
All grants under the Community Safety Innovation Fund are subject to the terms and conditions as set out in the Funding Call.
Minister McEntee continued “One of the objectives of this fund is to encourage the development of innovative ways to improve community safety. Each successful project has detailed how best the community wants to prevent crime and their proposals reflect community priorities and local safety issues. My anticipation and hope is that this fund will continue to grow into the future, but also that the learnings and best practices adopted by these projects can be shared and utilised in other communities facing similar safety concerns.”
Yes, Thurles is now, without doubt, the most neglected town in Co. Tipperary, which begs the question why are we continuing to pay road tax and property tax.
There has been no effort to repair either of these wide deep craters, pictured above, but then locals are fully aware and have become used to the total neglect by (1)Thurles Co. Council and (2)Transport Infrastructure Ireland, of road surfaces and drains here in Thurles.
With massive delays in traffic entering Thurles town centre; Mill Road, Thurles has now become a popular alternative route for heavy traffic and machinery, same attempting to gain faster access to the town centre. The vast majority of this traffic can be found breaking existing speed limits currently in place.
A short story from the pen of Thurles author Tom Ryan.
“Way back in the late ‘Sixties’, long before Vincent Browne’s famously entertaining People’s Debates on TV3, we had here in Thurles, “The People’s Debating Society”, locally referred to as the PDS.
This enthusiastic group of men / women, both of all ages and from all backgrounds, met every fortnight in the local Thurles Confraternity Hall and these entertaining evenings attracted up to several hundred people at times, to discuss, in often animated fashion, the topical issues of the day from ‘Politics’ to ‘The behaviour of young boys and girls in the big bad city of Dublin’; a subject that once propelled the PDS onto the front page of the now defunct national Evening Press newspaper!
Thurles was always a great town for talking, whether on street corners or in pubs and the PDS offered every one the opportunity to discuss the issues of the day in a manner many a Town Councillor must have envied; seen as forthright, frank and honest discussions, some of which I reported for the “Tipperary Star Newspaper”, as PRO of this group. And in fairness many a Councillor bravely attended the sometimes heated battle of words taking place.
The PDS was a great training ground for would be politicians and journalists, and was a mine of information on many matters in the days before Citizens Information Centres were even heard of in Ireland. And many people who might be shy about approaching politicians for information were now being encouraged to stand up for their rights. The self confidence boost and empowerment so many individuals received from those community meetings was incalculable.
I myself had just returned to Ireland, from London, having been impressed by the Citizens Advice Bureau system over there and therefore thought the PDS could lead eventually to similar centres in Ireland. I recall having a letter published in TCD Miscellany of Trinity College, cheekily calling for a coming together of workers, the unemployed and students, the better to be educationally armed for a social revolution. To the magazine’s credit, the Editor of TCD Miscellany took the letter and an accompanying short story of the Thurles man of letters (Auxiliary Postman!) seriously, to his amazement, I might add. Today I am happy to have my books featuring stories from those protesting days in the Trinity Library. The PDS was not the only such forum for discussion in those heady days of the “Dawning of Aquarius” in the protesting ‘Sixties’.
I was a member of Conradh na Gaeilge who held diospoireachtai (Irish: discussions) in Irish and English in the hall of a local restaurant on Tuesday nights in Thurles.
Thurles had, while I was in England, won the prestigious ‘Glor na nGael All- Ireland Award’ as Ireland’s top Gaeilge – speaking town. Some of the organising committee were also to form another forum for speaking Irish called Comhluadar (Irish: Community). Every subject under the sun was discussed as Gaeilge and in English in Glenmorgan House, Thurles. The rationale was that those who could speak Irish at these discussions and those who wanted to learn or improve on their Gaeilge, could listen and learn or speak a little in English and a little as Gaeilge. The spiorad (Irish: spirit) was all that mattered. We were taken aback at what a great gra (Irish: Love) for an Gaeilge was there and still is among the ordinary people as opposed to teachers and academics, who would be expected to be fluent Gaelgoiri, anyway. It was heartening to know that so many people from so many different backgrounds were so interested in the first official language of the nation and were proud of every little focal (Irish: word) they had. And how the late Gay Byrne would have enjoyed these convivial evenings. In those days also ‘Muintir na Tire’ (Irish: People of the Country) had their Fireside Chats and they held great debating competitions for schools, which I used to report upon for the newspapers. Gael Linn also encouraged diospoireachtai and I recall feeling humbled by the power and eloquence of Rockwell College who trounced our Thurles CBS quartet. That night I learned that all the shouting and bluster and passion in the world is no match for calm and measured debate. At one of the famous Fireside Chats of Muintir na Tire I recall a prominent national politician speaking with hugely impressive authority on numerous topics related to agriculture. He mesmerised us with the force of arguments substantiated by a vast array of alleged facts and figures, thrown at us with ease and eloquence as he continually consulted his pack of cards, from which he appeared to have taken all this information. At the end of the evening, having been fascinated all night by this seemingly all knowing genius, who had all the answers to everything, I wondered, being a cheeky young lad at the time, just what kind of cards could have so much information on them. Upon picking up the cards and turning them over I was amazed and puzzled to find the cards were pure blank on both sides. (hmm..)
Then there is the important matter of ‘the way you tell ’em’. During an election campaign before the War of Independence speaker after speaker appeared to be making no headway with the vast crowd assembled in Mullinahone, in South Co. Tipperary to listen to them. But one speaker knew just how to address the plain people of Tipperary. He shouted “Men of Mullinahone!” There was a pause before he roared again; “Women of Mullinahone!” A thunderous roar shook the nearby hills. Former “Tipperary Star Newspaper Editor”, the late great William (Bill) Myles, recalled “He could say or do no wrong at all with the crowd after that”.
Mr Myles himself enjoyed debates and invited a few friends into the Tipperary Star’s editorial office one night a week for a debate, including a gentleman who was on the Republican side during the Civil War, while Mr Myles held the rank of Captain in the Free State Army.
Ah, sure, talk is cheap. But what fun, what fun!”
End.
Tom Ryan ,”Iona” Rahealty, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
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