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 Irish Coursing Club (ICC) The Irish Coursing Club (ICC) has been ordered to pay €640,000 in damages to a private firm and could face further costs after a court case relating to a disputed land deal next to its grounds.
Mr Justice Frank Clarke announced the verdict at the commercial court yesterday and is due to provide a written verdict on the case and a relating issue shortly, as part of this long-standing case taken by the development company Greenband Investments.
This move potentially places a question mark over the financial stability of the Irish Coursing Club, with trustees of the group stating substantial costs arising from this case could have “a major effect on the club“. The €640,000 damages is only a fraction of the original €5.9 million claim made, however a decision on further costs to be awarded will not be made until another hearing planned for March 30th.
The case, which was originally taken against the Irish Coursing Club in June 2008, relates to the coursing organisation’s interest in land along side its Powerstown Park stadium premises at Davis Road, in Clonmel, Co Tipperary. Greenband Investments sued the ICC to compel it to complete the sale of part of the lane way after claiming its €31m retail development which includes a Marks and Spencer store, would be jeopardised if this did not take place.
Greenband Investments also claimed it made a written agreement with the ICC trustees, in March 2008, to buy the lands for a sum of €100,000 and had paid a deposit of €10,000. Greenband Investments claimed the ICC was fully aware, at all times, that the purchase of the lands was part of a larger scheme of development by the private firm.
It is understood that legal costs in this case have yet to be decided.
Templemore railway Station, near Thurles, in Co.Tipperary, has been included in the Munster areas selection for the coveted title of overall ‘Best Station.‘
The Iarnród Éireann ‘Best Station Awards’ reward excellence in customer facilities, cleanliness, innovation and customer service in the country’s 141 railway stations.
Iarnród Éireann Bosses stated: “We are delighted with the response from our customers to this competition. The Awards have been running now for 16 years and we think that it is fitting that ownership of the decision making process for them should go to our customers, who use the services.”
 Blast from the past - Steam train leaves Templemore Station. Iarnród Éireann have now just revealed the choosen finalists nationally, which are as follows!
Connacht: Claremorris, Dromod, Ballinasloe.
Leinster: Arklow, Gorey, Tullamore.
Munster: Killarney, Templemore, Cobh.
Major Station: Heuston, Dundalk, Cork.
DART: Pearse, Sandymount, Raheny.
Commuter: M3 Parkway, Donabate, Leixlip Louisa Bridge, Hazelhatch.
Voting was conducted through a text and email poll. Almost 5,000 people voted as part of the competition. Customers were asked to rate their station under the following criteria; Customer Information, Staff Appearance, Staff Helpfulness and Station Appearance.
The votes were cast in a text and online poll, during November of last year.
The final awards will be presented at a Gala ceremony at Iarnród Éireann’s training centre at Inchicore on a date which will be announced shortly.
 Revenue Commissioners The Revenue Commissioners have returned yields of more than €116 million from its audit and investigation programmes, during the final three months of 2010.
Iris Oifigiúil, the Irish State Gazette, yesterday published the names of 62 tax defaulters who have made recent settlements with Revenue, totalling some €21 millions, for this fourth quarter period and being only part of the total sum of €116.1 million yielded from Revenue investigations, during the stated period.
Of the 62 settlements published, 31 cases were for amounts exceeding €100,000, 7 cases exceeded half a million euro and 2 cases were above 1 million euro.
The highest single case was the Tipperary manufacturing firm of Gleeson Concrete, which made a settlement of €7.65 million in relation to under-declaration of Corporation tax, VAT and PAYE/PRSI. This case was discovered following Revenue investigations into the misuse of Trusts and Offshore Structures, put in place to evade tax.
The family business of Gleeson Concrete was first established in 1958 and has its registered offices situated on the Dooradoyle Road, in Co.Limerick. However the company operates primarily in Tipperary and has its main production facility here in Donohill, Co Tipperary.
The final financial settlement with the Company is understood to included €4.8 million charged by Revenue in extra interest and penalties.
An Taisce representatives have told an oral planning appeals hearing, that the proposed €460m ‘Tipperary Venue‘ is ” ill-conceived and warrants comprehensive refusal.”
 Model of proposed Two-Mile-Borris Casino An oral hearing, is presently taking both written and oral submissions in support of and against, a decision by Tipperary County Council to grant such planning permission.
The Tipperary Venue will include a racecourse, a 500-room hotel, a golf course, a greyhound track, a casino, a 15,000-seater entertainment venue, and parking for 6,000 cars. Other features include a sprint track, an all-weather floodlit track, an equestrian centre, retail outlets, helicopter facilities and a church. Thurles, it would appear is about to move to Two-Mile- Morris.
Developers estimated the proposed project will create immediately 1,000 construction jobs, while it is being built, and another 2,000 jobs are predicted, when the venture is fully complete.
An Taisce, however, told the hearing, which opened in the Horse and Jockey Hotel, Co Tipperary, today, that it had concerns about what it depicted as ‘this overwhelming‘ development. The An Taisce spokesperson estimated that the development would cost up to €30m in increased fuel costs and resulting carbon emissions, because of its remote location. It also warned that this venture would mean the redirection of over 750million litres of river waters from nearby, to facilitate the construction, and that this would have ecological implications for indigenous wild life habitats. An Taisce stated, it would also have implications for the viable futures of both Thurles, Limerick and Tipperary racecourses and the newly established and refurbished greyhound tracks in both Limerick and Thurles.
Some local residents and businesses fear that this venture will destroy the town’s already established developed services and that while some extra short term employment will be gained, in the long term more jobs will be lost or will just transfer from local hotels and businesses forced to close by this new venture. Some also express the view that wealth is being transferred into the hands, once again, of just a few Irish developers and speculators, who will leave the taxpayer to foot the bill yet again.
The oral hearing is expected to continue for a number of days and is due to hear, tomorrow, from a number of parties involved in the horse racing industry, who appear to be backing and therefore in favour of this major development.
Top racehorse trainer Aidan O’Brien and concert promoter Denis Desmond, we are told, are amongst those who have backed the venture, dreamt up by slot-machine tycoon Richard Quirke.
With St Patrick’s Day is just around the corner, so why not take a night out and enjoy some traditional festive fun by attending the Tipperary Drama Festival, in Holycross, Thurles, Co Tipperary.
This major annual event takes to the stage for the week beginning the 18th March next to 26th March inclusive.
The hosts of this hugely attended Tipperary Festival, namely Holycross/Ballycahill Drama Group, have been successfully running this event since 1983.
This year the festival will present some great nights of theatre, performed by passionate theatre groups from all over Ireland, in their newly restored St. Michael’s Community Centre, beside the 13th century Abbey of Holy Cross, former which now boasts comfortable seating, including a balcony area, for some 500 of its patrons.
Curtain rises at 8.30pm nightly during the festival, except for the final night, which will be 8.00pm.
Admission: Each night €12, with Student’s and O.A.P’s enjoying an entrance concession of €6. Of course best value is their Season Ticket costing, I understand according to their Facebook, a mere €60 for all 9 performances.
 Tipperary Drama Festival, Holycross, Thurles, Co Tipperary. Tipperary Drama Festival Programme 2011
Fri 18th March: Holycross/Ballycahill DG ‘Lovers At Versaille ‘ by Bernard Farrell.
Sat 19th March: Skibbereen Theatre Society ‘A Kiss On The Bottom ‘ by Frank Vickery.
Sun 20th March: Conna Drama Group ‘Stolen Child ‘ by Yvonne Quinn & Bairbre Ni Chaoimh.
Mon 21st March: Schull Drama Group ‘Kindly Leave The Stage ‘ by John Chapman.
Tues 22nd March: Silken Thomas Players ‘Angels In America ‘ by Tony Kushner.
Wed 23rd March: Bunclody/Kilmyshall DG ‘The Mai ‘ by Marina Carr.
Thurs 24th March: Brideview Drama Group ‘The Clearing ‘ by Helen Edmundson.
Fri 25th March: Palace Players ‘Doubt – A Parable ‘ by John Patrick Shanley.
Sat 26th March: Nenagh Players ‘Out Of Order ‘ by Ray Cooney.
Promises to be a week we can all look forward too, so to use the well-known idiom in theatre which means ‘good luck’ – “Break A Leg Everyone”
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