Thurles Information

FSAI Food Alert – Recall Batch Of Ecosana Copo Teff Bio.

Food Safety Authority of Ireland recall of a batch of Ecosana Copo Teff Bio (Organic Teff Flakes) due to presence of tropane alkaloids.

Alert Summary dated today Tuesday, April 30th 2024.

Category 1: For Action.
Alert Notification: 2024.16.
Product Identification: Ecosana Copo Teff Bio, pack size: 500g.
Batch Code: C11109, best before date: 28/02/2025.
Country Of Origin: Spain.

Message: The above identified batch of Ecosana Copa Teff Bio (Organic Teff Flakes) is being recalled due to the presence of tropane alkaloids. A recall notice has been emailed to online shoppers.
Tropane alkaloids are naturally occurring plant constituents found in a variety of plant species. Plants produce tropane alkaloids to protect themselves from predators (e.g. insects). Contamination of food can occur if parts (mostly seeds) of tropane alkaloid containing plants are unintentionally harvested with agricultural crops.

Nature Of Danger: Symptoms can include a change in heart rate, decreased salivary and sweat secretion, pupil dilation, dizziness, headache, nausea, hallucination and disorientation.

Action Required:
Consumers: Consumers are advised not to eat the implicated stated batch.

Gardaí At Nenagh, In North Tipperary, To Host Property Marking Event.

Gardai at Nenagh in North Co. Tipperary will host a ‘Property Marking Event’ at Arrabawn Homevalue premises, latter situated at Tyone, South of Nenagh, on Wednesday next, May 1st, between the hours of 12:30pm and 3:30pm.

**‘Property Marking Event’**
*Picture courtesy of An Garda Síochána.*

Persons wishing to have items of property marked on that date, are reminded to please ensure they have their EIRCODE with them.

The machine being used can mark items including trailers, chainsaws, power tools, bicycles, lawnmowers, etc.

High Court Judge May Impose Custodial Sentence On Circuit Court Judge.

A former fifty-nine-year-old Circuit Court judge, who was also a former Dublin Secondary School Teacher; a Solicitor and a Thurles Fianna Fáil local District Councillor, is expected to be sentenced on May 29th next, having been found guilty of the sexual abuse/assault of six young men, some 30 years previously.

Mr Gerard O’Brien, a Thurles native, with an address at the Old School House, Slievenamon Road, Thurles, Co Tipperary, was earlier found guilty by a jury, in 2023, of one count of attempted rape and eight counts of sexual assault, in relation to the six unnamed complainants.

These offences are understood to have taken place in Dublin, between March 1991 and November 1997. Mr O’Brien was a secondary school teacher and aged in his late 20s and early 30s at that time, while the unnamed complainants were his students or former students. Latter were aged between 17 and 24 and are now aged in their 40s and early 50s.

Former barrister and now a Judge of the High Court since 2019; Mr Justice Alexander Owens has stated that it was likely he would impose a custodial sentence on Mr O’Brien and has asked for a report from the prison service about how they can meet Mr O’Brien’s needs in prison, in view of his obvious disabilities.

Mr O’Brien was born with the rare congenital condition, known as Phocomelia, which has resulted in him being born with no arms and only one leg; same injuries brought on by the congenital anomaly of the drug Thalidomide, brought into prominence as a characteristic side effect of the use of the drug thalidomide, used during pregnancy.

Mr O’Brien had initially denied all the allegations against him, but following the guilty verdict, he conveyed his resignation to the President in accordance with the requirements of section 6 (2) of the Courts (Establishment and Constitution) Act 1961, in early January of this year.

Mr Justice Alexander Owens has today questioned if the school could have done more to protect their students.

Irish Blessing In Music & Song.

May the Road Rise to Meet You.

Irish “Go n-éirí an bóthar chun bualadh leat”, translates as “May the Road Rise to Meet You”.

Lyrics: American musician, singer-songwriter Roger McGuinn and his wife Camilla, (the former was founder and leader of ‘The Byrds’).
Vocals: Irish American singer-songwriter, Cathie Ryan.

May the Road Rise to Meet You.

Summertime the sun would shine, we’d lay out in the field,
Sheltered in the shadow of a tree.
We write our songs to take along,
And sing out on the road,
And you would always sing this song to me.

Chorus.
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be at your back,
May the sun shine down warm upon your land,
May the rain fall soft upon your face until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.

Autumn leaves would leave the trees,
In colours on the ground.
Swirling patterns beautiful to see.
I’d lay my head down on your lap,
I would not make a sound,
And you would always sing this song to me.

Repeat Chorus.

In the winter days the trees would shiver in the wind,
Waiting for the warming touch of spring,
You’d hold me in the firelight.
We’d stare into the flames,
And this is what you always used to sing.

Repeat Chorus.

May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.

END

A Song For A Sunday.

Here Comes That Rainbow Again.

The lyrics, hereunder, were inspired by the novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath’, written by American writer (and winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature) the late John Steinbeck (1902-1968).

Vocals and Lyrics: American retired country singer, songwriter, and actor Kris Kristofferson.

Here Comes That Rainbow Again.

The scene was a small roadside café.
The waitress was sweeping the floor.
Two truck drivers drinking their coffee,
And two Okie* kids by the door.
“How much are them candies?” They asked her.
“How much have you got?” She replied.
“We’ve only a penny between us”,
“Them’s two for a penny,” she lied.
And the daylight grew heavy with thunder,
With the smell of the rain on the wind.
Ain’t it just like a human?
Here comes that rainbow again.

One truck driver called to the waitress,
After the kids went outside.
“Them candies ain’t two for a penny”.
“So what’s it to you?” She replied.
In silence they finished their coffee,
Then got up and nodded goodbye.
She called, “Hey, you left too much money”.
“So what’s it to you?” They replied.
And the daylight was heavy with thunder,
With the smell of the rain on the wind.
Ain’t it just like a human?
Here comes that rainbow again.

END
*Okie – An inhabitant of Oklahoma.