Thurles Information

Death Of Fiona Grainger, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

It was with a great sadness that we learned of the death, on Monday 3rd October 2022, of Ms Fiona Grainger, Corbally, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

Pre-deceased by her father Micheál; Ms Grainger passed away suddenly, following a long illness most bravely borne.

Her passing is most deeply regretted by her loving family; mother Chris, sisters Lorraine and Sinead, brother Derek, nephew Shane, niece Leah, brothers-in-law Finbarr and Stephen, uncles, aunts, cousins, extended relatives, neighbours, Monastery Close community and friends.

Requiescat in Pace.

Funeral Arrangements.

The earthly remains of Ms Grainger will repose at Hugh Ryan’s Funeral Home, Slievenamon Road, Thurles on tomorrow evening, Thursday, October 6th, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.
Her body will be received into the Cathedral of the Assumption, Cathedral Street, Thurles, on Friday morning, October 7th, at 10:30am, to further repose for Requiem Mass at 11:00am.
Following Mass a private family cremation service will take place at The Island Crematorium, Rocky Island, Spike Island, Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork, at 3:00pm.

For those unable to attend Requiem Mass for Ms Grainger, same can be viewed online HERE.

The extended Grainger family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time and have made arrangements for those wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.

Note Please: Family flowers only. Donations in lieu, if desired, to Irish Kidney Association.

Suaimhneas síoraí dá h-anam dílis.

Coal Miner’s Daughter & Country Music Icon, Loretta Lynn Dies Aged 90 years.

American country singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn, who was born a coal miner’s daughter, before becoming a country music icon has sadly died.

In a press release, her family have confirmed her death today at her ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. “Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at her home in Hurricane Mills,” the family confirmed in a press statement.

Lynn shared a quote from the Bible on Facebook just two days before her passing. She wrote: “Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.”

Loretta Webb, who claimed to be of Irish and Cherokee descent, was born, the second of eight children, in the rural and remote Appalachian mountain village of Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, US.
Her younger sister went on to have a successful country career of her own under the name Crystal Gayle.

Loretta Webb married, at the tender age of 15 years, a 21-year-old war veteran Oliver Lynn and had given birth to four children before her legendary music career eventually took off, latter which spanned more than six decades, from the early-1960s.
She had learned to sing in Church, and her father, Melvin Webb, had died of black lung disease 11 years before her signature 1970 hit, “Coal Miner’s Daughter”; same eventually recorded, as an ode to his passing.

Her other hit songs included; “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)“; – “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)“; – “One’s on the Way”, and “Fist City”.

In 1980, the film Coal Miner’s Daughter which grossed $67.18 million in North America (against a budget of $15 million) was made based on her life, starring Sissy Spacek as Lynn, with Tommy Lee Jones (Oliver Lynn), Beverly D’Angelo (Patsy Cline) and Levon Helm (Ted Web) featuring in supporting roles.
Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, and Minnie Pearl make cameo appearances as themselves in the film.

In ár gcroíthe go deo.

Free Home Testing For Sexually Transmitted Infections.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has announced that a free national home testing service for sexually transmitted infections for those aged 17 and over, has now been expanded to all counties in the Republic of Ireland.

This service will see persons, aged from 17 years and older, able to order a free sexually transmitted infections (STI) test kit, on an online platform, which will then delivered to their home using the Irish postal service.

Once the test is completed at home, recipients can then post the samples back to the laboratory in a pre-paid envelope provided.

Test results will be returned by text or phone, with those in need of further treatment referred to a participating public STI clinic or their GP

Kits can be accessed HERE, and from today, the service has been expanded to all counties in the Republic.

Home test kits test for:
Chlamydia.
Gonorrhoea.
HIV. [Human Immunodeficiency Viruses.]
Syphilis

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has reported that notifications of STIs remain on the rise and can be attributed possibly to the impact of Covid-19 on healthcare services, and social interaction.

Winter Vaccinations Programme Launched.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has launched its winter vaccination programme. The HSE are offering their annual flu vaccine and the new Covid-19 booster vaccines, latter which protects against the Omicron strain.

The flu jab is free to all eligible groups and can be administered at the same time as the Covid booster.

The Health Service Executive are urging older people and at-risk ,coming into the winter months, to protect themselves against both the above illnesses.

From yesterday, (October 3rd, 2022), the flu vaccine will be administered free to people aged 65 or older, together with children aged two years to 17 years, (latter by way of a nasal spray); to people with identified long-term medical conditions; to women at any stage of pregnancy, and to all health care staff.

The flu and Covid vaccinations will be available at participating GPs and pharmacies and at 15 HSE centres, which continue to offer Covid-19 vaccines and boosters.

Information On Disappeared Should Be Provided To Independent Commission For Location Of Victim’s Remains.

The Minister for Justice Mrs Helen McEntee, TD has called on those with information on the ‘Disappeared’ to provide it to the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains.

The ICLVR is responsible for facilitating the location of the remains of victims of paramilitary violence (known as ‘the Disappeared’) who were murdered and secretly buried. The role of the ICLVR is purely humanitarian. Its only aim is to recover the remains of the disappeared in order to allow the families to give their loved ones a proper burial.

Minister McEntee said: “My thoughts are with the family of Columba McVeigh at this difficult time. We all hope that this latest search at Bragan Bog in County Monaghan will be successful.

I recently met with the Commission and their dedication to their task is clear. The families of the Disappeared have had to endure a particular cruelty, facing not only the tragedy and injustice of losing a loved one to murder, but not knowing for decades where that loved one was buried.

At this time we think also of the other families who still await the return of their loved ones’ remains. The Commission’s investigations are complicated and difficult, and information from the public is crucial to its work.

Someone out there may know something that might help. I would call on anyone with information that could help recover the remains of those still missing, to pass that information to the Commission without delay, safe in the knowledge that it will be treated in the strictest confidence”.