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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.
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.
All females aged between 17-25 years will be able to avail of free contraception from GPs as and from Wednesday.
In late July of this year (2022) the Minister for Health Mr Stephen Donnelly welcomed the signing into law by President Michael D. Higgins of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Act 2022, after it successfully passed all stages of the Dáil and the Seanad, with cross-party support.
However, it will be the decision of individual GP practices to sign up to the scheme. It is not expected that every doctor will do so, as this will depend on the statistical characteristics of surrounding populations attending at each practice, and the ability of doctors to undertake this extra work.
The programme is expected to begin operating with effect from Wednesday next, with young women potentially saving up to and in some cases in excess of two hundred euro each year and will no longer impose a significant barrier to accessibility by those financially dependent on parents or guardians.
This new scheme to be introduced, will cover the full cost of prescription contraception for females, including the cost of necessary consultations with medical professionals to discuss other contraception options, including the fitting or removal of various types of long-acting and reversible contraception.
The scheme will provide a range of contraceptive options including contraceptive injections, implants, IUS and IUDs (coils), the contraceptive patch and ring, and various forms of oral contraceptive pill, including emergency contraception.
A nationwide publicity campaign is expected to be in operation shortly, which will advise young women on what the package will means for them, and details will also be provided shortly on the Citizen’s Information website, HERE.
Pharma giant MSD (the international name for US-based pharma and healthcare giant Merck & Co., Inc.) has officially opened Ireland’s largest self-generation solar project, at its Ballydine site, here in south Co. Tipperary.
Working in partnership with the state owned electricity company ESB (Electricity Supply Board), latter Ireland’s foremost energy company; MSD have built the 7.3MW ground-mounted solar PV array, to support the Ballydine factory facility in significantly reducing its carbon footprint.
Same is in line with MSD’s announcement just last year to achieve carbon neutrality, across its whole manufacturing operation by the year 2025.
MSD estimate that the system could generate approximately 7.9GWh of clean, renewable electricity thus producing some 20% of its energy requirements from renewable energy sources.
MSD employs more than 2,800 staff across six sites in Ireland, with bases in Tipperary, Carlow, Cork, Meath and Dublin and to date MSD have invested more than $4bn into its Irish operations, which manufacture around half of its top 20 products.
The four year old boy announced at the dinner table, “Dad, I’ve decided to get married”.
A surprised father replied, “Wonderful son and do you have a particular girl in mind?”
“Yes” replied his young son, “Grandma”. He further continued in his efforts to justify the reason for his intentions; “She said she loves me, I love her, too, and she’s the best cook and story teller in the whole world”.
His father replied, “That’s very nice son, but we do have a small problem here”.
“What’s the problem?”, queried the young boy.
His father replied, “Well son, not trying to disappoint you, but she happens to be my mother. How can you possibly marry my mother”.
The young boy quickly retorted “Why not? Didn’t you marry mine”.
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