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 Liberty Square, Thurles. A 23-year-old Tipperary youth has been jailed for 18 years for the manslaughter of 25 year old Mr James Tynan following an unprovoked assault in Liberty Square, Thurles Co Tipperary in February 2012.
Mr Jason Morrissey residing in Toomevara, Co Tipperary pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing. It was established that Mr Morrissey did not know his victim prior to the unprovoked and fatal assault, which took place at around 1.25am, following a night out in the town.
Mr Tynan, a native of Johnstown, Co Kilkenny, was standing outside of Hayes Hotel, having exited a Night Club, when Mr Morrissey struck him in the face, in a totally unprovoked assault.
Mr Tynan died the following evening, having suffered serious head injuries when he fell, striking his head off the street’s concrete pavement.
In a victim impact statement given at the sentencing, the late Mr Tynan’s mother, Mrs Dolores Tynan, stated that her son had previously requested that he be a future organ donor and this wish had now granted sustained life to six other individuals.
At Nenagh Circuit court, today, in judgement, Judge Thomas Teehan sentenced Mr Morrissey to 21 years for this unlawful killing and other serious assaults by the accused, with the final three years to be suspended. Mr Morrissey is understood to have had 85 criminal convictions and was on bail for public order offences when he killed Mr Tynan.
A letter of apology from Mr Morrissey to the Tynan family was also read out at today’s court hearing.
 Property Tax Meeting, Hayes Hotel, Thurles, Co Tipperary Local Property Tax (LPT) correspondence is currently being issued by the Revenue Commissioners. Currently about 75% of letters due, have been forwarded to home owners, many of which are incorrectly addressed.
Each home owner will be expected to assess the value of their home, which will involve choosing a valuation band, using a system of self assessment.
Three trade unions including Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI), UNITE and the Civil Public and Services Union (CPSU) have joined the campaign against this property tax, justifiable claiming it is causing huge distress and despair amongst the lower paid sections of Irish society.
Deputy Seamus Healy will host a public meeting on the “Family Home and Property Tax,” on Wednesday next April 10th at 8.00pm in Hayes Hotel, Thurles.
At this meeting it is hoped to express publicly, not only the current fears of home owners, but also to furnish up-to-date information on the details, of what is generally agreed by many as an unfair and unjust tax.
Challenge & Boycott Local Property Tax
This meeting will be your perfect opportunity to explore ways in which this unjust tax can be challenged & boycotted and to establish how in the long term this regressive tax will affect you and eventually your children’s future.
Deputy Healy believes, as do the majority of PAYE workers, Unemployed persons, Pensioners, & small Businesses, all residents of Co Tipperary, that this attack on our property is morally wrong, regressive to consumer spending, deliberately targeting low and middle income families and therefore should now be fully shelved and abandoned.
This legislation was initially bulldozed without a public mandate through Dáil Éireann in December last, granting the Revenue Commissioners draconian powers to collect this most unjust & duel tax on people’s homes.
To add to this debate, current data from the Irish Banking Federation now demonstrates that mortgage draw-downs which were beginning to pick up in the final quarter of last year, have become retrograde. The arrived in December of Phil Hogan’s property tax is targeted now as the main reason. Between November and February last, house prices fell by 2.6%, equal to an annualised rate of 8%. Prior to December 2012, the property market was beginning to enter a period of some activity, through recovering prices and a definite identifiable confidence, but now we are back once again to falling negative equity.
Deputy Healy is now inviting you, the public, to come along to this meeting on Wednesday next and have your say.
Tipperary must no longer remain the “Silent People,” once referred to in the historical trilogy of Walter Macken’s prose. We must not be the future second-class citizen left to become the victims of this oppressive tax. This Local Property Tax will eventually lead rural Ireland into outright poverty, so that the likes of Dublin City Council, who benefit from all current job creation, can waste another €40m of rural taxpayers’ money to boost their O’Connell street upward only landlords & rental businesses.
 Down syndrome Ireland (Tipperary Branch,) are hosting a coffee morning in Hayes Hotel, Thurles, next Saturday September 29th, from 9.30am until 11.00am.
All funds will go direct to the Tipperary Branch of Down Syndrome Ireland.
Down syndrome Ireland Tipperary branch is run on a voluntary basis by parents and families of children/adults with Down Syndrome. They offer a wide & varied range of services, including Parentlink, a group of parents who have received training to be the first point of contact to new parents and their families. They also employ a senior Speech and Language therapist, Susanna Stokes, two days a week to work with Tipperary members. Susanna gives a home programme for parents to follow at home.
The group also provide worthwhile Music Therapy & Kindergym for all younger members and a valued Therapeutic Fitness Instructor, who works with those affected, who are over the age of six year old. In May 2012 they commenced their Adult Literacy (Latch – on) Project, in conjunction with Down syndrome Limerick, which is a two year literacy project for adults with Down syndrome.
Fundraising, like this coffee morning on Saturday 29th September at Hayes Hotel and other fundraising events throughout the year held by members, their families and friends, make it possible for the Tipperary branch to subsidies these very vital services for these Down Syndrome affected children and adults. Please also remember that all funds raised here in Co Tipperary stays totally within the Tipperary branch network.
So please, please, please do make the effort to support this worthy cause and note your calendar; its all happening on Saturday September 29th, next from 9.30am until 11.00am.
 Picture shows: L- R Patricia Dabrowska, Marcin Skruch & Konrad Parzychowski, committee members of the newly formed Tipperary Polish Society. In today’s world, people are immigrating to other countries from all around our world, often in search of work or improved working conditions, dreams of success and fortune or just plain adventure. Polish people, just like Irish people past & present, have been immigrating for centuries. In the past we all had our reasons, Communism, War, Famine or simply Unemployment.
One good history example, worthy of note, can be found when one examines immigration during the first 6 months of 1847. Almost half as many Polish as did Irish people, immigrated to New York, the latter escaping the Great Potato Famine here in Ireland.
Today Polish people travel in search of a better life style, choosing to locate in many different countries, including Ireland. Indeed, according to the 2011 Census, 2.67% of the general population living in Ireland are now Polish, which makes them the largest single minority group living here. Since Polish people started arriving in Ireland they have begun to organise themselves in numerous ways. Everyone of them have found here in Ireland their own “harbour,” but sometimes they still feel totally lost & lonely in their own somewhat restricted private lives. Many of them have gotten themselves into a pattern of a,” Work to Home & back to Work again,” style of living, without any other motivation for further interactive community participation and integration. This creates a negative effect not just through their immediate contact with their family and limited friends, but with other existing multicultural societies and with Irish people, in the land they have choosen to adopt.
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 Civic Reception to celebrate 175 year of St Patrick's College in Thurles. Tonight Thurles Town Council, on behalf of the people of Thurles, held a civic reception to mark the 175th Anniversary of founding of the St. Patrick’s College, began in 1837 here in Thurles, Co Tipperary.
Addressing a large gathering, which included His Grace, Archbishop Dr Dermot Clifford, (Archbishop of Cashel & Emly,) Fr Tomas Fogarty (St Patrick’s College President ), Priests which including Fr Tomas O’Connell, Fr Joeseph Walsh & Fr Martin Hayes, together with Lecturers, Students, Lay Associates and Invited Guests, Thurles Mayor Mr John Kennedy stated:-
“It gives me great pleasure, on behalf of Thurles Residents & Thurles Town Council to welcome you to this reception here in The Source this evening. This evening Thurles Town Council and the people of Thurles have deemed it appropriate to recognise St Patrick’s College on reaching a milestone, that of 175 years, of dedication to Thurles town.
St. Patrick’s College stands alongside Semple Stadium, Hayes Hotel and the Cathedral of The Assumption as ‘flagship,’ buildings in Thurles which are recognised throughout Ireland and even much further afield.
St. Patrick’s College owes its existence to the vision and generosity of Archbishop Patrick Everard, who donated the then significant sum of £10,000 pounds for the purpose of founding a college here in Thurles. The foundation stone was laid on the 6th. July, 1829, by Archbishop Laffan in the presence of Daniel O’Connell and a large gathering. Fr. Thomas O’Connor, a curate in Thurles parish, who was subsequently appointed the first President of the College, was assigned to oversee its construction. Eighteen pupils entered the College on its opening day, September, 1st, 1837.
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