Thurles Woman Receives Award for volunteer of The Year
Bernie O’Dowd from Thurles has recieved an Award for being Camogie volunteer of the year 2011. She is pictured here accepting the award from Deirdre Murphy. Development Officer of the Munster Camogie Council. Well done Bernie. Tweet This Post
Maura Lennon’s return to Ethiopia with GOAL
Maura Lennon is living proof of the folly of rash categorisation. She is a petit woman, who looks anything but her 48 years: despite most of those years having been spent working in some of the most trying circumstances imaginable. Hers is a bubbly personality: but it masks the steely determination necessary for the selfless, [...]
100 year Anniversary of An Iconic Song(It’s a long way to Tipperary)
The Iconic song It’s a long way to Tipperary is 100 years old today. When I spent time in Germany and Scandinavian, I would often be asked where in Ireland I came from, and when I replied Tipperary, I would be met face on with a blast of the songs first line. In wonderful drunken [...]
Native Tipperary girl joins Mick Galwey and Irish Business Leaders to Launch Cycle4haiti 2012
Native Tipperary girl joins Mick Galwey and Irish Business Leaders to Launch Cycle4haiti 2012 Over 500 Cyclists Gear Up to Raise €400k for Soul of Haiti Foundation To mark the start of Haiti Week 2012, local Clonmel girl, Isolde Moylan, Soul of Haiti, joined Mick Galwey and An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, T.D to launch the [...]
Aglish Old School Project
Well at this stage we are about 2 ½ months into our renovations of the Old School in Aglish. While the weather hasn’t always been favourable to our builder Ken Gleeson & the lads from Curraghamore Carpentry, they have made great progress. From finding a massive beehive in the hall way to re-roofing the school, [...]
Survey Shows 40% Of Over 55’s Intend To Take Two Holidays In 2012
An online survey conducted to coincide with the Over 55′s Holiday Show, part of The Holiday World Show Dublin 2012, taking place next weekend at the RDS in Dublin, has shown that over 40% of respondents intend to take two holidays this year, with over 26% intending to take three holidays. Home holidaying was the most popular [...]
Tipperary woman returns from emotional trip to Africa – World Vision Ireland
Tipperary woman, Mary Hayes, has returned to Ireland following an life changing trip where she witnessed the work of World Vision Ireland programmes in Swaziland, Africa. Mary has sponsored a child with World Vision for a number of years and was fascinated to see how sponsorship money is used to improve the lives of so [...]
Moycarkey Coolcroo A.C.
The County Juvenile Uneven Age & Intermediate Cross Country Championships took place in Powerstown Racecourse, Clonmel on Sunday 16th October. 26 of our juvenile athletes took part & we had a great day winning 7 individual medals & 2 sets of Silver team medals. Congratulations to all our athletes who took part & represented the [...]
“The M Word” See how Tipperary cancer survivor can help you.
When 55 year old Susan Ford attended for a routine mammogram, she had no idea that this would be the start of a year’s intensive treatment for breast cancer, including mastectomies, breast reconstruction, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Susan had a whole host of questions, and she looked (in vain) for a book that would answer them [...]
