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There was once a small boy who banged a drum all day and loved every moment of it. He would not be quiet, no matter what anyone else said or did. Various attempts were made to do something about the child.

One person told the boy that he would, if he continued to make so much noise, perforate his eardrums.

This reasoning was too advanced for the child, who was neither a scientist nor a scholar.

A second person told him that drum beating was a sacred activity and should be carried out only on special occasions. The third person offered the neighbors plugs for their ears; a fourth gave the boy a book; a fifth gave the neighbors books that described a method of controlling anger through biofeedback; a sixth person gave the boy meditation exercises to make him placid and docile. None of these attempts worked.

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Mike and Joan were having some problems at home and were giving

each other the "silent treatment." But then Mike realized that he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 am for an early morning drive with some pals to go golfing.

Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and so lose the 'war'), he wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00am."

The next morning, Mike woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 am and that his friends had left for the golf course without him. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't awakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed.

The paper said, "It's 5:00 am. Wake up."

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'A Night of Dance' in aid of Rape Crisis Midwest Bridget Harte A.I.B.B.D., dance teacher, has compiled an instructional 'Shall we Dance' DVD of her most popular dances. The DVD in aid of the Rape Crisis Centre in Limerick will be launched on Saturday 19th March in the Clare Inn Hotel. As well as the launch of the DVD, there will be a night of entertainment for all dance lovers, including music, dance performances and plenty of opportunities to take to the floor. All proceeds for the night will be going to the Rape Crisis Centre.

'I feel that supporting local charities in the current climate is so important.

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The DVD will include basic dance instructions for the Slow Waltz, Jive, Quickstep and Foxtrot. There will also be clips of her students performing the West Coast Swing, Rock and Roll, Jive, Mambo, ChaCha, Tango and much more. The DVD, which is on sale for 7 euro, would make a perfect gift for any bride or grooms to be who want to practice for their first dance or for people who just want to try out the steps at home before taking to the ballroom.

Tickets are priced at 20 euro (price includes the 'Shall we Dance' DVD).

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Thurles based motor dealers Cleary Motors recently celebrated their reappointment as the main Renault dealer for County Tipperary for passenger vehicles and light commercials.

Situated at Loughtagalla, Thurles 12,609 new cars were sold in February, “We are very reassured by the numbers since 1977, Cleary Motors have an increase of 4% on last year. SIMI Director General, Alan Nolan says this for the first two months of the year but been in business since the 1950s is ahead of expectations. “With the Big we are only too aware that the year and continue to hold a reputation Freeze last year, a lot of January deliv- ahead remains a fairly challenging one. as one of the most trusted and There is no doubt though that the Moeries were delayed until February, so reliable car dealerships in the Mid tor Industry will continue to build upwe weren’t expecting this February to West. on this very strong start.” show an increase over last year. MoSo far this year, 33,606 new cars have been sold, representing a revenue intake of over €220 million. This is an increase of 18% on last year; an additional €40 million in revenue for the Exchequer.

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County Tipperary Community Games The County Art & Model Making Finals took place in the Silvermines on Saturday last, 12th March. A huge crowd of contestants turned up on the day to take part & our thanks to the Silvermines for hosting this event.

The County Finals of the U/14 Quiz took place on Friday, 4th March in the Presentation School Hall, Thurles. Our thanks to Thurles for "Doctor, I have an ear ache."

1940 A.D. - "That potion is snake oil, hosting this event which attracted over 20 teams of children from all swallow this pill."

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The County Finals of the Indoor Soccer took place on Saturday, 5th March in Templemore. Our thanks to Templemore for hosting the finals which were a great success. The results & the teams who are through to the Munster Finals in UL on Saturday 26th March are:Girls U/13 – Nenagh & the team is Kate O'Connor, Niamh Kennedy, Vanessa Tynan, Hazel McAuliffe, Emily Talbot, Elke Bergin, Saoirse McGee & Shauna Rooney.

Girls U/15 - Powerstown beat St Flannan's 2-0 with the 2 goals scored in the first half by Sarah McDermot & Megan Shanahan. The winning

Powerstown team was Everena Everard, Michelle McMeel, Sarah McDermot, Leanne Ryan, Hazel Shanahan, Cliona Collins, Aoife Power & Megan Shanahan.

Boys U/13 – In a nail biting final, Templemore beat Clerihan on penalties. The score at the end of full time was 1-1 with goals scored by Alan O'Donnell (Clerihan) & Enna McBride (Templemore). The same score stood at the end of extra time. To separate the 2 team, the match went to penalties with Templemore winning 1-0 & the winning penalty scored by Enna McBride. It was a very exciting match with nothing between the 2 sides. Well done to both teams, it really is very hard for any team to lose on penalties. The winning Templemore team was Patrick Cadell, Enna McBride, Paul Bergin, Michael Fogarty, Shane Doyle, Andrew Ormond & Ciaran Byrne.

Boys U/15 - Toomevara beat Gortnahoe 2-0 with a goal in each half both scored by Paul Ryan. The winning Toomevara team was Paul Ryan, Jack Delaney, Denis Haverty, Liam Ryan, Daniel Casey, Shane Slevin, John McInerney & Declan Elderfield.

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Community Games Continued Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th May – County Swimming Finals in Clonmel at 3pm. All boys will compete on Saturday 7th & all Girls on Sunday 8th. All entries from Area Secretaries to Tom O’Ceallaigh, 7 Auburn Square, Cashel Road, Clonmel by 22nd April.

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Thursday 31st March (tbc) – County Cross Country Finals in Thurles Crokes Complex at 7pm.

Sunday 26th June – County Athletics Finals in Templemore Track. Parade at 11.30am followed by 12 noon start. Closing date for entries to Kathleen England is Friday 3rd June.

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In western culture, weddings performed during and immediately following the Middle Ages were often more than a union between just two people. They could also be a union between two families, two businesses or even two countries.

Many weddings were more of a matter of politics than that of love.

Brides were therefore expected to dress in a manner that cast their families in the most favourable light, for they were not representing only themselves in the ceremony.

Today, Western wedding dresses are usually white. White did not become a popular option until 1840, after the marriage of Queen Victoria to Albert of Saxe-Coburg.

Victoria had worn a white gown for the event so as to incorporate some lace she owned. Many other brides opted for a similar dress in honour of the Queen’s choice.

The tradition continues today in the form of a white wedding. Many people assumed that the colour white was intended to represent virginity, though this had not been the original intention. The white gown is in fact a symbolic Christening gown. They are a variation of white surplice worn in the Western Catholic tradition by members of the clergy, church choirs and servers and the gowns worn by girls making their first communion and their first confirmation and also by women making religious vows.

Over the centuries, brides continued to dress in a manner that was befitting of their social status. The amount of material a wedding dress contained also reflected the bride’s social standing and indicated the extent of the family’s wealth. Today, there are wedding dresses available in all price ranges. Women may purchase ready-made gowns, wear a family heirloom, or they may choose a dressmaker to Today, the white dress is normally create one for her. In addition, tounderstood merely as the most popday many bridal salons have samular and traditional choice for wedples of wedding gowns in their stores where the bride selects a cer- dings. tain style and orders one to be made In Eastern culture, many of the to fit.

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David Dunne and TJ Heffernan, Juice it Up from Thurles CBS won a special merit award

The Student Enterprise Awards is a nationwide County & City Enterprise Boards initiative designed to encourage students to take a business idea from market research and follow through to production, selling, record keeping, management and finally write a comprehensive Business Plan detailing their activities. At a local level, the competition is organised by the Tipperary North County Enterprise Board.

This year there were seven schools (Colaiste Mhuire -Thurles, Nenagh Vocational School, Ursuline Convent – Thurles, Our Lady’s Secondary School – Templemore, Presentation Secondary School – Thurles, St. Mary’s Secondary School – Nenagh and CBS – Thurles) and over 120 students competing for the top prize and the opportunity to represent North Tipperary at the National Final in Croke Park on 14th April.

The Judges also awarded prizes of Special Merit to 3 mini companies.

Clever Solutions from Our Lady’s Secondary School, Templemore won an innovation award for their product Pop Master which is a popcorn holder that can attach to your drinks holder in the cinema. Team members were Karl Stakelum, Joe Nyland, Brian Kennedy, Conor Burke, Brendan Russell, Jacque Dowling, Yvonne Meehan.

Sweet Dreams from Nenagh Vocational School won a Special Merit Award for their Stand Design. Team members were Rosie Bull and Lorna Flynn.

Juice it Up from Thurles CBS won a Special Merit Award for their Busi1st Place Winners Star Games from ness Report and Presentation. Juice it the Ursuline Convent with their Up worked on the marketing and board game Bizz-a-Board which is a sales of smoothies and juices to the Business Studies Board game deschool community. As part of their signed to give a better understanding project they even created an iPhone of the Business Studies Course up to app . Team members were David Junior Certificate. The team members Dunne and TJ Heffernan. were Aine Blake, Rachel Williams, Sarah Kelly, Orla Gleeson and Aoife Junior Category Winners (all from McGrath.

Colaiste Mhuire, Thurles) 2nd Place Winners TYonline.biz Presentation Secondary School, Thurles. Tyonline.biz is a website aimed at Transition year students.

Team members were Stephanie Fleming, Lucy Blake, Ellen Lanigan, Judy Gernon, Eimear O Meara.

3rd Place Winners Tasty Tipp Recipes, Presentation Secondary School, Thurles. Their cookbook ‘Tasty Tipp Recipes’ featured recipes from Tipperary food producers and Tipperary

Kevin Shiels, Shane Bonville, Luke Robinson, Nenagh Vocational School

celebrities. Team members were Yvonne Mullins, Eimear Grace, Edel Ryan, Hazel Costigan.

1st Place – Paul’s Christmas Logs, Decorative Christmas Table Centerpieces. Paul Murphy 2nd Place – The Sweet Taste, Delicious sweets and cakes. Emmanuel Taccuma, Michael Beaton, Aaron Hassett.

3rd Place – Tadgh Calendars, Calendars with popular images and logos.

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Clever Solutions from Our Lady’s Secondary School, Templemore won an innovation award for their product Pop Master

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Grow It Yourself Week GIY week got off to a good start in North Tipperary, with the launch of a new group in Cloughjordan. A good crowd gathered at Cloughjordan House, and were treated to some cakes from Sarah Baker of the cookery school. There were talks from local grower Lily de Sylva, Davie Philip of Green Works, and Sarah Fleming, the regional champion for GIY Ireland. There was plenty to do outside in the sunshine too, with a tour of the vegetable gardens and a demonstration of vintage ploughing from Denis Cahalane. Sarah Baker plans to grow all her vegetables for the cookery school here, and there will be lots more activities through the year. The GIY group will be meeting every month to exchange gardening know-how. All events and advice are free, and the group is open to all.

GIY Ireland is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to make home-

Denis Cahalane ploughed the potato patch with this vintage Nuffield tractor.

grown food the norm and support people to grow their own successfully. It was founded by author and journalist Michael Kelly and its patrons include Diarmuid Gavin, Darina Allen, Duncan Stewart and Clodagh McKenna. GIY Ireland aims Lily de Sylva and Sarah Baker give a tour of the gardens to get 100,000 people to take the GIY Pledge – a personal commitment to Repetition is an important grow something you can eat. You part of Advertising can find out more, and join your local group, on their website at Why? www.giyireland.com Because it is through repetition that you establish To join the Cloughjordan group and your credibility, establish brand familiarity and get details of local events call Lily de become the first thought when a need Sylva on 0505 42806 for your type of product or service arises.

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Counselling Depression

By Jim O’Shea For some reason when I think of depression, the poem I wake and feel the fell of dark not day comes to mind. I studied this poem long ago in Thurles C.B.S. It was composed by the Jesuit priest, Gerald Manly Hopkins, who lived from 1844 until 1889. I’m not sure if the teacher put it in the context of depression, but Hopkins, a master of the English language and of unusual imagery, paints a picture of a tormented soul shrouded in darkness and despair.

I think that people who suffer from depression could identify with Hopkins’ sentiments. I might add that the founder of the Jesuit order, St. Ignatius of Loyola, referred to the ’dark night of the soul’ which blighted him for a long time. Like Hopkins he was not referring to depression, but the description can be aptly applied to the condition of depression. At any rate read the poem and see what you think, and see how Hopkins portrays the darkness that entered his whole being.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.

What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! What sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!

And more must, in yet longer light’s delay.

I am gall, I am heartburn. God’s most deep decree Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me; Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.

Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see The lost are like this, and their scourge to be As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

(Gerard Manly Hopkins (1844-1889)

Depression is an extensive and complicated reality, and it is estimated that by 2020 it will rank second only to heart disease as a worldwide problem. It has been aptly described as a democratic complaint, affecting anyone, rich or poor, old or young, and people of all races.

In the coming articles I will not be concerned with the normal use of depression as temporary mood swings over sad events, but with what the psychologists, Constance Hammen and Edward Watkins, have called ‘a constellation of experiences including not only mood, but also physical, mental, and behavioural experiences that define more prolonged, impairing, and severe conditions’.

There are several areas that I will not cover in my articles. These include the use of antidepressants. As a counsellor I place my faith in psychotherapy and counselling as a way to deal with depression. I certainly work with people who

are taking anti-depressants, but I do not have sufficient knowledge of these medicines to include them in my writings.

Neither will I include much on the genetic causes of depression, however interesting they are. My belief is that depression is natural, and generally is a response to life’s difficulties. For those interested in the genetic aspect area I recommend the book Flagging the Therapy. Pathways out of Depression and Anxiety by Dr Harry Barry.

As I mentioned already, depression is very complicated, and there are many technical and scholarly articles published on it. But, I will do my best to make it as simple as I can in my articles. I’m not sure if this will help those who suffer from depression, but sometimes understanding the nature of a complaint can be helpful. A very good way of understanding depression is to be aware of its symptoms. This in particular can be very useful for people who suffer from depression or those live with a depressed person. So before I look at the types of depression (which can be a bit academic) I will have a general look at these symptoms.

Depression falls into the category of what psychiatrists call affective disorders (associated with feelings), which are defined by manifestations of abnormal affect or mood. These present as sadness, being down in the dumps, being under a black cloud, feeling empty, and, especially in the case of children, being irritable.

Not all people exhibit sadness or a depressed mood, but may experience a loss of interest or pleasure in life, and so not get any pleasure from normally pleasurable activities. This is called anhedonia.

Pleasure and satisfaction is no longer enjoyed from work or pastimes; and the depressed person finds it difficult to shake off the symptoms. It is like seeing the world without colour - a black, white, and grey experience.

Jim O’Shea works as a counsellor from Furze, Thurles. Ph.087-8211009 www.jimoshea.net. Jim O’Shea’s book ‘When a child dies. Footsteps of a Grieving Family’ is published by Veritas. The royalties from this book will go the the Children’s Hospital in Crumlin

Jim O’Shea’s new book called Abuse, about domestic violence, workplace and school bullying is now available on Amazon.

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