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Local Clonmel Man Describes Ukraine War as Harrowing and Unnecessary

Anthony’s fear of being captured by Russian soldiers is a constant worry

Anthony Hawkins, a local photographer from Clonmel who now runs a restaurant in Belfast, is currently visiting Ukraine with his Ukrainian girlfriend.

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He describes the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine as both “very scary and unnecessary.” Anthony paints a harrowing picture of the destruction he has witnessed, describing village after village laid to waste, with no electricity, clean water, or basic necessities available.

“The devastation is beyond words,” Anthony says. “There are curfews in place, and nobody is allowed outside until morning because of military movements. I’m not permitted to photograph or film soldiers or homes that have been attacked.”

The personal toll of the war is

starkly evident in Anthony’s account. “One of my friends’ fathers was killed on the front line yesterday, and his mother suffered a heart attack and is now in the hospital,” he shares. “It’s heartbreaking to witness what’s happening right in front of my eyes, and I wish I could do more to help.”

Despite the grim situation, Anthony recounts a poignant moment that underscores the human element in the middle of the chaos. “I went out for a meal which cost €8, and that was for sushi with all the trimmings. I tipped the waiter €50, which is a significant sum in Ukraine today. The poor girl burst out crying with delight.”

The struggle for basic survival is

a daily reality for the local people.

“It’s very hard for them to buy food and everyday essentials.

People need help ASAP,” Anthony emphasises. To aid in this effort, he has set up a GoFundMe page for anyone willing to contribute to purchasing essential goods for local families.

“The only people that seem to be doing okay are the Mafia and those in the computer industry,” he notes. However, the ever present danger of airstrikes and military encounters looms large. “Airstrikes can happen anytime, anywhere, with no warning. If you get caught in one of those, it’s curtains.”

Anthony’s fear of being captured by Russian soldiers is a constant worry. Yet, there is a modicum of safety provided by technology. “We have apps on our phones to tell us where the heavy fighting is happening. Right now, it’s not far from where I am today, near Chernobyl, and there’s a lot of fighting happening in Dnipropetrovska on the Zaporizka border.”

The unpredictable nature of life in

a war zone is vividly illustrated by an incident Anthony experienced recently. “I was in a shopping mall yesterday when the alarm went off and the electricity cut out. The last place you want to be is in a lift because you could be stuck there for hours.” Which nearly happen to me.

Night time offers little respite. “I find it hard to sleep; my brain is on overdrive,” he says. Adding to the stress are the high temperatures, which have reached 27°C. “I was on the beach the other day, and the bugs here are enormous and scary. Plus, there are snakes, bears, and wolves, and it feels like they all want to kill me too.”

Despite these overwhelming challenges, Anthony remains determined to help those in need. He appeals to the public for support through his GoFundMe page, which can be found at [https://gofund.me/f803478b].

“Any amount you can afford to give will go a long way in helping local families here. Your support would be greatly appreciated.”

Anthony’s account is a sobering reminder of the human cost of the

conflict in Ukraine. His efforts to provide relief to those suffering underscore the importance of global solidarity in times of crisis.

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Liam Lynch commemorated on his 101st Anniversary

The audience may have changed over the years but the commitment to remember him remains the same.

The Liam Lynch National Commemoration Committee held their annual commemoration to Liam Lynch on Sunday 14th July, 101 years since the’ Chief of Staff’ of the IRA was shot on the slopes of the Knockmealdown Mountains while trying to evade freestate forces.

BY TOM HENNESSY

The Commemoration began with a march to the Round Tower Monument which was led by lone piper Kathleen Fitzgerald who hails from Liam Lynch’s home place of Anglesboro, and Tony Kelly of Killenaule led the colour party. Chairman of the Committee Sean Nugent welcomed everyone and said a considerable length of time has passed since Liam’s death but time has not dimmed the memory of the contribution and the sacrifice he made in the cause of Irish freedom. Year after year people come to this commemoration to remember him. The audience may have changed over the years but the commitment to remember him remains the same. Sean referring then to South Tipperary’s proud Republican history said “When you come here to South Tipperary you can be assured that you are in ‘Rebel Territory’ and the people of this general area, in days gone by, have to be commended for the part they played in supporting Liam Lynch and for supporting the fighting men of the IRA of that time. I

welcome the descendants of those great people here today, and the people of the locality have also to be commended for the erection of this magnificent monument which was a significant challenge in those times. Sean speaking of the Round Tower Monument outlined how it is one of the finest monuments to a fallen hero in rural Ireland today, and how it has stood the test of time comparing it to Liam Lynch’s memory and that it will continue to be a place of pilgrimage in the years ahead.

A decade of the rosary as Gaelige was then said.

Wreaths were laid by Committee members and Goatenbridge man Tomas O’Leary on behalf of the committee. James ‘Sliotar’ Twomey on behalf of the Tipperary Independent Republican Association. Christy O’Callaghan a relative of Liam Lynch laid a wreath on behalf of the family. Kilkenny man Ger Foran laid a wreath on behalf of the Sinnots Cross Committee, Paul Quinlan on behalf of Waterford Independent Republicans, Tony Walsh Cork Fenian Society and John Murphy, 32 County Sovereignty Movement.

The main oration was then given by John Crawley whose

book documenting his life in the Republican movement is a best seller. John began by recounting that even though Sinn Fein were endorsed by the Irish people in the 1918 election when they contested it on a manifesto endorsing the 1916 Rising and the proclamation of the Irish Republic, and they had a landslide victory, Britain responded with the Government of Ireland act 1920 which partitioned Eire and formally legislated for the fact that the British Government rejected the concept of majority all Ireland opinion. The 1918 election was the last time the British Government would permit the National will to be tested in an Ireland comprising one unit.

John then referenced Tipperary’s proud rebel tradition when he spoke of the Soloheadbeg ambush.

“On the same day that the Dail met, Sean Treacy, and Dan Breen were among a group of dynamic and heroic young men who fired the first shots of the ‘Tan’ war at Soloheadbeg”

Referencing the Treaty which led to the Civil war John said, quoting Desmond Ryan, “The spirit of the Irish revolution was buried. It was the hour of reaction, of the placehunter, the intriguer, the hopeless, the mediocre, the superstitious. Never had the pride and selfrespect of a nation been so deeply wounded.”

John continued “During the Anglo-Irish treaty a persistent theme was that a pro-Treaty vote was a vote for peace, with the resulting implication that those who stood firmly for the Republic were out for war. “Quoting Liam Mellows John said “If peace was the only object why, I say, was this fight ever started? Why did we ever negotiate for what we are now

told is impossible? Why should men have ever been led on the road they travelled if peace was the only object? We could have had peace, and could have been peaceful in Ireland a long time ago if we were prepared to give up the ideal for which we fought.”

John speaking of Liam told how he had been elected Chief of Staff of the IRA in March 1922 at a convention the provisional Government had banned because they knew the majority of IRA Volunteers opposed the Treaty.

“Lynch was a highly respected IRA leader. He had acquired an excellent reputation as Commandant of the Cork NO.2 Brigade during the ‘Tan’ war. He was later made OC commanding 1st Southern Division.”

The IRA voted against the Treaty at that convention passing a resolution declaring “That the Army reaffirms its allegiance to the Irish Republic”

Freestaters called their armed wing the ‘National Army’, but it was no National Army. Had it been the British Government would never have permitted it to exist. It was an exclusively 26 county force set up to fight the only war it ever engaged in, to overthrow the Irish Republic”

John continued, “The staters attempted to justify this by claiming they were implementing the will of the Irish people. But it was not the will of the Irish people that led to the bombardment of the four courts in June 1922 with artillery provided by the British army. That attack was carried out on orders from LIoyd George and Churchill. Quoting Bernard Montgomery who commanded British forces in Cork during the Civil war

“We could probably have squashed

the IRA rebellion, but it would have broken out again like an ulcer the moment we removed the troops. The only way, therefore, was to give them some form of self Government, and let them squash the rebellion themselves; they are the only people who could really stamp it out.”

John quoted from James Connolly who said, “When a foreign invader plants himself in a country which he holds by military force his only hope of retaining his grasp is either that he wins the loyalty of the natives, or if he fails to do so that he corrupts enough of them to enable him to disorganise and dishearten the remainder. The chief method of corruption is by an appeal to self-interest”.

John continued “The self

interest of the freestaters lay in an opportunity provided by the British Government to achieve managerial control of a state with the pay, pensions, patronage, and prestige that went with it. Achieving managerial control of a state, any state’ is something that has exercised the energies of ambitious opportunists throughout our history - a fact we know all too well in our own time. John explained how there is a contextual thread running through every British attempt at an Irish settlement since at least the mid 19th century. In the summer of 1921 at the height of the ‘Tan’ war the British prime minister sent a telegram to the SF leadership seeking negotiations ”with a view to ascertaining how

the association of Ireland with the community of nations known as the British Empire may be reconciled with Irish aspirations.

“Reconciling Irish nationalism with British Sovereignty has dominated British strategic thinking since Gladstone first jettisoned his liberal party’s hostility toward Irish home rule and embraced it as a buffer between an Independent national republic and British sovereignty.”

John then made reference to the Good Friday Agreement which he said, “That buffer in 1914 was Home Rule, in 1923, it was The Anglo Irish Treaty. That buffer today is the Good Friday Agreement. .John called the Good Friday Agreement a snare and a delusion. He said it entangles us in a web of terms and conditions regarding Irish unity that only Britain can interpret and adjudicate. It invites the delusion that British legislation will pave the way to a national democracy within an All Ireland republic.

A political outcome Britain has strenuously rejected and sabotaged at every opportunity and will continue to do so.

“London would welcome a united Ireland provided the 26 counties concedes its essential Britishness by re joining the Commonwealth, harness itself to Britain’s war chariot by joining ‘Nato’, and discards Republican symbols such as the Tricolour and Amhran na bhFiann. In a future ‘shared island’ political flags, songs, and symbols must

reflect the conflicting national allegiances that England imposed on Ireland. Instead of breaking the connection with England, we are being conditioned into becoming more closely incorporated into a British sphere of influence on a more national level.”

John continued describing that Britain’s continuing presence in Ireland is not for the sake of Unionists. He said England’s conquest of Eire began centuries before the Ulster plantations. England wants to continue a significant influence in Eire for defence reasons; they see our land as ‘an unsinkable aircraft carrier and potential ports for their warships and submarines. An island where six of its counties are members of NATO, and the remaining twenty six must somehow be cajoled or conned into joining. The Brits will form alliances, and build the political prestige of the leadership of any community who will help them pacify, normalise and stabilise the status quo so that they can achieve their political and military strategic objectives.”

John then asked what happened to the Republican project, to unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissentions, and to substitute the common name of Irish man in the place of denominations of Protestant Catholic and dissenter.

John continued “Did it die here with Liam Lynch? Did it starve to death with Bobby Sands and Frances Hughes in Long Kesh,

or was it killed in action with Jim Lynagh and his comrades at Loughall?

John Crawley then said “As we gather at the spot where Liam was killed by Irish men armed by Britain, it is easy to become disheartened by the opportunism and corruption exhibited by many of our fellow countrymen. Irish Republicanism is in a bad place but we’ve been here before. John then spoke of Tom Clarke whose mother, Mary Palmer hailed from Clogheen just beside the Knockmealdowns. “Imagine how disheartened Thomas Clarke must have felt when after years of struggle and imprisonment in England, he and his comrades seemed more than an insignificant group of irrelevant cranks calling from the margins for a sovereign republic against the overwhelming majority of the people they fought for. An Irish electorate who wanted nothing more than a devolved Home Rule assembly within the British Empire and voting exclusively for candidates who pursued that agenda.

John continued saying men like Tom Clarke and his comrades who stood their ground, kept their principles, preserved their integrity, and maintained their Republican values through dark times, these are our greatest sources of inspiration and that it was Clarke and the men of 1916 that inspired Liam Lynch and his comrades to do likewise.

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crowd occurred next when John Crawley standing under the Round Tower Monument on the slopes of the Knockmealdown Mountains said, “Look at this beautiful monument to Liam Lynch. Look at the Republicans gathered here to remember the man and what he stood for over a century after his death. Who honours the men who killed him? Nobody sings songs about free staters!

A huge round of applause greeted that statement and the crowd of approximately 150 let it be known they agreed with what John had just said.

John concluded his oration saying “The roots of the national flower run deep. From time to time, weeds, carefully cultivated by Britain attempt to choke it off. Although theses weeds are plentiful and well nourished, their roots are shallow. Easy plucked once we achieve the complete freedom of our country. Liam Lynch famously said in 1919, ‘we have declared for an Irish Republic, and will not live under any other law’. He died here true to his oath on the 10th of April 1923.Up the Republic!

As the Tricolour floated in the Tipperary Mountain breeze a huge standing ovation was given to John Crawley after his inspirational oration. I was honoured to read a poem then which I received from Frank Myles the son of Sean Hogan, ‘Flying Column ‘member Sean Myles, just this week. I also

asked the crowd to remember Ronan O’Dwyer from Ballylooby who tragically lost his life last year, Ronan had attended the Commemoration on a regular basis and both his Grandparents had fought in the ‘Flying Columns’.

Just before the Commemoration ended with our national anthem a lone bugler from the Cork Fenian Society played the last post.

The 101st Commemoration of Liam Lynch was a huge success and the large crowd that attended shows that the people of Tipperary and the many who came from further distances, still hold ‘The Chief’ and his idealism in high esteem. Well done to Sean Nugent, Tomas O’Leary, Pat Boyce, Terry Crowe, Pat O’Donnel all hard working members of the Commitee.Beir bua.

To raise funds for Mary’s Meals Martin Bourke is cycling around North and Mid Tipperary (250km) starting in Templemore on the 7th of August. He is being accompanied on the journey by Maria D’arcy (Fogarty Cobbs, Templemore) to raise funds for Mary’s Meals while John Egan is walking with Fr Eamon Kelly, Director of Mary’s Meals and others from Thurles to Knock to arrive there on August 15th.

A few similar type walks are occurring all over Ireland. Funds are needed to feed and educate some of the world’s starving children. Currently we are feeding almost 2.5 million children in 17 different countries stretching from Syria right across Africa and into central America. The cost of feeding a child one meal a day in a place of education for one year is €22. 96 cents of every euro donated

reaches the front line. All our volunteers cover their own expenses so 100% of all donations are forwarded to Mary’s Meals Ireland. Archbishop Kieran O’Reilly, who has witnessed the work of Mary’s Meals in Liberia is very supportive of our work. You can help by doing a little fundraiser of your own. If you wish just contact John Egan 0878158720 or any of the above committee.

From left to right; Seamus Bourke, Templemore, Martin Bourke, Templemore, Tom Comerford, Knockavilla/Doneskeagh, John Egan, Templemore, Angela Galvin, Templemore, Moira Morrissey, Ballycahill. Biddy Stapleton, Borrisoleigh, Kathleen O’Donnell, Boherlahan/Dualla, Josie Hayes, Two Mile Borris. Missing from the picture are Phil Bowe, Moyne/Templetuohy, Bridget O’Dea, Loughmore/Castleiney, Majella Walsh Killenaule/ Moyglass, Mairin Egan Byrne, Drom/Inch, Liam McGrath, Holycross, Teresa Bourke, Upperchurch/Drombane, Maria D’arcy, Borrisokane.

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The monitoring centre is a high tech 24/7 facility

Local businessman Jack Raeburn announced this week significant plans to expand his Myne Security company in Cashel, over the next number of years, and is looking for people to employ immediately, to kick off those plans.

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He has also promised extra jobs, with staff required over the next number of years, in what promises to by a multi-million-euro investment in the town.

MYNE Security is a security company, or more specifically what is known as an ARC (Alarm Receiving Centre) and is based on the Cahir Road at a building owned by the Raeburn family. They are an internationally certified company, and boasts centres in Ireland, the UK and South Africa, and are planning major ongoing investment in all three facilities. But because Jack himself is from Cashel, he wants to try to keep as much of that investment in the town, and create as many jobs as he can, in what is a business that is expanding exponentially both here and globally. His ambition is to build the best security monitoring infrastructure in the world, and put the business on a truly global scale, opening

up opportunities to work in other markets as the industry leader.

The monitoring centre is a high tech 24/7 facility with people working in roles from entry level ARC operators to senior management and engineering. Myne are offering all levels of job positions available in Cashel from monitoring, engineering, sales and so on.

The growth of the business will bring massive benefits to the local economy, and at the current rate of growth they will be significantly expanding the size of the ARC control room and developing the property on the Cahir Road in Cashel to sustain that growth.

All of the work done in building these facilities and the jobs created will be procured locally. Myne can quite conservatively say they will directly create an additional 40+ jobs locally in Cashel over the next 3 years. For those currently interested in such an opportunity, they ask that they contact the facility directly on the Cahir Road and they will arrange interviews or otherwise.

Myne Security company hopes to significantly expand Cashel investment over coming years

Cashel Men’s Shed visit Dail Eireann

Some members of the highly successful Cashel Men’s Shed had a special trip away last week when they were guests of local TD Martin Browne, to Dail Eireann.

The Shed which is based at Spafield Resource Centre caters for men of all ages, and is a place where they go to learn new skills, but more importantly to enjoy each other’s company and offer advice and a place to just relax. They have been going for a number of years now and are always looking for new members, which re-invigorate the current Shed participants.

At the Shed they have their own wood working facility, as well as a number of poly tunnels where they grow flowers and fruits. But they also enjoy various trips to different places and that was the focus last week, when Deputy Browne, who himself lives in Spafield Crescent took the group to the seat of power in Ireland, at the Houses of the Oireachtas. There they met Sinn Fein leader

Mary Lou Mc Donald among others, and no doubt put in a word with her and the other Deputies, reminding them of the

importance of the Men’s Shed movement and how it would benefit from extra funding being made available, both to support

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THE GREAT PETER O’SULLIVAN PASSES AWAY

Cashel mourns one of its most famous GAA stars

One of the bravest players ever to pick up a hurley

Cashel and Tipperary woke up last weekend to the sad news of the passing of one its most famous GAA sons, when the death of Peter O’Sullivan was announced.

BY LIAM BROWNE

Peter was a proud King Cormac, and won All Ireland medals in the Blue and Gold of Tipperary in the 1960’s and 70’s. A brilliant and brave young hurler between the posts, Peter played underage with Cashel, before coming to prominence at minor level with the county team. He won a Munster medal in 1961, but was unable to add the All-Ireland medal, when Tipperary went down to Kilkenny in the final. He continued as goalkeeper into the under 21 team, and won another Munster medal at that grade in 1964, when Tipperary hammered Waterford, in the first year that the grade was played. This time the Premier County faced Wexford in the All-Ireland decider, and there were no mistakes, when they routed the Yellowbellies by 8-9 to 3-1, seeing Peter pick up his first coveted national medal.

He eventually joined the senior team as a substitute goalkeeper,

but was the first-choice net minder in the 1971 season. Again, he picked up a Munster medal, to complete the minor, under 21 and senior set, when they defeated Limerick in the Munster final, and he remained the first-choice keeper when they faced off against Kilkenny in the final. This was to be the first All-Ireland final to be broadcast by RTE in full colour, and is fondly remembered for one Michael “Babs” Keating, finishing the game in his bare feet, after discarding his boots close to the end of the game. It was an exciting and high scoring game, with the two hurling aristocrats going toe to toe throughout. And although Peter let in five goals on the day, he still picked up his winner’s medal, as Tipperary ran out champions on a 5-17 to 5-14 scoreline, the highest total in an All-Ireland final then or since. It was also the only eighty-minute final, which probably had a hand in the high ending result.

But he also had a long and distinguished career with his

club of Cashel. One of the bravest players ever to pick up a hurley, Peter would regularly put his body on the line to stop shots from the most fearsome of club players in both the West and County championships. In the times he played, no quarter was asked or given, and huge crowds would often travel to fields in Golden, Dundrum, Cashel or anywhere else in West Tipperary, to watch warriors of the game. Over three decades, Peter amassed five West senior championships medals with the King Cormac’s, and always regretted that he could never have led his beloved club to the county senior titles that he and they yearned for. He was on hand in 1991, when the club finally did reach the promised land, and there were few supporters prouder that day in Thurles. Peter was also a hard working family man, and was part of one half of the well known road markings company in Cashel, M&S markings. They travelled the length and breath of the country working the roads, in what was a very dangerous profession. Maybe danger suited Peter, because he never shied away from it. Which would have seemed odd to those who met him away from the hurling pitch or hanging off a marking’s lorry. Because he was wonderful gregarious company,

always willing to chat about hurling or anything else that took the fancy. He had a twinkle in his eye and a story to tell, and was also ready to enjoy a joke or some banter.

In his later years he suffered ill

health, and passed away at the weekend, sadly missed by his heartbroken wife Joan, his son Seamus, and daughters Noelette, Siobhán, Laura and Catherine, along with a wide circle of family and friends. He was a family man to the core, and they will miss him more than anyone. No doubt, in the next days, weeks and months, many a story will be told and a memory recalled of Peter Sullivan and his time between the posts. He will be fondly remembered.

Six week summer seisiún begins this week

Starting on tomorrow, Thursday July 18 Cahir Comhaltas is set to bring their popular summer programme of Seisiún to Cahir Castle for the summer months once again. The programme will run for 6 weeks taking place on Thursday nights where Cahir Comhaltas musicians and guests will stage a formal show of traditional Irish music, song and dance in the Great Hall. The show will start at 8pm and all are welcome to come along and enjoy. Once the show is over in Cahir Castle the informal part of

the show continues on same night in Cahir House with a Trad session from 10pm and they are inviting all performers to join in. So, if you are a musician and would like to take part in these informal sessions in Cahir House Hotel, then just come along on the night and you will be most welcome.

This year is the 25 year that Cahir Comhaltas is running this programme under the directorship of Michael Harty and we wish them all the best for their summer sessions.

Cahir Arts launches

Ceramics 4

This Friday July 19 in Cahir Arts Gallery on Castle Street, Cahir sees the launch of Annual Ceramics Exhibition. Titled Ceramics 4# this Group exhibition showcases the best of Irish Ceramics made by Irish Ceramic Artists and judging on last year’s Ceramics Exhibition, it will be a showstopper! The opening will take place from 6pm on this Friday July 19 and many of the Ceramic Artists will be in attendance and happy to discuss their unique pieces of art with visitors.

The Show will run from July 17 until August 31 giving everyone a chance to pop in and view it. There is something for everyone and you may just find a little piece of art that is perfect for your home or make a special gift. Cahir arts Galley is the perfect place for the annual show as it was specifically designed as a place to make exhibit and sell unique works of art and handcrafted Irish products.

The most Wuthering Heights day ever

The Daughters of Dún Iascaigh look forward to dancing with everyone again this year for our Most Wuthering Heights Day and weather permitting they will be outside in the Inch Field. With the amazing backdrop of Cahir Castle they will dance to Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.

Just as last year they will have choreographers there to lead us all and teach everyone the steps. Our main objective for the day is for everyone to have as much fun as possible and to brighten up this very dull summer! They would also love to see as much red as possible on the day. So come and dance with us again this year, wear something red be it a scarf, ribbon, t-shirt or cap. Of course if you feel comfortable dancing with the group they would be delighted and there will be a few rehearsals beforehand to show how the routine goes. But if

dancing is not for you, then just your support on the day is all that is required and you never know, you might want to join in when you see how much fun it is! Bring your family and friends for a great afternoon.

Last Saturday morning some of the Daughters were at Cahir Farmers Market selling tickets and gave a preview of the dance routine much to visitor’s amazement. This Saturday morning they will be at Cahir Farmers Market once again where tickets will be on sale. Tickets are €10 Adults, Children are Free and all are welcome.

This is a ticketed event; tickets at €10 are available on eventbrite too. All proceeds will go to TRCC Tipperary and Cuan Saor Women’s Refuge & Support Services Clg. Come along and dance with them on the day and raise vital funds while having fun.

O’Neill and Michelle Crimmins sold tickets at Cahir farmers Market last Saturday for the upcoming Wuthering Heights Day

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Moloney returns to chair of libraries, culture/heritage and biodiversity

Following this month’s council meeting held in Nenagh, local Councillor Andy Moloney was re-elected as Chairman of the Libraries and Cultural Services with Heritage and Biodiversity.

Moloney has joined up with Shane Lee of the Lowry Team and he did in the previous term with Micháel Lowry to share the same position. Under section 48 of the local government act of

Memorial Service for Babies and Children

There will be a memorial service to remember all babies/children that are sadly no longer with us. It will take place in the sensory garden in Cahir on Sunday, July 28 at 3pm.

Please gather on the day at the Angel plot in the Sensory garden. All Parents, Grandparents, Families and Friends welcome. Anyone that would like to add an ornament in memory of their child please feel free to bring anything. There will be tea/coffee afterwards in Cahir Community Hall.

2001 the department have to establish committees to be known as Strategic Policy Committees and these 7 committees work under the headings of Economic Development, Housing, roads and transport, planning and emergency services, environment and climate action, social inclusion, community and rural development as well as the libraries, heritage and

biodiversity which includes the museums.

These committees will now advertise for members from the PPN (public participation network) over the next month to find representatives from the following pillars such as agriculture, environment, development/ construction, business, trade union as well as community, voluntary and social inclusion.

By Maria Taylor

Cahir Social and Historical Society

This week the last event of Cahir Social & Historical Society’s ‘Culture at the Castle Festival’ takes place. Set in the Great Hall of Cahir Castle this event sees well-known and popular RTE broadcaster, David McCullagh returns to Cahir to give a historical talk. The talk takes place on this Saturday, July 20. David is no stranger to Cahir having previously given talks. This talk focuses on the 1923-1949 period of Irish history. Come along and be part of the final event of the Society’s ‘Culture at the Castle’ Festival. Tickets are available on Eventbrite.ie

The Culture at the Castle Festival would not have been possible with the financial support given to Cahir Social & Historical Society by Creative Ireland and Tipperary County Council’s Festivals and Events Grant Scheme. We are also very thankful for the assistance of the wonderful staff of Cahir Castle and OPW.

Cahir Tidy Towns

The local annual Tidy Towns competition sponsored by Dolans Supervalu will be held over the next four weeks and finishes judging on August 25. We hope that everyone will keep an eye on their own premises so its litter free on the day of judging.

There is no entry fee this year and winners will be notified prior to our awards night in the autumn. We meet on Wednesday as normal at 7 pm and the youth section meet on Thursday at 11am from the Enterprise Centre. Anyone painting their premises, organising floral displays and tidying up estates should be on the lookout in the coming four weeks if they want to impress the judges. Any premise that is visible from the roadside within the town speed limits is open for judging and certificates will be issued to those that catch the eye of the adjudicators in various categories at an event to be held in the autumn as happens every year. The date of the awards will be notified to all recipients near the time.

Cahir Tidy Towns Youth Group - the group had a huge turnout last week when they teamed up with the Coláiste Summer Camp students for the painting the fence along the Mall. This week their concentration turns to the electricity poles around the town which will get a fresh coat of black and white paint. They are meeting on Thursday at 11am at the Enterprise Centre. All enquiries on the youth section to Olivia Darcy on oliviadarcy.cahiryouthrep@gmail.com

Daughters at Farmers Market - members of the Daughters of Dún Iascaigh Ellen O’Donnell, Siobhan Caplice, Josephine

Playground time is always a popular part of the GAA Summer Camp

Even the youngest children were entertained at Cahir GAA Summer Camp last week

Cahir GAA Club News

DRAW THE JOKER - Jackpot of €7,600 was not won last Sunday in the Punters Rest. Other winners were €100 won by Noreen O’Connor, €50 by Sinead Cuffe, €50 by JJ O’Sullivan, €30 by Aaron Wall and €20 by James Noonan. Next draw is in Cahir House Hotel on this Sunday July 21. Jackpot will be €7,800.

RESULTS - South Junior A Hurling Championship Full time score was Cahir : 3-11, Ballyneale : 1-15.

South Junior B Hurling Championship Full time score was Cahir : 1.21, Moyle Rovers : 1.08. Well done to both teams, two good wins last weekend.

JUVENILES - 170 kids came along over a very successful week for the 26 years of Cahir Juvenile GAA Summer Fun Camp. The children all had a fantastic time. Thank you to all the coaches and helpers during the week for a fantastic job. Well done everyone.

U9 BOYS - Well done to our U9 boys this morning that travelled to Knockavilla Kickhams in Dundrum last week for Football and Hurling matches. We had 3 teams who played 3 matches each, 2 of Hurling and 1 of football. Well done to all the boys’ coaches and thanks to parents for travelling.

Day Camps Cahir

The Cahir Day Camps will run from this Friday July 19- to Sunday July 21 from 12:00-5:30 pm each day and registrations are still open. The location is St. Mary’s Parochial House Grounds on Pearse Street. They will have activities in camping tents, sports, games, music, arts crafts, cooking crafts, water games, drama, prayer, formation, and much more! The camp is open to girls aged 8-17. (Girls will be divided into groups according to age). The cost is €5 per day. To register or if you have any questions, please contact Sr. Rachel on 087 6323883 or email hmactivitiesireland@gmail.com. Please register by July 7.

Community Lotto

There was no winner of the Draw that took place last week on Wednesday July 10. The draw was witnessed by Leo Coffey. The numbers drawn were 4, 8, 28 and 29. The Lucky Dip winners winning €25 each were Liam Shinnick, Loughloher, Ellen Fitzgibbon, Mitchelstown, Helen Barrett, Clonmore South, and Ann Cunningham, Woodlands. Congratulations to all winners. The next Lotto Draw will take place on today Wednesday, July 17 in the Social Welfare Office at 12 noon with results next week. The Jackpot is now €6,600 and we wish everyone the best of luck

in the Draw. Tickets are available in the Enterprise Centre and in local shops too.

Parish News

The Parish Office is now closed until early August at the earliest. Mass Cards will be available from the Church on Monday and Tuesday from 9am to 3pm or weekends before or after Mass. (Mass times only). If you need an Anniversary Mass or wish to have someone mentioned on our Anniversary List or book a Mass during this time you can do so by leaving a note into the Sacristy before Friday 12 noon of the relevant week, Anniversary received after this time will go into the following week. For Baptism or Wedding Paperwork, please call into the Sacristy. Please let family and neighbours know.

Cahir Park AFC

AGM Notice - the Cahir Park AFC AGM will take place on next Friday July 26, at 7.30pm. All welcome.

Cahir Park U10 Girls - last week our Cahir Park U10 girls were in action away to Cashel Town. The girls gave a great account of themselves. The skills from both teams were fantastic to watch and testament to their hard work so far this season.

Cahir Park U14 girls - Our Cahir Park U14 girls had a hard task last week when they trav-

elled to Rosegreen to play Cashel Town. Unfortunately the squad was depleted due to holidays and other commitments but the girls didn’t let that get to them. We started with ten players on the pitch which was the case for the full game thanks to support from our U12 girls to help out. The girls played so well from start to finish and never let the extra player from Cashel deter them. The attitude of the girls and camaraderie in the team was super as always and the girls can be so proud of themselves. Cashel came out winners on the day.

Cahir Park Soccer Camp - our popular Soccer Summer Camp is back all this week from July 15 to 19 and from 10am to 1pm daily. This Camp is for 6 to 12 year old Boys and Girls and has lots of soccer orientated fun and games. We hope they all have a great week.

Cahir Park 50/50 DrawThe 50/50 Draw took place last Wednesday July 10. The winner was Eamonn Dunphy. Ticket sold at Coopers Off Licence. Thank you to all our ticket sellers, all our sponsors and everyone who buys tickets. We remind everyone that there is a cash winner every week. Tickets can be purchased from Committee, online or through local businesses or through our Cahir Park AFC App under the fundraising header.

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Youth Tidy Towns Group were joined by Coláiste Summer Camp students for painting activities last week

Talbot Hotel Collection One of the Best Workplaces in Hospitality in 2024

Great Place to Work® Ireland have recently recognised the Talbot Hotel Clonmel which is part of the Talbot Collection as one of Ireland’s Best Workplaces™ in Hospitality in 2024.

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. They help organisations quantify their culture and produce better business results by creating high trust work experience for all employees. They recognise Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies and the Best Workplaces™ in more than 60 countries.

Great Place to Work Ireland recognise the top Irish hotels who are paving the way for greatness in the hospitality industry. With over 39,575 employees in the Irish hotel industry invited to be surveyed in the last couple of years, Great Place to Work were able to investigate and understand the

employee experience within these workplaces – 50 organisations were then acknowledged as the best in the sector in Ireland.

Due to the industry’s inherently people-centric nature, prioritising employee needs is paramount; when the quality of service is directly influenced by the attitudes and wellbeing of staff, ensuring that employees feel valued, supported, and motivated is crucial. In a sector known for its high turnover rates, prioritising employee needs helps attract and retain top talent, reducing recruitment and training costs. By investing in their workforce through continuous professional development, fair compensation, and a positive work environment, the Best Workplaces in Hospitality have built resilient, dedicated teams, essential for sustaining long-term success and competitiveness.

‘It is a fantastic award to have

achieved and something we are so proud of. It is a true testament of the entire teams hard work and their dedication. It is an award that has been earned through commitment, teamwork and excellence. Well done to all to all the team here in Talbot Hotel Clonmel. We celebrate and thank them for all they do to earn this incredible honour’ said the Talbot Hotel’s General Manager Mr. Michael Boyle

The Talbot Hotel Clonmel is one of Tipperary’s leading 4-star hotels, which has recently seen over 66 of their executive guest bedrooms recently renovated and their ‘Wheat Bar & Bistro’ fully refurbished. Their new outdoor dining area ‘The Pavilion’ space makes the perfect location for outdoor dining, or a summer catch up.

Well done to all the team at Talbot Hotel Clonmel.

Carrick On Suir Meals Assistance Programme finding increased costs debilitating

BY EDDIE READE

The award winning community group, set up in light of the closure of the old meals on wheels in the town several years ago prepares hundreds of meals weekly for those within the community who might not be able to provide a hot meal for themselves be it through age

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related or illness issues, is facing some issues.

A fully volunteer run group with those in the coal face operating five days a week, often starting at 7.30am to get the meals prepped and ready. The cost of the meals to their customers has risen just once since the formation of the group and this is the way they want it to remain. However, due to the increased costs of everything,

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from fuel to containers and ingredients the group finds itself in a precarious situation. Spokesperson and secretary of the group, Debbie Cooney, who also spends six or seven days a week cooking, serving, preparing and organising all aspects of the organisation says that “ the people of Carrick and its environs have been tremendous towards us, we have been blessed all along with so many families, individuals and businesses raising funds for us, but the fundraising has slowed down now, which we fully expected it would as you can’t keep asking the same small community to constantly put

Retirement

Village calls for artists and crafters

On Sunday July 28th, Owning House retirement village will be hosting their annual garden party. This year it is planned to go even bigger and better than ever before. Bouncy castles, food stalls, art & craft stalls as well as the ever popular spinner with hundreds of prizes. Tea and coffee and the by now customary strawberries and cream will be on sale on the day as well as our kitchens famous scones and brown bread, all the while live music will be playing in our manicured gardens.

Carrick On Suir provides much

needed independent living for some twenty one residents and relies in the main on the generosity of the community to keep operating as costs are kept to an absolute minimum for the residents. As part of the fundraising efforts, the annual garden party is a fantastic source of income annually. This year to offer the attending public a better day out, the retirement village committee is asking that anybody interested in selling their arts/ crafts/ organic produce etc., contact the office and organise

to attend on the day. There is no charge for setting up a stall on the day, all is asked is that if the vendor has a good day they make a small donation towards the charity. Any interested stall holders can contact 061 643136 during office hours Monday to Friday.

All of the children’s entertainment on the day is free of charge and there is no cover charge on the gate to attend. It has always been a fantastic day out and hopefully this year’s efforts will ensure that it is a fun family day.

Notes

Congratulations to the Carrick Swan hurlers who captured the South Senior hurling title on Sunday with a magnificent 9-point victory over Killenaule. The win cements our place on top of the South Tipperary Senior Hurling Roll of Honour with 25 titles won to Killenaule’s 23.

Well done to the Senior hurling players and management team on a superb display.

Our attention now turns to our next game, which is Round 1 of the Seamus O’Riain Cup and takes place on Friday July 26th in Littleton where we take on Upperchurch-Drombane.

Well done to our Junior ‘A’ hurlers who defeated Ballylooby/Castlegrace to top their group in the South Junior ‘A’ Hurling Championship, with a game to spare, on Friday night. The win qualified us

for the South Quarter-Final, which is expected to take place in early August. Before then, we’ll play our final group game against Father Sheehy’s on Sunday next, July 21st. Commiserations to our u19 footballers who exited the championship last week with a loss to Fethard. Our attention now turns to the small ball, on Friday evening, when we take on Ballingarry in Round 1 of the South u19 ‘A’ Hurling Championship. The game takes place in Fethard GAA pitch, at 7.45pm. The other teams in this championship are St. Mary’s, Killenaule, and Mullinahone.

Our Junior ‘B’ Camogie ladies are expecting fixtures for their upcoming championship in the coming weeks. We’re expecting the championship to begin in Mid-August once the Tipperary Junior & Senior Camogie teams finish their

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their hands in their pockets”. Debbie goes on to explain that at the moment the group is in dire need of funds and fears that the continued viability of the project might be called in to question if the situation does not change.

Appealing to any businesses or individuals who might be in a position to help in any way, Debbie explained that the work carried out by the group has been instrumental, not just in feeding their customers, but also in keeping many of their rural clients away from feeling completely isolated, she said.

“Everybody knows that the service we provide feeds customers and accepts that this

service is vital in ensuring that those who otherwise might fall into ill health through lack of proper nourishment are being well catered for, keeping them at home, well fed and looked after, instead of ending up suffering through lack of proper meals and ending up in hospital, but the very fact that our regular drivers are calling to the customers each week, offering a chat and perhaps a bit of gossip is as important in some cases”. Working fully voluntarily and not receiving any government grants means that we rely on the kindness of those within our community to survive, continued Debbie. The whole

town knows of the work we do and they have always been there for us and hopefully we can get through this rough patch and come out the other side but with the ever increasing costs things are looking fairly bleak at the minute. It would be a complete shame if we have to close our doors, we have put in so much effort into building the group up to what it is, and have a new state of the art kitchen where all of our meals are prepared fresh daily so we are hoping that the funding situation can be resolved and we can continue carrying out the work we are doing.

Chantelle Robinson through to final

On Saturday last Chantelle Robinson, fighting out of Saint saviours club fought in the All-Ireland under 22 (52kg weight category)semifinal and faced Kanturk’s Leah O Keeffe. Following three bruising rounds Chantelle was the one with her arm raised by the referee on a split decision. This result see’s the former all-Ireland champion through to yet another title contending fight this coming weekend, where she will go toe to toe with Antrim’s Nicole Clyde. Pictured is Chantelle holding her title belt on Saint Patricks day in 2023, when she led out the parade as grand marshal in the town’s parade.

championships. They both play All-Ireland Semi-Finals over the next two weekends. Both of luck to both teams, and especially the Junior team which Swan’s Emma O’Halloran is a part of. The finals of their Camogie tournament take place at Páirc na nEalaí on Friday evening with the fixtures to be finalised mid-week. The Shield Final will take place at 7pm while the Cup Final will take place at 8pm. Best of luck to all teams involved.

Juvenile Scene

Our u17’s lost out to Mullinahone in Páirc na nEalaí last week in our championship opener. On Monday next, July 22nd, we take on St. Mary’s in Clonmel Sportsfield at 8pm. Other teams in this Championship include Killenaule, Ballingarry, and Cahir.

Our u13 hurlers had a good win

over St. Patrick’s on Saturday morning in Carrick. We take on Ballybacon-Grange on The Green on Saturday morning next with an 11am throw-in, in our next game. Our u9 boys took part in the halftime game during last Sunday’s South Senior Hurling Final, in Monroe. Looking at the skills on show from the Swan & Killenaule players during the game, it’s safe to say that the future of hurling is bright in both clubs. Carrick Swan would like to once again thank Siobhan O’Dwyer for organising yet another massively successful camp for our young kids. Last week’s Kellogg's GAA Cúl Camp was attended by over 60 kids, and each and every one of them loved the week of activities, even if the weather wasn’t the best. When the rain struck, the kids got to enjoy movie afternoon in the

clubhouse.

Pictured are some of the young cygnets, with Tipperary all Ireland winning captain Ben Currivan. Ben arrived along with the Munster U20, Munster Minor and all Ireland cups. With Ben was Senan Butler and both men were flooded with questions which they answered with great attention, and signed hurlies, sliotars and tops of all those who asked. The epitome of what the G.A.A. is, mentoring and advising the next generation on our ancient games and nurturing a love for them.

The official opening on our brandnew hurling wall will take place on Friday August 2nd. Mark it in your diary! More to follow in the coming weeks.

The all new 2024 – 2025 Tipperary Clubs Draw has been launched and tickets can now be purchased from

the club, the Tipperary GAA office or on the Tipperary GAA website. The new draw will have substantial cash prizes each month and is well worth the €100 entry. More information can be gotten here: https://tipperary.gaa. ie/tipperary-gaa-clubs-draw/ or by sending the club Facebook page a message.

Club Lotto

The club lotto jackpot is a massive €12,750 this week as there was no winner of last week’s €12,500 jackpot. Last week, there were eight match 3 winners who won €30 each. The numbers drawn were 03 - 07 - 13 - 14. Well done all. Condolences Carrick Swan club would like to pass on our condolences to the Kelly family of Marian Avenue on the recent passing of Thomas.

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North Tipperary Agricultural show now inviting applications for trade stands

The North Tipperary Agricultural Show is inviting applicants for trade stands at the show next month on August 5th in the Showgrounds in Nenagh. The North Tipperary Agricultural Show has a rich history of bringing together farmers, equestrian enthusiasts, families, and local communities to celebrate the best of rural life.

Year after year, this event attracts

thousands of visitors from near and far, eager to experience the vibrant atmosphere, witness the impressive displays, and indulge in the diverse range of products available. As a trader, you can showcase your goods, services, community information, and innovations to an engaged audience. Whether you specialize in agricultural equipment, artisanal crafts, delicious food and beverages, or

community stands.

To apply for a trade stand, email: northtipptradestands@gmail.com or call the show office on 0868348578.

Be sure to get your applications in before the 26th of July. Our team will carefully review each application and select a diverse range of traders to ensure a wellrounded and exciting experience for our visitors.

By Rob Downs

Almost €32,000 in flood mitigation funding announced for Templederry

Minister for State with responsibility for the OPW Kieran O’Donnell has approved funding of €31,613 for flood mitigation works at Greenane, Templederry. The funding follows the approval of Tipperary County Council’s application for funding

under the Office of Public Works’ Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme. The works will include the removal of an existing boundary wall at the affected property, excavation of silt deposits under the bridge to increase the headroom, importation and compaction of 6-12” rock to restore the river bed, placing of rock armour and creation of earth retaining bund and the placement of suitable fill material behind the rock armour.

Week-long road closure to

commence next month in North Tipperary

Tipperary County Council have advised that the N65 Ballinruddery, Carrigahorig, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary will close for a period of 5 days from 00:00hrs on Monday 12 August to 00:00hrs on Saturday 17 August 2024 to facilitate road

resurfacing. Alternative routes for the period of closure will be as follows:

Northbound - North on the R438 from the N65/R438 junction at Derrinvohill to the R438/R489 junction at Walshpark and west on the R438 to the N65/R489 junction at The Ferry. Southbound - West on the R489 from the N65/ R489 junction at The Ferry to the R438/R489 junction at Walshpark and south on the R438 to the N65/R438 junction at Derrinvohill.

Thrilling Stonethrowers Rally Shakes Up National Championship Standings

Powerstown Park played host to an electrifying 2024 Stonethrowers Rally, where over 160 drivers competed on the scenic roads surrounding Clonmel. The event, a crucial round in the Triton Showers Motorsport Ireland National Rally Championship, saw the leaderboard dramatically reshuffled with Daniel Cronin emerging as the new championship leader.

Moffett Brothers Dominate in Hyundai Return

Josh Moffett and co-driver Keith Moriarty stole the show by reverting to their trusted Hyundai i20 R5, securing a commanding start-to-finish victory. This win marked their third of the series and revived their championship hopes, propelling them from fourth to joint third in the standings. Moffett, who had struggled with the Citroen C3 Rally2 earlier in the season, found the Hyundai to be a perfect fit, proving his skill behind the wheel.

Not far behind was Josh’s brother, Sam Moffett, alongside co-driver James O’Reilly. Driving the newer Rally2 version of the Hyundai, they finished just 3.4 seconds adrift, securing a solid

second place. This result also brought Sam into joint third in the championship standings, matching his brother’s points tally. Cronin Claims Championship Lead Amidst Tire Troubles

Third-place finisher Daniel Cronin, co-driven by Donnchadh Burke in a Volkswagen Polo GTI R5, experienced tire selection issues during the middle loop of the rally. Despite this setback, their podium finish was enough to catapult Cronin to the top of the championship leaderboard with 87 points. The Carlow Rally winners admitted to struggling to find their rhythm on the fast South Tipperary stages but were pleased with the overall outcome.

Doherty’s Dashboard Dilemma

Eddie Doherty and Tom Murphy, who led the championship heading into the rally, faced a challenging day due to an electrical problem in their Skoda Fabia R5, which left them without crucial dashboard readings. Finishing fifth, they dropped to second place in the standings with 85 points, just two points shy of Cronin.

Henry’s Heroics and Kiernan’s No Show

Desi Henry and his new co-

driver Andy Hayes showed steady improvement in their Citroen C3 Rally2, clinching fourth place and winning the Citroen Trophy category. Meanwhile, Gary Kiernan, who did not start the rally, slipped from third to fifth in the standings. With dropped scores likely to play a decisive role in the final rounds, Kiernan’s absence could prove significant. Strong Performances Down the Field

Triton Showers boss Paul Barrett and Darragh Kelly finished sixth overall and second in the Citroen Trophy category, despite a pop off valve issue in the middle loop. The top overseas driver, Steve Wood, alongside Kenny Hull, took seventh place and third in the Citroen Trophy section. Cal McCarthy, adapting to a new codriver, Stephen Quinn, secured eighth place in another Citroen C3 after a steady run.

Tom Holton Jnr and Stephen Joyce achieved their best result of the season, bringing their Ford Fiesta home in ninth. Michael Carbin and Dean O’Sullivan rounded out the top ten, also winning the Modified category in their Ford Escort, thus leading the

Ford Escort MKII Challenge. Historic and Junior Category

Wins David Armstrong, the championship leader in the historic category, continued his winning streak in his Ford Escort. In the Junior category, Galway’s Brian Martyn and Liam Callaghan triumphed in their Honda Civic. Looking Ahead

With just two rounds remaining, the national rally championship is heating up. The penultimate round in Galway next month promises further excitement as drivers battle for every crucial point.

Top Five Overall After Round 6

1. Daniel Cronin - 87 points

2. Eddie Doherty - 85 points

3. Josh Moffett - 76 points

3. Sam Moffett - 76 points

5. Gary Kiernan - 57 points

Well done to Adam Coffey for orchestrating a spectacular event amidst changing weather conditions, and congratulations to Josh Moffett and Keith Moriarty for their triumphant return to the top of the podium. The stage is set for an exhilarating conclusion to the championship season. Report by Clonmel Stories.

Ireland boys claim World Darts Federation Europe Cup Youth title

The Republic of Ireland boys team claimed gold at the World Darts Federation’s Europe Cup Youth in Lativa over the weekend. Team Ireland was captained by Aidan O’Hara, Clonmel’s up and coming star in the darts world

The team of Aidan O’Hara, Sean McKeon, Callum Coade and Shane Porter beat the Netherlands 9-7 in the final.

The side finished top of their group after victories over Lithuania, Sweden and Slovenia before recording knockout wins against Northern Ireland, Turkey and Wales.

The team also took the Boys Overall Champions title in Riga.

Victory at the prestigious event, which is held every two years, is a further boost for Irish darts after the women’s team won the WDF’s World Cup last October.

Can you rewrite this report for a local newspaper article and use your own initiative and make it long and interesting please Ireland Boys Triumph at Europe Cup Youth Darts Championship Riga, Latvia, In a remarkable display of talent and determination, the Republic of Ireland boys’ darts team clinched gold at the World Darts Federation’s Europe Cup Youth, held over the weekend in Latvia. This victory marks a significant milestone in Irish darts, coming hot on the heels of the women’s team’s triumph at the WDF’s World Cup last October. Leading the charge was team

captain Aidan O’Hara, a rising star from Clonmel, whose skill and leadership proved invaluable throughout the tournament. Alongside him were Sean McKeon, Callum Coade, and Shane Porter, each playing a crucial role in Ireland’s path to victory.

The competition kicked off with a round robin stage, where Ireland faced off against formidable opponents from Lithuania, Sweden, and Slovenia. The team showcased their prowess early on, securing top position in their group with decisive victories. Each match tested their mettle, but the boys displayed exceptional focus and teamwork, setting a strong foundation for the knockout rounds.

In the quarter finals, Ireland faced Northern Ireland in a nail biting match. The boys held their nerve, emerging victorious and advancing to the semi finals against Turkey. Here, they demonstrated their growing confidence and synergy, outplaying their opponents and earning a spot in the final.

The grand finale saw Ireland pitted against the Netherlands, a team renowned for its darts excellence. The match was a thrilling encounter, with both teams displaying high levels of skill and sportsmanship. Ireland eventually triumphed with a 9-7 scoreline, a testament to their resilience and determination. The victory was sealed with a series of precise and strategic plays, highlighting the

depth of talent within the Irish squad.

Adding to their accolades, the team was also crowned the Boys Overall Champions, an honor that underscores their consistent performance throughout the tournament. This dual triumph not only elevates their status in the world of youth darts but also serves as inspiration for aspiring players across Ireland.

For Aidan O’Hara, the win is a personal triumph as well. His journey from a local talent in Clonmel to leading a team to international glory is a story of dedication and hard work. Speaking after the victory, O’Hara expressed his pride in the team’s performance and gratitude for the support they received from their coaches, families, and fans.

Sean McKeon, Callum Coade, and Shane Porter also shared in the limelight, each reflecting on

their unique contributions to the team’s success. Their camaraderie and collective spirit were evident, with each player bringing their best to the board at critical moments.

The triumph at the Europe Cup Youth is expected to have a lasting impact on the sport within Ireland. It signifies a growing prominence of Irish players on the international stage and promises to boost interest and participation in darts among the younger generation.

As the team returns home, they do so as heroes, having etched their names in the annals of Irish sporting history. Their success story is a beacon of what can be achieved with passion, practice, and perseverance. With such a promising future ahead, the world will undoubtedly be seeing more of these young champions. Report by Clonmel Stories.

Winners of Stonethrowers Rally 2024, Keith Moriarty and Josh Moffett.

Daniel Cronin, Sam Moffett and Josh Moffett.

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Joint ‘Coming Together as Friends’ social afternoon at Minella Hotel

On Sunday, June 23, 2024, The Clonmel & District Wheelchair Society, in association with The Spina Bifida Association Tipperary, held their first joint ‘Coming Together as Friends’ social afternoon at the Minella Hotel in Clonmel.

The afternoon began with Mass celebrated by Fr. Bobby Power, who welcomed everybody present from the Clonmel & District Wheelchair Society and the Tipperary Branch of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association.

Fr Bobby wished them well in their first joint ‘Coming Together as Friends’ social and looked forward to many more being organised in the future. Following Mass all relocated outdoors to the

beautiful grounds at the Minella Hotel where tables and chairs were laid out for the imminent array of barbecued food available all present. Philip Meaney addressed the crowd and thanked the staff of Hotel Minella & Leisure Centre for hosting the event and to Ken Horne for providing the music for the afternoon.

The Deputy Mayor of Clonmel, Cllr Michael Murphy, was then invited to say a few words. He acknowledged the presence of Carol Creighton, District Administrator at Clonmel Borough District, Noel Buckley, and ‘Mr Hillview’ – Seamus O’Doherty – a Clonmel man who has volunteered with his local sports club for nearly half a

century. He highlighted the great relationship already established between Hillview Sports Club and the Clonmel & District Wheelchair Society. He then paid tribute to both organisations and the wonderful work that they do in being such a positive force for those with disabilities in our community.

He also hoped that, as a newly elected council, they would work closely with both organisations in the ‘coming together’ for towards future events.

The afternoon, blessed with glorious sunshine, continued with music, food and chat, enjoyed by all present in the relaxed setting of Hotel Minella overlooking the river Suir

Photographed at the ‘Coming Together as Friends’ social afternoon, held at Minella Hotel are L to R: Margaret Guiry, Martina McCarthy, Jack Kenny and Nicola Guiry.

Photographed at the ‘Coming Together as Friends’ social afternoon, held at Minella Hotel are L to R Noel Meaney, Maeve Withero and Breda Meaney.

Photographed at the ‘Coming Together as Friends’ social afternoon, held at Minella Hotel are L to R: Sean Morrissey, Phil Morrissey, Rosaleen O’Leary and Michelle Maher.

Photographed at the joint ‘Coming Together as Friends’ social afternoon and barbecue, held at Minella Hotel, Clonmel, on June 23, 2024, are Back L to R: Noel Meaney, Philip Meany, Fr. Bobby Power, Martina McCarthy, Maeve Withero, Noel Meaney. Front L to R: Rosaleen O’Leary and Claire Noonan

Recollections from 2006 with Joe Kenny

Irish folk singer Liam Clancy, from Carrick-on-Suir, performing at the Clonmel Junction Festival on July 4, 2006, at Hotel Minella, with Odetta Holmes, an American singer better known as Odetta and often referred to as ‘The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement’. Odetta died in New York on December 2, 2008 at the age of 77 years. Liam died on December 4, 2009, at the age of 74 years.

Staff members photographed on August 24, 2006, at the official opening of Clonmel’s new Tourist Office at Old St. Mary’s Church. L to R: Claire Meaney, Marie Conde, Ann Kingston and Helena Morrissey.

Looking after reception at the official opening of Clonmel Park Hotel on July 7, 2006, are L to R: Michelle O’Connor, Ashley McCormack and Lenka Bilkova.

Photographed at the Ned Kelly play ‘Quilting the Armour - the story of the Kelly Women’, performed in the Abymill Theatre on August 11, 2006, are L to R: Joe Duggan, Esther Byrne, Eddie Cummins, Mary Cummins and Bridget Duggan from Clonmel.

Photographed at the launch of the 2006 Stonethrowers Rally on July 6, 2006, at Clonmel Park Hotel, are L to R: Micheál Boland (Clerk of the Course), Gus Kearney (Sepam), Deirdre Twomey (Sales Manager Park Hotel), David Stone (General Manager Park Hotel), and Willie Walsh (Deputy Clerk of the Course). The rally was sponsored by Sepam and was based in the new Clonmel Park Hotel, which officially opened the following day, July 7, 2006.

Cllr Kevin Duffey, Mayor of Cabonne, Central New South Wales, Australia, photographed on August 11, 2006, presenting a token gesture of international friendship to Cllr Joe Donovan, Chairman South Tipperary County Council, on the occasion of his visit to the area to research family history. L to R: Sandra Duffey, Cllr Kevin Duffey, Mayor of Cabonne; Cllr Joe Donovan, Chairman South Tipperary County Council; and Mary Carroll (Administrative Officer Corporate Affairs South Tipperary County Council).

Recollections from 2006 with Joe Kenny

Billy Keeley, presenting the George Keeley Perpetual Cup on behalf of the Keeley family from Clonmel, to Billy Keane, Chairperson ONE (Organisation of National Ex-Servicemen and Women), who will use the cup for their annual fundraising Golf Classic which takes place in Carrick-on-Suir Golf Club in August. Back L to R: John Stewart, Tony McGarry, Mairead Keeley, Ruth Keeley, Aidan Keeley, Pat McGarry, P.J. Hassett, Margaret Hassett, Brendan Keeley, Mary Cassidy. Front L to R: Anne Butler, Billy Keeley, Billy Keane (Chairperson ONE) and Christy Kelly. Members of the Keeley family missing from photo taken on August 10, 2006, are Michael, Ger, Noel and Patricia.

Carrick-on-Suir athletes taking part in the ‘Round the Walls’ Road Race that took place in Fethard on Thursday, August 10, 2006. L to R: Brendan Cronin, Keith Barry and John O’Sullivan.

Máirín McGrath getting a helping hand at the ‘Clothes Pegging’ competition at the Strawberry Fair held at St. Joseph’s Ferryhouse on July 9, 2006..

Enjoying the fun at Strawberry Fair at St. Joseph’s Ferryhouse, on July 9, 2006 are L to R: Jason Delahunty, Stacie Collins, Linda Doyle, Lisa Doyle, Ross Fennessy, Róisín O’Kane and in front young Ian Doyle

Fethard Patrician Presentation Leaving Cert ‘Class of 1976’ reunion held at Slievenamon Golf Club on July 8, 2006. Back L to R: Margaret Ryan, Joan Kearney, Jacinta Kearney, Kevin Ryan. Middle L to R: John Keane, Jim Butler, Josephine Moroney, Peggy Maher, Rita McCormack, Peggy Meehan, Liz Holohan, Noel Heffernan. Front L to R: Catherine Keane, Catherine Newport, Nonie O’Donovan, Noreen Guirey and Mary Morrissey.

Thurles Crokes athletes that took part in the ‘Round the Walls’ Road Race held in Fethard on August 10, 2006. L to R: Nora Kennedy, Serena Moloney and Mary Moloney.

Thurles Parish News

Radio Maria members to visit Thurles

Members of Radio Maria Ireland

will be visiting Thurles Parish next weekend, July 20th/21st attending the Saturday Vigil and Sunday morning Masses. They will meet and greet parishioners, sharing more about the mission. They would be delighted to see you there. Radio Maria Ireland is a not-for-profit, ad-free Catholic radio station that is available 24/7. Tune in throughout the day to hear a variety of uplifting content including prayer, guest interviews, music, human and faith formation. The mission of Radio Maria is entrusted to Our Lady, and through her intercession aims to bring the light of Christ into every home. You can listen in via Saorview Channel 210; live-streaming via www.radiomaria.ie or via the Radio Maria Ireland App. Newly Baptised

Sam Anthony Albery, Bohernanave.

Noah Walter Dunne, Hawthorn Drive.

Recently Deceased

Prayed for at all Masses in Thurels parish at the weekend were the following who have died:

Maureen Cahill, Cluain Airne, Monadreen, formerly Loughtagalla House. Henry (Harry) Gleeson, Galbertstown, formerly Marlhill, New Inn. Patrick Maher, Long Island, New York, for-

merly Stradavoher Thurles Market Quarter works Works will commence on the farm building adjacent to Thurles Town Park on Tuesday August 6th as part of the Thurles Market Quarter Project. The public car park will be closed to the public from August 6th 2024 to December 2025. Tipperary County Council apologies for any inconvenience caused during these works.

40 Hours Adoration

Adoration will take place in the Cathedral for Vocations and Peace in our World, commencing Friday July 26th with Mass at 7.00 p.m. Further details next week.

Polish Mass

A Polish Mass will be celebrated on Sunday, July 21st in Presentation Convent Chapel at 1.00 p.m. Polska Msza Sw. Odbedzie sie 21 szego Lipca o godz 1pm in Presentation Convent Chapel. Mozliwosc spowiedzi.

Pilgrimage to Knock

The annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock will take place on Sunday, August 4th, led by Archbishop Kieran O’Reilly. Pilgrimage commences at 2.00 p.m.; Anointing of the sick: 2.30 p.m.; Concelebrated Mass: 3.00 p.m. Sacred Music on the day will be led by Cashel & Emly Diocesan Choir. Bus from Cathedral at 7.45 a.m. Information and booking: Jim at 085 8278014 or Noreen @ 087 6663243.

Thurles man John is new Director of County

Eye onThurles

By the Cathedral Townie

Tiered seating work commences in Premier Hall

The seating can be retracted mechanically

Thurles man John O’Shaughnessy has been announced as the new director of the County Tipperary Chamber.

John from Sean Treacy Avenue, Thurles is the managing director of Clancy Construction, a national building contractor with a turnover of €100 million annually, with a work force of 180 full-time staff. He holds a business degree in business administration (MBA), a law degree (LL.B Hons), Project Management Professional qualified (PMP) Dip in construction management, and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Builders.

John, who is a keen athlete and runs with the famous Thurles Crokes AC, is a past president of the Master Builder Contractors Association of Ireland and a past president of the Thurles Chamber of Commerce.

He has also been appointed by the Minister of Housing to the board of the Construction Industry Register of Ireland.

John has been one of the driving forces behind the transformation of Loughtagalla Park into an allinclusive biodiversity park and the move has really breathed fresh life into the facility which is used by so many throughout the town, and even further afield. Much work was undertaken by the local community which fundraised for the works and participated in much of the heavy lifting themselves. The results have been magnificent and John is particularly proud of this project which is on his own doorstep.

John is wished well in his role as Director of the County Tipperary Chamber.

Tiered seating will be introduced downstairs in the iconic Premier Hall in Thurles for the first time in the coming weeks following an investment by Thurles Musical Society.

BY NOEL DUNDON

The Premier has been the home to TMS for many years now and has hosted many packed out shows down through the generations with most Thurles people having their own favourites. From the famous Gilbert and Sullivan shows to the many Lerner and Loewe classics, or the Romberg musicals, to the Rodgers and Hammerstein, or even the Lloyd Webber classics, the Premier Hall has witnessed them all – and even some on more than one occasion. Many patrons make their way to

the balcony at every opportunity while others are devoted to the downstairs section. Well soon, there will be the option of availing of tiered seating downstairs also with TMS having invested in the system which will be housed permanently in the Premier Hall. The seating, which was purchased in Denmark, will be installed before the end of the summer and already work is underway to ensure that everything will be ready for the build. This week, members of Thurles Musical Society, led by Stage Manager, Anthony Kirby worked to reinforce a small section of the

floor of the Premier Hall in order to cater for the increased weight on the section which will house the retractable seating when not in use. The seating can be retracted mechanically and will therefore leave a substantial portion of the dance floor intact so that dances etc can still go ahead in the hall which once played host to some of the biggest showbands on the circuit.

Testimony to the magnificent workmanship associated with the building of the hall was the condition of the subfloor and supporting timbers which the current team found were as good as the day they were first installed by the late Christy Foyle and his workers many years ago.

A reinforced concrete foundation has been laid to bear the weight of the tiered seating and air vents installed to ensure that the flow of air underneath the floor continues – this is vital for the ongoing preservation of the

integrity of the dance floor which is renowned as one of the finest in the country.

The TMS team involved in the work so far included Anthony Kirby, Tommy Sweeney, Jack Gleeson, Gary Dempsey, John Hayes, Noel Dundon, Donal Taylor, Liam Crowe, Kevin Heaney and Peter Dundon assisted by Ollie Quinn. The concrete was barrowed in from the front door and generated a lot of interest amongst passers-by who wondered what was going on the Premier Hall. Well, all will be revealed very soon when the seating is in place – a move which will totally transform the Premier Hall and give it a real fresh lease of life.

Pictured are some of the team members who undertook the work this week; the truck parked up outside the hall generated much interest; and the reinforced floor which is almost ready to bear the weight of the new seating.

Mid Tipp Hillwalkers to mark ten years of Friday walks

All roads will lead to Templemore next weekend for the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Friday evening walks. The occasion will begin with a walk followed by a re-union for old friends in the Templemore Arms Hotel complete with birthday cake. There will also be a presentation of certificates to those who recently completed the Cosán na Naomh and Tochar pilgrim paths.

It is exactly 10 years since a small group headed off to Upperchurch for the initial Friday

outing. The idea was to offer an opportunity to explore the beauty of the Tipperary countryside by providing low-level but scenic walks for those not wishing to take on the big challenges. Since then, the walks have proven a huge success and have explored many of the most scenic areas of Tipperary including the Glen of Aherlow, Upperchurch, the Silvermines, Grange and Kilcommon while in recent years the group had branched out to explore some of the finest lowlevel walks in County Laois.

Next Friday’s outing is to the Devil’s Bit with all who came out with the group over the past decade urged to return and renew old acquaintances. The meeting points are Slievenamon Road carpark, Thurles at 6.25pm and outside the Abbey Furniture Centre, Templemore at 6.45pm. For further information, you can contact Carmel at 086

2602133

The pictures show some participants at Friday evening walks over the years.

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HUGE EXCITEMENT IN THURLES

Munster Fleadh is underway in Thurles

A concert with Garadice will take place from 7.30pm in The Source Arts on FridayCentre

The week-long Munster Fleadh kicked off on Sunday last July 14, and will continue to run up until Saturday, July 20, with a bumper schedule of events planned throughout the week.

BY NOEL DUNDON

It is expected that thousands of visitors will attend the events throughout the week and Thurles will roll out the red carpet for all who come along.

The towns motto is Fleadh agus Failte and there will certainly be plenty of both in the Cathedral Town for the week.

Hosted by the Tipperary County Board CCÉ, this is

Liberty Music Festival goes down a real treat

Enormous credit must go

to the organising committee

A great weekend of music and song went down a real treat in Thurles with the Liberty Music Festival really capturing the imagination.

BY NOEL DUNDON

Town Park which had been specially set out for the festivities. There were plenty of food and beverages outlets throughout the park too and the reasonably priced produce was welcomed by all – many people came early and stayed late, enjoying the hospitality and the music over the course of the weekend.

Enormous credit must go to the organising committee led by Independent Tipperary County Councillor Jim Ryan and his team which put in many hours preparing for the event and enduring that everything went smoothly. Judging by the reaction of those in attendance they certainly got it all right.

the third time Thurles played host to the Fleadh Cheoil na Mumhan, after the 1968 and 1979 editions went down a real treat all those years ago – the Premier Hall and Confraternity Hall were used extensively during those events

The events continue tonight, Wednesday with a “Sean Nós Dance Workshop with Ranóg Townsend” which is taking place from 8:30pm in the Source, at a cost of €15 per

ticket.

The Ursuline campus will host events on the Thursday. The “Slide and Polka Workshops,” will cost €15 to attend, and will run from 11am to 4pm, while a “Best of Tipp” scone making competition will take place from 2pm to 4pm in the County Bar, before a history of Tipperary music in The Monks Bar at 8pm.

A concert with Garadice will take place from 7:30pm in The Source Arts Centre on the

Friday, with a youth trad disco running in Hayes’ Hotel from 7pm to 11pm, both costing €20 Finally, to close out the Fleadh festivities, “Céili with Rise the Dust,” will take over the Premier Hall on Saturday, costing €12 for a ticket.

More information on all the events taking place throughout the week can be found on the Munster Fleadh website, www. munsterfleadh.ie. There really is something for everyone to enjoy.

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Town Tipp through A trip

with Martin Quinn

Tipperary Vintage Rally raise €16,250 for Hospice Movement

There is great credit due to this group who have been there since the outset

On Saturday evening, July 13th, in brilliant sunshine, the huge sum of €16,250 was handed over to South Tipp Hospice Movement from the Tipperary Vintage Rally.

BY MARTIN QUINN

The money was raised through the annual Vintage Rally event, which was held on June 16th. Jack Leonard, Chair of the Tipperary Vintage Rally, was joined by several of the committee for the presentation ceremony which took place at the Supermac’s Plaza in Tipp town. Sean O’Donovan represented the Board of the Hospice and was joined by Terri, office administrator. Jack Leonard spoke of the success of the event and the support of the local and wider community. “It was another brilliant day out once again on June 16th, and we are delighted with what has been raised and hope we can do the same in 2025. We are hoping to get a lot of new faces on board for the committee next year as we are 16 years on the go and need to bring new people on board. I am standing down as Chair as and from this year, and

hopefully someone from the group will take over. I will be in the background, but I think it is time to hand over the reins to someone else and with almost €300,000 raised for the Hospice, I think that I have taken it as far as I can. There is great credit due to this group who have been there since the outset and they have been brilliant in their support for this charity. I also want to wish the very best to Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe, whose father Brendan is here with us in this group and Amee will compete for Ireland in the Olympics along with Denis Lynch also from the town, so it is wonderful to see two people from the town competing for Ireland. Tipperary is a great town and when you look at the amount of money that has been raised over 16 years, it just goes to show what can be done in a

small town. Every year we open the gates and we hope for the best and this is the result of that support - €16,250. Myself and the family started this off as a once off and 16 years later we are still going” concluded Jack. In response Seán O’Donovan expressed his thanks and appreciation and outlined their plans. “A huge thank you to you all. It is an incredible amount of money and to be getting this amount of money after 16 years is quite incredible. Volunteers are not available as they were anymore, so it is wonderful that you have such a strong team of volunteers. It is a fantastic tribute to your group and to Jack for leading it. We are going through a transition period at the moment and there has been a lot of change over the past year. We are very focussed and very committed to the

service and to keeping the work going. The biggest change in the service is that the nurses are now being funded by the HSE. That for us is an opportunity to do other things, and there is and will be a lot happening. We are providing carers into the houses to supplement the work of the nurses and that can’t be done without the support of groups like yourselves. Along with that we have a volunteer driving service which allows for people to be driven to their appointments. We also provide therapists for patients themselves and counsellors, which is a crucial aspect of the service. We also provide level 2 beds and this is particularly relevant to Tipperary town. This level 2 service is between being at home and being in a hospice, and there are two beds in Tipperary town in Cluain

Arann. The rooms are in need of upgrading and we are making progress on it with the HSE in a type of partnership, where we will make a significant contribution to this work. We are promised that this work will be done in 2025, so we are putting back the money that you are raising into this type of project. I just want to thank you all for your enormous efforts on behalf of the Hospice, and I look forward to this support continuing in 2025” said Seán. In conclusion Jack thanked the members of the committee and all who helped to make the event such a success. “My thanks also to Supermac’s for their support as we could not run this event without them, and to Martin Quinn and Stevie O’Donnell, who give such great service by way of publicity for our events” concluded Jack.

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RESIDENTS HAVE EXPRESSED THEIR FEARS

Close on 200 objection letters submitted by residents to walkway

Limerick Junction is dealing with several hundred drunk and disorderly passengers

On Friday last, July 12th, representatives of the residents of Limerick Junction delivered more than one hundred and eighty objection letters to the offices of Tipperary County Council on the Rosanna Road in Tipperary Town.

BY MARTIN QUINN

The objections submitted are against the Council’s plans to create a public walkway just behind the more than 30 homes in Limerick Junction. Residents have expressed their fears about the security of their homes if members of the public can approach their back fences at any time, day or night. Already, Limerick Junction is dealing with several hundred drunk and disorderly passengers per year, that are forcibly removed from trains by Irish Rail in the village. Many of these people attempt to get into cars, knock on doors and look for phone charging, lifts and make other demands of residents, mostly in an angry manner.

Limerick Junction has no taxi service or Garda Station and many of those who are ejected from trains have no means of

leaving the rural village. Residents are very worried that drunk and disorderly people would now have access to the rear of their homes, if the Council proceed with the proposal. Friday last was the final day for submissions to the Council’s Part 8 planning process, where the Council effectively applies to itself for permission to carry out its plans. The ultimate decision is with the eleven elected Councillors of the Tipperary Cahir Cashel Local Electoral Area. All of these have been contacted by residents and both Cllr. John O’Heney and Cllr. John Crosse (Cathaoirleach of the LEA) have visited the Junction and “walked the walk” with residents. This enabled the Councillors to see first hand the very real risks posed by the proposed development. They were also shown a perfectly viable alternative, where the final part of the walk would use the

existing, recently refurbished, public footpath to the fronts of the homes, rather than behind them. Both Councillors were supportive and undertook to make enquiries on behalf of the residents. The residents hope that the other Councillors who have been contacted, will also take up an invitation to “walk the walk” with residents. Some Councillors have already committed to visiting, subject to a day and

time being agreed. By the time that all of the paper and online submissions are registered, it is expected that there will be around 215 submissions received. All of those received are objecting to the development, with the exception of one, which was made on behalf of the Tipperary Town Task Force by Chairperson, Carmel Fox. The Task Force was the originator of the plan for the walkway,

Breda White from Tipperary town is Munster Pitch and Putt Strokeplay Champion

and residents have expressed their anger that they were never consulted about the route of the walkway. Although the Task Force submission states “The project was identified during the consultation period for the Tipperary Town Strategy and Action Plan to 2035”, residents are adamant that while the idea might have emerged within the Task Force itself during that time, the idea did not emerge from the

local community and that no consultation by the Task Force took place with them prior to the plan being published as a Part 8 planning process. It is expected that Councillors will vote on the proposal during their meeting towards the end of September. Residents have vowed to continue to press councillors and officials to reverse a plan that they see as seriously compromising their security and safety.

Breda White from Tipperary town is the Munster Pitch and Putt Strokeplay Champion. She defeated Sarah O’Neill of Collins Pitch and Putt club in the Munster Strokeplay Championship

Breda White Tipperary town is Munster Pitch and Putt Strokeplay Champion. She is pictured here receiving her prize from Pitch and Putt Ireland President, Mark Keohane

News from the community

FETHARD: Joe Kenny

Cairn Community Games 2024 Munster Finals

History was made on Saturday, July 6, when the Munster Finals of the Cairn Community Games outdoor team events were hosted by County Tipperary and held in the top-class facilities of Fethard Town Park and Fethard GAA Park, for the first time ever. This was the brainchild of County Chairman, local man Micheál Maher, who decided a year ago it would be possible to host the games in Fethard, normally held in the University of Limerick. He certainly did all in his power to make it happen and must be complimented on doing a fantas-

tic job. There was very positive feedback from the event where 44 teams played over thirty matches during the nine hours of games. The finals proved to be a super success where an attendance of over 5,000 consisting of players, parents, coaches and supporters enjoyed the festival atmosphere that was created in every square inch of Fethard Town Park. Massive thanks to everyone who came to watch and support the event and made the day one of the most memorable yet. Teams from Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary contested

many exciting finals with some going to extra time. Tipperary teams enjoyed success in the following: Cloughjordan won gold in the Girls seven-a-side soccer and U11 Mixed Tag Rugby. Thanks to all the referees, volunteers, and Tommy Sheehan, Manager Fethard Town Park, who was outstanding. To Fethard GAA Club for the use of their centre to play the rounders finals; to the Patrician Presentation Secondary School for parking facilities; and to members of Fethard Athletic Club for their valuable help with preparations and traffic control.

Fethard Heritage Day Festival meeting

The next meeting to organise this year’s Heritage Day Festival will be held in the Convent Community Hall at 8pm on Tuesday, July 23, and all interested in getting involved are invited to attend.

This year’s Fethard Heritage Day Festival will take place on Sunday August 25, and plans are now

being drawn up. We are now asking for volunteers interested in getting involved to come along our Festival Meeting in the Fethard Convent Community Hall. With your help and involvement this year, we can repeat that success and include all the usual free events, Fancy Dress Parade, Dog Show, Craft Fair, Music, and much more.

Died Recently Died Recently

Social dancing in Fethard Ballroom

Social Dancing continues at Fethard Ballroom on Sunday, July 21, to the music of ‘Bernie Heaney’. All are welcome to come along and enjoy us for a terrific night’s social dancing from 8.30pm to 11.30pm. Admission is €10, which includes tea and cakes and raffle.

Fethard GAA Sports Development Lotto Results

Fethard GAA Sports Lotto draw results for Tuesday, July 9, 2024, are as follows: the numbers drawn were: 7, 9, 26 and 34. We had no Jackpot winner and one Match 3 winner who received €150: Caroline Mullally. One lucky dip winner received €100: Majella Hayde. The next draw takes place on Tuesday, July 16, when the jackpot is €30,000.

Parish Church Lotto Draw Results

There was no jackpot winner in this week’s Parish Lotto on Thursday, July 11, 2024. The numbers drawn were 2, 8, 13 and 19. The winner of the weekly draw for €30 was Jennifer Butler. Next week’s Jackpot for Thursday, July 18, will be €4,000.

Annual Augustinian Pilgrimage to Knock this Saturday, July 20

Climb of Slievenamon Day from Kilcash

The third annual commemorative Climb of Slievenamon takes place on Sunday, 21 July from Kilcash village at 12 noon. It will be followed by refreshments and music. Climb led by Dr Thomas Mc Grath, Ballingarry. Organised by Kilcash / Slievenamon Community and Lingaun Valley Tourism. All are welcome.

The death has occurred on Monday, July 15, 2024, of Patrick ‘Pat’ Coen, Fr Tirry Park, Fethard. Deeply regretted by his son Michael, daughters Thelma and Aisling, daughter-in-law Joan, son-in-law Shane, grandchildren Connie, Ethan, Jordan, Michaela and Jenna, great grandchild Jodie, his brother Michael and sister Annette, nieces, nephews, extended family and friends. Reposing in McCarthy’s Funeral Home, Fethard, on Wednesday July 17 from 5.30pm to 7.30pm. Funeral Mass on Thursday July 18 at 11am in Holy Trinity Parish Church, Fethard, followed by burial in Calvary Cemetery. May he rest in peace. Pat’s Mass can be watched online at www. parishchurch.net

The death has occurred on Friday, July 12, 2024, of Peter McManus, Belbow Lane, Fethard, and formerly Athlone, Westmeath, who passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family. Cherished husband of Bernadette, and loving father of Gary, Grainne and Rhona, Peter will be sadly missed by his family, sons-in-law Paddy and Mick, daughter-in-law Jenn, adoring grandchildren Zoe and her husband Sean, Kelda, Arienne, and his great-granddaughter Evie, his brothers Michael (South Africa), Tommie, Eugene and Frank (all in Australia) and John (Ireland), brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, relatives, wonderful neighbours and many friends. Peter’s Funeral Mass took place in the Augustinian Abbey Church, Fethard, on Tuesday, July 16, followed by burial in Calvary Cemetery. May he rest in peace.

The annual Augustinian Pilgrimage to Knock will take place on this coming Saturday, July 20, 2024. A bus will leave Main Street, Fethard, at 8am. Fare is €25. If you are interested in travelling, please give your name to Michael Kenrick, Burke Street, Fethard. Tel: 087 6781450.

18th Annual Famine 1848 Walk in Ballingarry

Martin Maher, Chairman of the Ballingarry 1848 committee will lead the 18th annual Famine 1848 Walk in Ballingarry on Saturday, July 27, at 3pm. The Walk starts at the National Flag monument in the village of The Commons and proceeds to Famine Warhouse 1848, the state national heritage site. This year’s Walk will celebrate Ballingarry’s new murals on Famine Rising 1848. All are welcome.

Silver medal winners Moycarkey U11 Hurling team.

Tag Rugby Co-ordinators: Una Kennedy, Clerihan; Micheal O’Brien, Limerick; and Siobhan Kennedy, Newport.

Munster officers: Anthony Fitzsimons (Munster Chairman} Limerick, his wife Eleanor (left); and Amy Morrissey (Munster Youth Officer), Fethard.

Silver medalists Boherlahan U15 Girls Soccer team

CLOGHEEN:

PJ English

It was Clogheens turn to feature on. Tipp Fm. The progamme started with a beautiful song by Tom Costelloe. Alison And John D interviewed numerous people involved in local businesses and a lot of stories were shared and the morning finished with Tom finishing with another lovely song. A big thank you to everyone involved. Missing from photo was Paudie Costelloe and John D was the photographer. Would you be interested in advertising your business on our Community Digital Notice Board located at Main Street, Clogheen?

Your business will be promoted 365 days a year, from 7.30am to 9pm daily for an annual cost of €100.00. If you would like to discuss this further with us, please contact Rhododendron Walking Festival Committee at info@vee.ie or alternatively contact Liam Fleming on 087 2268651. Thank you.

GOLDEN:

Hurling

Huge congratulations and well done to our intermediate hurlers and mentors last weekend.

We are now through to a West Intermediate hurling final, this Friday evening in Annacarty against Cappawhite. Putting up Flags for this match would be much

BALLYMACARBRY:

Panda Playground Progress

appreciated by all involved with the team!

Parish support on Friday night would be greatly appreciated.

Newsflash

The Whistlin Donkeys are coming to our GAA complex in Golden, Bank Holiday Sunday 27th October. Tickets just €22.50, with full bar

Eamon Wall

What a productive week it’s been for the Panda Playground construction! We’ve seen lots of equipment assembled and lifted into place. The Playground perimeter fence construction has also commenced and is looking great. We’re looking forward to see what progress next week will bring!!

We have received great support in raising funds so far. Thanks you to everyone who has supported us and donated. However, we are not yet at our target of €170,000. If you are in a position to donate, you can still do so. Please contact the Community Centre at 086 032 8467 for donation details.

Golf Classic Fundraiser

Our Tee times are booking up fast so contact us now to avoid disappointment. This epic golfing event will take place on Friday, July 19th in Clonmel Golf Club. Entry fee per team of four is €200 with every euro collected going directly to Panda Playground. Your entry fee includes a two-course meal and a goody bag for each participant.

We have secured some amazing prizes for this upcoming golf classic. Teams will battle it out for our three top team prizes of a four ball in Trump International Doonbeg, a four ball in Dundrum Golf Club or a four

facilities. Tickets are available online at www.eventbrite.com

And tickets will also be available locally from Gala Golden and from John O’Brien Obs Kilross On 087 8253139 and Nellie O’Connor on 087 6228932. The Whistlin Donkeys will be on stage from 8pm to 11.30pm.

ball in Faithleg Golf Club. The top ladies team will win a four ball in Waterford Castle Golf Club. We will have a ‘longest drive’ for both men and women with four balls in Dungarvan and West Waterford Golf Clubs up for grabs. Finally our ‘nearest the pin’ competition will see the winner collect 12 golf balls. On top of these prizes we’ll be holding a raffle with many more great prizes. To register your four person team and lock in your preferred tee off time contact Sean on 087 7712159.

Comeragh & Knockmealdown Challenge Cycle

A snippet of a fantastic day at Ballymacarbry Community Centre for the Comeragh and Knockmealdown Challenge cycling event, organised by Dungarvan Cycling Club committee members as a fundraiser for our playground development.

A massive thank you to all who helped make this day possible, especially Dungarvan Cycling Club, Road marshals, those who donated food, helped with catering, Mad Mike for his entertainment, Ambulance crews and photographers.... And especially the participants who came in huge numbers. We are extremely grateful for your support. This event will help get us another big step closer to reaching our target for the

A date for your diary in October folks.

Bingo

Our GAA club bingo continues every Thursday night at 8pm in our GAA complex, Golden.

Over €2,500 in prize money given out each night.

Lotto

Our GAA club lotto jackpot now stands at €13,400.

playground development.

Next Bingo Event

Our next Ballymac Bingo event will take place on Friday August 2nd so mark the date in your calendar and make sure you don’t miss it!

Nire Valley Drop 2024

Last Saturday we witnessed another amazing event organised by the NVD committee. This one will be remembered for a long time not only for the high octane biking which took place around the Nire Valley, but also for the wonderful open air concert that took place in ‘Fentons Field’ that same evening. This event turned out to be wonderful occasion for the entire community. All funds raised went towards the redevelopment of the Mill Field GAA ground. Huge congratulations to all involved! 2024 Cul Camp in Ballymacarbry

Parents are reminded that the Kelloggs GAA Cul Camp comes to Ballymacarbry on Monday July 29th and continues until Friday August 2nd. This is always a great week of fun and play for local children. Remaining places are limited so parents are urged to book your childs place as soon as possible. The camps are open to children aged from 6 to 13 years. Places must be booked online via the Kelloggs Cul Camp website.

Tickets just €2. Available locally and online at www.locallotto.ie

Your support for our bingo and lotto is massively appreciated.

Dance Classes

A fine crowd turned up last Friday night to Niall Dorrhy dance Classes. Jives,Waltzes, Line Dances were the order of the night.

Not too late to join folks. It’s on again this coming Friday night from 8pm to 9.30pm.

A great way to learn to dance in a friendly environment.

Tidy Villages

Many thanks to Patrick for his hard work in our village of Golden.

Lovely work done by

at Kathleen Landy’s flower beds.

Please remember folks to tidy outside your own front door and premises. It helps so much with Tidy Towns judging happening over next few weeks! Thank you to all houses who have lovely flower baskets on display on our main street and village.

Marcella Collins

Patrick

Pranic Healing Level 1

is coming to Clonmel!

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What is Pranic Healing?

Based on the Law of Correspondence, what affects this energy field, affects the physical body too; that is also how dirty energies, thoughts, and emotions develop into poor physical health.

The chakras, basically, are responsible for the proper functioning of the vital, internal organs. They receive energy from the surroundings and expel the used-up energy back into the surrounding. So, when the chakras start malfunctioning because of contamination or obstruction in the flow of energy, and accumulation of negative thoughts and emotions, they adversely affect the organs under their control. In the long run, we end up having a disease.

Chakras also have psychological functions, which shapes our character.

This is how Pranic Healing can affect our whole life and the way we deal with daily challenges.

Pranic Healing is not only for the sick, but for everyone, even for the people who are already healthy and successful as it provides a scientific approach that enables us to gain control over our life.

Imagine if you know the laws of the universe and how energy works… You would become much aware of what is happening in your life and would be able to materialize what you plan for and avoid what is harmful.

Energy is pervasive; it encompasses all. Even if science can’t detect it yet, it is still there affecting every person and every being.

The intelligent approach is not to neglect it. The intelligent will research, experiment, and validate before they make any conclusions.

Try Pranic Healing with an open mind and see what it can bring for all of us!

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Upcoming Twin Hearts Meditation in your Area,

Come along at the designated time, no need to book, Donations Welcome which go to local charities.

Thurles Cabragh Wetlands, Thurles E41 T266. Tuesday July30th @ 7.30pm Maria 086 3635870 Serena 087 7781895

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Gardening for Wildlife

The Hedgehog By Albert Nolan

We were driving home late one night, and I noticed something on the road in the car lights. At first, I thought it looked like a pile of mud as there are lots of tractors cutting silage and they are bringing their fields out onto the roads.

Something looked different and I slowed down and pulled in of a house with the hazard lights on.

We got out of the car and turned on our head torches and as we approached, we could see straight away that it was a hedgehog. His spikes were all lifted up in defence and this is very effective strategy for most predators but not unfortunately against cars and trucks.

A neighbour passed and stopped to see if I was all right and he thought nothing of my unusual behaviour as they are used to seeing me at all hours of the night out bat or bird watching.

I very gently rolled him over onto

his back and I could make out a pair of very alert and bright eyes staring back at me. I quickly went back to the car and retrieved a strong pair of work gloves from the booth. I carefully picked up the hedgehog and walked into a field and placed the hedgehog at the base of a hedge. This is how the hedgehogs got their name, literally the hog the lives in hedges. They are very noisy creatures like their domesticated cousins and snort and grunt loudly while feeding and squeak loudly while mating. They have a long snout, and this has a highly developed sense of smell and while foraging for food at night this compensates for their generally poor eyesight.

Hedgehogs like to root around in leaf litter and open garden compost heaps for slugs, snails and their favourite earthworms. They are a far more effective and natural predator of slugs and

snails, and the overuse of slug pellets has a detrimental longterm effect on the health and life expectancy of hedgehogs. There will also eat windfall fruit and wet cat and dog food. Mild and bread can cause upset tummies and should be avoided. Hedgehog babies are born blind and without spines but quickly develop on their mother’s milk. These nocturnal creatures are now quite common in built up areas and are well able to climb but modern walls and fences between properties are forcing hedgehogs out onto roads where they are often killed.

You can help hedgehogs by using a small piece of plastic pipe to make a tunnel at the base of the wall and also ensuing that garden ponds don’t have steep sides so that hedgehogs can climb out. I have never found hedgehogs in my community but a few years ago I did see one on the road a

Ronan Quirke’s

Extra Time

Citius - Altius - Fortius

So, what are you up to on Thursday 1st August at 11.30 am? Not sure? All going well, you will be sitting, or standing, or screaming in front of a screen. Watching the men’s double scull rowing final at the Paris Olympics. Clonmel rower, Daire Lynch will be taking to the water alongside his partner, Philip Doyle of Belfast, providing of course that they navigate the repechages on Sunday 28th and, hopefully, the semi-final on Tuesday 30th . Lynch and Doyle won bronze at the European Championships in Poznan last year and followed up with another bronze at the World Championships in Belgrade. This season, they were forced to miss the World Cup event in Lucerne after Doyle suffered a fractured rib, but returned to the water last month at the World Cup regatta in Poznan, this time winning gold. The French Olympic Champions left without a medal. That said, a lot can change in a few weeks at the elite level of sport. Lots of things can go wrong between now and 1st August, just ask former World Champion, Sanita Puspure, but on current form, we can have reasonable expectation that a Clonmel athlete will compete in an Olympic Final in a matter of just two weeks’ time. Now, take a pause and read that last sentence again, because I cannot tell you the enormity of it.

A Clonmel athlete, a man from our parish, who went to school here and took his first strokes on our stretch of the River Suir, will wear a green singlet and represent his country in an Olympic Games. That, in and of itself, is an amazing statistic, but to go to a Games with a chance of a medal is a once in a generational achievement. Clonmel has sent Frank Rothwell to the Olympics, Thomas Chamney and John

Watson. Clonmel natives who have represented Ireland at the Olympic Games. But medals eluded them. Cork native and Clonmel resident Pat O’Callaghan won two gold medals in 1928 and 1932, so you could argue that Clonmel punches above its size when it comes to Olympic representation. Make no mistake, the Olympic Games is the pinnacle of sport. It has morphed into something of a monster, bigger, fattier and uglier rather than faster, higher, stronger but it is still the ultimate accolade for an athlete.

Ireland sent only 8 athletes to the Los Angeles Games in 1932, won two gold medals and were ranked the 16th best nation on the medal table. In Atlanta in 1996, we sent 78 athletes, won three golds and one bronze and were ranked the 28th best nation on the medal table.

In terms of medal haul, London 2012 was our biggest collection with six, one gold, one silver and four bronze. At London we sent 66 athletes and were ranked the 41st best nation on the table.

Can Ireland top the London medal haul at Paris? I really think so, and here is why.

Boxing is our most successful Olympic Sport accounting for almost half of the total medals that Ireland has won across 29 Olympic Games. John McNally in Helsinki 1952 was the first, Kellie Harrington in Tokyo 2021 was the last. That will be expected to continue in Paris. We are sending a team of ten boxers to Paris. Martin Fennessy of Clonmel Boxing Club sagely told me once that it is harder to qualify for an Olympic Games than it is to medal at one. So, for our ten strong team, the hard part has been achieved. Now it is down to performance and favourable judging. We have boxers qualified

2 Titles for Hillview Junior Lady Lorraine Creed

Lorraine has brought 2 fantastic victories to Hillview Pitch & Putt Club over the last 10 days! St Stephen’s, Cork was the 1st victory for Lorraine in the Over 55’s Junior All Ireland Ladies Grade. Super shooting on a tough course. Following on from that day a mere week ago - Lorraine took herself off to Ardnacrusha, Co. Clare - a beautifully laid out course with some tricky holes. The Munster Ladies Strokeplay Championship hosted a field of fantastic players which Lorraine again rose to the top - giving her the accolade of Munster Junior Lady Strokeplay Champion. Well done Lorraine, your dedication to the Club & the game is evident each weekend, and your support for Hillview is greatly appreciated.

in all six of the women’s weight divisions and four of the seven male weight divisions. Three medals from the 10 boxers is not an unreasonable hope. The medal bouts start on Saturday 3rd August and run through to Saturday 10th . The recent European Athletics Championships were a delight. Gold for the mixed relay and in the woman’s 1500mfor Ciara Mageean had us enthralled. But European success is not indicator of Olympic medal expectation. If you look at the women’s 1500 meters for example, Mageean triumphed in Rome in a final that Scottish runner Laura Muir chose to miss as she prepared for Paris. Muir has run 3.53.79 for 1500m this season, Mageean’s seasons best (and Irish record) is 3.55.87. And then there is Faith Kipyegon of Kenya. Quite possibly the greatest female runner of all time. She holds the world record in the 1500m and the mile and is a former world record holder in 5000m. Her 1500m world record was set this year and stands at 3.49.04, more than 6 seconds faster than Mageean’s best. So, it is time to temper medal expectations for Mageean. An Olympic Final for the former camogie player? Certainly. But to medal will require a remarkable slice of luck. Stranger things have happened, but I cannot see it. The women’s 1500m final is on Saturday 10th .

Tipperary’s Sharlene Mawdsley won a gold medal in Rome as part of the mixed 4 x 400m relay team; she ran the anchor leg and blitzed the opposition around the final bend. The Irish team will be confident going to Paris, not least because of their gold in the European’s but also their bronze medal at the World Relays in the Bahamas in May, where they

finished behind the USA and the Netherlands. Rome showed that they can beat the Dutch, if they get their tactics correct again and they set national records almost every time they run. Their gold medal run in Rome lowered the Irish record to 3.09.92 and the world record stands at 3.08.80, held by the USA. The final of the mixed relay is on Saturday 3rd. Cancel all other appointments that evening is my advice.

The timetable for the women’s 4 x 400m is a little complicated as it seems to coincide with the heats of the individual 400m for women. Rhasidat Adeleke has reasonable medal expectations in the individual 400m and may feel compelled to concentrate on that before she turns her attention to the women’s relay team. Adeleke and Maudsley will have had their mixed final on a Saturday, their individual heats for the 400m on the following Tuesday, semi-final on Wednesday, final on Friday. But the heats for the 400m woman’s relay also starts on the same day, Friday 9th. There would be a distinct possibility that the opening rounds of the woman’s relay will see an Irish team without Adeleke and Mawdsley.

Elsewhere, the final of the men’s pommel horse is on Saturday 3rd. Rhys McClenaghan is the current world champion and gold medal favourite. He had a disastrous performance on the pommel horse in the Tokyo final three years ago and must surely have learned from that. If he can stay on the horse this time he will surely medal, the colour; yet to be determined.

In the pool, we have double world champion and world record holder (short course) in Daniel Wiffin. He will probably compete in both the 800m freestyle as well as the

1500m. The longer distance is his preferred event. The men’s 800m heats are on Monday 29th, the final the following day Tuesday 30th , the 1500m heats on Saturday 3rd and the 1500m final the following day. That’s a lot of meters for him to swim and one wonders if the double is doable. The greatest distance swimmer of all time is probably Australian Grant Hackett and he doubled up winning gold in both the 800m and 1500m at World Championships in 2003 and 2005 but never at the Olympic Games.

Danielle Hill is a current European champion in the 100m backstroke but she is also very proficient at the 50m freestyle. Mona McSharry made the 100m breast stroke final in Toyko and was very close to medalling at the world championships in Fukuoka and Doha. Making an Olympic final is an extraordinary achievement for any athlete but, when you hear McSharry speak you know that making a final is the absolute minimum that she expects. Finally, back where we began, Vaires-sur-Marne. The Olympic Nautical Stadium is around 25km east of Paris. Lynch and Doyle will be joined by other medal contenders, O’Donovan and McCarthy, the Skibbereen duo competing in the lightweight double scull. Paul O’Donovan

looking for his third Olympic medal and his second successive gold. His final takes place on Friday 2nd August. The women’s four will hopefully also make the final, after which, who knows. Their final, should they make it, is also on Thursday 1st August. Have you ever heard of the golden hour at the 1932 Games in Los Angeles? It all makes for a fascinating 17 days, and one we should really enjoy as they will take place in our time zone, pretty much. The next two Olympics take place in Los Angeles and Brisbane so unless you suffer from insomnia then those games won’t be the same. Every four years we take the opportunity to watch sports that we rarely see on mainstream television. Some of which I am not so sure are sports at all. But whenever I try and define a sport, I am always confronted by ‘what about-ery’.

I used to think that if a sport was a recognised Olympic Sport, then it must be a sport. But this Olympics will see the introduction of ‘Breaking’ as an Olympic Sport. Now, if a ‘sport’ requires a DJ and a MC in order for it to take place then I am sceptical if it is a sport at all. But, I will probably watch a bit of Breaking in coming weeks and declare myself an expert on the sport when it is over. It is the Olympic Games after all! Citius - Altius - Fortius

Tipp go in search of semi-final place

All roads lead to Ashbourne this Saturday as the Tipperary junior team go in search of a place in the Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Junior Semi-Final when they take on Armagh at 4pm. It’s the second game of an exciting double header with Laois and Cavan going head to head in the opening game at 2pm. Tipperary will no doubt go in as favourites on Saturday having recently defeated Armagh in their final group game 2-12 to 1-04. While the final score showed an 11 point victory for the homeside the game was a lot closer for many parts with Tipperary trailing at half time by a point 1-01 to 3 points. The first half was a cagey affair with the stop start nature meaning neither side got into any rhythm and scores were at a minimum. Tipperary were much improved in the second half with the turning point of the game coming on the three-quarter mark when

captain Sinead Meagher struck 1-01 in quick succession. Tipperary were very impressive in the final quarter hitting 1-03 without reply with Amy Quinlisk snatching a late goal to seal the win.

Armagh will be hoping and expecting a much-improved performance this Saturday. They wont have the disadvantage of the long journey to Tipperary that they had a few weeks ago. They will also welcome back their goalkeeper and joint captain Ciarrai Devlin between the posts. While Tipperary’s full back line impressed in the last meeting of the two sides, Armagh’s full-forward Ciara Geoghegan is a serious threat when given the right ball while former All-Ireland winner with Cork Jennifer Curry is a big game player and has the potential to be a match winner. The orchard county have suffered heart break the last 2 years loosing even-

tual winners Clare in the semi-final in 2023 while in 2022 they were beaten in the final by Antrim. They will relish the opportunity to reverse the result of the group game and get back to Croke Park.

Standing in their way is a Tipperary team improving with every game. Playing in the division 2b league they went toe to toe with Intermediate teams and reached the final before loosing to Cork. They overturned this result weeks later beating Cork in the Intermediate Munster semi-final before claiming silverware with a brilliant win over Kerry in the final. The winning streak carried through to the championship with big wins over Down, Tyrone and Wicklow before defeating Armagh in their toughest test to date. Bill Mullaney and his management have settled on a very strong 15 with the spine of the team particularly impressive. Ciara

Ryan one of the few survivors of last year’s starting 15 has claimed the full back spot while Gortnahoe’s Sophie Pembroke is a great reader of the game at number 6. Amy Quinlisk and Anna Fahie have formed a great midfield partnership while up front Ciara Brennan and Sinead Meagher have been in good scoring form while also providing crucial assists throughout the campaign to date. Jenny Grace is another key player and talented free taker – the Burgess Duharra star also brings huge experience to the side. Both teams will have to be at their very best on Saturday to take victory. All in Tipperay will be hoping it’s the blue and gold who will be celebrating at the final whistle. The side have brought some great memories already this year and it’s important that the whole county gets behind them this weekend and travel in numbers to cheer them on.

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Walsh outstanding as Ballingarry crowned South intermediate hurling champions

South Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship Final:

Ballingarry were crowned South Tipperary intermediate hurling champions for the first time in three years following their four points victory over reigning champions Kilsheelan/Kilcash at Páirc na nEalaí, Carrick-on-Suir on Saturday evening last.

A strong second half performance from the Slieveardagh side saw them go seven points clear towards the end of the hour before a late penalty for Kilsheelan/ Kilcash put a slightly deceptive look to the final scoreline.

Ballingarry, for whom ‘man of the match’ Dylan Walsh was outstanding with a 13 points haul, were the superior team on the night and had they made better use of their possession and scoring opportunities could have won more easily. The Kilsheelan goalkeeper Oisin O’Donoghue also produced some superb saves to deny them on a couple of occasions. But having overcome both of last year’s divisional finalists, Carrick Davins in the semi-final, and Kilsheelan in the decider, the Niall O’Donnell managed Ballingarry were delighted with the win and will now hope for a good run in the upcoming county championship.

The opening half had been a much closer affair, the sides level on four occasions and were at 0-9 apiece as the interval approached before Ballingarry hit a last-minute brace before the short-whistle. An already understrength Kilsheelan side, down the likes of

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county senior star Mark Kehoe, Daire Brennan and Kevin Guiry, lost their influential centre-back Mark Stokes in the 22nd minute.

It was a major blow to the side chasing a three-in-a-row of titles, and left them facing a massive uphill battle.

Within 10 seconds of the opening, as if a sign of things to come, Dylan Walsh pointed his first of the night from the sideline before the Suirsiders responded with three of their own from two Barry Kehoe frees separated by a sweet white flag from halfway scored by wing-forward Thomas O’Connor.

It was rapid fire scoring and the next four points went the way of Ballingarry. Firstly Dylan Walsh pointed from long distance before the same player added a brace of frees, and the Ballingarry lead was extended to 0-5 to 0-3 by the 10th minute when midfielder Thomas Walton hit a fine point in full flow.

Parity was restored for the third time by the 13th minute of this tit-for-tat opening half when Micheál Freaney and Senan Butler pointed for Kilsheelan, the latter score coming following a good defensive break by Sean Ryan.

A long range Declan Hayes point edged Ballingarry back in front, a lead doubled when Dylan Walsh, from the tightest of angles, had his fifth point of the game right at the quarter-hour mark. Thomas O’Connor responded

almost immediately with a sweet strike to make it 0-7 to 0-6 for Ballingarry on 16 minutes. There followed a big moment in the game. Dylan Walsh seemed set to send over a point only for Kilsheelan’s Mark Stokes to cover huge ground and get in a terrific block at the expense of a 65. Immediately the county senior footballer pulled up with a leg injury and to rub salt into the loss, Walsh sent over the resultant 65 and Ballingarry were two to the good again.

Bravely, Kilsheelan dug in and after a pair of long-distance frees were shared by Barry Kehoe and Dylan Walsh, Kilsheelan’s Billy O’Connor and Thomas O’Connor hit points for 0-9 each after 30 minutes. Ballingarry finished the half with points from Walton and Walsh for their two-point interval cushion.

The frequency of the scoring lessened on the resumption before Ballingarry added a brace both from Walsh, one a free and the other from play after Michael Ivors had been involved twice in the build-up.

Oisin O’Donoghue then made the first of his superb saves when denying Adam O’Connell with an excellent block, and his team mates responded by hitting the next three scores via Barry Kehoe (two frees) and a well-taken point from Senan Butler.

A cat-like double save from Oisin O’Donoghue denied Adam O’Connell once again before Ballingarry substitute Aidan Ryan pointed the recycled ball in that passage of play to make it 0-14 to 0-12.

The goal Ballingarry craved eventually came 10 minutes from time and after an initial effort was bravely blocked by a Kilsheelan defender, Thomas Walton finally beat the Kilsheelan custodian to

stretch his side’s advantage to five points.

It was out to six points when Walsh capitalised on a poor Kilsheelan turnover a minute later, and while Martin Gibbs pulled one back with a free, Ballingarry further extended their advantage to eight points by the 56th minute with another Walsh free and one from play by the hard-working Michael Ivors.

As the clock ticked down, Kilsheelan sub Ru Kelly pointed before Walsh rounded off his own show with a magnificent solo point down the left hand side. A penalty in added-time scored low to the corner by Barry Kehoe was purely academic before referee Nigel Carrigan called full-time.

For the winners Dylan Walsh was outstanding, but this was far from a one-man show and Ballingarry found the team performance they needed on the night to deny Kilsheelan. Ian Ivors in a sweeping role was crucial in defence, while the full-back line of Gerard Ryan, Paul Butler and Mikie McGrath didn’t concede a point from play over the hour.

Jack Fennelly, Thomas Walton and Eamon Corcoran all had their moments too in adding to this win.

Kilsheelan will be disappointed in having failed to hit their

best on the night and will want to get back out there again for the county championship when hopefully they will be strengthened by players returning. Oisin O’Donoghue, Jason Madigan, Sean Ryan, Micheál Freaney, Thomas O’Connor and Senan Butler gave their all on the night.

Ballingarry: Paidi Maher, Gerard Ryan, Paul Butler, Mikie McGrath, Declan Hayes (0-1), Jack Fennelly, Ian Ivors, Eamon Corcoran, Thomas Walton (1-2), Dylan Walsh (0-13, 0-5F, 1x65), Michael Ivors (0-1), Sean Doheny, Conor Vaughan, Ben Ivors, Paddy Burns.

Subs: Aidan Ryan (0-1) for Burns (HT), Adam O’Connell for Vaughan (39 mins).

Kilsheelan/Kilcash: Oisin O’Donoghue, Conor Neville, Jason Madigan, Sean Ryan, Emmet Butler, Mark Stokes, Micheál Freaney (0-1), Billy O’Connor (0-1), Billy Murphy, Thomas O’Connor (0-3), Senan Butler (0-2), Sean Freaney, Jamie Roche, Barry Kehoe (1-5F, 1-0 pen), Michael Bates.

Subs: Eoin Kehoe for Stokes (inj., 22 mins), Martin Gibbs (01F) for Bates (HT), Ru Kelly (0-1) for S. Freaney (34 mins), Kian

for Roche

Referee: Nigel Carrigan (Ballybacon/Grange).

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(52 mins).

South Board chairman Nicholas Moroney presents the South Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship cup to Ballingarry captain,Paul Butler, after his side defeated Kilsheelan/Kilcash in the divisional final played at Páirc na nEalaí, Carrick-on-Suir on Saturday evening last.

South Board chairman Nicholas Moroney presents the Man of the Match award to Ballingarry’s Dylan Walsh, after his side defeated Kilsheelan/Kilcash in the divisional final played at Páirc na nEalaí, Carrick-onSuir on Saturday evening last. Walsh scored 13 points including seven from play over the course of the hour.

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Swan turn on the style to recapture South senior hurling crown

Clonmel Oil South Tipperary South Senior Hurling Championship Final:

CARRICK SWAN 3-19

KILLENAULE 1-16

Having suffered a narrow defeat to Killenaule in last year’s South senior hurling final, Carrick Swan were emphatic winners against the same opponents at Monroe on Sunday afternoon, last, emerging clear nine points winners after an impressive all-round team display.

Conmel Oil sponsored competition has alternated between these two sides for the past four years but this time round the Swan were much the better side for most of the hour and having built up a 10 points lead by the interval were not for turning in the second half.

The first 30 minutes of hurling was as good a half as the Carrick side have strung together in a long time, the first four minutes excepted. However, from the moment Killenaule scored their opening goal after three and a half minutes all the way to the in-

terval they were blitzed by a black and white wave. In that time the Swan hit 1-13 to their opponents meagre two points, both of those white flags coming from frees.

Indeed during the entirety of the first half, Killenaule’s only score from play was a goal, and that in itself was more down to a casualness in the Swan defence than any great creativity from the Robins.

At half-time Niall O’Dwyer and his selectors made some key switches and introduced Killian O’Dwyer and John Bubbles O’Dwyer. The third quarter saw the reigning champions in the ascendancy and they outscored their opponents by nine points to three, and it looked like the game was back in the melting pot after all. However, in the space of a minute, Swan delivered two vital goals, and with it the destination of the cup was decided; it was

WELL DONE TO THE SOUTH BOARD

Hats off all round on a great day for the South Board with an impressive programme produced for the South Senior Hurling final, the Diarmuid O’Hurley Pipe Band (Cashe) for the prematch parade and national anthem and all officials and stewards involved in a well-marshalled day at Monroe.

heading back down the N24, and deservedly so.

The game opened with rain continuing on a greasy surface and it was the holders who made the better of the opening exchanges of three-placed-ballscores to lead 0-2 to 0-1 by the time the game’s first goal arrived. A goalmouth clearance by a defender was blocked by Killenaule full-forward Eoin Shaw and the sliotar found its way to the net. Four points up inside four minutes, amazingly Killenaule would add on only two more frees over the course of the first 30 minutes, all their four points in that period scored by team captain Joe O’Dwyer.

Rocked by the early concession of a cheap goal, the Swan focused on the job in hand and for the remainder of the half outhurled their opponents comprehensively. Six unanswered points followed, with four from play by Shane Torpey, Aaron O’Halloran (2) and Aaron Dunne, backed up by the sweet striking free-taking of ciotóg Callum Lannigan who put in a magnificent hour for the victors.

The early four points deficit had been turned into a two points advantage by the ninth minute, and after a brief lull midway through the first half with two pointed frees apiece, the Black and Whites dominated the last 10 minutes of the opening period, scoring 1-5 without reply to lead by 10 at the break.

Ben Mulcaire, team captain Eric O’Halloran, Aaron O’Halloran and Callum Lannigan tagged on points from play before their first goal arrived. Like the earlier one at the opposite end, this was mainly down to a defensive mistake, a high ball was caught but lost by a Killenaule defender and Dean Waters appreciatively kicked home the goal.

Late on Callum Lannigan hit his sixth free of the half, while in contrast Killenaule were off with three in-a-row of their own, and that too was having a significant bearing on the scoreboard which at half-time read 1-14 to 1-4.

As would always be expected from Killenaule they reorganised at the break and the introduction of John Bubbles O’Dwyer at centre-forward was having a desired effect as the attacking unit started to believe more. By the 45th minute that double handful interval disadvantage had been reduced to four, with the Swan restricted to just three Callum Lannigan frees in 15 minutes.

Taking the game to their opponents Killenaule were now bossing matters and five frees from Joe O’Dwyer (2) and John O’Dwyer (3) plus points from play from Joe O’Dwyer, John O’Dwyer (2) and Tom Stakelum made it 1-17 to 1-13 after 46 minutes, and at this rate Killenaule looked ever threatening.

But Swan were bound to catch a break and it came quickly and emphatically with not one green flag but two inside a minute that changed the course of the game.

A huge puck-out from Kieran Lonergan bounced behind the half-back line and invitingly for Callum Lannigan who gathered before soloing on and burying the sliotar to the back of the net.

In the next passage of play, another delivery was caught by the just-introduced Danny O’Hanlon and his pin-point cross was collected on the edge of the square by Callum Walsh and blasted home. Four points were back out to 10 in a flash and all the hard work of the Killenaule comeback washed away with it.

Down the stretch Killenaule added consolation points from Paudie Feehan, Bubbles and Joe O’Dwyer, with Swan scores com-

ing from a Callum Lanigan 65 and their final point of the day by the impressive Aaron O’Halloran from half-way.

All told Swan were full value for their win on a day when they all worked together as a unit. The defence was superb with the likes of Dean Kiely, Scott Hogan, Jack Murphy and Gavin O’Halloran getting through loads of graft. They had the better of the exchanges around the centre with Aaron O’Halloran in particular prominent. And it was a day to remember for Callum Lannigan with an impressive 1-11 haul from placed balls and a well-taken goal at a vital time to help swing the pendulum back in their favour.

Killenaule, after that tonic start, unlike them, completely lost their way in the first half and going 30 minutes without a point from play wouldn’t be believed. They gave themselves too much to do for the second half but still didn’t back down and fought gamely to then end. They’ll want to put this one behind them quickly.

Kudos to Moyle Rovers’ referee Keith Delahunty for a job well done in the division’s hurling

showpiece of the year.

Carrick Swan: Kieran Lonergan, Dean Kiely, Scott Hogan, Jack Murphy, Colin Loughman, Gavin O’Halloran, Ben Mulcaire (0-1), Aaron O’Halloran (0-4), Shane Torpey (0-1), Eric O’Halloran (0-1), Callum Lanigan (1-11, 0-9F, 0-1x65), Taylor Fleming, Aidan Waters, Aaron Dunne (01), Dean Waters (1-0).

Subs: Callum Walsh (1-0) for A. Waters (40 mins), Corey Ryan for Torpey (43 mins), Danny O’Hanlon for Fleming (47 mins), Owen Harrigan for Mulcaire (inj., 57 mins), Dean Fitzgerald-Walsh for Dunne (58 mins).

Killenaule: Joe Ceasar, Finn Nolan, Paddy Codd, Jack Hassett, Cian Johnson, Ciaran O’Dwyer, Jimmy Feehan, Eoin O’Connell, Thomas Keaveney, Joe O’Dwyer (0-8, 0-5F, 0-1x65), Paudie Feehan (0-1), Podge O’Dwyer, Tom Stakelum (0-1), Eoin Shaw (1-0), Dara Fitzgerald.

Subs: Gus Browne for P. O’Dwyer (29 mins), Killian O’Dwyer for Jimmy Feehan (HT), John Bubbles O’Dwyer (0-6, 0-4F) for Fitzgerald (HT), Luke Ryan for Keaveney (57 mins).

Referee: Keith Delahunty (Moyle Rovers).

Declan Browne, representing competition sponsors Clonmel Oil, presents the South Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship cup to Carrick Swan captain, Eric O’Halloran, after the Carrick-on-Suir side defeated Killenaule in the final played at Monroe on Sunday afternoon. On left is South Board chairman, Nicholas Moroney.

Man of the Match in last Sunday’s Clonmel Oil South Senior Hurling Championship final was Swan centre-forward Callum Lanigan seen here accepting his trophy from John Quirke, sponsor of the award. Lanigan made a huge contribution to his side’s success scoring 1-11 including a goal at a vital stage of the second half.

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MENS NOTES:

Results - Trustees Prize

The latest competition in our POY series, the Trustees Prize (Mrs. Marjorie Walsh, Mr. Brendan Binchy, Mr. Patsy O’Keeffe), saw a large entry over the two days at the weekend with the winner posting his score early on Saturday and waiting anxiously to see if the score held up for the rest of the weekend. Congratulations to Colman Walsh who with 41pts, saw off the rest of the field for the win. In 2nd place was Sam Morrissey (40pts) who held off the challenge of Donald Binchy by virtue of a countback over the last 6 holes. Darren Cass (39pts) completed the placings with a better B9 over Fiona Maher.

Trustees Prize Singles Stableford Full Results

1st Colman Walsh 41pts

2nd Sam Morrissey 40pts (B6)

Gross Brian Gleeson 33pts

3rd Donald Binchy 40pts

4th Darren Cass 39pts (B9) Men’s Fixtures

Clonmel Oil are the sponsors for next weekend’s Blue/Yellow singles stableford competition. Saturday’s singles will be from

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the Blue Tees and Sunday we will have a Yellow Tees singles competition. There are prizes for the winners each day and we will also have a prize for the best aggregate 36-hole score for those who fancy taking on the course on both days.

Entry fee €7 for members (per round).

The Bulmer’s Open Singles series continues on Tuesday, Friday & Sunday. Singles Stableford from the White Tees. Members €7, Visitors €20.

The Hub 9-hole singles stableford is running every day (after 2pm on a Saturday). Green Tees Men / Red Tees Ladies. Entry Fee is €3. Enter as often as you like!

Remember that you need to play at least 6 times to be eligible to qualify for the Grand Final in September.

Presentation of Prizes

Our next presentation of prizes takes place on Saturday the 20th July at 4.30pm in the Clubhouse. Prize winners will be contacted by text during the week as a reminder. If you cannot attend, please nominate a delegate to collect Mondays behalf.

SLIEVENAMON GOLF CLUB

Some man for one man

What a start to the week we had last week, as it was disclosed that the July Monthly Medal Competition had been won by that force of nature known as 88 year old Mick Burke! An inspiration to us all, Mick (who has a handicap of 20) carded 64 points to bring home the bacon (and the medal). 2nd place went to Anthony Norris (10) on 65 points, with John S O’Brien (14) in 3rd on 66 points. Andrew Franey won Best Gross on 65.

Graham is tops

Last week’s Silver Jubilee Open Competition Winner was won by Graham O’Reilly (16) on 43 points. There is a considerable interest building up in the Open at the minute and all are welcome to participate, with fantastic prizes on offer.

Des Delahunty Memorial Cup

In the Ladies Des Delahunty Memorial Cup, also played last weekend, Laois Power (37) took home the trophy on 44 points. Marie Holohan (37) placed 2nd on 36 points, with Rosemary Lalor (32) in 3rd on 35 points. Our Lady Captain Paula Spillane won the Best Gross on 18 points. Catherine Cooney took the Front 9 on 20 points ad Kathy Cleary won the Back 9 on 18 points.

Monday Mixed Scramble

In Monday’s Mixed Scramble Competition, Vincent Phelan (otherwise known as the “Numbers Man”) had to use 10 fingers and 10 toes to tot up the winning

Prizes will be presented for the following competitions:

Martin Kennedy Memorial Cup

Emigrants Rest Trophy

The Centenary Cup

The CV Financial Singles Trustees Prize

Junior Golf

The Summer Junior Golf Programme continues on Monday’s at 9.30am. All Junior members are welcome to attend.

Best of luck to the Fred Daly team who play Cork in the East Munster Area Final on Monday 22nd July in Monkstown at 11.50am. Your support would be greatly appreciated.

Alan’s Ace

Lovely motoring! Congratulations to Alan Barlow who scored a hole-in-one at the tenth hole in the recent Centenary Cup competition!

Seniors

Thursday 11th July – 12 Hole

1st – Michael McSweeney, Richie Power, Billly Doyle - 60pts 2nd – Larry Tobin, John Bolger, Michael O’Neill - 59pts

3rd – Joe McCausland, Liam Flynn, Michael Kenny 58pts Back 6

scores, with less than 2 points separating the first 10 Teams!. Billy Phelan, Una Creed and Kathleen Harrington took the top spot on a nett score of 35.45. Declan Whyte, Brian Hogan and Breda O’Dwyer were 2nd on 35.56, with Michael W O’Meara, Colm Butler and Josephine Murphy on 3rd with 35.62.

Ladies Open Tuesday

Tuesday our Ladies played an Open Competition in aid of the Clonmel Community Soup Kitchen and Free Food Bank. Despite copious appearances from Child of Prague statues dotted around the Community, the weather was inclement, to say the least. Nevertheless our Ladies and visitors alike took to the Crusoe with great good humour and made the most of the day (not to mention the gratefully received delicacies served up by Paula Cahill later in the Coffeehouse). The Scramble was won by Teresa O’Brien, Carmel Williams and Patricia Butler (Dungarvan) on 94 points. Paula Spillane, Geraldine Bartley and Catherine Cooney took 2nd place on 94 points, with Margo Condon, Kathy Cleary and Mary Molloy (Mt Juliet) in 3rd on 88 Points.

Seniors

Our Seniors had a better run of the weather on Wednesday, when they played a Rumble in considerably better conditions. This team event was won by John Doyle, Tony Condon and Robert Phelan on 95 points. In 2nd place were Billy Phelan, Don O’Con-

Next Event: Thursday, July 25 with draws from 10.00 am to 11.30am. All seniors most welcome.

Club Lotto – Kindly sponsored by Europlan Group Draw took place on Saturday July 13 with a Jackpot of €2,400. Numbers drawn: 12,14,25,26. No Jackpot Winner. No match 3 winners.

Jackpot €2,500 on Saturday, July 20. Tickets at €2 each and three for €5. Also available to purchase online, QR codes, Facebook. Vouchers available for all kinds of gifts and presents. Quick Pick Lotto available.

LADIES NOTES

The Red Tees Scramble

Thanks to all the ladies who help out with our Tuesday evening scramble, it is a successful endeavour and is proving to be a popular event. It continues each Tuesday evening put your name down on the what’s app and join in the fun.

Results

Eileen Murphy Perpetual Trophy Qualifier

1st Eta Barry Walsh (Lady Captain) and Finola Foley 39 pts

nell and Paddy Bamrbick on 92 points, while 3rd place went to Michael W O’Meara, James Kelly and Pat Brett on 94 points.

Juniors

Our wonderful Juniors turned out in great numbers again on Saturday for coaching by Paudi Lahart, who was joined this week by his son, and our former Junior Captain, David. Paudi is the essence of calm and encouragement and the progress the Juniors are making is incredible to behold. There will now be a 2 week hiatus in Coaching to allow Paudi take a well earning holiday,, but Coaching will resume on Saturday August 3rd, and Juniors are encouraged to keep up their training in the meantime!

Mini Golf Adventure proving popular

The welcome, if fitful, appearance of the sun at the latter end

2nd Bobbi Holohan and Ann Boyle 36 pts

Trustees Prize 18 Hole Singles

Stableford (POY), open to both ladies and gents. See men’s notes for results.

Upcoming Competitions

Best of luck to our Mary McKenna Team who are playing in the Munster Semi Final in Dungarvan next Sunday, July 21 against Dungarvan.

Texas Scramble Wednesday

July 17

3-person scramble very kindly sponsored by AIB.

Ladies Captains Day Saturday July 27.

The draw timesheet for Lady Captains Day has now been posted on the board in the Ladies locker room. Please add your name to the sheet.

There will also be a separate 9 Hole Stableford competition which will run between 11am. and 12 noon.

There will also be a 3-person scramble for beginner ladies, details to follow.

Summer Saturday Singles

Running until Saturday, August 24th, this 9-hole competition

Also visiting was a special VIP - Gavin Peters, renowned footballer with Clonmel Óg, who popped out with Mum Fiona to try out the golf and the Adventure Course.

of the week has seen a marked increase in visitors to our Mini Golf and Adventure Centre. Children from Clonmel Childcare have become regulars at this stage and are bringing a level of excitement that is totally infectious, while the

(holes 1-9) allows participants to play as many Saturdays as they wish, with one card to count.

The Hub 9 Hole Competition

The Hub 9-Hole Summer Series is open to all club members and available daily from Monday to Friday, Sunday, and after 2 p.m. on Saturdays (excluding during POY events).

Donoughmore Cup

This is up and running with matches still to be played.

NEW MEMBERS 2024/25

Membership year 1st April31st March. If you are looking to join the club, please contact the office for details of rates.

Special offer on New Members – join now and your membership is covered up to 31st March 2025. €450 + €50 comp levy + Golf Ireland fees. This offer is open to new members and past members who have not renewed their membership within the last 5 years. Terms and conditions apply. Juniors from €100 and Distance €200 so for full details please contact Aine at the office on 052-6124050 or download an application form from our website www.clonmelgolfclub.com.

Among our visitors this week were locals Aidan Kenny and son Jason, who brought along cousin Brady, visiting all the way from Texas. Not only did they get in a little competitive golf, Kenny was able to bring Brady up to date on some of our local folklore and history as they played the Mini Golf Course.

facilities offer a welcome break and opportunity to run off a bit of steam for holidaying children and their grateful parents. It is difficult to know what feature is the most popular - the go carts are a huge draw while the Obstacle Course sets up a great challenge, accompanied by games such as CorbHoles, Tug of War and Swing Ball, among others. However, there is something very special about watching parents and children alike participate

in a sack race, accompanied by vocal and encouraging MC Tony Powell, that has to be seen to be appreciated! Fantastic fun! Among our visitors this week were locals Aidan Kenny and son Jason, who brought along cousin Brady, visiting all the way from Texas. Not only did they get in a little competitive golf, Kenny was able to bring Brady up to date on some of our local folklore and history as they played the Mini Golf Course.

Octogenarian Mick Burke - out Monthly Medal Winner for July.

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CAHIR PARK GOLF CLUB

Annual Hospice Day was another great success

Another successful day in the Park! Last Thursday, we held our annual hospice day at Cahir Park Golf Club. This event wouldn’t have been possible without our kind sponsors, Noel Flanagan, Cahir Carpets and Ned Grant Builders. The day featured a 3-Ball Champagne Scramble, Coffee Morning, and Raffle in our Clubhouse to raise vital funds for the South Tipperary Hospice Movement. The day concluded with the prize-giving and cheque presentation in the Clubhouse. We raised an incredible €6,500 and are so grateful to everyone who contributed to making the day a success! Many thanks to Noel and Martin for presenting the prizes.

The results were as follows:

1st: Breda R Hickey, Noleen O’Rourke, Eimer Lenehan, with a score of 71.

2nd: Julie Connolly, Kathleen Alton, and Susan Carey with a score of 69 (Countback).

3rd: Anne Fitzgerald, Joanne Fitzgerald, and Margaret Geary O’Sullivan, also with a score of 69 (Countback).

We will see you all next year!

Ladies Result

We held an 18-hole Stableford competition on Sunday the 14th of July. The course was in great condition and hats off to the groundskeeping team. First place went to Carrie Healy with 39 points.

Men bow out of Bruen after great run

On Saturday, our Jimmy Bruen team headed for Cork Golf Club to take on Tramore in the East Munster Semi-Final. It was a very tight match and the lads won 2.5 to 1.5. Hats off to Cork Golf Club for having the course in great condition.

Saturday’s team was as follows:

- Declan Walsh & Keith McGuire

- Steven Flannery & Steven Barnes

- Derek Davis & Barry Hennessy

- Eoin Carey & Francis McCarthy

- Subs: Noel Halley & Vincent Bradshaw

The lads regrouped and set off for Cork again on Sunday morning, this time getting ready to do battle with Clonakilty Golf Club in the East Munster Final.

Sunday’s team was as follows:

- Declan Walsh & Keith McGuire

- Noel Halley & Vincent Bradshaw

- Derek Davis & Barry Hennessy

- Eoin Carey & Francis McCarthy

- Subs: Steven Flannery & Steven Barnes

On Thursday last Cahir Park held our annual hospice day at Cahir Park Golf Club. This event wouldn’t have been possible without our kind sponsors, Noel Flanagan, Cahir Carpets and Ned Grant Builders. The day featured a 3-Ball Champagne Scramble, Coffee Morning, and Raffle in our Clubhouse to raise vital funds for the South Tipperary Hospice Movement. The day concluded with the prizegiving and cheque presentation. We raised an incredible €6,500 and are so grateful to everyone who contributed to making the day a success!

Clonakilty proved tough opposition and with one game lost early on, the rest of the games went down to the wire. It wasn’t

to be for Cahir with the Cork side coming out on top. Many thanks to the Cahir team and management for their efforts

all year.

We now turn our attention to Barton Shield, Junior Cup, and Pierce Purcell in the coming

weeks.

Men’s Scratch Cups

Our Minor, Intermediate, and Junior Scratch Cups are sponsored by Niall Morrison of Morrison’s Pharmacy. They take place from Friday the 26th to Sunday the 28th of July. Junior 4.1 to 9.3 H’Cap Index, Intermediate 9.4-16.4 H’Cap Index, and Minor 16.5+ H’Cap Index. Entry Fee Members €8, Visitors €25. Bar and restaurant facilities are available on the day. Book online at www.cahirgolfclub.com or phone the Pro Shop on (052) 744 1474.

Our Senior Scratch Cup will be played over 36 holes on August 11th and is kindly sponsored by Morrison BMW. There is a handicap limit of 4.4. Shotgun starts at 8:30 am and 2 pm. €50 entry includes lunch and dinner along with cash prizes. For booking, phone the Pro Shop or office on (052) 744 1474 or email cahirparkgolfcluboffice@gmail.com.

Noel Dundon’s THE VIEW:

Men’s Captain’s Prize Save the dates. Mr. Don Quill’s Captain’s Prize 2024 will also be our Golfer of the Year Round 6. It takes place on

Tipperary brothers collide in the

All-Ireland semi-final; Cups handed out in club scene; Big ball buzz

By Noel Dundon

The opening headline of this week’s column is not to suggest that the brilliant game of camogie which has grown so much in popularity in recent years, has succumbed to the thorny issue of transgenderism. No, that’s a debate worthy of an entire thesis, never mind a lowly column such as this one.

However, what the headline does refer to is the twist of fate which has befallen the Ferncombe brothers from Holycross who will be on opposite sides of the camp when it comes to the clash of Tipperary and Galway in the All-Ireland senior camogie semi-final at UPMC Nowlan Park in two weekends time.

Dinny Ferncombe will don the colours of the Tribe ladies and will glance up the sideline to where his older brother Michael will prowl the tramlines with the Premier County. Both men are coaches to their respective teams and they both share very similar perspectives and traits when it comes to preparing teams for big games.

So, expect to see two extremely well turned out teams in this semi-final and skillful fare is certainly on the cards - the two lads place a lot of emphasis on coaching the skills of the game, getting them right, and then perfecting them at the fast-

est possible pace.

The winner of this semi-final will probably come down to which side can perform the skills at the greater intensity and pace - that’s what the modern game is all about and just like the game of hurling has surpassed recognition from say ten years ago, so too has the game of camogie where the skill levels have probably never been higher, the pace never as fast, and the girls never as fit and conditioned for the play.

Camogie is in a great place at the present time and the presence of men such as Dinny and Michael has certainly helped to drive the popularity of the game. The two lads will probably talk about everything and anything over the next fortnight, but

camogie will not be on the agenda, one would imagine - plenty of time to discuss that long after the final whistle has sounded.

We saw Kieran Donaghy overseeing an Armagh victory over his native Kerrymen in the All-Ireland senior football semi-final last Saturday evening - is Dinny Ferncombe primed to do the same thing for the Galway camogie ladies? Or can big brother Michael stop him?

Time will tell and an interesting time it will be for all the extended Ferncombe family.

Divisional Championships

Imagine scoring 1-30 in a divisional final and still not winning. Well, that’s the unfortunate position Eire Óg Anacarthy found themselves in at the weekend when Cashel King Cormacs put 3-27 on the board to win the West Tipp Premier Intermediate final.

It was a weekend of finals and in the corresponding mid decider, Upperchurch Drombane won a first title in the new grade, while Silvermines inspired by Jason Forde were winners in the north.

Carrick Swans victory over Killenaule in the south senior hurling final was worthy of note - their nine point victory yielded a 25th south title, while Loughmore Cas-

tleiney had the same margin of victory over Moycarkey Borris in the mid decider. Thing is though, the Moycarkey Borris men had a six point second half lead, but could do nothing about the champions surge - the numerical advantage helping them after a Moycakey Borris player saw his club colours brandished above his head - yellow & then red.

In the north Kiladangan saw off Toomevara in a close game while Moneygall were winners in the intermediate grade. Plenty of club action then and plenty more to come too.

All-Ireland Football Final

Armagh and Galway in the All-Ireland senior football final - you’d have gotten some odds for that combination at the start of the season. But, that’s how the cards have fallen and the decider will bring a real element of much needed freshness to the ailing code. It’s 22 years since Armagh won the final - a year less than their opponents who saw off Donegal on Sunday. Could President Jarlath Burns be about to hand over the Sam Maguire Cup to his own county - what an incredible privilege that would be for the Uachtaráin.

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GREYHOUNDS

Clonmel Greyhound Stadium with Pat Morrissey

Bushpark Katie takes

The Holland Stake

Cashel man John Mulcahy sent Wexford owners home very satisfied from Clonmel Greyhound Stadium on Friday night after their runner Bushpark Katie landed the Phil Holland Memorial A2 Stake Final. From her favourite trap one she railed very well at a congested opening bend and from there dominated throughout to win going away in 29.24. A very delighted syndicate who travelled by bus to the Stadium were very excited for the presentation to land this very well contested Stake. Christopher Delaney and Billy Finnerty set the pace in The Cloughtaney Kennels 550 Stake when showing quick heels to rivals from traps and win in 30.54. In the second semi-final

T.J. Campion’s Ballycoole Boss trained by Paraic Campion upped the gears down the far side to pass the early leader and win comfortable in 30.62. Two very strong 550 runners and with the like of Subtle Ben, Cuteen Harry and local dog Wilderness Dream

all still in the competition next weeks final will be interesting.

John O Donnell from Thurles landed the opening sprint race with Kohinoor Tiger who starting well shook off the attention from Bradleys Rose to win in 16.49. The second sprint race of the night was won by Carrick-OnSuir man Maurice Organ when Popular Anubis powering from traps put light between himself and his rivals to win in 16.63.

Cashel man Denis Dwyer landed the opening race of the night with De Chosen One, her first career win from four starts as she ran the far side strongly to win in 29.56. The Power brothers from Butlerstown with a mixed bag of fortune on the night landed the penultimate race with Honey Lassie who came in as a reserve went out a winner in 28.93 and rounding off a very pleasant Friday night at Clonmel track Fethard trained David Flanagan sent out Ballymac Joshy to run away with the final race in 30.36 for the 550.

A very large attendance on Friday night with Wilderness Rovers FC holding their annual benefit night at the track. A very united Club who always support this event were out in numbers enjoying excellent racing, good food and refreshing drinks.

Three very bust ladies Cathrine Waters, Geraldine Browne, and Lis O Sullivan in the heart of the raffle were full on organising the very well supported draw with some excellent prizes on offer. This benefit night very well supported is an example to other clubs intending on hosting a fundraiser which is very financially beneficial and socially rewarding that Clonmel Greyhound Stadium is an ideal venue for such an event.

Noel Culleton topped the bill on Sunday night’s card as Bogcross Rapido made it back-to-back wins. Having won last week in 28.55 showed real determination when the challenge came to win again in 28.77. Michael O Donovan from Kilteely had a

very fine double with Moments Glory winning from the front in 29.41 followed by her litter comrade, Corrigeen Maise landing the final race in 29.61.

Trainer David Flanagan from Fethard had The Southwest Amigos in full cheer after Rossacastlequeen snatched the

fourth race on the line in 29.30.

A winner last Friday nigh John O Donnell added to that with Kohinoor Silky winning quite comprehensively in 28.94. Aaron O Hanlon sent out Fastnet Breeze owned by Alex Callachan to win in 28.98 with the experienced Foxrock Donie owned by Canice

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runaway win for Seamus O Neill’s Sixpence Aris in 16.65 while Denis McCarthy’s Springwood June reversing the order with Chamberlain June to win in 29.50.

Mhairi O’Regan presenting to Eoghan Whelan and The Pool Five Syndicate after Bushpark Katie winning The Phil Holland Stake

Enjoying a night at the dogs were Catherine Waters, Gerladine Browne and Liz O’Sullivan on The Wilderness FC benefit night.

Members of The Wilderness FC club on a night at the dogs in Clonmel

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