News & Sport
Investigation into funding for Tipperary Town development
The treasurer of a company which is alleged to have incorrectly claimed thousands of Euro in state funding for a project in Tipp Town says they’ve done nothing underhand.
Former County Councillor Michael Maguire was responding to newspaper reports which claim Tipperary Hostel Ltd. drew down almost €45,000 in funding last year based on invoices for work which had not been done.
Michael Maguire is now a driver for Minister of State Martin Mansergh while the Chairman of Tipperary Hostel Ltd is Martin Quinn who is also president of Muintir na Tire.
The company is working on the development of a former famine-era workhouse on Station Road in Tipp town - the €4 million development will see it transformed into self-catering accommodation for tourists.
Funding for the Fás project comes from dormant accounts which are administered by Pobal.
Michael Maguire is at pains to point out that everything is above board - he says it is standard practice to put in invoices ahead of work being done in order to have funds available.
12/3/10 PM
Open air sitting for High Court
A High Court sitting involving a County Tipperary man was moved to a car-park yesterday.
55 year old James Power of Tracey Park in Carrick on Suir is taking an action in relation to a car crash which has resulted in him suffering from a form of claustrophobia.
When Mr Power said he felt unable to stay in the court yesterday Mr. Justice Sean Ryan said if the mountain cannot come to Mohammad, Mohammad must go to the mountain.
A table and chairs were set up outside the courthouse in Waterford where the case continued for a time.
James Power’s car was moved 100 yards along the road when the crash happened in November of 2007 - he suffered minor injuries but the court has heard that he also sustained major psychiatric insult as a result of the collision.
12/3/10 PM
Mid-Tipp planning application gets an airing
Permission is being sought for an airstrip near Thurles.
Irish Aero Sports Flying club has applied to South Tipp County Council for an air strip aswell and a storage shed at Clonoura, Glengoole in Thurles.
Permission is also being sought for an extension at Dualla National school.
The application includes the retention of the lunchroom on the north western side of the building, and a victorian letter box on the front wall, which is a listed structure.
12/3/10 AH
Glanbia Co-op consider purchase of Plc’s Irish operations
Glanbia Co-op is looking at the prospect of taking over Glanbia plc’s Irish business including the milk, agri and consumer divisions The co-op is a majority shareholder in the plc.
Should the move go ahead it would be likely to involve a significant reduction in the Society’s ownership in the Group and would require the approval of both the Society’s members and Glanbia plc shareholders.
While discussions are said to be progressing well, there is no guarantee that they will result in a transaction being concluded.
10/3/10 PM
Criticism of plans to centralise Medical Card applications to Dublin
Government plans to centralise Nenagh’s Medical Card Section to Dublin next month are being criticised.
Deputy Noel Coonan points out that during the Celtic Tiger era the Government promoted decentralisation and moving jobs to the country.
The Fine Gael T.D says the move will adversely impact on the length of time it takes to process medical card applications.
It also means that applicants, local health office staff and public representatives in North Tipp will be unable to access information about the status of local medical card applications.
The matter will be discussed during the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children later this month along with Government plans to further centralise additional medical card and GP visit card processing.
10/3/10 PM
Call for Clonmel petition to be more readily available
There are calls for the petition for maintaining services at South Tipp General Hospital to be more accessible.
The petition is currently available at the offices of the Clonmel Borough Council, but South Tipp Fianna Fail Deputy Mattie McGrath is calling for it to be rolled out across the County.
The Fianna Fail representative is calling on the Save Our Hospital Committee to also open petitions in shops, pubs, post offices and businesses across the region.
Mattie McGrath is urging as many people as possible sign it in protest against any possible cuts to acute services at the Clonmel hospital.
10/3/10 AH
Tipp man sought by AIB over multi-million euro debts
A man living in Templemore is among four people which Allied Irish Bank
is seeking summary judgement orders for over €6.25 million over their alleged
failure to repay loans.
Seamus Kavanagh of Kyle, Killea, Templemore together with three other men
are said to have borrowed the money to purchase and develop a site at
Duleek in County Meath.
One of the other men is James Mansfield Junior - a former boyfriend of the
late model Katy French.
The proceedings against all four men has been transferred to the Commercial
Court and adjourned for a week.
9/3/2010 PM
North Tipp patients unreachable due to Limerick strike action
Relatives of patients in Limerick Regional Hospital are being ignored by
the HSE and the nursing unions.
An outbreak of the winter vomiting bug has led to visitor restrictions and the
ongoing work to rule industrial action means phonecalls to the hospital are not
being answered.
Speaking on Tipp Today, Aine raised the case of her 80-year-old uncle from
North Tipperary who has been in the hospital since last Thursday and has had
no contact with his family.
9/3/2010 AMcG
CCTV welcomed for Carrick-on-Suir
Efforts to tackle anti-social behaviour in Carrick on Suir have taken a major
step forward with a new CCTV system now in operation.
10 cameras have been installed at strategic locations around the town in both
business and residential areas.
The system, which is monitored at the Garda Station, cost almost €300, 000.
Labour councillor Denis Landy is hoping the cameras will in particular put an
end to problems at the children’s playground at the Fairgreen.
9/3/2010 PM
Tipp farming chairman slams lost barley contracts
Tipperary grain farmers are among a large group that have lost their contracts
for malting barley.
Farmers are protesting outside a Greencore meeting in Dublin this morning,
where the company is expected to approve the sale of the Irish malting business
to a French Co Op for up to €116 million.
Noel Delaney, the Fethard-based IFA Grain Chairman says 500 farmers have
lost their contracts in the bid to cut the amount of barley in the EU by 25 percent.
He says Greencore did not express an interest in their offer for grain farmers to
take a 25 percent cut across the board.
9/3/2010 AMcG
