Annual General Meeting, 2025, Thurles Special Olympics Basketball Club.
Mr Enda Bourke (Chairperson) Reports:-
Thurles Special Olympics Basketball Club held it’s AGM in the Anner Hotel on April 1st. A good attendance received reports from Mr Enda Bourke (Chairperson). Ms Mary Ryan Maher (Secretary). Ms Carmel Sammon (Treasurer), Ms Marian O’Regan (Safeguarding Officer) and Mr Dennis Jordan (Medical Officer).
The athletes were represented as always by Ms Maureen O’Shea, a winner of two silver medals at the Special Olympic World games in Newhaven, Connecticut in 1995.
The Chairperson thanked all those associated with the running of the Club and complimented all the athletes for their dedication to training every week at the Presentation Sports hall, mentioning especially their parents, family members and carers, for their assistance and support over the past year. He also welcomed a number of new Volunteers who have joined the Club at the start of the season last September.
The following were elected to serve at the AGM for the coming year: Chairperson – Mr Enda Bourke; Secretary – Ms Mary Ryan Maher; Assistant Secretary – Ms Catherine Reynolds; Treasurer – Ms Carmel Sammon; Medical Officer – Mr Dennis Jordan; Safeguarding Officer – Ms Marian O’Regan; Athlete Rep Ms Maureen O’Shea; Coaches Mr Enda Bourke and Ms Marian O’Regan; Club Membership Ms Mary Ryan Maher and Ms Carmel Sammon; IT Officer Ms Breda Sammon.
Pre-deceased by his parents, his sister Joan and brother Ned, his brothers-in-law Sean and Paul and sister-in-law Dolores; Mr Corbett passed away peacefully, while in the care of staff at the Mater Hospital, Blanchardstown, Co. Dublin.
His passing is most deeply regretted, sadly missed and lovingly remembered by his sorrowing family; loving wife Catherine (Kitty), sons Seán, and Seamus, daughters Suzanne and Sharon, grandchildren Allen, Catherine, Ben, Matt, Róisín, Seán, Tomás and Liam, sons-in-law Blane and Andy, daughter-in-law Carol, brothers, sisters, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, extended relatives, neighbours and friends.
For those persons who wish to attend Requiem Mass for Mr Corbett, but for reasons cannot, same can be viewed streamed live online, HERE.
The extended Corbett family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time, and have made arrangements for those persons wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.
Note Please: Family flowers only. Donations in lieu, if desired, to The Mater Foundation.
Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) warn of the presence of sulphites, soybeans and possible presence of gluten in specific batches of Milano Drop Skin Drops.
Alert Summary dated Thursday, April 10th 2025.
Allergy Alert Notification: 2025.A12 Allergens: Cereals containing gluten, soybeans, sulphites Product Identification: Milano Drops Skin Drops; pack size: 50ml Batch Code: All batches with no batch code or best before dates. Country Of Origin: Australia
Message: Specific batches of Milano Drop Skin Drops, which do not contain batch codes or best before dates on the product label, are being recalled. The implicated batches contain soybeans and sulphites and may contain cereals containing gluten which are not declared in the list of ingredients. This may make the batches unsafe for consumers who are allergic to or intolerant of cereals containing gluten, soybeans or sulphites and therefore, these consumers should not eat the implicated batches.
Aged in his 93rd year and pre-deceased by brothers Patrick, Michael and Thomas and sisters Margaret and Magdalen, and daughter Teenagh; his passing is most deeply regretted, sadly missed and lovingly remembered by his sorrowing family; brothers James and John, sisters Clare and Lil, children Paul, Fiona, Daragh, Niamh, 9 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren, sons in law, daughters in law, extended relatives, neighbours and friends.
The extended Cunningham family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time, and have made arrangements for those persons wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.
Readers will be aware of previous discussions regarding the “One Hundred Million Trees Project”, sponsored by Allied Irish Bank(AIB), situated on Liberty Square, in Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
Hereunder, please view a video, taken on the day of the planting, featuring so many of our local secondary school pupils.
This ambitious initiative, which deployed a novel planting technique perfected in Japan, known as TheMiyawaki Method, is well on course to plant 550,000 trees across Ireland at hundreds of sites, by May of this year. The project’s ambitious aim is to densely plant between 1,000 and 2,500 native Irish trees at a time across small areas of land using this ‘the Miyawaki method’, named after Japanese Botanist, Professor Akira Miyawaki. This method of overplanting trees has been successful in creating over 1,700 forests worldwide, including three established forests here in Ireland. By planting excess trees together, they grow considerably faster, denser, are more biodiverse, and most importantly create a very rapid carbon sink. This inexpensive approach requires significantly smaller planting areas and can be conducted on unused or fallow land across Ireland. Dense areas of afforestation can also actually play a role in reducing the impact of forest fires, while at the same time provide excellent areas of biodiversity. Thurles.Info will be returning to this area within the next few weeks to observe at first hand the progress made, following the planting of these trees.
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