It has become perfectly obvious that urban city planning ideas are now being mandatory enforced on rural, agricultural towns like Thurles, Co. Tipperary with disastrous consequences, forcing trading retail businesses to either close or fold their tents to move elsewhere.
Anyone who visited Dublin City recently will know that only public transport, cyclists and pedestrians can now get into and around its increasingly menacing streets, with any degree of efficiently.
The busy prosperous Liberty Square of the 1960’s.
That is all well and good in Dublin with its network of buses, trams and taxis. Here in rural Thurles such public transport is very limited. There isn’t a Dart tram line to be found running from rural Upperchurch or indeed Two-mile-Borris or Littleton villages every 15 minutes. Indeed there is not one single bus shelter to be found in Thurles, to protect a prospective bus passenger from our inclement weather.
For those who wish to view what exactly will be forced on the residents and businesses of this once prosperous midland town, take a look here: N62-Slievenamon-Road-Phase-2.pdf
NOTE Page 6 of the above pdf: “Some of the key interventions that this strategy will deliver include significant investment in the provision of safe, segregated infrastructure to protect those walking and cycling on our roads, and initiatives to promote modal shift from motor vehicle travel to support environmental, safety and health objectives.”
The picturesque Liberty Square, midday in 2023, asks a Question: Where are the town centre consumers; where are the cyclists; the walker, and the vehicle parking spaces. Answer: Driven out with the businesses. Gone to support German international discount retailers on the outskirts of Thurles, who offer very little local employment, while selling a considerable amount of German processed produce.
See also what is planned in the Draft Discussion maps for Slievenamon Road, shown here: N62-Slievenamon-Road-Map.pdf.
Question: Where are the Cycle Paths either on a half upgraded Liberty Square, town centre or on this newly designed, still to be revamped, Slievenamon Road plan? Answer: Non existent.
This October 2022 plan will most certainly drive home that final nail in our town centre’s coffin. However, the local electorate, (now remaining surprisingly silent), can express their anger, during local elections, expected to be held possible next March.
A Bankers Card has been found in the vicinity of Kickham Street, Thurles, Co. Tipperary this evening.
Same has been left into the Ely’s Centra Supermarket, situated at the Junction of Ikerrin Road and Kickham Street, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, [Eircode E41 XR66], for collection by the owner.
Note Please: Owner will be asked to identify themselves before the card can be retrieved.
Week beginning November 20th, 2023: Some 46,500 households will receive the Working Family Payment of an extra €400. Some 214,000 people in receipt of the Disability Support Grant will also receive a bonus of €400. A €300 Fuel Allowance lump sum will also be paid to some 409,000 households.
Week beginning November 27th 2023: Persons in receipt of the Carers Support Grant will receive a bonus of a €400 payment. Some 237,0000 mostly those older people who receive the living alone allowance will receive an extra €200. A €100 bonus will be paid in respect of 370,000 children in receipt of Qualified Child Benefit. More than 2,000,000 households will have €150 taken off their electricity bill with effect from December 1st, 2023.
Week beginning December 4th 2023: Each person in receipt of welfare payment will receive a double Christmas bonus payment. They will also receive a double Child Benefit payment of €280 per child.
Week beginning January 29th, 2024: A second double payment of all welfare payments will be paid to recipents of State Benifits. Weekly rates of qualified child payments will increase by €4 in January 2024 bringing them to €54 for those aged 12 and over and €46 for under 12s. Income thresholds for the Working Family Payment will increase by €54 per week regardless of family size from January 2024. Hot School Meals will be extended on a phased basis in 2024, to all non-DEIS primary schools, latter who applied as part of the expression of interest. Cost of living bonus for people with disabilities, pensioners, carers, and those unemployed. Social welfare payments will increase by €12 each week with effect from the beginning of January.
Please note* The once off payment of €400 to those people getting Disability Allowance, Invalidity Pension, Blind Pension and/or Carer’s Support Grant, is only payable in respect of one payment, even if people qualify for more than one of the payments or are caring for more than one person.
The Good News: More than two million households will see €150 taken off their electricity bill on December 1st, 2023. January 1st 2024 and March 1st, 2024.
The Bad News: The current coalition government will continue to use taxpayers money, which should be spent on health and other public services, in order to support extortionate prices being charged by unscrupulous power suppliers. Time to check your attic for the hydrocarbon fuelled heater and that John Tilly lamp, before returning them to full use, while the government pays your low charge ESB bill.
A promised strike by some 5,000 community healthcare staff and social care workers from 19 organisations has been averted, following an 8% pay offer made, after long drawn out talks, late last night.
Strike Action By Health & Community Care Workers Averted.
Workers at Daughters Of Charity Child and Family Service, DePaul Ireland, Ardeen Cheshire Ireland, Ability West, Co-action West Cork, Cobh Hospital, Don Bosco Care and Enable Ireland, Family Resource Centres, the Irish Wheelchair Association, Kerry Parents and Friends, St Catherine’s Association, St Joseph’s Foundation, St Luke’s Nursing Home, and the Western Care Association were all due to hold future stoppages.
Talks between the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, the Department of Health and the ICTU group of unions, have now agreed to recommend that the new pay offer be accepted, same having been brokered at the Workplace Relations Commission.
The new deal will include a 3% pay rise backdated to April 1st 2023; another 2% on November 1st 2023 and a further 3% on March 1st also this year.
Further discussions on a key demand to link pay to public servant’s wages are also proposed as part of this agreement, with the government acknowledging that workers pay in section 39, section 56 and section 10 organisations had fallen behind equivalent and comparable grades in public service organisations.
The Workplace Relations Commission will now convene the parties, to the agreement, before December 1st, 2023
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