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Death Of Winnie McGrath, Templederry, Co. Tipperary.

It was with a great personal sadness that I learned of the death, yesterday, Friday 23rd August 2024, of Ms Winifred (Winnie) McGrath, Ballycarron, Curreeney, Templederry, Co. Tipperary.

Pre-deceased by her parents Michael and Catherine, her brothers and sisters Pat, Annie, Michael, Mary, Tommy, Kathleen, Joseph and Danny; Ms McGrath retired employee at Hayes Hotel, Thurles and retired sacristan at Curreeney Church, passed away peacefully, while in the care of staff at Nenagh General Hospital, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.

Her passing is most deeply regretted, sadly missed and lovingly remembered by her sorrowing family; brother Gerard, sisters Bridie, Rita, Joanie and Pauline, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews, cousins, extended relatives, kind neighbours and friends.

Requiescat in Pace.

Funeral Arrangements.

The earthly remains of Ms McGrath will repose on Sunday afternoon, August 25th, in the Church of the Little Flower, Curreeney Commons, Lacken, Co. Tipperary, (E41 DE43), from 5:00pm until 7:30pm same evening.
Requiem Mass for Ms McGrath will be celebrated on Monday morning, August 26th, at 11:00am, followed by interment, immediately afterward, in the adjoining graveyard.

The extended McGrath 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.

The family of Ms McGrath wishes to acknowledge the excellent care that she received from the wonderful staff of Nenagh Manor Nursing Home, together with the staff of University Hospital, Limerick city, Co. Limerick and Nenagh Hospital, Tyone, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.

Death Of Kay Carey, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

It was with great sadness that we learned of the death, today Thursday 23nd August 2024, of Mrs Kay Carey, (née O’Dowd), Moyne Village, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

Pre-deceased by her husband Donal, brothers Joe, Tom and John, sisters Josephine, Marian and Phil; the passing of Mrs Carey is most deeply regretted, sadly missed and lovingly remembered by her sorrowing family; daughters, Patricia (Ryan), Bernadette (Reddan) and Caroline (Campion), adored grandchildren Amy, Tom, Jack, Sarah, Danny, Paddy, Liam, Dónal and James, sons-in-law Pat, Michael and Thomas, brothers Michael and Pat, sisters Helena (Webb) and Theresa (Corbett), brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, extended relatives, neighbours and a wide circle of friends.

Requiescat in Pace.

Funeral Arrangements.

The earthly remains of Mrs Carey will repose at her place of ordinary residence (E41 F8W2), on Saturday afternoon, August 24th, from 5:00pm until 8:00pm same evening.
Her funeral cortège will arrive at the Church of St Mary, Moyne, Templetuohy, Thurles, on Sunday morning, August 25th, to further repose for Requiem Mass at 12:00 noon, followed by interment immediately afterwards in nearby St Mary’s Cemetery, Moyne, Templetuohy, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

For those persons who are unable to attend the funeral service for Mr Carey, same can be viewed streamed live online, HERE.

The extended Carey and O’Dowd families 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: House strictly private on Sunday morning.

Death Of Eddie Russell, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

It was with great sadness that we learned of the death, yesterday Thursday 22nd August 2024, of Mr Edward (Eddie) Russell, Two-Mile-Borris, Thurles, Co. Tipperary and former publican and shopkeeper at Crosspatrick, Co. Kilkenny.

In his 84th year; Mr Russell passed away peacefully, while in the care of family and staff at the Sacred Heart Nursing Home, Crosspatrick, Co. Kilkenny.

His passing is most deeply regretted, sadly missed and lovingly remembered by his sorrowing family; children Lynn, Edward, Jan, Julia, Naveed, granddaughters Kate and Charlotte, extended relatives, great neighbours and a wide circle of friends and wonderful carers.

Requiescat in Pace.

Funeral Arrangements.

The earthly remains of Mr Russell will repose at Doyle’s funeral home Urlingford, Urlingford on Sunday afternoon, August 25th, from 5:00pm until 7:00pm, before being received into the Church of St Michael, Crosspatrick, Co. Kilkenny (E41 K312), arriving at 7:30pm same evening.

Requiem Mass for Mr Russell will be celebrated on Monday morning, August 26th, at 11:30am, followed by interment, immediately afterwards, in the adjoining graveyard.

The extended Russell 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.

“So fill to me the parting glass and gather as the evening falls
And gently rise and softly call goodnight and joy be to you all “
– Shaun Davey

Vehicle Parking In Thurles Totally Neglected.

With the closure of the Thurles town car park beside ‘The Source’; parking for all vehicles used by persons attempting to do business or attend religious services in Thurles is now at a premium.

The car park rented by Tipperary Co. Council, situated south east of the Munster Hotel, for the past at least two years has 3 car parking spaces, unavailable due to a fallen tree.

The tree, latter a victim of a wind storm two years ago, luckily now hides a vast amount of litter, were Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) ever to come a calling.
See images hereunder.

Litter permitted to congregate behind a fallen tree in Munster Hotel Car Park for past 2 years.
Pic. G. Willoughby

Meanwhile; the people anxious and encouraged to attend Thurles Swimming Pool and Thurles Leisure Centre, latter erected by funding from local rate payers; the owners, managers and beneficiaries being Tipperary Co. Council, are forced to park on double continuous yellow lines, due to this aforementioned closure.

Speaking of Thurles Swimming Pool; to the rear of this building administration appears to be missing here also. It appears what isn’t readily on view to the public doesn’t exist. See images hereunder.

Dumped filters, mats and cardboard strewn at rear of Thurles swimming pool.
Pic. G. Willoughby.

Just a few metres away the large car park underneath ‘The Source’ building, remains closed to the public, since March 2020. Despite no public access, three cars were parked in this underneath car park today, possibly owned by persons working in the building.
However, the interior continues to show no effort is being made to repair the never completed ceiling insulation, torn down by the idle hands of vandals.

Sad and deplorable state, for the past 4 year, of this never sealed interior ceiling insulation, pictured today (22/8/2024), from within ‘The Source’ car parking area .
Pic. G. Willoughby.

One hastens to add, where was the CCTV supposedly operating in the area, when this same vandalism was in progress?
The time has come for either resignations or indeed sackings from within the Thurles Municipal Council official grouping, due to their inability to manage our town, allowing it to slide, headlong, downhill in a deafening silence.

The waste of taxpayers money continues.

Thurles Co. Tipperary Company, Trifol Resources, Transforms Plastic Into fuel.

“Where Tipperary Leads, Ireland Follows.
Quote by Thomas Davis, editor of ‘The Nation Newspaper’ in the 1840’s.

A Tipperary company has not only developed but has also patented a new process to transform old plastic into sustainable aviation fuel and wax.

The company known as Trifol Resources are presently operating two large recycling machines, since June of this year, at Tipperary’s former Bord Na Móna briquette factory, same situated close to the village of Littleton, Thurles, in Co. Tipperary.

Co. Tipperary’s former Bord Na Móna Briquette Factory, at Littleton, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

Already, two major international oil companies have contracted with Trifol Resources to purchase all of the sustainable aviation fuel that the Littleton plant can provide.

Both product produced is observed as a massive achievement especially since this former Bord Na Móna briquette factory, for decades was synonymous with the production of harmful fossil fuels, and now will become a central location for the production of carbon neutral sustainable fuel.

The key to what Trifol is doing at the Littleton plant is a process called ‘pyrolysis’ (latter the heating of an organic material, in the absence of oxygen), which involves a machine that decomposes the waste plastic by heating it at enormous temperatures, in the absence of oxygen or naked flame, until it becomes a gas. This gas is then put through processes that cool it down at different rates of temperature, which in turn determines the required end product, which could be wax or very high-quality diesel or sustainable aviation fuel, or Naphta; latter product which is a very low octane form of petrol.

Trifol Resources claim that their Littleton plant will require up to 75% of all the plastic waste in Ireland that is not currently being collected. The waste plastic being recycled presently at the Littleton plant is mostly different types of polyethylene including farm plastic used in the covering of hay or silage.

In 2019 a Chinese company called Sabrina Integrated Services, in partnership with Bord Na Móna, started a farm plastics recovery and recycling operation right beside the Trifol Resources plant.
The Sabrina operation collects, cleans, and sorts waste farm plastic before either shredding it or turning it into plastic pellets.

To date Trifol has invested some €15.5 million in its Littleton plant. This investment includes €4.5m in grants from the EU and the Irish Climate Fund. This investment has provided the current supporting plant and equipment to enable the conversion of some 4000 tonnes of plastic waste per year.

A further €5m is expected to be invested on upgrading production to 12,000 tonnes, next year; while in 2026 and 2027 the plant plans to install a further 12 large recycling machines at a cost of some €90m, requiring up to 90,000 tonnes of waste plastic each year.

Generated Plastic Statistics:
It is worthy of note that globally only about 9% of produced plastic is currently being recycled.
Some 40% of Europe’s plastic waste is incinerated, while 25% gets dumped into our landfill.
Only 16% of Europe’s plastic waste is collected for recycling, with 19% remains unaccounted for.
Every year about 450 million tonnes of plastic is produced worldwide.
While it is clean, easy to use, sterile and versatile; the product remains the cause of enormous pollution problems and at 58kg per capita, Ireland generates more plastic packaging waste, per person, than any other country within the EU.