Nenagh Guardian, 5 October 1974 RTE regularly gets it in the neck from sports fans, but perhaps the station's harshest critics have always been the members of the GAA, who, understandably, want their games held up in the best possible…
Tipperary Free Press, 10 & 24 October 1879 It must have been music to the ears of South Tipperary's prisoners and workhouse inmates - in October 1879 Clonmel Corporation took possession of a steam-powered stone breaker. And its first…
Tipperary Star, 30 September 1933 It was a landmark day in the history of the town when, in September 1933, it was announced that Thurles would be home to one of three new sugar factories. The industrial and agricultural landscape…
Tipperary Star, 30 September 1933 When one meets one’s betters, one can get starstruck and the code of etiquette goes out the window. Whereas these days handshakes with the Pope are seen as ordinary, unexceptional affairs, there was a time…
Clonmel Chronicle, 4 & 8 September 1886 Times were hard for the children in Clonmel Workhouse in 1886. What made it even harder was the denial of one of their very few treats of the year. The custom was for the…
Tipperary Free Press, 14 September 1880 John B. Keane could have scripted this scene, which reports on the attempted sale in Carrick on Suir of the farm previously occupied by an evicted tenant. Sales such as these were…
Nationalist, 9 September 1989 For a county with the kind of hurling pedigree of Tipperary’s, 18 years is an awful long time to wait for an All Ireland. The tale of woe of Tipperary hurling during the 1970s and ‘80s…
Tipperary Star, 8 August 1942 Water, porter, petrol and tea. Four liquids that, during the Emergency, regularly got councillors’ danders up. August 1942 and, with the effects of rationing beginning to bite, the members of Cashel Urban Council were…
Nenagh Guardian, 9 August 1941 A report copied from the Irish Times, which describes a thriving darts school in an undisclosed rural Tipperary location. Most notable in the report, apart from the casual sexism, is the reference to…
The Nationalist, 26 August 1942 Tipperary voters have a long tradition in supplementing their ballot papers with verses of a satirical kind*, and the tradition was renewed once more during the 1942 Local Elections. One wonders what inspiration this…