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My wife agrees that I do indeed lead
a "dog's life".
The way she puts it though is: "He
comes in with muddy feet, makes
himself comfortable by the fire, and
expects to be fed."
A young man was driving up a steep,
winding and narrow mountain road.
Going round a tight corner, he notic-
es a woman driver who is coming in
the opposite direction begin to lean
out of her window. As they pass each
other she yells at him - "PIG!!!!"
The man immediately leans out of his
window and screams back at her,
"WITCH!!!"
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the man rounds the next bend he
crashes into a pig, right in the middle
of the road...
If only men would listen.
A little boy was in a relative's wed-
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and turn to the crowd (alternating
between bride's side and groom's
side). While facing the crowd, he
would put his hands up like claws
and roar.
So it went, step, step, ROAR, step,
step, ROAR all the way down the
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by the time he reached the pulpit.
The little boy, however, was getting
more and more distressed from all
the laughing, and was also near tears
by the time he reached the pulpit.
When asked what he was doing, the
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Grandchildren don't make a man feel
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God was sitting in heaven one day
when a scientist said to Him,
"God, we don't need you anymore.
Science has finally figured out a way
to create life out of nothing - in other
words, we can now do what you did
in the beginning."
"Oh, is that so? Tell Me..." replies
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of you and breathe life into it, thus
creating man."
"Well, that's very interesting...show
Me."
So the scientist bends down to the
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the shape of a man.
"No, no, no..." interrupts God, "Get
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The ‘Who To Talk To’ Event - an
initiative of the North Tipperary
County Development Board will be
repeated on 14th May at the Thurles
Chamber Enterprise Centre, LIT
Campus, Thurles from 2.00pm to
8.00pm. The event is designed to
inspire and encourage individuals
considering self employment in all
sectors and to inform new and exist-
ing business promoters about sup-
ports available for business creation
and development. The ‘Who To
Talk To’ event will include informa-
tion desks/stands and feature semi-
nars, funding workshops and
networking opportunities.
This year there will be a strong fo-
cus on the Food Sector with semi-
nars on Food Tourism, Food
Exports, Getting Your Business No-
ticed by the Media, Trends in the
Retail Sector, On-Farm Food Enter-
prises and much more. If you have a
business idea and are looking for
advice, grants or contacts put Tues-
day 14th May in your diary. Admis-
sion is free and advance booking for
the seminars is recommended as de-
mand is expected to be high with
speakers such as Kantar World Pan-
el, Bord Bia, Failte Ireland, the Irish
Exporters Association and Teagasc
delivering relevant presentations.
Tom Doorley will perform the offi-
cially opening at 3.00 pm and will
deliver an informal workshop on the
topic of ‘DIY - below the line mar-
keting’ providing pointers on how to
promote your business and brand on
a shoestring budget and advise you
on how to approach the Media and
secure coverage for your business.
If you would like more information
on the event please contact the Tip-
perary North County Enterprise
Board, Connolly Street, Nenagh at
067 33086, e-mail: info@tnceb.ie.
Other Agencies involved in the initi-
ative include North Tipperary Coun-
ty Council, North Tipperary VEC,
North Tipperary Leader Partnership,
Teagasc, LIT Tipperary and Enter-
prise Ireland.
Tom Doorley, Resident Critic on
RTE’s ‘The Restaurant’ to officially
open the ‘Who To Talk To’ Event
on 14th May in Thurles
The Annual General Meeting of
Clonoulty - Rossmore Vintage Club
was held on the Thursday the 21st
March 2013 in Clonoulty Hall.
In the Chairman’s address Liam
O’Dwyer thanked all the officers and
members for their help during the
last year. In the present economic
climate it was a good achievement to
be in able to give a donation of
€12,000 to South Tipperary Hospice
Movement last year. He expressed
his thanks to the public for all their
financial contributions. He also
wished to thank Clonoulty Rossmore
GAA for the use of their field and
facilities due to the bad weather we
had to move from Joe and Helen
Hammersley’s field that have always
made available to us in the past. Li-
am encouraged members to keep try-
ing to come up with fundraising
ideas throughout the year. He also
asked members to keep in mind that
at this year’s vintage rally we will
have a second field of trade stands;
we need to start approaching suitable
exhibitors as the stands will have to
be booked well in advance. The rally
will be on Sunday the 18th August
2013.
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The Tipperary Equestrian Festival is
being run in association with The
North Tipperary Agricultural Show
and takes place on Saturday 4th May
at the Showgrounds, Borrisokane
Rd., Nenagh.
The festival starts at 10am with the
show gates opening at 8am. The
family entertainment area will be
from 12pm to 4pm approx
This new festival is an innovative
approach to Showcasing Equestrian-
ism in the area. To this end it will
have Showjumping, Jump-cross,
Dressage, Pony Club Activities and
displays.
There will be family entertainment
in the form of inflatable games,
bouncy castle, a climbing wall and
much more besides! With an admis-
sion charge of just €5 at the gate this
entertainment is provided free by the
festival.
Check out our Facebook page for
regular updates etc. (Tipperary
Equestrian Festival), our email is
tipperaryequestrianfestival@gmail.c
om.
This Project has been part-funded by
North Tipperary LEADER Partner-
ship under The Programme 2007-
2013 which is financed by the EU
through the European Agriculture
Fund for Rural Development and by
the National Development Plan
Tipperary Equestrian Festival
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corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all
property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent
their fathers occupied." - Thomas Jefferson
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There is a great day in store for antique lovers
when there is an Antique Fair on Sunday 12th
May in Dundrum House Hotel, Co. Tipperary
from 12 pm – 6 pm.
Available on the day will be a large selection
of Jewellery, Gold, Porcelain & China, Paint-
ings, Glass, Furniture – Mahogany, Inlaid, Old
Pine, Tapestries, Linen, Lace, Postcards, Col-
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with a Coin Dealer and very special Medals,
Prints & Engravings, scientific and marine
instruments. Well worth a visit!
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Dundrum House Hotel
Sunday May 12th
12pm - 6pm
Jewellery, Gold, Porcelain & China,
Paintings, Glass, Furniture – Mahogany,
Inlaid, Old Pine, Tapestries, Linen, Lace,
Postcards, Collectable Toys, Rare Books,
Stamps, along with a Coin Dealer and
very special Medals, Prints & Engrav-
ings, scientific and marine instruments.
The Man in the Woman’s
Shoes - Drama for The Sole
One of Sligo's best known actors and directors, Mikel
Murfi, is bringing a special show to the stage The
Man in the Woman's Shoes. Mikel describes how be-
ing a native of Sligo he was always was interested in
hearing different stories, visiting active age and re-
tirement groups and country people. He took the sto-
ries and blended them into one character, Pat Farnon.
It's October 1978 and Pat Farnon has ‘some business’
to do in town, but a five-mile walk is no joke when
you have to do it in a pair of women's shoes. Come
with Pat on this hilarious journey as he encounters a
host of characters with plenty to say forthemselves,
the show mixes fond memories, nostalgia and of
course laughter. It's funny, it's sad, it's sometimes
downright daft, but you won't forget 'The Man in The
Woman's Shoes'.
The Source Arts Centre, Thursday 16 May 8pm,
Tickets €12/6 €5 groups 15+
The performance is followed by a Q&A with Mikel
Murfi
For bookings ring the Box Office on 0504 90204

Organisers of Bealtaine are delight-
ed to announce the line-up for May
2013, which will see hundreds of
theatrical, cinematic, craft, photo-
graphic, choral, dance and other
events taking place across Ireland,
giving people a chance to celebrate
creativity as we age, inviting them to
“Grow Happy!” – the theme of this
year’s festival.
Here are details of some of the
events taking place in Tipperary.
Award-winning actor and writer
Mikel Murfi is bringing his show
The Man in The Woman’s Shoes to
Tipperary during the festival. Last
year Mikel met with older people
across Sligo to gather stories for this
show. He saw a pattern emerge of
‘characters’ that inhabit Sligo villag-
es - and probably every village in
Ireland. The show follows Pat Far-
non as he walks from his cottage to
town and back again and the marvels
that he meets along the way. It’s a
charming encounter - an ageing man
still with a boundless enthusiasm for
life. Hilariously funny and tender by
turns, the story Mikel wrote asks us
to find the common humanity in our
fellow man and woman and to show
kindness at every opportunity. It
also asks us to consider that roman-
tic love is not the preserve of the
young. The show will be on at The
Source Arts Centre at Tel: 050
490204 Web:
www.thesourceartscentre.ie on
Thursday 16th May. The Source
Arts Centre will also be host to a
performance of ‘Silent’, written and
performed by Pat Kinevane, and
presented by Fishable, on 2nd May.
The Tipperary Excel Heritage Cen-
tre will screen Break a Leg, a film
by Peter Sheridan, which is free and
open to the public, on Friday 24th
May. Drama performance ‘The Sand
Park’ by Seamus O’Rourke will also
be on at Excel, on 11th May. For
details contact Mary Sarsfield on
062 80520.
Greenhill Nursing home in Carrick
on Suir will host a variety of cultural
and creative events including song,
music, dance and baking cakes, to
coincide with visits by local school
children. These are free events,
open to the public. For more infor-
mation contact Anne Fraher or Sarah
Maddock on 051 642700.
Tipperary Bealtaine Festival is a
collaboration between the North and
South Tipperary Arts Offices and
libraries. This partnership will offer
a wide variety of events through the
Arts and Library Services during
Bealtaine. One such event will be an
exhibition entitled ‘The Way
Home’, consisting of works drawn
from The Crawford Gallery Collec-
tion. This exhibition will be on dis-
play 6th April - 11th May in the
Source Arts Centre, Thurles, and in
the County Museum, Clonmel from
17th May – 24th August. For fur-
ther information contact Emer
O’Brien on Tel: 0504 21555
To get involved in Bealtaine 2013
or for more information:
Web:
www.bealtaine.com – for full, up-to-
date event listings
E-mail:
Bealtaine@ageandopportunity.ie
Telephone: +353 (1)
8535178
Post: Bealtaine at Age & Op-
portunity, Marino Institute of Educa-
tion, Griffith Avenue, Dublin
Facebook: BealtaineFestival
Twitter: @BealtaineFest
Age & Opportunity wishes to ac-
knowledge the generosity and fore-
sight of its supporters including the
Health Service Executive and The
Arts Council of Ireland.
The Bealtaine Festival 2013
Ruby Irish Red Ale started life in Dwan’s
Brewery in 1997 under the name
Rich Ruby.
Now finally it’s being brewed again in
Templemore and available for the first
time throughout North Tipperary.
White Gypsy Brewery
Contact Joe on: 087 9778347
Web: www.whitegypsy.ie
A pint of stout is good no doubt,
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Visit
Fairy Fort Farm
‘A touch of magic’
Make a wish on the ancient Rath
Enjoy Traditional Farm & Walks with
Goats, pigs, hens, duck, geese, baby chicks etc.
Bouncy Castle play area for kids
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The Tipperary Supporters Club Annu-
al Golf Classic will take place on May
16 and 15 in the County Tipperary
Golf and Country Club, Dundrum.
Teams cost €600 for a team of four
with four course meal included. This
is an important event to raise funds for
the training and preparation of the
Tipperary senior hurling team and any
support by way of team or tee spon-
sorship is greatly appreciated.
For details of teams and tee/green
sponsorship please go to
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Tipperary Supporters Club
Annual Golf Classic
I have a little Satnav,
I've had it all my life,
it's better than the normal ones,
my Satnav is my wife.
it gives me full instructions,
especially how to drive
"It's 60 miles an hour", it says
"You're doing sixty five".
It tells me when to stop and start,
and when to use the brake,
and tells me that it's never ever,
safe to overtake.
It tells me when a light is red,
and when it goes to green,
it seems to know instinctively,
just when to intervene.
It lists the vehicles just in front,
and all those to the rear,
and taking this into account,
it specifies my gear.
I'm sure no other driver has,
so helpful a device,
for when we leave and lock the car,
it still gives its advice.
It fills me up with counselling,
each journey's pretty fraught,
so why don't I exchange it,
and get a quieter sort?
Ah well, you see,
it cleans the house,
Makes sure I'm properly fed,
It washes all my shirts and things,
and keeps me warm in bed!
Despite all these advantages,
and my tendency to scoff,
I do wish that once in awhile,
I could turn the darned thing off.
The Sat Nav Poem

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Training continues outdoors on
Monday’s and Wednesday’s in the
C.B.S. field at 7pm at a cost of €1
per person. If your want to run,
jump or throw you’re welcome to
come along to training. New mem-
bers are always welcome and mem-
bership fees are due.
Also on Monday’s and Wednes-
day’s is our Fit 4 Life Programme
which is designed to give people the
opportunity to get fit and enjoy
walking/jogging. The emphasis is
on improving fitness in a fun, social
manner and no previous experience
is required. All ability levels are
catered for and you exercise with
others of a similar fitness level.
Roscrea Athletic Club
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Lough Derg RNLI is counting down
this week to Mayday, the charity’s an-
nual national fundraising campaign.
Now in its second year and running
nationwide, from Wednesday 1 to Bank
Holiday Monday 6 May, the volunteer
crew in Dromineer is asking the public
to give it some welly and help the or-
ganisation continue to save lives at sea.
With a fun theme in mind, the Mayday
appeal is calling on people to lend their
support by either purchasing a special
RNLI Mayday yellow welly key ring
which will be on sale for €2 at various
outlets across the country during the
campaign or by organising their own
yellow welly fundraising event.
The yellow welly is an essential piece
of the RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew
member’s kit. Waterproof with steel-
capped toes, the specially designed
boots keep the volunteer crew’s feet
warm and dry while also protecting
them in dangerous conditions on deck.
During gale force winds, rain and ice,
keeping a sure footing can literally
mean the difference between life and
death for volunteers. A pair of yellow
wellies for crew members costs €50.
One man who will be encouraging the
public to give it some welly this May-
day is Ray Beer who was rescued by
the Dromineer lifeboat crew in Septem-
ber 2011.
Recalling the day the lifeboat assisted
himself and two others after their yacht
capsized and sank close to Hare Island
on Lough Derg, Ray said: ‘We were
very, very lucky, and there is no doubt
that without the assistance of a passing
yacht the Red Pepper, her crew, their
seamanship and the very efficient
RNLI and rescue services we three sail-
ors would not be here today. It goes
without saying that we have always
supported and always will support in
any way we can the RNLI and Rescue
Service's in their endeavour to save
lives.'
Colin Knight, Lough Derg RNLI Helm
on that rescue, said: 'These three people
were very very lucky; the passing yacht
only became aware of their plight
when, on tacking, one of sailors heard
calls for help on the wind and raised
the alarm. The people were in the water
for at least 30 minutes, in fairly hostile
conditions, when the only boat in the
vicinity heard their calls for help.
Someone was looking after them that
day’.
With the RNLI’s Mayday campaign
getting underway next Wednesday, 1
May, the public can also get involved
via social media and help the charity
raise awareness of its lifesaving. All
you have to do is take a photo of your-
self holding an RNLI Mayday yellow
welly key ring and tweet the phrase ‘I
am giving it some welly for the RNLI
this Mayday’ remembering to include
#RNLIMAYDAY and mentioning
@RNLI
For more information on how you can
get involved or where you can purchase
a key ring, log on to rnli.org/mayday
Lough Derg RNLI ready
to give it some welly this Mayday

East Munster Schools T & F Champi-
onships 2013
Confirmed Dates & Venues for above
event are as follows:- Girls Wednes-
day 1st May in Templemore Track;
Boys Wednesday 8th May in Tem-
plemore Track.
Interesting Reading
See the new Arcu Irish Athletics
Ranking & Statistics website at
www.arcurankings.com. Another use-
ful website is www.Eirpharm.com
where you can check the sports data-
base to see if an athlete's medicines
are permitted under WADA (World
Anti-Doping Agency) rules.
Open Sports Dates for your Diary:-
Mon 6th May - St Abban’s A.C.
Open Sports in Monavea, Crettyard,
Co. Laois at 12.30pm.
Results, photos & video footage from
Leevale Juvenile Open Sports on
Sunday 21st April can be found at
www.leevale.org.
Fixtures for May
Wed 1st – East Munster Schools
Girls T & F Championships in Tem-
plemore Track.
Tues 7th – Long Jump & Triple Jump
Workshop for coaches & athletes
aged 12+ from 7pm to 9pm in Tem-
plemore Track.
Tues 7th – North Munster Schools T
& F Championships in Castleisland,
Co. Kerry.
Wed 8th – East Munster Schools
Boys T & F Championships in Tem-
plemore Track.
Thurs 9th – North Munster Schoosl T
& F Championships in UL.
Sat 11th – County U/13 to U/19 T &
F Championships in Templemore
Track (Day 1).
Sun 12th– County U/13 to U/19 T &
F Championships in Templemore
Track (Day 2).
Tues 14th – High Jump Workshop for
coaches & athletes aged 12+ from
7pm to 9pm in Clonmel.
Sat 18th – AVIVA Munster Schools
T & F Championships in Cork I.T. at
9am.
Sat 18th – Discus & Hammer Work-
shop for coaches & athletes aged 14+
from 10.30am to 1.30pm in Tem-
plemore.
Tues 21st – Planning a Training Year
Workshop for coaches & athletes
aged 18+ from 7pm to 9pm in Cork
I.T.
Sun 26th – County U/9 to U/12 T & F
Championships in Templemore
Track.
Sun 26th – Woodie’s DIY AAI Na-
tional League – Round 1
Fri 24th to Sun 26th – National Com-
munity Games Finals – Cross Coun-
try Relays.
Tipperary County Athletics News
Members of Devilsbit Macra na Feirme being presented with North Tipperary
Club of the year Trophy 2012 by Mr. Alan Jagoe, National President, Macra
na Feirme
Visit www.tipptatler.ie
For news, sport & entertainment updates
The benefits of growing in raised
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control possibilities and a neat and
organised way to grow your own.
If you are considering using raised
beds then there are a number of fac-
tors to consider.
Height of your raised beds
Really this comes down to what you
want to grow. Herbs, salads, brassi-
ca, strawberries and legume crops
only require 6 to 12 inches of root
zone to grow well. Deeper crops
such as carrots, onions, garlic, leeks
require a depth of 12 to 18 inches to
grow well. Potatoes will require the
deepest beds and will require earth-
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your potatoes into the base of an
empty raised bed and fill the bed
with soil over the summer as you
earth up, but that sounds like more
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The surface area of your raised beds
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the rotate your vegetable crops each
year with one rotation type per
raised bed.
Raised beds have the advantage of
being small and manageable in size.
This allows you to divide your work
load and allows you take on smaller
tasks at one time. Ideally your beds
should be around 900mm wide. The
length of your beds is really up to
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space you have and what you want
to grow
Altering your raised bed’s soil
Smaller beds allows for easier alter-
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bed 5m² you will need to add
500mg of lime if your beds are any
larger you will require more lime.
To Make your soil light and free
draining you will require a ½ tone
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Location of the raised bed
For best results locate your raised
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positioning on the north side of
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Ideally place paths between your
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which will in turn reduce pests and
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Material
Anything and everything can be
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brick and wood all work well and so
long as they are clean and not con-
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growing vegetables.
Soil in your raised beds
If you have a good quality garden
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will have both good drainage, fertil-
ity and water retention. Good gar-
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When adding garden soil to raised
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Relay for Life Tipperary 2013 is com-
ing out of hibernation and preparations
for this year’s event which will again
be in Toomevara on the weekend of
24/25 August are gathering pace.
During the past two years Relay for
Life was one of the most significant
events taking place in Co Tipperary
with over 1,000 people taking part
each year and with many more family
members and spectators attending.
The event has raised awareness of can-
cer issues and in particular the fact that
there can be life after cancer, and it
also raised over €250,000 so far to
support the work of the Irish Cancer
Association. Of this amount, about
two thirds was spent directly in Co
Tipperary providing services for can-
cer sufferers and their families with the
remainder being spent on research to
fight the disease. This year’s event is
expected to be even bigger and better
than ever.
Relay for Life is a 24 hour community
celebration and a unique, empowering
and fun event, raising awareness of the
services of the Irish Cancer Associa-
tion, and supporting their work – last
year’s event raised over €112,000.
The central themes of Relay for Life
are to celebrate cancer survivors, to
remember those who have left us, and
to fight back. At the event, teams of
people take turns walking around a
track. And, to symbolise that fact that
cancer never sleeps, each team has a
representative on the track at all time
during the 24 hours. While not walk-
ing, participants and spectators can
socialise, picnic, play games, dance
and participate in lots of fun activities.
Two very special events form part of
Relay. First is the Survivors’ Lap
which starts off the whole event,
where cancer survivors of all ages are
begin the Relay by walking the first
lap of the course, cheered on by fami-
ly, friends, and teams from the com-
munity. Last year almost 100
survivors took part in what was a very
emotional event for many people. The
second special event is the Candle of
Hope ceremony which takes place as
darkness begins to fall. Last year,
4,000 Candles of Hope were dedicated
by people all over the county to some-
one they know who has been touched
by cancer. Some of the candles are
dedicated to someone who survived,
others in memory of someone who did
not, and some to family and carers for
their support. As the evening ap-
proaches, the lighted candles are set
around the track, and remain there
lighting all night as the event contin-
ues. This is when the true meaning of
Relay hits home. Overall, Relay for
Life is a very unique event, very mov-
ing, fulfilling and fun.
How to take part
Speaking with this paper, Jerry Cronin,
Chairperson of Relay for Life Tipper-
ary says that the success of Relay for
Life is down to the teams. From now
on teams will be forming throughout
the county and will be organising
events locally to spread the message
that we can reduce the risk of getting
cancer and that there is hope for those
who do and will also be raising funds
to fight the disease. He added that this
year the committee hoped that new
teams would form in towns and parish-
es throughout the county which did not
have a team last year. So, if you
would like to participate in this year’s
event or to enter a team, or just to find
out more about Relay for Life, you can
do so at www.cancer.ie/relayforlife or
you can email
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Nenagh Arts Centre
Shankly, Daglish, Rush,
Gerrard: Liverpool’s
football history hilarious-
ly relived in ‘Beating
Berlusconi’
On it’s way to Nenagh Arts Centre
on Saturday, May 4th is the amaz-
ing story of a Liverpool football
club, the city it emerged from, and
one night in Istanbul when it all
came good.
Writer John Graham Davies' ‘Beat-
ing Berlusconi’ is a one man come-
dy show covering forty years, forty
characters and the greatest football
night ever. Paul Duckworth is the
actor portraying them all in this ir-
reverent scouser’s comic odyssey
which climaxes in the true story of
the Liverpool fan who actually end-
ed up sitting next to the Italian
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at
the Champions’ League Final in
2005.
‘Beating Berlusconi’ is a laughter
and tears tale of one man’s attempt
to rediscover his belief in himself,
his club, his city and his class. The
Guardian newspaper said of the
show: “Even for non-football fans,
it's a punchy piece of good old-fash-
ioned popular theatre that wears its
passions and prejudices on its
sleeve. A show with balls, in more
ways than one!”
A limited number of tickets are
available as an early bird offer for
€10 until April 20th and are €15 af-
ter that date. Booking online at
www.nenagharts.com or from 067
34400. The show kicks off at 8 p.m.
on Saturday, 4th May 8 p.m.

If you could boil our global problems
down to seven words, they might be
these: we don’t see where stuff comes
from. Most of us spend grew up staring
at glowing rectangles without ever see-
ing a coal-powered turbine. We blithely
speed down motorways without ever
visiting an oil derrick. Most of all, we
eat mountains of meat a year without
having to grab a live animal or smell
blood. Like most things in our lives,
meat just magically appears, brought by
strangers.
That last example hit home for people in
Europe recently, after the Irish govern-
ment tested frozen burgers from a major
supplier and found that some of the al-
leged beef was actually horsemeat. Irish
and British discovered their top grocer-
ies and restaurants had been feeding
them horse for a long time -- probably
unknowingly, but shoppers and inves-
tors dropped them all the same. The day
after the story made headlines the top
grocery chain here lost half a billion
dollars. Within a few more days food
companies took ten million burgers off
their shelves -- although the papers
don’t say what happened to the meat
afterward – and the next few months
saw a reporter’s dream of press confer-
ences, apologies, arrests, pledges and
retests.
The scandal quickly spread across Eu-
rope, as country after country tested
meat sold in its own shops and cafes and
found they were not eating what they
thought they were. The latest tests an-
nounced this week finally cleared Ire-
land, the epicentre of the scandal, but
mislabelled meat is still showing up
across Europe – and as far afield as
South Africa.
The irony, of course, is that horsemeat is
not harmful, and little different than
cow, as evidenced by the fact that no
one can tell which one they ate. Aside
from a veterinary medicine showing up
in minute amounts, no one has suggest-
ed that eating it had any ill effects, nor is
it illegal; my daughter and I happily
bought horse-kebab from a street vendor
in Dublin the other day. (At least, he
said they were horse, but you never
know …)
Rather, the emotional punch – and inev-
itable punch-lines – that came from the
idea of eating Black Beauty obscured
more important details. If up to 30 per
cent of some samples were horse, up to
80 per cent of others were pork. “Meat-
filled” pastries in Iceland turned out to
have no real meat at all, while South
African meats had an interesting menag-
erie of buffalo, goat and donkey. Other
samples allegedly had green mould on
them. The horses might have been
slaughtered up to two years ago, dead
flesh just sitting in freezers.
Most importantly, though, was that gov-
ernments and stores had such difficulty
sourcing the meat. This detail proved
especially unpopular with people here,
who had already seen UK outbreaks of
hoof-and-mouth in 2007 and 2001, as
well as mad cow disease in the 1980s
and 90s. Restaurants and stores here
proudly advertise their “Irish beef,” not
only to support local farmers but to dis-
tance themselves from such disasters.
Now, it turns out, we just don’t know
where some of it came from; it just mag-
ically appeared.
We accept buying meat from strangers
for the same reasons we buy everything
else in our lives from strangers these
days; because we trust that someone,
somewhere, knows what they are doing.
On the rare occasions we associate the
food on our plates with actual animals,
we tend to assume they must have come
from some kind of farm, like the over-
all-and-pitchfork images of preschool
toys. We don’t picture supply chains so
long and cobwebby that we can’t find
out what kind of animal it used to be, or
in what country, or how it lived.
Consider how strange this would seem
to most of our ancestors, for thousands
of generations back. For most of them
meat was life; while most foods could
be grown or picked, meat was the
Leibig’s Minimum that forced people to
be predators. Their craving for meat
transformed the landscape, wiping out
the planet’s large animals as thoroughly
as an asteroid impact did the dinosaurs,
and we now know Neanderthals or
Clovis people by their meat-getting
technologies. It was the main reason we
domesticated animals, and that spurred
empires and conquests – the Sanskrit
word for “war,” I’m told, means “a de-
sire for cows,” and the ancient Irish epic
the Tain Bo Cuailnge involves a nation-
wide war over a single breeding bull.
The very word “meat” meant “food” in
Old English, so inextricable were the
two.
Such concentrated nutrition comes with
risks. Until recently we lived much clos-
er to animals than we might like to im-
agine --- often in the same house – and
pigs ran openly through streets in Eu-
rope and the USA even into the 20th
century. Many of our human diseases
come from domesticated animals -- in-
fluenza from ducks, for example – and
for thousands of years our bodies have
been at war with the germs they send us.
When Europeans first encountered the
Americas and Australia, the millennia of
accumulated pathogens in their bodies –
to which they had built up immunity --
wiped out 95 per cent of the native pop-
ulation, leaving the wilderness the pio-
neers found. Our desire for meat, in
short, is the reason Americans and Aus-
tralians will read this in English, rather
than Parisians reading it in Aztec.
This dealing of life and death might be
the reason so many of our religions bind
us in meat taboos -- Jews and Muslims
ban pig meat, Hindus cow meat, and
Catholics all meat on Fridays and
through Lent. Many of our rituals do the
same, invoking the body and blood of
the Word made flesh.
Because meat was so precious, most hu-
man societies were less finicky than we
are today about what kind of animals
they ate. People throughout world histo-
ry have eaten insects, snails and other
invertebrates, as well as birds, reptiles,
amphibians and mammals of all kinds;
something as mountainous as a cow or
stag might be stretched into months of
food. Even today, most subcultures eat
both less meat than we do and more va-
riety, as anyone knows who visits Chi-
nese or Caribbean stores. I recently saw
a letter from a bishop in largely Catholic
Louisiana, USA, assuring his congrega-
tions that alligator could be eaten during
Lent.
When we keep animals for food, they
don't always stay put; the snails so com-
mon on these islands were snacks
brought by Romans, as rabbits were a
thousand years later by Normans. Poly-
nesians carried rats on voyages for meat,
and their escape helped scour island af-
ter island of their native bird species.
Most Americans I know eat two birds,
chicken and turkey, and have never held
one alive – but most of our ancestors ate
many more, both for meat and to protect
crops. Elderly Irish, who grew up in
agrarian days when money and meat
were rare, caught songbirds in wicker
traps called “cradle-birds,” and one eld-
erly couple told me that blackbirds were
sold as food in wartime London --all to
eagerly pluck and stew.
Fishing, likewise, supported many com-
munities, but fewer all the time these
days. To take one example from Mark
Kurlansky’s book Cod: A Biography of
the Fish that Changed the World, early
explorers to places like Newfoundland
simply dropped baskets into the sea and
came up with them full of fish, so plen-
tiful were the cod. By 1960 fishermen in
the North Atlantic were catching 1.6
million tonnes a year, and thirty years
later that number had dropped by almost
99 per cent. We are fishing the sea
clean.
In my native USA, where people eat
more meat per capita per year than any-
where else in the world, we have not yet
overhunted the land, but that’s mainly
because we get most of our protein from
the hog or beef “factories” described in
Eric Schlosser’s excellent book Fast
Food Nation. I have talked to many
Midwestern farmers whose lives have
been shaped by these nearby places they
can never see but always smell. Towns
in my native Missouri, locals tell me,
are now filled with two kinds of people:
the elderly and the Hispanics that work
the meat factories, and neither are ex-
pected to be around long.
Of course, such unpleasantness drives
some to a vegetarian diet, and they are
right to think that most Westerners
would be healthier if they ate less meat.
In abandoning all meat, however, vege-
tarians show the same maximalist think-
ing, and the same disconnection from
the source of their food. Calves usually
die to get milk or cheese, chicks to get
eggs, and the animals will die eventually
anyway, more slowly and painfully than
they would have by predators or consid-
erate butchers. A vegan diet requires
using vast areas of land that were once
forests to grow high-protein crops like
soybeans, and making our society’s soy
milk and designer soy-products requires
our society to gobble fossil fuels in a
way that will not continue forever.
Where we live, the landscape is still di-
vided up into small family farms, and
most people are related to a farmer –
I’m friends with several around our
land, and we see their cows every day.
Most villages also have a butcher, and
ours now features a sign about how he
buys only from the local farmers. He
actually gives us more meat than we ask
for, knowing that we like the bones and
cast-off meats for soups.
Everyone here used to get their meat
from people like him, if they didn’t
slaughter it themselves; it was only re-
cently that the globalised supermarkets,
with their shelves of cheap frozen meat
and opportunities for fraud, began to
proliferate. In my native USA, though,
one would have to rebuild the entire in-
frastructure – local farmers to local
shops within walking distance to homes
– from scratch.
But we need to. If we want to know
where our stuff comes from, and yet
keep eating meat, then we need groups
of neighbourhood boys raising pigs in
the vacant lot, as wartime Londoners
had, with neighbours buying shares of
the bodies. We need to start sourcing
food further down the food chain, to
species that are still plentiful and that
we will not risk exterminating. We need
to expand the number of species we will
eat a hundredfold, while reducing our
meat dishes to a fraction of their current
quantity. We need to relearn how to
make eel traps and cradlebirds, to grow
snails in the closet and chickens in the
shed.
And we need to know people like my
farmer friend, who I meet in the morn-
ing bleary-eyed from staying up all
night with a calf. He gives his animals a
better life than any they would have
seen in the wild, infinitely better than on
a factory farm, before making sure their
life ends quickly and painlessly. It’s not
easy for him, and his small scale makes
the butcher more expensive, but that’s
as it should be. Rather than wolfing
mystery meat or snubbing it altogether,
we could respect it again. Meat needs to
become hard work to get and precious to
eat, so that we again put some sacral
value in the lives we take.
Reproduced courtesy of Brian Kaller.
Original copy can be viewed on his blog
http://restoringmayberry.blogspot.ie/201
3/04/the-lives-of-others.html
The lives of others by Brian Kaller - Restoring Mayberry

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and already a hidden benefit had emerged. Birdsong that
had long been hidden beneath the din of traffic slowly be-
came audible. Each evening the Starlings gather on the TV
aerials of the houses and drivers who turn off the radio and
pedestrians who unplug their phones are treated to nature’s
choir singing high above their heads.
Starlings are very common birds in urban areas but are still
plentiful in the countryside. One of the main benefits of city
living is the wide range of nesting locations. Traditionally
they would have nested in holes in trees but gaps in build-
ings and houses are ideal for building nests. They will also
use nest boxes and these are like mini blocks of flats and
each bird has its own room. One to two broods are raised
each year and they feed upon berries, seeds and insects.
They are usually glimpsed as black flecks weaving fantastic
shapes in the dying evening sky. These flocks can reach
massive numbers and a quarter of a million birds were re-
corded a few years ago in Tipperary. These might not all be
Irish birds as each winter we play host to 5/6 million birds
from Germany, Poland and Russia. A wise birdwatcher
once told me to all ways pack an umbrella when watching
Starlings as just as some pets are not house trained these
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Physical, behavioural and psychologi-
cal symptoms
If you are suffering from any of these
physical symptoms, it is important to
have your health checked by your doc-
tor, who can examine you for any medi-
cal condition that may be causing your
symptoms. For example, cardiac ar-
rhythmias (irregular heart beat) can pro-
duce similar physical symptoms as
anxiety does, such as clammy skin. It is
a two way process. Anxiety can provoke
physical illness, and medical conditions
can provoke anxiety. It is, therefore,
important to go to your doctor, to deal
with physical illness and this will ease
the anxiety and worry arising from the
illness. Fatigue, one of the symptoms of
anxiety, may stem from many other
medical complaints, and is frustratingly
difficult to trace its causes. I am coming
more to the conclusion that stress and
anxiety underlie many of our physical
illnesses. Similarly, nausea, headaches,
trembling, and so on may be rooted in
medical conditions, although they are
also symptoms of anxiety. The more I
read Edmund Bourne’s anxiety work-
book the more I am inclined to recom-
mend that you get it. He outlines the
various medical conditions that can
cause or mimic panic attacks or anxiety.
These are listed on pages 43–45. Some
will be looked at in more detail in the
articles on panic attacks.
I often find that simply talking to my
doctor and getting an explanation for a
physical complaint is reassuring and al-
leviates any anxiety. In fact, I feel that
the fee paid to a doctor is as much for
reassurance as for diagnosis.
The website
www.wrongdiagnosis.com/a/anxiety/bo
ok-diseases-14c.htm provides a long list
of physical complaints that aggravate
anxiety. Some of these complaints are
very technical, however, but they are
revealing. However, they include some
that are recognisable to the ‘layman’,
such as asthma. Ongoing asthma attacks
undoubtedly are a source of strong anx-
iety to some people. Many pulmonary
(relating to the lungs) complaints make
us anxious, partly because we feel out of
control if our breathing is disturbed.
Another complaint mentioned is hyper-
thyroidism, or an overactive thyroid
gland. The classic symptoms here are
heat intolerance, weight loss, nervous-
ness, tremors, palpitations, sweating and
so on. Again, heart problems are associ-
ated with anxiety. We know that the
heart is a vital organ, and any serious
problems give rise to anxiety. On the
other hand, severe anxiety is not good
for the heart.
Apart from mental and physical
symptoms of anxiety, there are also
unhealthy behavioural aspects. These
include avoidance, rumination,
addictive behaviours, cutting off
feelings. Taking caffeine and alcohol
may increase anxiety in some people.
Ironically, medicine that is use to calm
anxiety and panic attacks can also
cause anxiety if the sufferer becomes
dependent on them. This is particularly
true of benzodiazepines such as Valium
and Zanax. Anxiety can increase during
the withdrawal period from these drugs,
but gradually eases as the dose
decreases to full withdrawal. Because
of the possibility of withdrawal
symptoms and dependence, doctors are
reluctant to use benzodiazepines, and
will only use them as a last resort if
other medications fail to work.
If medical issues are ruled out, a
counsellor may be able to help you find
the psychological roots of your
symptoms. If the cause of our anxiety is
rooted in childhood, that can be
explored; if it is abuse then that, too,
can be looked at. If the source of our
anxiety is in how we think (negative
thoughts) that is fertile ground for
counselling, and so on. Some
psychologists argue that this type of
exploration can increase anxiety. They
are correct in this, so it is important for
the counsellor to be careful and to
ensure the safety of the anxious client.
To achieve this, the counsellor must
use different techniques, and
humanistic integrative counselling is
very effective. Humanistic counselling
is effective in establishing contact and
empathy. It emphasises the emotional
aspect, and it has a very good chance of
preventing a recurrence of the anxiety,
because it gets at the roots, and enables
the sufferer to kill it off. Cognitive
based counselling helps to correct
negative thoughts because it focuses on
challenging how sufferers are thinking.
It also educates people about the
symptoms of anxiety, and helps to
eradicate the irrational fear that
underlies the anxiety. It can also put
forward techniques to deal with the
anxious feelings. These techniques will
be further explored in later articles.
Jim O’Shea works as a counsellor from
Furze, Thurles. Ph.087-8211009
www.jimoshea.net. Jim O’Shea’s book
‘When a child dies. Footsteps of a Griev-
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Children’s Hospital in Crumlin Jim
O’Shea’s new book called Abuse, about
domestic violence, workplace and school
bullying is now available on Amazon,
published by Cork University Press and
in Bookshops.
The Miraculous Prayer
Dear Heart of Jesus, in the past I’ve
asked for many favours. This time I
ask You this very special one (men-
tion favour). Take it Dear Heart of
Jesus and place it within Your own
broken heart where Your Father sees
it. Then in His merciful eyes it will
become Your favour, not mine.
Amen. Say this prayer for 3 days,
promise publication and favour will
be granted. Never know to fail. T.R.
be granted. Never know to fail.
M.D.
be granted. Never know to fail. J.F.
be granted. Never know to fail.
M.H.
be granted. Never know to fail. B.B.
be granted. Never know to fail. F.F.
be granted. Never know to fail. T.R.

HAVE YOU A BUSINESS IDEA AND LOOKING FOR ADVICE,
GRANTS OR CONTACTS?
ARE YOU IN BUSINESS AND LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES?
Put ‘Who to Talk To’ on Tuesday 14th May in your diary. This FREE event will
feature Information Desks, Seminars, Funding Workshops and Networking
Opportunities.
There will be a strong focus on the Food Sector with presentations on Food
Tourism, Food Exports, Getting Your Business Noticed by the Media, Trends in
the Retail Sector, On-Farm Food Enterprises and much more.
OFFICIAL OPENING AT 3.00PM BY TOM DOORLEY,
Columnist and Resident Critic on RTE’S ‘The Restaurant’.
WHEN? TUESDAY 14TH MAY, 2P.M. - 8P.M.
WHERE? THURLES CHAMBER ENTERPRISE CENTRE, LIT CAMPUS, THURLES
MORE INFORMATION AT 067-33086
www.tnceb.ie and www.tipperary.com

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