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Tipp FM Text 083 311 3311 Tipperary County Council has rejected plans for a large housing development in Tipp Town. Kingscroft Developments sought permission for works on a 3.9 hectare site at Brodeen on the Dundrum road. The proposals included 84 houses and a childcare facility with a 550 square metre private outdoor play area. The local authority has this week refused permission for the development – among the reasons given was that the site is within the study corridor for the ...

Tipperary Mid West Radio Michael Lowry, TD © Michaellowry.ie Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan, has agreed with Deputy Michael Lowry at a meeting of the Oireachtas Transport Committee yesterday that Tipperary Town “should be liberated from the scourge of traffic”. The Minister acknowledged that constructing a short by-pass of the town itself, ahead of any planned major works on the road between Cahir and Limerick Junction, would provide a solution. ‘First Towns Strategy...

Close to 60 farmers could be impacted by the rail line if it gets the green light. Some holdings will be cut in half by the proposed railway, while other farmers stand to lose a significant proportion of their farmyards - and even the family home in some instances. The extent of the disruption is illustrated by the case of dairy farmer, Kieran Lillis, from Meanus. The proposed route for the new rail line ploughs straight through his farmyard. It could take out two dwelling houses, cubicle sheds...

A senior Cork County Council official has said it is expected an announcement on the final route for the planned M20 Cork-Limerick motorway and a new rail connection between the two cities will be made before the end of the summer. The authoritys director of roads and transportation services, Padraig Barratt, was speaking at a meeting of the councils northern committee following the completion of the public consultation process into the multi-million Euro project. The history of the project has...

Update Expected On All-Weather Track at Tipperary Racecourse Horse Racing (Image: Public Domain) Horse Racing Ireland is expected to make a further announcement today in respect of the development of an All Weather race track at Tipperary Racecourse, Limerick Junction, near Tipperary Town. At present, there is only one other All-Weather track in Ireland, and that is located in Dundalk. Given the extent of climate change and weather interruptions, the move to all weather tracks will mean that f...

Tipp FM Text 083 311 3311   Public consultation begins today on another stage of a potentially major upgrade of the N24 in west Tipperary. Tipperary County Council is leading plans for the Cahir to Limerick Junction Project, which could lead to the long awaited construction of a bypass of Tipp Town. The project looks at the stretch of the N24 taking in the villages of Bansha, Limerick Junction, Monard and Oola, as well as Tipp Town. The plans are currently at the second phase – O...

  “Comfort viewing” takes on a whole new meaning in a year of seemingly never-ending lockdowns. Netflix, for instance, may have thought it had a surefire dystopian hit on its hands when it originally green-lit a small-screen adaptation of Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-Ho’s postapocalyptic train caper. But that was very much then. Today, many of us would trade a vital organ or beloved family pet for the opportunity to board a train that never stopped. Granted, the catering on the Snowpi...

Tipp FM Photo © geograph.ie The Ballybrophy to Limerick Irish Rail service has been suspended once again as part of a revised Level 5 schedule. Irish Rail has announced that the service which travels through Nenagh will be suspended every day until further notice. The Limerick-Limerick Junction service will continue to run as normal Monday to Saturday, but those using Heuston Intercity Routes should check out the revised and reduced schedule. Irish Rail says the schedule reflects s...

Irish Rail publishes revised timetable to operate on rail network from Monday Reporter: );  ); Irish Rail has published a revised timetable to operate on its rail network from Monday to account for additional Government Covid-19 restrictions. Irish Rail has advised customers that, following the further level 5 restrictions announced by Government, a revised and reduced schedule will operate across the rail network from Monday, January 11, approved by the National Transport Authority.  The re...

Commemoration of two innocent Limerick men murdered by Black and Tans in Boher Reporter: donal.oregan@limerickleader.ie Patrick McNamara, grand-nephew of James O’Neill, Brendan Quirke, organiser, Des Long and his wife Annette and his brother Jack, second cousin of Michael Blake );  ); THE TRAGIC events of Bloody Sunday on November 21, 1920, are well documented but what happened in Boher on the evening before, less so. Local man, Brendan Quirke said it was really a “bloody weekend”, wh...