Valerie O’Reilly (Unicorn PR) was re-elected as president of Clonmel Chamber of Commerce at the organisation’s 87th annual general meeting, which was held at The Main Guard.  

As the search for the 2013 Pride of Tipperary commences, the Nationalist takes a look back with the 1986 Pride of Tipperary, Catherine Kiely from Oola.

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A cross-party group of councillors from South Tipperary will meet Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, next month.

Ireland’s leading provider in community based neuro-rehabilitation Acquired Brain Injury Ireland has opened its first second hand book shop in Cashel as a rehabilitation integration activity for those living with a brain injury.

Westcourt Cup Final

The C&C Group, manufacturers of Bulmers and Magners cider, has reported a rise in pre-tax profits.

Supermac’s has announced that 35 plus new jobs for Clonmel, both full time and part time positions, will be created when they open their new restaurant in June.

South Tipperary’s coroner has warned financial institutions and debt collectors they are breaking the law if they harass a person for debt repayments and has called on them to ensure they have policies in place to prevent their staff harassing under pressure debtors.

Clonmel’s Stonehouse Restaurant has announced the creation of 10 new jobs. The announcement comes off the back of the completion of a 100,000 investment programme to re-fit the restaurant and develop new private facilities for corporate hospitality.

Killenure Castle has seen the dawn of five centuries and the fortified Elizabethan house, once a ruin, dates back to the 1500s casts a striking silhouette over the Dundrum, Knockavilla landscape.

Cashel’s own international rugby star was in town last Friday night to launch a wonderful book detailing the history of Cashel RFC.

Public & Commuter Transport Minister and local TD, Alan Kelly, has announced the provision for €1.7 million worth of road maintenance funding for Tipperary.

Among the many guests at the Kelly Clan Gathering which was held at Dundrum House Hotel, Dundrum at the weekend were Alan Kelly TD and Seán Kelly MEP.

CLONMEL CREDIT UNION which this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding in 1963 was accorded a civic reception by Clonmel Borough Council at the Town Hall on Friday night last.

Barlo Motors Ltd and Barlo Nissan Clonmel are two of Clonmel’s locally-owned and family-run dealerships and are looking to the future with the successful Ford and Nissan brands.

Ballybrado, the longest established organic brand in Ireland, celebrates 30 years of organic food and farming this year.

A preliminary estimate of the Teagasc National Farm Survey results show that family farm income decreased by 15% in 2012, bringing the average income figure for the farming sector to €25,483.

The Deputy President of ICMSA, Pat McCormack, has accused the state’s biggest processors of sitting on vastly improved market returns while watching their suppliers struggle and he has called on the processors to belatedly recognise the dire straits their suppliers are in and to set proper prices that reflect to a meaningful degree the kind of market buoyancy witnessed month-on-month since January. Mr McCormack, who is also Chairman of the Diary Committee, said that there was a growing degree of anger and despair amongst dairy farmers at what he said was an “inexplicable” gap between the IDB Index and the price being paid to suppliers during the one of the worst fodder and weather crisis in living memory. He named as Kerry Group and Glanbia as the two most glaring cases where the price being paid to suppliers was “hopelessly adrift” of the prices the processors themselves were receiving.

Jeddy Walsh