Fethard Town Park - Monthly Update








Fethard Horse Country Experience


Fethard Horse Country Experience is now open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm, and on Sundays from 12 noon to 5pm. Explore the story of the horse and its role in Irish Culture over 2,000 years in this state-of-the-art interactive exhibition.

For further information and booking contact manager, Tori McMorran, at Tel: (052) 610439 or visit our website www.fhcexperience.ie The Tholsel, Main Street, Fethard, Co. Tipperary. Eircode: E91 R652.

'Big Picture' – Were you there in 1973 ?

Patrician Brothers Centenary Celebrations 1973
Fethard Patrician Brothers Past Pupils Union held their fourth Annual Dinner Dance in Hearns Hotel, Clonmel, on Friday, April 13, 1973, with over two hundred and forty guests attending. But the highlight of the year was the Centenary Celebrations of the arrival of the Brothers in Fethard, which took place on Sunday, June 3, 1973. His Grace, Dr. Thomas Morris concelebrated Mass with Rev. Canon Lee, P.P.: Rev. Fr. Leddin, OSA, together with four past pupils of the school, viz. Rev. M. Hayes, P.P., Bristol; Rev. W. Hayes, Holycross; Rev. T. Scott, Australia; and Rev. J. Walsh, O.S.A., Australia.

The Patrician Schools Band from Galway entertained people before Mass. A reception for guests was held in the Town Hall at 1.30pm, during which the Archbishop paid glowing tributes to the Brothers for their devoted work down the years in the field of education. The day’s celebrations were brought to a close with a most entertaining concert in the Convent Hall, where the Patrician Accordion band from Mallow gave a recital during the concert.

Were you there? You can zoom in closer to see faces more clearly by clicking to zoom-in and double-clicking to zoom-out.

GAA Sports Development Lotto
Fethard GAA Sports Lotto draw results for Friday, July 31, are as follows: the numbers drawn were: 4, 7, 24 and 35. There was no jackpot winner and two ‘match three’ winners who received €50 each: Paul Hayes, Burke Street, Fethard; and Anthony O’Dwyer, Killenaule.

Committee of Fethard GAA/Sports Centre Development Lotto would like to thank all our supporters near and far who participate in our weekly lotto draw. The next draw takes place on Friday, August 7, when the jackpot is €26,500 and the seller's prize is €1,000. The funds raised are used to promote sport in the local community.

Fethard & Killusty Community Council AGM
Please note, Fethard & Killusty Community Council will hold their Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, August 25, 2020, at 8pm in the Tirry Community Centre, Barrack Street, Fethard.

Cousins confirmed in Lisronagh

Congratulations to these three cousins from Redcity, Fethard, who received the scarament of Confirmation on Saturday, August 1, Lisronagh. L to R: Mark O’Meara, Troy Delaney and Lee Delaney. The three boys were part of a group of twelve pupils confirmed on the day.

Fethard CCTV awaiting Advisory Committee approval
Deputy Michael Lowry recently raised the matter in Dáil Éireann regarding the provision of Closed-Circuit Television for Fethard with the Minister for Justice and Equality, Helen McEntee. Deputy Lowry enquired regarding the status of the application for the Fethard CCTV scheme which is currently awaiting authorisation from the Garda Commissioner and if the issue with housing such a system in the local Garda Station can be resolved. The Independent TD for Tipperary pointed out that the prolonged delay in resolving issues was causing unnecessary concern and anxiety for Fethard residents.

In reply the new Justice Minister pointed out that the legal framework for a community CCTV scheme must:

be approved by the local policing authority;

have the prior support of the relevant local authority, which must also act as data controller, and,

have the authorisation of the Garda Commissioner.

Minister McEntee, informed Deputy Lowry that this is the legal basis for all community CCTV schemes, regardless of how they are funded, and these legal requirements have not changed since 2006. The option to establish a community CCTV scheme is available to groups that meet these legal requirements, anywhere in the country.

In relation to the Fethard application the Minister said that the application for a Community Based Scheme under Section 38 (3) (C) of the Garda Siochana Act, 2005, has not met the standard to be heard at the CCTV Advisory Committee due to issues in respect of the location of the server. It had been proposed that the server would be based in the local Garda Station and that the local Superintendent would act as Data Controller. This is at variance with S.I. 289/06 which stipulates that the local authority will act as Data Controller.

This, according to the Minister, has been communicated back to the applicant group and she understands that a reply is awaited on any alternative proposal for siting of the server.

This Year's Holy Year Cross Pilgrimage Cancelled
People are no doubt aware at this stage that this year's pilgrimage to the Holy Year Cross on Sliabh ns mBan has been cancelled. Some people may still wish to make the climb, with that in mind Keith O'Donnell has kindly offered to allow people to park their cars in the Mass Rock field on Sunday, August 16. Please note that anyone parking there will do so at their own risk as the field will be unsupervised during the day.

This year is the 70th anniversary of the erecting of the first cross on the mountain, we should in our own way remember and pray for all those who put the time and considerable effort to build it. We will honour their memory at a future date when things return back to normal.

Fethard Interviews TippFM – October 30, 2015

Keating family information requested
Bernard Adsett sent us this request for information.

“I am wondering if you can help me or point me in the right direction. My wife’s grandfather, Thomas Keating, came from Fethard and went to England with the Hartigan family about 1910. Thomas had siblings – two sisters, Noreen or Norah, and Mellor. Mellor we think was married to the Station Master and had a son Liam. If it helps, he had a seriously bad broken leg while still in Fethard. He settled in England and married in 1913 and had two children, William and Norah. My wife is trying to trace some family history and maybe when it is safe would also like to visit Fethard.”

Any help you can give us would be much appreciated. Thanking you in anticipation. Bernard Adsett (Email: bernard.adsett@outlook.com)

Faces and Places from the Past
The following are a selection of photographs of faces and places taken in our locality that may bring back memories to many of our readers and visitors to fethard.com Please send any comments or photo information, names and event, to fethardnews@gmail.com

This week we take a look back at some photographs from our files of Fethard people fondly remembered by our older readers.

Mrs Sarah Cashman, The Back Green, Fethard, holding two puppies outside the back door of Kiltinan Castle, where she worked at that time.


Paddy McCormack, born on February 21, 1923, was raised on Main Street, Fethard, where the funeral parlour is now. The family moved to live in Ballinure around 1937 and he married his wife Maureen (née Ryan, Ballysheehan, Cashel) on February 4, 1946. Paddy and Maureen are photographed above with their daughter Eileen and their four sons, Miceál, Ned, Stephen and Pat, on the occasion of their daughter Eileen's marriage to Michael Sheridan, from Dualla.


La Walsh photographed with Captain Arthur Curtin, Tullow, Killusty. They later married on September 20, 1974, and he was buried on September 20, 1979, exactly 5 years later.

Kate Cantwell, Burke Street, holding her grandchild, Marie McCarthy, a daughter of Peggy (née Cantwell) and Dick McCarthy, Burke Street. Marie later married Donal O'Sullivan, Main Street, Fethard.


Gathering heather at The Vee, one of Kate Cantwell's Sunday outings by hired car around the 1930s L to R: Jo Barrett, Tommy Tyrrell (driver), Peggy Cantwell, Madeline Looby, Annie Barrett, Kate Cantwell and Nancy Flynn.


Chatting in the meadow L to R Josie Holohan (later Mrs Casey), Madeline Looby, Jo Barrett and Mary Kenrick (later Mrs Byard).


Relaxing on the lawn are L to R: Peggy Jenkins and Peggy Cantwell. (Peggy Jenkins was later killed in car crash).


Sister Kitty and Nell McCarthy, McCarthys Hotel, Main Street, photographed playing croquet.


Madeline Looby and Peggy Cantwell paddling their feet in the river at Grove, taken in 1927.


Peggy Cantwell and Jack Wall (a brother of the late Derek Wall) taken in Burke Street.

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