Luxe Fashion Sale this Thursday in Fethard Ballroom

A pre-loved Luxe Fashion Sale will be held in Fethard Ballroom, on this Thursday, April 20, at 7.30pm. Admission is €5 (cash only please – no ATM available), which includes a glass of Prosecco and ‘nibbles’. Raffle also on the night. Donations of suitable clothes and handbags can be left in Fethard Day Care Centre (Barrack Street) from April 3 to April 6, between 11am and 4pm. All proceeds will go to Fethard & District Day Care Centre CLG.

The Premier Newspaper - April 14, 2023
The current issue of The Premier free local newspaper is now available in local shops and is also available online by CLICKING HERE. This edition features articles, photographs and news from the district, including: Girls Rugby Blitz in Fethard; – Premier Flashbacks to 2000; – Fethard News; and lots more. Click any of the images below to read the relevant pages in this issue online.

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Flashbacks to the year 2000 (click on page to view images)

Fethard News on The Premier (click on page to view)


Girls Rugby Blitz at Fethard Patrician Presentation School

Parish Church Lotto Draw Results
There was no jackpot winner in this week's Parish Lotto on Thursday, April 13, 2023. The numbers drawn were 14, 17, 20 and 21. The winner of the weekly draw for €30 was Maura Clooney. Next week's Jackpot for Thursday, April 20, will be €700.

Please pass the word on and invite friends and family to take part. You can help our Parish in a real, practical way.  Thank you for your support and the best of luck in our next weekly draw. PLAY OUR LOTTO NOW

27th Fethard Scout Group – taking New Members

GAA Sports Development Lotto Results
Fethard GAA Sports Lotto draw results for Tuesday, April 11, 2023, are as follows: the numbers drawn were: 12, 30, 35 and 36. We had no Jackpot winner and one Match 3 winner who received €150: Stephanie Fitzgerald. One Lucky Dip winner received €100: Owen Cummins.  

The next draw takes place on Tuesday, April 18, when the jackpot is €18,800. The funds raised are used to promote sport in the local community.

Community Games County Finals

Some of the competitors at County Finals of Art and Handwriting from Killusty included are Back L to R: Oliver O'Flynn, Zoe Thompson. Front L to R: brothers Gus, George and Charlie O'Flynn, Ted Purcell and Tristan Byrne.

Children from Fethard-Killusty Area gave a very good account of themselves at the Community Games County Finals, producing some excellent submissions in the midst of jam packed competitors from all over the county competing for honour and glory in the Art, Handwriting and Model Making sections held recently in Thurles.


Sophie O'Donnell and Angelina Shabrat were among Fethard competitors at the Community Games County Art Finals held recently in Thurles.


Competitors from Fethard – handwriting competitor Sam Walsh, admiring his friend James Sheehan's Art exhibit at the Community Games County Art Finals in Thurles

Congratulations to Tristan Byrne, from Killusty winner of a bronze medal in boys 12 handwriting and to Donnacha Ryan, winner of a Gold medal in boys U8 Art.

Donnacha was representing Boherlahan area but he is son of Marcella Sheehy, of Sheehy Manton our well-known local legal services on The Square, Fethard. He will now represent Tipperary at the National Finals in Carlow next September. Best of luck Donnacha.



Taking part in the Boys U12 Handwriting were Tristan Byrne, Fethard (Bronze), Cian O'Donnell, Boherlahan (Gold), and Harry Vaughan, Mullinahone (Silver).

Social Dancing in Fethard Ballroom


Fethard Ballroom continues its social dancing on Sunday, April 16, to the music of 'Bernie Heaney'. All are welcome to come along and enjoy a great night’s entertainment and social dancing from 8.30pm to 11.30pm. Admission is €10, which includes tea and cakes. For further information or for booking the Ballroom, contact Eileen Coady, Tel: 086 0776420.

'Split The Granny' Pot

Breda Nolan drawing the winning envelope in the March 'Split The Granny Pot' draw in aid of Fethard & District Day Care Centre Ltd. The winner of €320 was Jimmy Mullins. Runners up prizes of hampers went to Peg O’Reilly and Brodie Dalton. Thanks to all our supporters and volunteers and a very Happy Easter to all.

'Strictly Blues' fundraiser
Fethard GAA, Fethard Ladies Football, St. Rita's Camogie and Fethard Juvenile GAA clubs are hosting a Strictly Come Dancing fundraiser on Saturday, April 29, in Clonacody House.  Twenty-six participants from our GAA clubs and local community will take to the dance floor to raise vital funds for our clubs. 

For anyone who is unable to attend this event but would like to show your support and contribute to this fundraiser we have created a GoFundMe and any donation would be greatly appreciated.  Kind regards, Strictly Blues Committee.

Natural Dye Spring Workshop with Lucy Moore
Lucy Moore will hold a 'Natural Dye Spring Workshop' in the Convent Community Hall, Lower Main Street, Fethard, for two mornings, from 9.30am to 12 noon, on Thursday, April 27, and Friday, April 28. Further details below.

St. Vincent de Paul - Help First Communion expenses
The Fethard conference of St Vincent de Paul would like to ask anybody who needs assistance with First Communion expenses to contact us on any of these mobile numbers as soon as possible: 085 8086099; 086 8443622; 086 8588118; or 086 1940016.  Please text your name and address and we will get back to you well before the Communion.

We would also like to thank all shoppers who put some of their cash change into our collection boxes in the local shops we really appreciate your generosity snd it is a very valuable help to our work. Thanks again!

Big Picture – Millennium Pilgrimage to Holy Year Cross on Slievenamon 2000

Millennium Pilgrimage to Holy Year Cross 2000

The largest crowd ever turned out to take part in the annual pilgrimage to Holy Year Cross on Slievenamon on Sunday, May 21, 2000 – a date chosen to coincide with National Pilgrimage Day in Ireland. The ceremony concluded with mass in O’Donnell’s field followed by much appreciated refreshments served by a local committee. Fr Sean Ryan c.c. was spiritual director, and amongst the pilgrims who completed the journey to the cross, was sprightly octogenarian Fr John Meagher OSA.

To mark his fifty-years unbroken association with the Slievenamon pilgrimage as general administrator and co-ordinator, a presentation was made to Christy Williams of a beautiful, framed picture of the first sunrise on Slievenamon of the new Millennium, photographed on 1st January 1, 2000.

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Faces and Places from the Past 
This week we have a selection of photographs collected from some local people interviewed in the 1990s that happily records many of our Fethard friends, some long gone, that maybe our older readers will recall and bring back happy pleasant memories. Please send any comments or photo information, names and event, to fethardnews@gmail.com

Anyone remember this bus calling to Fethard?


Mr Erskine Childers photographed addressing the crowd on a visit to Fethard during his national election campaign 1973.

Back L to R: Jim Napier, Mrs O'Flynn, Paddy O'Flynn, Doreen Leahy. Middle Row L to R: Michael Renalds, Cha Finn, Marie O'Sullivan, Rita Tierney, Sheila Browne. Front Row L to R: Mary O'Donnell, Rita O'Flynn, Mary Napier and Eve McCarthy.


Enjoying a pony and trap ride around Fethard are L to R: Alice Stapleton, Dolly Bulfin, Mary Bulfin and Ann O'Sullivan.


Refreshments served outside Kilnockin Golf Club in the 1920s. The remains of the clubhouse still survive today at Kilnockin hill. (Photo originally supplied by Michael Smyth (jun), Coolbawn)

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