Community: September 2006 Archives

Attended the Ryder cup on Friday and was really impressed with the logistics and organisation of the event. I arrived at punchestown at 8.15 a.m. and was standing on the 12th green at 9.20 a.m. Staff, busses, assistants etc were in abundance. The Irish organisers are to be congratulated for their professionalism. The park and ride was a revelation and I believe the organiser of big games in Croke Park and Landsdown etc should take a long hard look at it.

On the course there were plenty of video screens and the nature of the K club meant that it was possible to have good vantage points on the many stands and sloping hills. Several times we found ourselves standing less than 20 feet from Tiger Woods, Paul Casey etc as they tried to escape the clutches of the heavy wet rough.

As for the atmosphere, it was special, electric and passionate. An event that will evoke fond memories that will last a life time.

TIPPINST - Robocode 2007 will take place on Thu March 22nd in Tipperary Institute Thurles. Lenovo who were last years main sponsors have kindly agreed to be the main sponsor for this event. The competition is open to first year students in third level colleges. For more information see http://www.robocode.ie

The Tipperary star and tipp fm report today that the local authority who had been in negotiations with St. Patricks College to purchase land for a park were informed at last nights meeting that the land had been sold to a third party (a developer)

The Catholic church for the past week in Holycross has been promoting and sermonising about the need to build a better community and reach out to god and each other.Now it seems that the Catholic Church wants to reach out to the developers and deny the community a town park.

The land is behind the Thurles swimming pool and borders the river suir. This land had been zoned under the town plan as a community space.