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FOUR PEOPLE have died following a single car collision in County Tipperary.
A male in his 20s and three teenage girls, who are thought to have received their Leaving Certificate results yesterday, were pronounced dead at the scene outside Clonmel, Tipperary.
The single car collision happened shortly after 7:30pm on the evening of Friday, August 25. It is thought that the driver, the male, ‘lost control’ of the vehicle which overturned.
Mountain Road, where the fatal collision occurred, remains closed to traffic and local diversions are in place. The bodies of the deceased have been removed from the scene to South Tipperary General Hospital and post-mortem examinations will be conducted in the coming days.
It is thought that the three girls were on…
The growth of the market for provincial newspapers was an inseparable part of the development of literacy in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century in Ireland.
In the early 1900s, weekly or bi-weekly papers such as the Tipperary Star supplied their readerships with information and advertising on the commercial, agricultural and cultural affairs of their local districts.
Many papers also sent reporters to cover the regular meetings of the various local elected bodies – county councils, district councils and poor law guardians – set up under the Local Government Act of 1898. With their columns of grey newsprint unrelieved by illustrations or photographs, these long and often detailed reports can be intimidating to approach nowadays.
But a perusal of their contents can…