Roscrea

During her time at Aillwee, Shauna worked in a variety of roles but remembers the first job interview she did there.

When I was about 17, I said to my mom that I really wanted a job somewhere that wasn't Roscrea, which is where I'm from.

And my mom said if I got, went and did the interview, got the job, she would drop me down wherever it was.

So I went on the internet, and somehow I managed to find a job advert for a tour guide at the Aillwee Cave, and I applied for it.

Couple of days later, I got a reply, and it said, "Oh, come down.

We'll do an interview," whatever.

So my mother came all the way from Roscrea.

In the days long before we had a motorway, she dropped me all the way down here, and to this day, I actually still remember exactly what I wore that particular day, and the weather was so beautiful.

We were lucky to get outside the door.

We'd like to thank the residents and staff of the Bramley Lodge Nursing Home Care, the Deer Park Nursing Home Latin, Padre Pio Nursing Home Holy Cross, Paterson's of Roscrae and St. Teresa's Thurles.

When I went to school, Thurles CBS was a hockey school, and still is of course, and St Kieran's was a nursery for hurlers and stuff as well.

And in rugby then obviously, you know, you have Munsters and you have Rockwell and all of this.

You know, soccer needs to get to that place where you, where you have kind of centralized schools where people go there and they're getting their training.

So whether it's at before school at 6:00, 7:00 in the morning, which a lot of rugby schools do, I know that's really common.

I know it since Mark Porter went in, uh, Sisterson in Ro- in Roscrea there for the Senior Cup rugby and stuff like that.

I know they were training before school as well, and had huge success, um, last year in the Munster Senior Cup as well with those new initiatives and stuff like that as well.

And I think that's where soccer wants to go long term, is to have specialized soccer schools where people are going there and you're training before school.

The local community had an alternative building that could've been used, but the government actually closed down one of the centers of commerce and, and jobs and income in the town when they made that decision.

The same in Roscrea.

They simply went down and closed a, um, a hotel in Roscrea without talking to any of the people in that location at all.

So at the heart of, of the negative relationships with communities, for sure, some of it has been by bad actors.

There's no doubt that some of that has played a role, but also the fact that the government has not engaged and not worked with, uh, local communities.

So, Brian Cowen grows up in, in that background of, of being from a, a hardworking and very political family.

He goes to Cistercian College in Roscrea, a, a elite fee-paying school, and there he thrives, because he's a very intelligent guy.

He's regarded as, as one of the brightest kids ever to go through that school.

And he also thrives on, on the, the sporting field as well.

Well, for the first time, a school is exhibiting at the National Plowing Championships.

The Cistercian College in Roscrea has a stand here, and it's ahead of its open day and introductory weekend, which starts Friday the twenty-fifth of September.

So a new first for the plowing.

But what exactly brings so many people to the site every year? Is it the food, the music, the farm machinery, the cars? Is it just an excuse for a day out? Because that's fine too, you know.

2-19 to 1-18 there.

And, and Mullinahone now has a chance against, uh, Roscrea to, with the l- they're playing them probably in two weeks' time, and that will, that'll decide the, their fate for, for the coming season.

John, I gotta go.

So many games to cover.

John O'Shea joining us there.

Upperchurch/Dunboyne two, 23 points.

Roscrea 17.

That means the relegation final will be Roscrea against Mullinahone in Senior.

To the Nenagh Guardian and, uh, their lead story, Nenagh has been identified by Uisce Éireann as a priority location for investment aimed at unlocking capacity for new housing.

The Midlands Tribune and, uh, their lead story, it was a historic day at Mount, uh, St. Joseph's campus near Roscrea on Friday last when nine girls became the very first, uh, to be educated at Cistercian College in one hundred and twenty years, joining the two hundred and fifty boys there.

To the national papers then, the Irish Times, and the lead story on The Times today, teenagers in Ireland are getting significantly lower scores in reading and maths, uh, than they were a decade ago, and that's according to international research.

And also reading on the, uh, Irish Times today that European police forces believe senior members of the Kinahan cartel are behind a murder-for-hire plot in Cyprus involving suspects from Ireland, Sweden, and from Norway.