Thurles Lions Trust Housing Association CLG

05/11/2023

Lovely article on Thurles Lions Trust Housing Association CLG in yesterdays The Irish Times by journalist Fiona Reddan

Remarkable transformation of historic Stanwix Village: ‘The only complaint is the units are too warm’

Redevelopment of Stanwix Village in Thurles, Co Tipperary, known locally – and lovingly – as the ‘Widows’ Homes’, is one that has caught the imagination

22/05/2023

Official opening of the Stanwix Village Kickham Street Thurles by An Taoiseach Leo Varadka TD.

04/02/2023

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Thurles Lions Trust Housing Association CLG are working with the Tipperary County Council to support their initiative to determine the demand for new private housing that exists in Thurles.

This hopefully will be a first step in facilitating the delivery of a development of new houses. Given the pressures on the housing market, because of construction cost inflation, the only way new private houses are going to be provided is through an initiative that is supported by the Council.

Please use the link to complete the survey that will highlight the demand that exists for private housing in Thurles
https://consultations.tipperarycoco.ie/form/affordable-housing-questionnaire

County Council, in accordance with “Housing for All”, is actively working on developing affordable housing over the coming years. The purpose of an affordable housing scheme is to provide houses at a reduced price for eligible applicants. Notwithstanding the eligibility criteria that are contained in the Regulations for any scheme, the Council wishes to establish the level of interest in County Tipperary for affordable dwellings. This is a survey of the level of interest in affordable housing purchase and cost rental and is for the purpose of gathering information on:

income levels,
family size,
housing type and
location preference.
The information will be used to inform the Council on the level of demand and locations for affordable houses and the house prices that people can afford. This will aid us in designing a scheme with the right type of homes, at the locations and price points that suit your needs insofar as possible. Availability of any affordable housing schemes progressed by the Council in the future will be advertised separately, and there will be a formal application process when these schemes are ready for occupation.

Please complete the survey here.

Data is collected for survey purposes only. All information provided will be retained in full adherence to our Data Protection Policy and in compliance with GDPR requirements.

30/01/2023

Wonderful to see the hoarding down around Stanwix Village Thurles Lions Trust Housing Association CLG to reveal all the progress by contractors Leetherm

23/06/2022

Thurles Lions Club President Chris Delahunt and club members had a fabulous visit to Fethard Town Park and met with Chairperson Maurice Moloney Coolmore Stud, Caroline Madden and caretaker Tommy.

Fethard Town Park is a non-profit local community group set up to develop and manage Fethard Town Park.

Thurles Lions Housing Trust as a fellow non profit community group wanted to see the amazing progress with this exciting development in Tipperary.

Nothing would prepare you for the scale of this amazing project 26acres of park containing 2 full size playing pitches; 1 3G all-weather pitch and 1 grass pitch The Full Size GAA/Rugby Floodlit 4G Pitch, & Walkways and open to all users.

The wonderful club house and all it’s facilities is in construction 🦺

We were thrilled to see all the school children cycling and walking through. Families in for their daily walks. Older people sitting on their sponsored benches and enjoying the wild flowers on a lovely day.

If you haven’t visited, this is well worth seeing.

Look forward to seeing their Community Pavilion, Dressing Rooms, Meeting Room, Gym & Cafe when it’s completed.

Thank you Maurice, Caroline & Tommy for a wonderful afternoon

Wishing Fethard community every good wishes with this inspiring community project

13/05/2022

•Nora Costello (RIP) Parkstown, Horse and Jockey

•resident at no.3 Stanwix Homes 1994-2012

•Nora loved community spirit and friendship in the homes

••Mercy Sisters provided care for the residents until 2016

•close bond between residents and sisters

•Thurles Lions Club helped by collecting the ladies for mass and brought some residents on holidays

•Lions Housing Association developing the Stanwix site

• Stanwix Village to be completed September 2022

•19 mixed accommodation units for vulnerable adults

•Blue Door Mental Health Project on site

•Buy a Brick fundraiser imitative

•€100 per inscribed brick to be integrated into a walkway

•Log on to www.tlh.ie to donate

20/04/2022

My name is Sr Cáit Gannon, a Mercy Sister living here in Monastery Close on the Templemore Road.

I have been asked to fill in a little of the story of the Mercy Sisters involvement in Thurles town.
Mercy Sisters have been involved here in Thurles for over 150 years.

We have many ongoing activities such as Church and Parish participation, Traveller Welfare, Knights of Malta and Sr Mary Barry’s “Parish Care” and Daffodil Day.

The Mercy Sisters were initially invited to live in The Thurles Union Workhouse in 1877 by Archbishop Croke. This was later called the County Home and now is the Hospital of the Assumption. We also served at a school in Tonagha in the 1880s, and in St Patrick’s College since 1950. Archbishop Thomas Morris requested that the sisters become involved in the Social Services in the town in 1974.

These sisters included Sr Ursula Allen, Sr Cáit Gannon, Sr Cáit O’Dwyer and Sr Mary Moloney.
Archbishop Dermot Clifford asked our congregation to live in The Stanwix Home to care for the seventeen ladies there, who were without a matron. Sr Mary Clement O’Brien became the new matron in 1991. Helping her were Sr Pius Murphy and myself Sr Cáit. Sr Rena Ryan the Public Health nurse visited the ladies regularly.

We had many happy memories with the ladies; the Christmas party being the main event. No effort was spared with the best china and lots of goodies. One lady’s singing of the McCormack Brothers’ ballad always brought a tear. On a memorable occasion, Eamonn O’Dwyer recorded Down Your Way. The Freeman Brothers played lively music that night.

Regretfully after 25 years, the Mercy Sisters left the Widows Home in 2016, due to the ill health of Sr Clement.
The Thurles Lions Trust Housing are now renovating the entire Stanwix Village. The local contribution is being raised by means of a fundraiser to build a walkway through the grounds.

An inscribed brick can be sponsored by visiting the Thurles Lions Housing

🧱💶🧱 PLEASE Support by purchasing a brick TODAY
Simply click link
https://tlh.ie/product/buy-a-brick/

or by contacting any Thurles Lions Club member. We hope that you can help.
Many many thanks.
Sr Cáit Gannon

04/04/2022

•Tom Mc Grath housing manager Thurles Lions Trust Housing Association
🧱💶🧱 PLEASE Support by purchasing a brick TODAY
Simply click link
https://tlh.ie/product/buy-a-brick/

•🏘 Thurles Lions Trust provides homes in for various categories of people
•Monastery Close provides 34 homes
•23 two-bed bungalows
•11 one-bed apartments in main building
•14 units in Matthew Bourke House
•Houses/apartments around Thurles
• Next phase is Stanwix Village Project encompassing 19 homes for vulnerable adults
•Fundraising is underway
•Local contribution required
•🧱Buy a brick for €100 engraved with your special meaning

⛲️🏡Bricks will be integrated into the garden landscape at Stanwix Village

🧱💶🧱 PLEASE Support by purchasing a brick TODAY
Simply click link
https://tlh.ie/product/buy-a-brick/

and can be purchased one by any of the following means
from any member of Thurles Lions Club
by calling into Hickey’s Pharmacy on Liberty Square
by calling into The Thurles Pharmacy, in Thurles Shopping Centre

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