New Counselling & Psychotherapy Office Now Open in Borrisoleigh

Jane O’Connor is pleased to announce a new practice base in Borrisoleigh, bringing professional counselling and psychotherapy services to clients across the area. With nearly 30 years’ experience supporting young people and adults, Jane offers a compassionate, down-to-earth approach to issues such as anxiety, low mood, grief, trauma, relationship difficulties, and major life transitions.

Sessions are available to adults and young people aged 16+, with particular understanding and experience supporting autistic and ADHD clients.

As a parent of teenagers herself, Jane brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work — offering a space where clients feel genuinely understood.

Now booking appointments in Borrisoleigh.

📧 janeoconnorcounselling@gmail.com
📞 087 147 9738
🌐 www.janeoconnor.net

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Celebrating the Season of Creation

To celebrate the Season of Creation on Sunday 4th October, our Parish combination of Borrisoleigh/Ileigh, Templemore, Drom/Inch and Loughmore/Castleiney will hold a joint celebration at the lake in Templemore Town Park at 3pm. This year’s theme is “Living Water” There will also be a blessing of Pets Cermony. All parishioners,  choirs and musicians are invited to attend.

 

Padel100 Borrisoleigh

Parish News

Pastoral Ministry and leadership – a programmer of formation

Programme Details

Backgrounds

 

This programme is designed and developed as an initiative across the dioceses of the Cashel Province in association with the Irish Institute for Pastoral Studies under the auspices of Mary Immaculate College, Thurles.

It provides training for those who are interested in working as Pastoral Ministers at diocesan, parish pastoral combination and parish level. The programme combines rich academic content with pastoral skills. It promotes the personal and spiritual development of the participants while providing an awareness of the cultural context in which they will minister. The programme is both practical and theoretical and is grounded in pastoral spirituality.

Duration

 This programme runs for 30 months.

 

After an initial six – months period of discernment the candidate may enrol in an accredited Certificate in Pastoral Ministry awarded by Mary Immaculate College. The certificate programme will take place one weekend per month (Friday evening and all day Saturday for 8 months per annum) for two years.

 

Certification

The Certificate in Pastoral Ministry is accredited by Mary Immaculate College.

 

For anyone interested please contact Fr. Hennessy as soon as possible. The closing date is in October.

 

Church Parish Office News:

 

Gathering of Parish Cumbination

A gathering of all members of our parish teams, those engaged in the ministries and all parishioners to be held in the Templemore Arms Hotel on Thursday 24th of September at 7.30pm to share parish experience of progress and challenges to date to recommend what would be helpful your parish to move forward.

 

Celebrating the season of creation.

In joining the worldwide celebration of the season of creation on Sunday 4th of October. Our combination of parishes of Borrisoleigh/ileigh, Templemore, Drum/inch and Loughmore/Castleiney will hold a joint celebration at the lake in Templemore Town Park at 3.30pm. This year’s theme is “Living Water”. There will also be a blessing of pet ceremony. All parishioners, choirs and musicians are invited to attend.

 

 

Adults and children are invited to meet at the Stanwix Village, Thurles, E41 AR23, at 6.30pm on Saturday 26th 2026 for a Candlelight Walk hosted by Thurles Lions Club to highlight Childhood Cancer Ireland, the national parent and survivor led childhood cancer charity. Please come and support the many children and young people living with cancer.

 

 

Songs of hope and inspiration.

Songs of hope & Inspiration: come along and enjoy a musical evening with Des Willoughby, Louise Morrissey, Marc Roberts & Clodagh Lawlor.

 

Cathedral of the Assumption, Thurles.

Friday October 2nd. Doors open 7pm Concert starts at 8pm

Tickets Donation: €35 – now available from parish office 0504 22229

Bookworm 0504 22257 and Holycross Abbey Shop 0504 43124.

All proceeds to the Cathedral Reroofing Fund

 

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Borrisoleigh Singing Circle

We are hoping to start up a singing circle in Borrisoleigh you don’t have to sing, you don’t have to play just show up, have a sing song and enjoy the company. Anyone interested in joining. Text Patricia on 086 356 0152. Dates and times are TBC depending on numbers.  

 

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Climate Action Event

 

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Marian Hall

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Knitting and Crochet Group

Adult Set Dancing Classes

Adult Set Dancing classes are taking place every Monday night in Finns Pub @ 8pm. Michael Cooney is running them. All are welcome.

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Borrisoleigh Tidy Towns

 

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Hedge Cutting

With the arrival of September hedge cutting season is now upon us. Hedgerows Ireland’s mission is raising awareness about the value and appropriate management of hedgerows; promoting the craft and profession of hedge laying; and documenting our hedgerow heritage.

Here are some top tips from Hedgerows Ireland for cutting your hedge so it retains biodiversity benefits:

• Cut your hedge on a 2-3 year cycle in rotation, resulting in some areas producing blossom each year.
• Delay cutting till January or February; although the restrictions on cutting are lifted in August, hedgerows are a vital source of berries for birds in Autumn/Winter. Cutting away the growing point too early in the season removes this food source.
• Gradually reduce cutting intensity each year; cut taller and wider. 
• Cut with a circular saw rather than a flail; this produces a cleaner cut and improves re-growth.
• Retain a variety of hedge types.
  • Some escaped hedges that remain untopped but can be side-trimmed. If any overhanging branches become a safety hazard, a circular saw can be used to lop them off. 
  • Some topped hedges where the growing point is trimmed to a triangular profile (or ‘A roof’) from a wide base and occasional single-stem hawthorn trees are kept uncut. Keep these to at least 1.5m tall or as tall as your machinery can manage. Sloping sides on an ‘A roof’ cut allows the hedge base to access more light, which encourages denser growth that is better for ground-nesting birds. Contractors also say it’s faster and easier to cut an ‘A roof’ because you run the cutter at a 45-degree angle on both sides and move on, whereas for a flat-top cut you need to go over them a couple of times to get an even cut.
• Do not remove hedgerows (unless they are a safety hazard or prevent tree regeneration). Even dying hedgerows support insect communities, bat roosts, and cavity-nesting birds.

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Eucharistic Adoration

Adoration in the Church of the Sacred Heart Borrisoleigh will take place after 10:00am Mass until 11:30 am on Wednesdays and Fridays

 

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Pic of the Past

Loughnane Family, Chapel Street
Back: Paddy and Kathleen (with Pat in her arms)
Front: Eddie, Freida, Joe, Mary and Martin

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