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Tom Doorley, Resident Critic on RTE’s ‘The Restaurant’ to officially open the ‘Who To Talk To’ Event on 14th May in Thurles The ‘Who To Talk To’ Event - an initiative of the North Tipperary County Development Board will be repeated on 14th May at the Thurles Chamber Enterprise Centre, LIT Campus, Thurles from 2.00pm to 8.00pm. The event is designed to inspire and encourage individuals considering self employment in all sectors and to inform new and existing business promoters about supports available for business creation and development. The ‘Who To Talk To’ event will include information desks/stands and feature seminars, funding workshops and networking opportunities.
mand is expected to be high with speakers such as Kantar World Panel, Bord Bia, Failte Ireland, the Irish Exporters Association and Teagasc delivering relevant presentations.
This year there will be a strong focus on the Food Sector with seminars on Food Tourism, Food Exports, Getting Your Business Noticed by the Media, Trends in the Retail Sector, On-Farm Food Enterprises and much more. If you have a business idea and are looking for advice, grants or contacts put Tuesday 14th May in your diary. Admission is free and advance booking for the seminars is recommended as de-
If you would like more information on the event please contact the Tipperary North County Enterprise Board, Connolly Street, Nenagh at 067 33086, e-mail: info@tnceb.ie. Other Agencies involved in the initiative include North Tipperary County Council, North Tipperary VEC, North Tipperary Leader Partnership, Teagasc, LIT Tipperary and Enterprise Ireland.
Tom Doorley will perform the officially opening at 3.00 pm and will deliver an informal workshop on the topic of ‘DIY - below the line marketing’ providing pointers on how to promote your business and brand on a shoestring budget and advise you on how to approach the Media and secure coverage for your business.
Clonoulty - Rossmore Vintage Club The Annual General Meeting of Clonoulty - Rossmore Vintage Club was held on the Thursday the 21st March 2013 in Clonoulty Hall.
GAA for the use of their field and facilities due to the bad weather we had to move from Joe and Helen Hammersley’s field that have always made available to us in the past. LiIn the Chairman’s address Liam am encouraged members to keep tryO’Dwyer thanked all the officers and ing to come up with fundraising members for their help during the ideas throughout the year. He also last year. In the present economic asked members to keep in mind that climate it was a good achievement to at this year’s vintage rally we will be in able to give a donation of have a second field of trade stands; €12,000 to South Tipperary Hospice we need to start approaching suitable Movement last year. He expressed exhibitors as the stands will have to his thanks to the public for all their be booked well in advance. The rally financial contributions. He also will be on Sunday the 18th August wished to thank Clonoulty Rossmore 2013.
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The Tipperary Equestrian Festival is being run in association with The North Tipperary Agricultural Show and takes place on Saturday 4th May at the Showgrounds, Borrisokane Rd., Nenagh. The festival starts at 10am with the show gates opening at 8am. The family entertainment area will be from 12pm to 4pm approx This new festival is an innovative approach to Showcasing Equestrianism in the area. To this end it will have Showjumping, Jump-cross, Dressage, Pony Club Activities and displays. There will be family entertainment in the form of inflatable games, bouncy castle, a climbing wall and
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The Man in the Woman’s Shoes - Drama for The Sole One of Sligo's best known actors and directors, Mikel Murfi, is bringing a special show to the stage The Man in the Woman's Shoes. Mikel describes how being a native of Sligo he was always was interested in
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There is a great day in store for antique lovers when there is an Antique Fair on Sunday 12th May in Dundrum House Hotel, Co. Tipperary from 12 pm – 6 pm. Available on the day will be a large selection of Jewellery, Gold, Porcelain & China, Paintings, Glass, Furniture – Mahogany, Inlaid, Old Pine, Tapestries, Linen, Lace, Postcards, Collectable Toys, Rare Books, Stamps, along with a Coin Dealer and very special Medals, Prints & Engravings, scientific and marine instruments. Well worth a visit!
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Organisers of Bealtaine are delighted to announce the line-up for May 2013, which will see hundreds of theatrical, cinematic, craft, photographic, choral, dance and other events taking place across Ireland, giving people a chance to celebrate creativity as we age, inviting them to “Grow Happy!” – the theme of this year’s festival. Here are details of some of the events taking place in Tipperary.
details contact Mary Sarsfield on 062 80520. Greenhill Nursing home in Carrick on Suir will host a variety of cultural and creative events including song, music, dance and baking cakes, to coincide with visits by local school children. These are free events, open to the public. For more information contact Anne Fraher or Sarah Maddock on 051 642700.
Tipperary Bealtaine Festival is a Award-winning actor and writer collaboration between the North and Mikel Murfi is bringing his show South Tipperary Arts Offices and The Man in The Woman’s Shoes to libraries. This partnership will offer Tipperary during the festival. Last a wide variety of events through the year Mikel met with older people Arts and Library Services during across Sligo to gather stories for this Bealtaine. One such event will be an ‘A touch of magic’ Open: 10.30am - 6pm 7 Days show. He saw a pattern emerge of exhibition entitled ‘The Way ‘characters’ that inhabit Sligo villag- Home’, consisting of works drawn Make a wish on the ancient Rath es - and probably every village in from The Crawford Gallery CollecIreland. The show follows Pat Fartion. This exhibition will be on disEnjoy Traditional Farm & Walks with non as he walks from his cottage to play 6th April - 11th May in the Goats, pigs, hens, duck, geese, baby chicks etc. town and back again and the marvels Source Arts Centre, Thurles, and in Bouncy Castle play area for kids that he meets along the way. It’s a the County Museum, Clonmel from Fairy Fort Farm, Summerhill, Borrisoleigh charming encounter - an ageing man 17th May – 24th August. For fur(Just off the Templemore Rd. 1 mile from Borrisoleigh) Find us on still with a boundless enthusiasm for ther information contact Emer 086-402 1659 www.fairyfortfarm.com life. Hilariously funny and tender by O’Brien on Tel: 0504 21555 turns, the story Mikel wrote asks us To get involved in Bealtaine 2013 to find the common humanity in our fellow man and woman and to show or for more information: kindness at every opportunity. It also asks us to consider that roman- Web: www.bealtaine.com – for full, up-totic love is not the preserve of the date event listings young. The show will be on at The E-mail: Source Arts Centre at Tel: 050 Bealtaine@ageandopportunity.ie 490204 Web: Telephone: +353 (1) www.thesourceartscentre.ie on 8535178 The Tipperary Supporters Club Annu- Tipperary senior hurling team and any Thursday 16th May. The Source Post: Bealtaine at Age & Opal Golf Classic will take place on May support by way of team or tee spon- Arts Centre will also be host to a performance of ‘Silent’, written and portunity, Marino Institute of Educasorship is greatly appreciated. 16 and 15 in the County Tipperary tion, Griffith Avenue, Dublin performed by Pat Kinevane, and Golf and Country Club, Dundrum. BealtaineFestival presented by Fishable, on 2nd May. Facebook: For details of teams and tee/green Teams cost €600 for a team of four Twitter: @BealtaineFest sponsorship please go to with four course meal included. This The Tipperary Excel Heritage Cenis an important event to raise funds for www.tippsupportersclub.com tre will screen Break a Leg, a film the training and preparation of the by Peter Sheridan, which is free and Age & Opportunity wishes to acknowledge the generosity and foreopen to the public, on Friday 24th May. Drama performance ‘The Sand sight of its supporters including the Park’ by Seamus O’Rourke will also Health Service Executive and The Arts Council of Ireland. be on at Excel, on 11th May. For I have a little Satnav, it specifies my gear. I've had it all my life, I'm sure no other driver has, it's better than the normal ones, so helpful a device, my Satnav is my wife. for when we leave and lock the car, it gives me full instructions, it still gives its advice. All Makes of New & Used Cars & 4X4’s Supplied especially how to drive It fills me up with counselling, "It's 60 miles an hour", it says each journey's pretty fraught, 2010 Toyota Corolla 1.4 Hollyford, Co. Tipperary 2005 Toyota Yaris 1.0 "You're doing sixty five". so why don't I exchange it, 2009 Skoda Superb 1.9 Tdi 2006 Peugeot 206 1.4 2008 VW Passat 1.9 Tdi It tells me when to stop and start, and get a quieter sort? 2005 Ford Focus 1.6 dsl 2008 Ford Mondeo 1.8 dsl and when to use the brake, Ah well, you see, 2009 VW Caddy 1.9 TDi Maxi Van 2007 Ford Locus 1.6 dsl and tells me that it's never ever, it cleans the house, 2002 VW Passat Est 1.9 Tdi 2007 Opel Zavira 1.6 7 seater safe to overtake. Makes sure I'm properly fed, 2000 Toyota Corolla 1.4 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe 2.O,dsl,7Seat It tells me when a light is red, It washes all my shirts and things, 2007 Pajero SWB 2005 Toyota Avensis 1.6 Aura 2006 Pajero SWB and when it goes to green, and keeps me warm in bed! 2004 Toyota Avensis 1.6 Strata 2007 Hyundai Tuscon 4WD S/R it seems to know instinctively, Despite all these advantages, 2007 Mazda 2 1.4 2007 Vauxhall Zafira,1.6 Energy just when to intervene. and my tendency to scoff, It lists the vehicles just in front, I do wish that once in awhile, Hollyford, Co. Tipperary and all those to the rear, I could turn the darned thing off. Tel: 062-77222 Mobile: 087 2505032 Tel: 062 77222 Mobile: 087 2505032E-Mail: E-Mail:frankryancarsales@eircom.net frankryancarsales@eircom.net and taking this into account, Finance arranged if required
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One man who will be encouraging the public to give it some welly this Mayday is Ray Beer who was rescued by the Dromineer lifeboat crew in September 2011.
With the RNLI’s Mayday campaign getting underway next Wednesday, 1 May, the public can also get involved via social media and help the charity raise awareness of its lifesaving. All you have to do is take a photo of yourself holding an RNLI Mayday yellow welly key ring and tweet the phrase ‘I am giving it some welly for the RNLI this Mayday’ remembering to include #RNLIMAYDAY and mentioning @RNLI
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Gardening Growing in raised beds The benefits of growing in raised beds includes ease of soil preparation, ease of crop maintenance, ability of modify your soil, added pest control possibilities and a neat and organised way to grow your own. If you are considering using raised beds then there are a number of factors to consider. Height of your raised beds Really this comes down to what you want to grow. Herbs, salads, brassica, strawberries and legume crops only require 6 to 12 inches of root zone to grow well. Deeper crops such as carrots, onions, garlic, leeks require a depth of 12 to 18 inches to grow well. Potatoes will require the deepest beds and will require earthing up so not really suited to growing in raised beds unless you sow your potatoes into the base of an empty raised bed and fill the bed with soil over the summer as you earth up, but that sounds like more work than it is worth. Size of your raised beds The surface area of your raised beds will depend on your own preferences. I would recommend having 4 to 6 raised beds. This will allow you the rotate your vegetable crops each year with one rotation type per raised bed. Raised beds have the advantage of being small and manageable in size. This allows you to divide your work load and allows you take on smaller tasks at one time. Ideally your beds should be around 900mm wide. The length of your beds is really up to you and determined by how much space you have and what you want to grow
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Tipperary County Athletics News East Munster Schools T & F Championships 2013 Confirmed Dates & Venues for above event are as follows:- Girls Wednesday 1st May in Templemore Track; Boys Wednesday 8th May in Templemore Track. Interesting Reading See the new Arcu Irish Athletics Ranking & Statistics website at www.arcurankings.com. Another useful website is www.Eirpharm.com where you can check the sports database to see if an athlete's medicines are permitted under WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) rules. Open Sports Dates for your Diary:Mon 6th May - St Abban’s A.C. Open Sports in Monavea, Crettyard, Co. Laois at 12.30pm. Results, photos & video footage from Leevale Juvenile Open Sports on Sunday 21st April can be found at www.leevale.org.
Wed 8th – East Munster Schools Boys T & F Championships in Templemore Track. Thurs 9th – North Munster Schoosl T & F Championships in UL. Sat 11th – County U/13 to U/19 T & F Championships in Templemore Track (Day 1). Sun 12th– County U/13 to U/19 T & F Championships in Templemore Track (Day 2). Tues 14th – High Jump Workshop for coaches & athletes aged 12+ from 7pm to 9pm in Clonmel. Sat 18th – AVIVA Munster Schools T & F Championships in Cork I.T. at 9am. Sat 18th – Discus & Hammer Workshop for coaches & athletes aged 14+ from 10.30am to 1.30pm in Templemore.
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Get on the move with Relay for Life 2013 begin the Relay by walking the first lap of the course, cheered on by family, friends, and teams from the community. Last year almost 100 survivors took part in what was a very emotional event for many people. The second special event is the Candle of During the past two years Relay for Hope ceremony which takes place as Life was one of the most significant darkness begins to fall. Last year, events taking place in Co Tipperary 4,000 Candles of Hope were dedicated with over 1,000 people taking part by people all over the county to someeach year and with many more family one they know who has been touched members and spectators attending. The event has raised awareness of can- by cancer. Some of the candles are cer issues and in particular the fact that dedicated to someone who survived, others in memory of someone who did there can be life after cancer, and it not, and some to family and carers for also raised over €250,000 so far to their support. As the evening apsupport the work of the Irish Cancer proaches, the lighted candles are set Association. Of this amount, about around the track, and remain there two thirds was spent directly in Co lighting all night as the event continTipperary providing services for cancer sufferers and their families with the ues. This is when the true meaning of Relay hits home. Overall, Relay for remainder being spent on research to Life is a very unique event, very movfight the disease. This year’s event is ing, fulfilling and fun. expected to be even bigger and better than ever. How to take part Relay for Life is a 24 hour community celebration and a unique, empowering Speaking with this paper, Jerry Cronin, and fun event, raising awareness of the Chairperson of Relay for Life Tipperary says that the success of Relay for services of the Irish Cancer AssociaLife is down to the teams. From now tion, and supporting their work – last on teams will be forming throughout year’s event raised over €112,000. the county and will be organising The central themes of Relay for Life events locally to spread the message are to celebrate cancer survivors, to remember those who have left us, and that we can reduce the risk of getting cancer and that there is hope for those to fight back. At the event, teams of who do and will also be raising funds people take turns walking around a track. And, to symbolise that fact that to fight the disease. He added that this year the committee hoped that new cancer never sleeps, each team has a teams would form in towns and parishrepresentative on the track at all time es throughout the county which did not during the 24 hours. While not walkhave a team last year. So, if you ing, participants and spectators can would like to participate in this year’s socialise, picnic, play games, dance and participate in lots of fun activities. event or to enter a team, or just to find out more about Relay for Life, you can do so at www.cancer.ie/relayforlife or Two very special events form part of you can email Relay. First is the Survivors’ Lap tipprelayteam@live.com or contact which starts off the whole event, any member of the relay committee where cancer survivors of all ages are Relay for Life Tipperary 2013 is coming out of hibernation and preparations for this year’s event which will again be in Toomevara on the weekend of 24/25 August are gathering pace.
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Nenagh Arts Centre Shankly, Daglish, Rush, Gerrard: Liverpool’s football history hilariously relived in ‘Beating Berlusconi’ On it’s way to Nenagh Arts Centre on Saturday, May 4th is the amazing story of a Liverpool football club, the city it emerged from, and one night in Istanbul when it all came good. Writer John Graham Davies' ‘Beating Berlusconi’ is a one man comedy show covering forty years, forty characters and the greatest football night ever. Paul Duckworth is the actor portraying them all in this irreverent scouser’s comic odyssey which climaxes in the true story of the Liverpool fan who actually ended up sitting next to the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the Champions’ League Final in 2005.
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The lives of others If you could boil our global problems down to seven words, they might be these: we don’t see where stuff comes from. Most of us spend grew up staring at glowing rectangles without ever seeing a coal-powered turbine. We blithely speed down motorways without ever visiting an oil derrick. Most of all, we eat mountains of meat a year without having to grab a live animal or smell blood. Like most things in our lives, meat just magically appears, brought by strangers. That last example hit home for people in Europe recently, after the Irish government tested frozen burgers from a major supplier and found that some of the alleged beef was actually horsemeat. Irish and British discovered their top groceries and restaurants had been feeding them horse for a long time -- probably unknowingly, but shoppers and investors dropped them all the same. The day after the story made headlines the top grocery chain here lost half a billion dollars. Within a few more days food companies took ten million burgers off their shelves -- although the papers don’t say what happened to the meat afterward – and the next few months saw a reporter’s dream of press conferences, apologies, arrests, pledges and retests. The scandal quickly spread across Europe, as country after country tested meat sold in its own shops and cafes and found they were not eating what they thought they were. The latest tests announced this week finally cleared Ireland, the epicentre of the scandal, but mislabelled meat is still showing up across Europe – and as far afield as South Africa. The irony, of course, is that horsemeat is not harmful, and little different than cow, as evidenced by the fact that no one can tell which one they ate. Aside from a veterinary medicine showing up in minute amounts, no one has suggested that eating it had any ill effects, nor is it illegal; my daughter and I happily bought horse-kebab from a street vendor in Dublin the other day. (At least, he said they were horse, but you never know …) Rather, the emotional punch – and inevitable punch-lines – that came from the idea of eating Black Beauty obscured more important details. If up to 30 per cent of some samples were horse, up to 80 per cent of others were pork. “Meatfilled” pastries in Iceland turned out to have no real meat at all, while South African meats had an interesting menagerie of buffalo, goat and donkey. Other samples allegedly had green mould on them. The horses might have been slaughtered up to two years ago, dead flesh just sitting in freezers. Most importantly, though, was that governments and stores had such difficulty sourcing the meat. This detail proved especially unpopular with people here, who had already seen UK outbreaks of
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hoof-and-mouth in 2007 and 2001, as well as mad cow disease in the 1980s and 90s. Restaurants and stores here proudly advertise their “Irish beef,” not only to support local farmers but to distance themselves from such disasters. Now, it turns out, we just don’t know where some of it came from; it just magically appeared. We accept buying meat from strangers for the same reasons we buy everything else in our lives from strangers these days; because we trust that someone, somewhere, knows what they are doing. On the rare occasions we associate the food on our plates with actual animals, we tend to assume they must have come from some kind of farm, like the overall-and-pitchfork images of preschool toys. We don’t picture supply chains so long and cobwebby that we can’t find out what kind of animal it used to be, or in what country, or how it lived. Consider how strange this would seem to most of our ancestors, for thousands of generations back. For most of them meat was life; while most foods could be grown or picked, meat was the Leibig’s Minimum that forced people to be predators. Their craving for meat transformed the landscape, wiping out the planet’s large animals as thoroughly as an asteroid impact did the dinosaurs, and we now know Neanderthals or Clovis people by their meat-getting technologies. It was the main reason we domesticated animals, and that spurred empires and conquests – the Sanskrit word for “war,” I’m told, means “a desire for cows,” and the ancient Irish epic the Tain Bo Cuailnge involves a nationwide war over a single breeding bull. The very word “meat” meant “food” in Old English, so inextricable were the two. Such concentrated nutrition comes with risks. Until recently we lived much closer to animals than we might like to imagine --- often in the same house – and pigs ran openly through streets in Europe and the USA even into the 20th century. Many of our human diseases come from domesticated animals -- influenza from ducks, for example – and for thousands of years our bodies have been at war with the germs they send us. When Europeans first encountered the Americas and Australia, the millennia of accumulated pathogens in their bodies – to which they had built up immunity -wiped out 95 per cent of the native population, leaving the wilderness the pioneers found. Our desire for meat, in short, is the reason Americans and Australians will read this in English, rather than Parisians reading it in Aztec. This dealing of life and death might be the reason so many of our religions bind us in meat taboos -- Jews and Muslims ban pig meat, Hindus cow meat, and Catholics all meat on Fridays and through Lent. Many of our rituals do the same, invoking the body and blood of the Word made flesh.
Because meat was so precious, most human societies were less finicky than we are today about what kind of animals they ate. People throughout world history have eaten insects, snails and other invertebrates, as well as birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals of all kinds; something as mountainous as a cow or stag might be stretched into months of food. Even today, most subcultures eat both less meat than we do and more variety, as anyone knows who visits Chinese or Caribbean stores. I recently saw a letter from a bishop in largely Catholic Louisiana, USA, assuring his congregations that alligator could be eaten during Lent. When we keep animals for food, they don't always stay put; the snails so common on these islands were snacks brought by Romans, as rabbits were a thousand years later by Normans. Polynesians carried rats on voyages for meat, and their escape helped scour island after island of their native bird species. Most Americans I know eat two birds, chicken and turkey, and have never held one alive – but most of our ancestors ate many more, both for meat and to protect crops. Elderly Irish, who grew up in agrarian days when money and meat were rare, caught songbirds in wicker traps called “cradle-birds,” and one elderly couple told me that blackbirds were sold as food in wartime London --all to eagerly pluck and stew.
die to get milk or cheese, chicks to get eggs, and the animals will die eventually anyway, more slowly and painfully than they would have by predators or considerate butchers. A vegan diet requires using vast areas of land that were once forests to grow high-protein crops like soybeans, and making our society’s soy milk and designer soy-products requires our society to gobble fossil fuels in a way that will not continue forever. Where we live, the landscape is still divided up into small family farms, and most people are related to a farmer – I’m friends with several around our land, and we see their cows every day. Most villages also have a butcher, and ours now features a sign about how he buys only from the local farmers. He actually gives us more meat than we ask for, knowing that we like the bones and cast-off meats for soups. Everyone here used to get their meat from people like him, if they didn’t slaughter it themselves; it was only recently that the globalised supermarkets, with their shelves of cheap frozen meat and opportunities for fraud, began to proliferate. In my native USA, though, one would have to rebuild the entire infrastructure – local farmers to local shops within walking distance to homes – from scratch.
Fishing, likewise, supported many communities, but fewer all the time these days. To take one example from Mark Kurlansky’s book Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, early explorers to places like Newfoundland simply dropped baskets into the sea and came up with them full of fish, so plentiful were the cod. By 1960 fishermen in the North Atlantic were catching 1.6 million tonnes a year, and thirty years later that number had dropped by almost 99 per cent. We are fishing the sea clean.
But we need to. If we want to know where our stuff comes from, and yet keep eating meat, then we need groups of neighbourhood boys raising pigs in the vacant lot, as wartime Londoners had, with neighbours buying shares of the bodies. We need to start sourcing food further down the food chain, to species that are still plentiful and that we will not risk exterminating. We need to expand the number of species we will eat a hundredfold, while reducing our meat dishes to a fraction of their current quantity. We need to relearn how to make eel traps and cradlebirds, to grow snails in the closet and chickens in the shed.
In my native USA, where people eat more meat per capita per year than anywhere else in the world, we have not yet overhunted the land, but that’s mainly because we get most of our protein from the hog or beef “factories” described in Eric Schlosser’s excellent book Fast Food Nation. I have talked to many Midwestern farmers whose lives have been shaped by these nearby places they can never see but always smell. Towns in my native Missouri, locals tell me, are now filled with two kinds of people: the elderly and the Hispanics that work the meat factories, and neither are expected to be around long.
And we need to know people like my farmer friend, who I meet in the morning bleary-eyed from staying up all night with a calf. He gives his animals a better life than any they would have seen in the wild, infinitely better than on a factory farm, before making sure their life ends quickly and painlessly. It’s not easy for him, and his small scale makes the butcher more expensive, but that’s as it should be. Rather than wolfing mystery meat or snubbing it altogether, we could respect it again. Meat needs to become hard work to get and precious to eat, so that we again put some sacral value in the lives we take.
Of course, such unpleasantness drives some to a vegetarian diet, and they are right to think that most Westerners would be healthier if they ate less meat. In abandoning all meat, however, vegetarians show the same maximalist thinking, and the same disconnection from the source of their food. Calves usually
Reproduced courtesy of Brian Kaller. Original copy can be viewed on his blog http://restoringmayberry.blogspot.ie/201 3/04/the-lives-of-others.html
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Counselling Anxiety
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Physical, behavioural and psychological symptoms If you are suffering from any of these physical symptoms, it is important to have your health checked by your doctor, who can examine you for any medical condition that may be causing your symptoms. For example, cardiac arrhythmias (irregular heart beat) can produce similar physical symptoms as anxiety does, such as clammy skin. It is a two way process. Anxiety can provoke physical illness, and medical conditions can provoke anxiety. It is, therefore, important to go to your doctor, to deal with physical illness and this will ease the anxiety and worry arising from the illness. Fatigue, one of the symptoms of anxiety, may stem from many other medical complaints, and is frustratingly difficult to trace its causes. I am coming more to the conclusion that stress and anxiety underlie many of our physical illnesses. Similarly, nausea, headaches, trembling, and so on may be rooted in medical conditions, although they are also symptoms of anxiety. The more I read Edmund Bourne’s anxiety workbook the more I am inclined to recommend that you get it. He outlines the various medical conditions that can cause or mimic panic attacks or anxiety. These are listed on pages 43–45. Some will be looked at in more detail in the articles on panic attacks. I often find that simply talking to my doctor and getting an explanation for a physical complaint is reassuring and alleviates any anxiety. In fact, I feel that the fee paid to a doctor is as much for reassurance as for diagnosis. The website www.wrongdiagnosis.com/a/anxiety/bo ok-diseases-14c.htm provides a long list of physical complaints that aggravate anxiety. Some of these complaints are very technical, however, but they are revealing. However, they include some that are recognisable to the ‘layman’, such as asthma. Ongoing asthma attacks undoubtedly are a source of strong anxiety to some people. Many pulmonary (relating to the lungs) complaints make us anxious, partly because we feel out of control if our breathing is disturbed. Another complaint mentioned is hyperthyroidism, or an overactive thyroid gland. The classic symptoms here are heat intolerance, weight loss, nervousness, tremors, palpitations, sweating and so on. Again, heart problems are associated with anxiety. We know that the heart is a vital organ, and any serious problems give rise to anxiety. On the other hand, severe anxiety is not good for the heart. Apart from mental and physical symptoms of anxiety, there are also unhealthy behavioural aspects. These include avoidance, rumination, addictive behaviours, cutting off feelings. Taking caffeine and alcohol
By Jim O’Shea may increase anxiety in some people. Ironically, medicine that is use to calm anxiety and panic attacks can also cause anxiety if the sufferer becomes dependent on them. This is particularly true of benzodiazepines such as Valium and Zanax. Anxiety can increase during the withdrawal period from these drugs, but gradually eases as the dose decreases to full withdrawal. Because of the possibility of withdrawal symptoms and dependence, doctors are reluctant to use benzodiazepines, and will only use them as a last resort if other medications fail to work. If medical issues are ruled out, a counsellor may be able to help you find the psychological roots of your symptoms. If the cause of our anxiety is rooted in childhood, that can be explored; if it is abuse then that, too, can be looked at. If the source of our anxiety is in how we think (negative thoughts) that is fertile ground for counselling, and so on. Some psychologists argue that this type of exploration can increase anxiety. They are correct in this, so it is important for the counsellor to be careful and to ensure the safety of the anxious client. To achieve this, the counsellor must use different techniques, and humanistic integrative counselling is very effective. Humanistic counselling is effective in establishing contact and empathy. It emphasises the emotional aspect, and it has a very good chance of preventing a recurrence of the anxiety, because it gets at the roots, and enables the sufferer to kill it off. Cognitive based counselling helps to correct negative thoughts because it focuses on challenging how sufferers are thinking. It also educates people about the symptoms of anxiety, and helps to eradicate the irrational fear that underlies the anxiety. It can also put forward techniques to deal with the anxious feelings. These techniques will be further explored in later articles. Jim O’Shea works as a counsellor from Furze, Thurles. Ph.087-8211009 www.jimoshea.net. Jim O’Shea’s book ‘When a child dies. Footsteps of a Grieving Family’ is published by Veritas. The royalties from this book will go the the Children’s Hospital in Crumlin Jim O’Shea’s new book called Abuse, about domestic violence, workplace and school bullying is now available on Amazon, published by Cork University Press and in Bookshops.
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