Chainsaw wood sculptor Will Fogarty with the two owls he created from a tree in Nenagh. Photograph: Bridget Delaney

In this week's Nenagh Guardian news...

Call to support anti-pipe campaign – Large attendance at public meeting in Nenagh hears calls for widespread support of groups opposed to Irish Water's plan to pump Shannon water to Dublin and the East Midlands;

 

Photos galore of local people in Dublin for last weekend's visit from Pope Francis, including the Carrig schoolgirl who met the Pontiff ;

 

Report finds 115 fewer pubs in Tipperary now compared to 2005;

 

Six arrested after vehicles hit with rocks on M7 near Birdhill;

 

Drugs seizures in Nenagh and Roscrea;

 

Hopes to ease hospital overcrowding with expansion plan for St John's in Limerick;

 

Local link bus service mooted for Roscrea;

 

Fine Gael minister to visit Nenagh amid local anger over absence of general election candidate in north Tipperary;

 

Food bank opens in Nenagh;

 

Death of eminent scientist Rick Boelens;

 

Carroll family reunion in Terryglass;

 

Nenagh girl Maya Gillick presents award to nurse at Our Lady's Children's Hospital;

 

Intriguing owl sculptures created at Nenagh school;

 

Refurbishment plan for Roscrea's Market Square...

 

There's also an Aldi Community Games feature in this week's Nenagh Guardian, in shops now