Monthly Archives: September 2026
BRACKAVILLE MAN BLOWS LEAVES TO COALISLAND. TOLD TO BLOW THEM BACK.
A Brackaville man, who received a leaf blower for his 50th birthday last week, has been told to return home after admitting he didn’t know where to stop blowing the leaves after starting in his garden and reaching Coalisland.
Paul Gillan, who managed to blow the leaves carefully from the top of Brackaville Hill to Coalisland Main Street, said the instructions never said when or where to stop blowing the leaves.
“To be honest, I did a great job and probably only lost about 30 leaves in the 1 mile journey. And there were thousands of them. But as I approached Coalisland it dawned on me about where to stop. I was thinking that maybe I’d to blow them the whole way to the Washingbay and into the Lough.”
Gillan was subsequently chased from Coalisland, who are vying for the title of Tidy Town with Stewartstown, and had to blow the leaves right back up Brackaville Hill, where his brother was waiting for him with a bin liner.
Semolina To Be Reintroduced Into Tyrone Schools. ‘That’ll Learn Them’ says Health Minister
Following complaints that chips are being recycled in schools over the course of a fortnight, the local health minister has ordered canteens across the county to serve the children semolina with a prune in the middle of it, for the rest of September, to make them thankful for having chips in the first place.
The initial complaint came from a school near Killyclogher, where a parent said children at her son’s school received the same uneaten, deformed three-pronged chip for a fortnight.
The county’s health minister Jennifer Pudding said it was time young people realised they’re lucky to have a deli counter and choice of desserts compared to her time.
“Semolina and prunes it is for three weeks. That’ll learn them.”
Meanwhile, the new GCSE in Slabberin was launched last week with thousands of Tyronians expected to continue with it through to A Level.
