Templemore
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Templemore (An Teampall Mór, meaning The Big Church, in Irish) is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland. The town is the site of the Garda Síochána College, since February 1964, which is the centre for training Ireland's police force. The town is on the Dublin — Cork Railway Line operated by Iarnród Éireann.
The town is situated in the administrative county of North Tipperary and is on the N62 road National route which forms part of the main street in the town. The market square in the centre of the town is reputed locally to be the widest in either Ireland or Britain. The local Gaelic Athletic Association club J.K. Brackens GAA is named after Joseph Kevin Bracken, one of the founders of the GAA, who came from the town. His son, Brendan Bracken, who was a member of Winston Churchill's government during World War II, was born in Templemore.
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