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Deadline for new Limerick city school bids passes
THE deadline on expressions of interest for patronage of Limerick’s two new secondary schools passed this Wednesday. Three parties, it is understood, are formally seeking to run the new 600-student...
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Shannon Heritage to launch a 'fairy wonderland' at Bunratty
A MID-SUMMER festival at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park will be twinkling with magic next weekend as a new fairy village opens to the public. Shannon Heritage is gearing up to unwrap a new impish...
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Limerick councillor wants Irish Cement to hold public meeting
LIMERICK City West councillor Joe Leddin has called on Irish Cement management to arrange a public meeting over its plans for Mungret. As part of a €10m plan, the company is seeking to switch from...
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Traveller fined for entering Limerick halting site
A MEMBER of the Travelling community was fined €500 after he was convicted of breaching the terms of an exclusion order. Francis Casey, aged 24, who is originally from Clonlong, Southill was banned...
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Limerick CDP saved from closure – but new home still needed
THE Garryowen Community Development Project (CDP) has been saved from closure – but staff remain on the hunt for a permanent home in the estate. Staff of the CDP – which provides a variety of services...
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Collisons in the frame for top entrepreneur award
JOHN Collison will jet into Monaco this week to find out if he and his brother Patrick have won a world entrepreneur award, beating off competition from 50 other countries in the process. The Limerick...
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Limerick's Super Blues give Jack a special day
LIMERICK FC has given a brave little boy who has survived a series of health battles a day to remember. Young Jack Stokes, 10, relies on leg supports to walk and has to wear a helmet after contracting...
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Restrictions on swimming still in place in Kilkee
Members of the public are being advised that restrictions on swimming and bathing in the sea at Kilkee remain in place. Clare County Council, on the advice of the HSE, issued the warning yesterday...
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Limerick students display little nerves on first day of State exams
A SPEECH by Barack Obama on space exploration, and an extract from a book on Shakespeare’s universal appeal were just two of the subjects which Limerick students tackled this Wednesday, the first day...
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Ballyneety Golf Club gets the green light for €600k plan
AN BORD Pleanala has upheld the council’s decision to grant planning to Ballyneety Golf Club’s €600,000 community and recreation facility. It states in the report that the appellant to the planning...
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Limerick's Clarion hotel bought by Dalata for €8.5m
THE Clarion Hotel will be rebranded as a Clayton in November this year, following the Dalata Group’s agreement to purchase the freehold property for €8.5m this month. The Steamboat Quay hotel has 158...
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Limerick Civic Trust plans 50 more projects
THE newly appointed chairperson of Limerick Civic Trust wants the voluntary organisation to play a bigger role in improving Limerick’s heritage and environment for the benefit of its citizens and...
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Limerick woman acquitted of shoplifting charge
A YOUNG woman was acquitted of stealing cosmetics worth €6.50 from a department store in the city after a judge said there were “significant gaps” in the State case. Julie Cawley, aged 21, of...
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Bathing restrictions lifted at Kilkee beach
CLARE County Council has this Friday confirmed that it has lifted restrictions on bathing at Kilkee beach. The authority, acting on the advice of the HSE, lifted the restrictions after the results of...
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Split emerges in popular Limerick suicide prevention patrol
EFFORTS to resolve a dispute following a split in one of Limerick’s most respected and effective charities appear to have failed. While some progress was made and a number of proposals put forward at a...
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Westbury creche 'sit-in' protest is still ongoing
CRECHE staff at Westbury are continuing their ‘sit in’ protest, as they wait for their redundancy payments to bemade to lodged in their accounts. Seventeen staff at Tic Toc nursery in Westbury on the...
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Limerick priest cleared of indecent assault charges on minors
THE Ballyhahill priest who faced a number of charges of sexually abusing children in an English parish has been cleared by a jury following a trial in Manchester. Fr Mortimer Stanley, who is in his...
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Final total for Joanne McMahon fundraising appeal to be revealed
THE last act of a massive volulntary effort which involved thousands of people in scores of events will take place in Castlemahon this Friday when the total amount raised in the Joanne McMahon...
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Granny's battle to stay in Limerick council house
A COUNCIL tenant has been given four months to prove she is living in her home after Limerick City and County Council claimed she has vacated the property. The local authority has initiated...
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Fr Seamus celebrates silver jubilee in Croagh
TWENTY-five years after he was ordained in Croagh church, Fr Seamus Madigan was back home on Sunday to celebrate his silver jubilee in the company of family and friends. Among those attending the event...
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