Plans to revitalise Limerick's main thoroughfare took a step forward this week.

Plans for a new urban redevelopment quarter with the potential to host thousands of apartments close to Limerick City’s rail and bus transport hub take a significant step forward today, gearing the city towards Framework 2040 planned regional growth.

An environmental watchdog only became aware through media reports that several people had become ill in Limerick from consuming contaminated drinking water, an audit has revealed.

Cork county councillors have welcomed this news and yesterday's signing of a contract to design a planned northern relief road in Mallow.

Local authorities are insured by Irish Public Bodies, which deals with claims for issues such as slips and trips on footpaths and damage to cars caused by potholes.

Cork county councillors are lobbying counterparts in other counties to try and scupper a motorway motion coming before a Southern Regional Assembly (SRA) meeting which they believe will position Limerick as the country's second city.

A museum dedicated to the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, housed in his former school in the heart of Limerick city, is set to close next month.

The €300m Adare bypass is expected to be fast-tracked as a result of the Ryder Cup announcement.

The HSE along with Limerick City and County Council have prohibited human consumption of a water supply at Croagh Kilfinny GAA grounds in Co Limerick after it was found to be unsatisfactory with harmful bacteria.

The Health Service Executive has said it is investigating “an outbreak of gastro-enteritis” among senior camogie squads in Limerick, Wexford and Kerry, after all three counties competed at an event in Co Limerick on June 29 last.

The government should be focusing on infrastructure within our cities, and not on the areas between them, according to economist Edgar Morgenroth.

An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe have marked the first full year of Project Ireland 2040 by announcing a step forward for the M20 Cork to Limerick motorway.

Cork County Council is about to appoint consultants who will see if it is feasible for it to take control of all monitoring of existing and new community CCTV systems in towns and villages in its jurisdiction.

An Anglo-Irish peer has emerged victorious in a planning row with his local council over plans for a memorial to honour Limerick people killed during the First World War.

LIMERICK city’s flagship urban renewal project, Gardens International, is 50% tenanted on its official launch this week, anchored by Nordic Aviation Capital, with the remainder of its c 10,000 sq m under active negotiation.

Former World Champion and Olympic medal-winning race walker, Rob Heffernan, will have to keep a slower pace than usual when he serves as Grand Marshal at the Cork city St Patrick’s day parade which gets under way at 1pm tomorrow.

A man sustained around sixty stitches to his face after he was stabbed during a dispute between two families on Christmas Day, gardai said.

"I didn’t think I’d be here, to be honest, at the start of the year.”

As he takes the call in the office of his Toyota dealership in Clonmel, John Kennedy looks at the framed photograph of Clonoulty-Rossmore’s 1997 senior county-winning team. The win, over Mullinahone, doubled the two-time All-Ireland SHC winner’s county senior medal haul, following the 1989 success against Holycross-Ballycahill.

Limerick are providing an alternative venue for fans who are unable to attend the All-Ireland Hurling final.

Limerick’s local authority says it hopes to have a design team for the new M20 motorway to Cork in place by September.

It is hoped predicted Beast from the East-style low temperatures won’t have a detrimental impact on the St Patrick’s Day parades which get under way around the country tomorrow.

Louth County Council is leading the way in reusing empty buildings for social housing and other local authorities should follow their example, Fr Peter McVerry has urged.

The grounds of the former Mungret College in Limerick has the potential to house approximately 850 resident units, it has been announced.

Production crews from the UK arrived in Limerick yesterday to prepare to start filming a new TV blockbuster Nightflyers, whose creator, George RR Martin has also been responsible for Game of Thrones.

Call-centre workers who answer 999 emergency calls are threatening strike action over wages and working conditions.

A development company set up by Limerick City and County Council to accelerate €500m of inward investment assets has hit back at claims it is “failing” to provide any housing units.

The rebuilding of Limerick City centre advanced to a new stage yesterday with the commencement of the planning process for another huge segment of the urban renewal plan.

A €6 million expansion of the four-star Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick will increase the number of rooms and suites to nearly 160 and add a state of the art fitness and leisure facility and facilities for corporates.

More than 10,000 complaints of antisocial behaviour were made to local authorities in the last two years, many relating to housing, according to new figures.

A collaborative project between Limerick City and County Council, Gardaí and the FAI has overseen a drop-in Futsal League at the Southside Youth Space in Galvone, Limerick city.

Construction has begun on a 100,000sq ft office development in Limerick city centre — kickstarting the €500m Limerick 2030 economic plan.

Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe tells how the proposed Foynes-Limerick road scheme may, after years of frustration, offer relief of a bypass for the town Adare.

Lifebuoys cannot be placed on a bridge which is one of the country’s worst blackspots for suicides and drownings as it would be against the law, Limerick City and County Council has said.

A discarded snack box takeaway has proven to be a very expensive dining experience for a Clare visitor to Limerick city as it has ended up costing him €760.

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Local authorities showing favouritism to tourism and retail hotspots has left neighbourhoods without the necessary supports to fight litter, business leaders said.

Up to nine homeless people will have a home to call their own this Christmas as the Peter McVerry Trust moves into Limerick for the first time.

Youths aged 13 down to eight were engaged in a riot during which they burned down a barn owned by former Limerick hurler, Jimmy Carroll, a judge was told.

A new scheme to help six major arts projects is to be announced today by Arts Minister Heather Humphreys.

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The Limerick City board met last night to discuss the fallout from St Patricks’ decision to concede Sunday’s City division JAHC final, with St Patrick’s club official Hammy Dawson castigating officials for expecting players to fulfil two fixtures less than 24 hours apart.

An interdepartmental flooding report, rejected due to inadequate recommendations, will not delay major flood reliefs projects.

The newly elected mayor of Limerick City and County yesterday warned there can be no let-up in the fight against crime in the city.

Once it was lawless gangs that ruled Balllinacurra Weston with their guns before the law caught up with them. But the troubled Limerick estate recently resumed its Wild West ways when a boy mounted on horse back drove cattle through its streets.