Peter Barley, organist at Limerick’s 12th century St Mary’s Cathedral, was jazzing up his usual routine over the weekend as he led more than 120 youths in Benjamin Britten’s children’s opera, Noye’s Fludde.

A call went out yesterday to Bono and the band to return to the Limerick venue where they first performed in public as U2, and help give the troubled City of Culture programme a new impetus.

Just because your columnist Gerard Howlin (Opinion, Jan 8) is not clear about what the Government is trying to do with Limerick City of Culture does not mean that they aren’t.

Controversies over the use of public money and the long lead-in to May’s crunch local and European elections look set to dominate the new Dáil term.

Limerick City of Culture has been hit by new controversy after an artist was booted out of a studio after creating a slogan in support of the project’s former artistic designer, Karl Wallace.

A Limerick pub synonymous with actors, writers, and musicians has issued a message of apology to City of Culture chairman Pat Cox and former chief executive Patricia Ryan over the way they were treated last Friday night at a noisy public meeting on the running of the initiative.

The three board members who resigned from Limerick’s troubled City of Culture team are amongst the many people warmly welcoming the appointment of an acclaimed figure in arts education to salvage the troubled programme.

Mike Fitzpatrick has been confirmed as the interim head of Limerick City of Culture today.

The Government have been partially blamed for causing the crisis at Limerick’s City of Culture due to a delay in funds going to projects and amid calls for the arts minister to intervene.

Limerick City of Culture’s former chief executive, Patricia Ryan, said the decision to quit was hers alone and that she was not forced out following the public and media backlash.

Fianna Fáil is accusing the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht of taking a "hands-off" approach to the resignations at Limerick City of Culture.

Chairman of Limerick City of Culture Pat Cox has defied calls for him to quit after his former political adviser resigned as the organisation’s chief executive yesterday.

The decision by City of Culture chief Patricia Ryan to resign from the project has been welcomed by many in the artistic and cultural community in Limerick.

It seemed like a great idea — build on the success of last year’s national Gathering, harness a growing movement to think and act locally and encourage Ireland’s arts community to focus their efforts in their own back yard.

The CEO of Limerick’s City of Culture has resigned.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan yesterday urged an end to the row which has centred on the appointment of the new CEO of Limerick City of Culture 2014 Patricia Ryan.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has come out in support of the beleaguered CEO of Limerick City of Culture 2014, Patricia Ryan, whose appointment earlier this month has caused a storm of protest.

Limerick city’s manager has defended the fast-track appointment of Pat Cox’s former special advisor as the chief executive of Limerick City of Culture 2014.

LIMERICK’s designation as the country’s first National City of Culture in 2014 will see it host over 200 performances and exhibitions, spanning all arts forms.

The City of Culture has suffered from a poor marketing strategy, its organisers admitted today.

Protestants and Catholics have set aside their fractious past and are united for The 2013 City of Culture, 338 arts events that symbolise progress, says Alan O’Riordan

GAA president Liam O’Neill said there is no place in the organisation for the person who spat at Karl Lacey at the Tyrone-Donegal Division One game in Omagh on Sunday.

It is only a matter of time before dissident republicans kill police or civilians, it was claimed today.

It is only a matter of time before dissident republicans responsible for a string of bomb attacks claim another victim, a senior police officer in the North warned today.

TWO days after Cork won the 2005 All-Ireland title, the team brought Liam McCarthy up to the Na Piarsaigh clubhouse in Farranree on Cork's northside.

WHILE Cork is celebrating being a ‘city of culture,’ I’m shocked to discover that the city’s culture does not include care or consideration for the elderly.

I WAS standing by on the pavement at Merchants Quay shopping centre in Cork for the official opening of the City of Culture last Saturday.

As Cork officially launches its European Capital of Culture status this Saturday, Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill travelled to Lille, the hugely successful 2004 capital.

STORM winds and heavy rain caused tens of millions of euro worth of damage as businesses and households were submerged in flood waters last night.

THE Cork main drainage scheme is a truly colossal and momentous project which is now within sight of completion, together with the excellent upgrading of the paved areas of the city centre.

PAT BROSNAN'S article on Cork as City of Culture 2005 (Irish Examiner, June 18) highlighted, for me at least, two things: the necessity of much more money from the Government and business community for the occasion, and the importance of using most of that to clean and upgrade the entire city.

Proposals to roof over the 55,000 sq ft exhibition halls at Cork Showgrounds and accommodate trade shows, have banqueting space for up to 1,300 people, two dressage arenas or one showjumping arena, four tennis courts and other options have been submitted to Cork City Council.