Power is missing a number of star names for the 2020 campaign.

Limerick United will provide a “bottom up” reboot of football in the region according to interim Chairman of the new club and former CEO of Limerick and City Council, Conn Murray.

Limerick brought proceedings against the FAI over the association's alleged failure to invite it to apply for a licence to play in the League of Ireland First Division during the 2020 season.

Underneath the surface of the recent FAI debacle, the Irish football community are struggling.

An 83-year history of League of Ireland football in Limerick is set to end after court protection for Limerick FC was withdrawn.

Ex-Limerick FC manager Tommy Barrett said he was ‘sad and disappointed’ after it was confirmed the club’s holding company would be placed into liquidation, effectively ending any hope of League of Ireland football in Limerick in 2020.

Like most League of Ireland projects, Pat O’Sullivan’s venture with his hometown club of Limerick ended in failure.

The company behind Limerick FC, Munster Football Club Limited, entered examinership in September with debts of approximately €490,000.

The mother of tragic schoolboy Brooklyn Colbert paid a heartbreaking tribute to her beloved “brown-eyed boy” at his funeral Mass in Limerick today.

The decision was made by the Club Licensing Committee.

The High Court has appointed an interim examiner to League of Ireland side Limerick FC.

Specialist gardaí investigating alleged match-fixing and betting fraud timed their searches at a football grounds for when players were having a training session in order to confiscate their mobile phones for possible evidence.

The FAI is investigating unusual betting patterns around a second game involving Limerick FC.

So that’s nearly Wednesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Holders Dundalk have been drawn away to Derry City in the pick of the FAI Cup second round ties.

Shane Daly Butz is determined to use the World University Games as a spring board to kick start his football career.

The FAI have said they are waiting on a UEFA report on betting patterns surrounding Limerick's 3-2 win over Cobh Ramblers on Saturday.

Limerick FC have responded to their players’ threat of strike action by inviting officials from the footballers’ union to talks on Monday.

Against the backdrop of the current turmoil at the FAI, the hope has been widely expressed that reform of the Association will see more support and prominence given to the League of Ireland.

It was hardly a surprise that there were more questions than answers when John Treacy faced the Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport yesterday, given that the Sport Ireland chief executive had to admit that the body was still in the dark about the reasons for a controversial €100,000 loan from the FAI’s former chief executive John Delaney to the FAI in 2017.

Limerick FC chairman Pat O'Sullivan has come out in support of former FAI CEO John Delaney.

Another sporting event has fallen victim to the adverse weather conditions.

Limerick 0 Dundalk 1

The Bray Wanderers squad have been training as the crisis continues at the Wicklow club.

Limerick will become the second club this season to strike.

A SIPTU representative has met with Limerick players as the threat of strike action continues to hover over Market's Field.

The Bray club failed to meet an FAI-imposed 5pm deadline to pay their players the seven weeks' wages they're owed.

Dundalk 4 Limerick 0

A win for Cork City in their game in hand against Derry City at Turner’s Cross this afternoon (3pm) will see the Rebels leapfrog Dundalk to go top of the Premier Division.

Goalkeeper Brendan Clarke has confirmed that they've not been paid wages since April.

Limerick 0 Dundalk 3

This week is the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

The former Chelsea midfielder and Ireland call-up's ban ended this month.

Limerick FC 0 Waterford FC 2... Waterford FC chalked up their sixth win of the season after striking either side of the break at Markets Field last night.

Limerick FC 0 Shamrock Rovers 1

Will the real Limerick FC please stand up? The question takes on added urgency with the visit of Cork City to the Markets Field tonight, a game which, on paper at least, would have been regarded before the season kicked off as potentially the toughest fixture the home side would face in the opening phase of the 2018 season.

The Beast from the North-East is up and running at the third time of asking after Dundalk hit Limerick FC for eight to claim their first win of the season at Oriel Park last night.

Cork City boss John Caulfield believes League of Ireland suspension rules need to be changed in the wake of Graham Cummins controversial weekend sending off.

“His personality and character ticked all the boxes for us.”

Pat O’Sullivan says he’s in talks with a "number of parties".

The World Cup play-off defeat by Denmark cast Irish football into another period of introspection. Where are the players? 

Providing a home for popular if somewhat discordant sporting occasions, from soccer to cycling, rugby to hurling, Gaelic football to greyhound racing.

It was one in, one out, and one staying put at Turner’s Cross yesterday as Cork City were busy on the transfer front.

There was heartbreak for Galway United tonight as they make the drop to the First Division of the SSE Airtricity League next season despite a brave second-half comeback.