Housing minister Jan O’Sullivan yesterday insisted the driving forward of the Limerick Regeneration programme was a priority for her and the Government.

The Moyross monks are taking on the cream of Munster sport in a charity event, writes David Young

In the first of a two-part series on Limerick Regeneration, David Young talks to locals who are disillusioned by broken promises and broken homes

IS there no end to the talents of the Moyross Monks?

THE Government is expected to give the go-ahead to a €12 million housing project in Moyross before Christmas, the head of the regeneration agency said.

LOOK, over there in the distance.

KEITH EARLS is up and running, and for a player with his pace that’s a frightening prospect for opposition defences.

Up to 50 jobs in Limerick's Moyross appear to have been saved with the news that the estate's only supermarket will re-open.

ONE of the country’s youngest rap stars is planning to release a CD after winning €2,000 to purchase his own recording equipment.

IT’S been a summer of Pink and Bob Dylan at Thomond Park. But now, top rappers are on their way to Moyross for a big concert on August 8.

WILLIE O’DEA, worshipped by voters in Limerick, is to join the Moyross monks.

THE Moyross monks are planning to spread their message to the wider Limerick public by going to a city centre pub.

A FÁS-funded Limerick jobs centre has been ordered to stop promoting careers in the British army, a criminal offence under the Defence Act of 1954.

TOMMY DALY is firmly convinced the regeneration plan is “going nowhere” as far as Moyross is concerned.

A MOYROSS woman yesterday received the medal for the best all-round student at a garda graduation in Templemore College.

JOURNALISM students at the University of Limerick have given a new “voice” to Moyross.

THREE master plans for the regeneration of Limerick’s run-down council estates will be unveiled next Monday.

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea yesterday came riding to assistance of the Moyross light cavalry whose members have been shot at and kidnapped in the Limerick feud.

WHAT may turn out to be the country’s most spectacular Christmas tree was switched on in Limerick’s O’Connell Street last night.

THE huge regeneration plan for Moyross kicks into action tonight.

THEY have worked in some of the poorest regions of the planet, and now a group of Franciscan friars will try and bring back a sense of hope and stability to one of Limerick’s most notorious crime black spots.

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea yesterday ruled out sending in the army to tackle Limerick’s feuding gangs.

AN ORDER of American monks who work in the ghettos of US cities plan to build a monastery in a troubled Limerick estate.

A LIMERICK pizza deliveryman thought he was in big trouble early yesterday for getting a Moyross order wrong.

A NEW high-spec IT facility in the troubled area of Moyross in north Limerick city is to support children doing their homework and provide young people with job seeking skills.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern used his key note address to the Fianna Fáil Árd Fheis to launch a presidential-style general election campaign dominated by his personality and reputation for economic competence.

THE new taskforce appointed to combat social exclusion and crime in Limerick’s Moyross faces a tough battle after years of gangland shootings and drug-related feuds.

THE setting up of a Government task force to tackle the problem of crime, disorder and social exclusion in the Moyross area on the northern fringe of Limerick city should be warmly welcomed.

A former city manager has been appointed to tackle social exclusion and crime in the troubled Moyross area of Limerick, it was confirmed today.

THE Government is to appoint a crime czar for the troubled Limerick housing estate of Moyross, with huge powers to tackle crime and social problems.

THE two children badly burned in an arson attack are still being tube-fed, and one suffers nightmares that his bed is on fire.

THE Limerick teenager shot dead late on Wednesday night was possibly a “soft target” revenge killing for an attack, earlier that day, on members of a city feud gang.

SETANTA SPORTS will show both of tomorrow’s World Cup qualifiers in Ireland’s Group 4 live.

AS armed patrols keep the lid on the Limerick feud, the tried and trusted tactic of gardaí pounding the beat is turning the tables on the city’s more traditional trouble maker.

THE Moyross area of Limerick has the sort of reputation places like Beruit would like to shed.