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MANY Northampton supporters, just home after last Saturday’s game against Munster at Thomond Park, are preparing for a return to Limerick for the Heineken Cup quarter-final tie.

AFTER nearly six months of government inaction on a major jobs report for the mid-west, a strong “put-up or shut-up’” message was launched at the Tánaiste Mary Coughlan yesterday by the head of the Dell task force appointed by her last year after the computer giant decided to pull out of Limerick with the loss of 2,000 jobs.

The Strand Hotel in Limerick - formerly the site of Jury's Hotel - closed its doors today with the loss of 74 jobs.