THE head of Limerick’s regeneration programme yesterday denied there would be problems in getting funding from various government departments as the vast work in Moyross, Southill, St Mary’s Park and Ballinacurra Weston progresses.

The Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU) is disappointed that the lowest rate of Social Welfare has increased by €12 in the 2008 Budget.

WELFARE officials sanctioned more than €45 million in payments last year to claimants who didn’t qualify for them.

Kempton Park are looking into naming a race in memorial to their popular president and former chairman Nigel Clark, who died on Saturday.