THE newly-elected Fine Gael mayor of Limerick yesterday warned the city would effectively be abolished by a Government decision to unite the city and county councils as one administrative body from 2014.

LIMERICK’S 815th mayor has vowed to make the promotion of the city centre a key priority during his term in office.

FEAR has enveloped communities in Limerick after a family, that allegedly terrorised its neighbours, will be relocated in the city – with the help of HSE rent support.

A WOMAN councillor was forced yesterday to vacate a seat on a powerful committee and be replaced by a male colleague – due to gender legislation.

MEMBERS of Limerick City Council who yesterday backed the €1.7 million regeneration programme for run-down parts of the city have called on the Government to publicly declare the necessary funding will be forthcoming.

AN OFFER to beat most in the rented shop market still cannot attract takers in Limerick city centre.

LIMERICK City Council last night dropped a motion calling for the boycott of Aer Lingus.

THE Irish building boom is bypassing Limerick city, latest figures show.

THE Government’s plan to open a graduate entry medical school was cast in confusion last night amid claims that the University of Limerick had been rejected without a hearing.

THE next lord mayor of Cork, who takes up office next week, will be paid more than the Polish prime minister.

There has been a dramatic turnaround in the fortunes of Limerick City Council’s finances, which are back in the black for the first time in 30 years.

ANOTHER red-shirted team take to the streets of Limerick tomorrow to celebrate all that is good in the Treaty City.

THE Mayor of Limerick is taking a lead from Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor turned Californian governor, on how to get his message across.

THE president of the University of Limerick Professor Roger Downer has decided to step down from his post on health grounds. He made the announcement at a meeting of the UL governing authority yesterday.

IF questions about the liquidation of a Limerick waste disposal company are not addressed satisfactorily by its directors, gardaí should begin a criminal investigation, Limerick Mayor Cllr Diarmuid Scully declared yesterday.

HOSTILITIES between Junior Minister Tim O’Malley and Limerick Mayor Diarmuid Scully intensified yesterday over the vexed boundary extension issue.

JUNIOR Minister Tim O’Malley yesterday rejected a call by the Mayor of Limerick to join the four other Limerick East TDs in backing a proposal to have an independent committee decide on the city’s boundary extension demand.

AN international conman and sex attacker was feted by dignitaries in Limerick, including the mayor of the city, after he donated a dud £100,000 cheque to a local charity group.

LIMERICK is going all limerick.

LIMERICK Mayor Cllr Diarmuid Scully has dismissed claims that plans to erect a life-size statue of Richard Harris in the city have run into trouble Limerick City Council member Pat Kennedy said there were problems with the proposal.

ANOTHER red-shirted team are taking to the streets of Limerick to celebrate all that is good in the Treaty City.

THE Mayor of Limerick last night issued a ‘shape up or ship out’ warning to the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) after Limerick and the mid-west drew a blank with new industrial jobs during 2005.

BUSINESS rates in Limerick city are destined to drop for the first time when the City Council approves the annual estimate next Thursday.

SIR Terry Wogan’s knighthood conferred on him by the queen in London yesterday has been warmly welcome in his native Limerick.

MILLIONS of radio listeners woke up with Sir Terry Wogan this morning after the legendary broadcaster was knighted by the queen at Buckingham Palace.

Former Fine Gael leader Michael Noonan and Cllr Kieran O’Donnell will contest the next general election for Fine Gael in the Limerick East constituency.

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea was yesterday accused of failing to fight the Mid-West corner at the cabinet table when the Transport 21 plan was being put together.

LIMERICK must do for Limerick what Cork does for Cork.

AS fears for the future of Thomond Park intensified last night, the president of the Munster branch of the IRFU denied a decision to pull out has been taken.

THE Mayor of Limerick, Cllr Diarmuid Scully confirmed last night he intends to seek a Fine Gael nomination to fight the next general election in Limerick East.

A ROMANIAN woman last night appealed to the Minister for Justice to allow her Irish-born daughter to be brought back from Romania so she can see her newborn brother for the first time.

THIRD-level scholarships worth up to €160,000 and financed by JP McManus were last night presented to eight students who completed their Leaving Certificate exams at CBS Sexton Street in Limerick.

LIMERICK City Council yesterday called for an increase in on-the-spot parking fines which are set nationally at €19.

TEENAGERS in Limerick are to be given a say in how their city is run. A new forum is being launched which will provide a platform for budding politicians to set out their views on issues affecting the city.

Traffic-management in Limerick has gone high-tech with the introduction of a new system of on-the-spot fines and a pilot scheme whereby motorists can pay for parking electronically without getting out of their vehicles.

MAYOR of Limerick Diarmuid Scully has tried to downplay a crank slogan written in a book of condolence for those who died in the London bombings.

THE newly-elected mayor of Limerick, Diarmuid Scully, who has been expelled from the conservative Fine Gael party, is now in a position to raise issues of concern to the less well off, such as the jailing of people who cannot pay refuse charges.

Fine Gael moved to remove the party whip from the Lord Mayor of Limerick and a Dublin councillor tonight amid controversy over elections to the mayoralty.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

I WAS taken aback at the uproar in Fine Gael over the election of Diarmuid Scully as mayor of Limerick. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

A WEEK of upheavals in Limerick politics continued yesterday, when a paper bag had to be produced to select a new Cathaoirleach (chairperson) of Limerick County Council.

MEMBERS of a Fianna Fáil cumann in Limerick yesterday formally complained to party headquarters of systematic bullying and abuse by rival members in the cumann.