MANAGEMENT at Limerick City Council are determined to face down moves by elected council members who want to block the provision of a key bus lane into the city centre.

DESPITE trenchant opposition by residents, Limerick City Council is pressing ahead with the development of bus lanes from the county boundary at the Crescent Shopping Centre in Dooradoyle into the city centre through Ballinacurra and O’Connell Avenue.

THE NATIONAL Federation of Services for Unmarried Parents has backed the Minister for Social Welfare’s controversial statement that the current one-family payment is not working.

LIMERICK city’s senior transport official declared yesterday that he is determined to see an end to dedicated bus lanes which go nowhere.

Limerick City Council is planning to pedestrianise part of O'Connell Street in the heart of Limerick city centre.

ADULTS who were born outside of marriage need a service to help them find their fathers, Treoir, the national federation for unmarried parents and their children said yesterday.

ONE-in-three children born in Ireland yearly do not have the right to knowledge of, or contact with, their fathers, a lobby group has claimed.

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