LIMERICK traders have held crisis talks with the city council as plummeting business has left some with not enough money to pay their commercial rates.

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

A LIMERICK jeweller at the centre of a controversy for displaying gold medallions of replica guns, including a 9 carat gold Kalashnikov rifle, yesterday withdrew all the items from the shop window.