An award-winning garden created for Bloom 2014 has been given a permanent home in the heart of Limerick to mark the city’s status as Ireland’s first National City of Culture.

BOOK enthusiasts in a Limerick suburb have been the first to read the reality of the boundary extension which has transferred them from County Limerick into the city.

AN alert has gone out in Limerick after a so-called ‘statue stalker’ struck again.

STUDENTS have less spending power this year because the Department of Finance turned down Education Minister Mary Hanafin’s request for just over €1 million to offer grant increases to match rising inflation, the Irish

LIMERICK City Council yesterday closed a deal for the purchase of a €270,000 home for the Murray family over the objection of local residents.

THE mother of Millie and Gavin Murray, who were badly burned in a Limerick firebomb attack, said last night she was saddened that residents in an estate in the city have objected to the family being rehoused there.

RESIDENTS in a well-off suburb are understood to be against the re-housing there of a family whose two children were badly burned in a firebomb attack.

LIMERICK City Council has been urged to get a ‘top dollar’ price for three houses it owns at Knockalisheen Road, which the IRFU intend to purchase for the development of Thomond Park.

THE mother of five-year-old shooting victim Jordan Crawford brought him to a secret address in Limerick last night after he was allowed home from the Mid-Western Regional Hospital.

THE family of the bullet-wounded Limerick boy will have to join a queue if they want a council housing transfer from Southill.

A WOMAN tenant of Limerick City Council claims she was given a ‘sex or Moyross’ ultimatum by a council employee.

A LIMERICK residents group yesterday accused the city council of slipping social housing into their community through the back door.

MANY people with Down Syndrome cannot access crucial speech therapy, according to the annual report of Down Syndrome Limerick.

IT’S going to be a warmer winter ahead for many of Limerick’s elderly residents, particularly those living in rented council houses.

THOUSANDS of top civil servants are threatening strike action and vowing to oppose Government plans to complete decentralisation within three years.

Mr John Horgan, Chairman of the Belltable Arts Centre, has announced that Limerick’s only remaining theatre is likely to close its doors in the very near future.