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.

LIMERICK City Council yesterday rejected a proposal by its county council counterpart for a single local authority to administer the city and county.

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.

THE worsening flood situation in the environs of Limerick city upstream to Parteen Weir will not hit critical levels for another five days, it has emerged.

UP to 25,000 households in Limerick City face €100 community charge as city council management grapples with a mounting financial crisis due to falling rates income and reduced funding from the Department of the Environment.

A RULING by An Bord Pleanála to uphold an objection to expand Limerick’s Crescent Shopping Centre will cost up to 400 retail jobs, it was claimed yesterday.

AGREEMENT has been reached on the drafting of a masterplan for the long-term infrastructure development of North Tipperary, Limerick city and Co Limerick.

THE Chief Justice John Murray was among the chief mourners who yesterday attended the funeral of former mayor of Limerick, Clem Casey.

JP MCMANUS contributed €4 million to the redevelopment of Thomond Park it was revealed last night as Irish and Munster rugby great Pat Whelan was named Limerick Person of the Year.

JP MCMANUS contributed €4 million to the redevelopment of Thomond Park it was revealed last night as Irish and Munster rugby great Pat Whelan was named Limerick Person of the Year.

ADVENTURER Gerard McDonnell, who died on his descent from K2 last August, has been nominated posthumously for the Limerick Person of the Year Award.

MURDERED Limerick man Shane Geoghegan earned admiration on the rugby field as a Garryowen captain.

SILENT queues formed as people numbed by this latest murder waited to sign a book of condolence for the family of Shane Geoghegan.

FRANCIE KELLY’S shebeen in Southill has cast planners at Limerick City Council into a legal minefield.

LIMERICK City Council have agreed to give the go-ahead for a massive €350 million city centre retail complex, which will be known as the Opera Centre.

SEVEN firefighters have joined Limerick city’s fire service, the first group in 20 years to have been trained in Ireland.

THE owners of the Crescent Shopping Centre warned yesterday that opposition by Limerick City Council to a giant Marks & Spencer store at the Dooradoyle complex could force the giant retailer to Galway with the potential loss of 450 jobs.

A NEWLY formed alliance of residents’ groups in Limerick yesterday claimed families being moved to the suburbs from Southill and Moyross, as part of the regeneration programme for the vast council estates, are already causing trouble.

RESIDENTS of one of Limerick’s oldest communities have accused Limerick City Council of keeping them in the dark with regards to a massive regeneration programme for their area.

CITY centre business people in Limerick are being urged to take part in a public debate on plans to give a major makeover to the main shopping areas.

A UNIQUE community- based scheme to tackle issues such as anti-social behaviour was launched in Limerick yesterday.

A SIGNIFICANT step to tackling antisocial behaviour in Limerick is being launched today.

A NEW initiative to tackle antisocial behaviour in Irish cities kicks off today in Limerick, when nine community coordinators take up duty.

LIMERICK City Council appears to have been saved from potential financial ruin.

A €50 MILLION plan to reshape Limerick city centre was unveiled yesterday.

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

LIMERICK City Council is faced with a massive compensation payout to a construction company it wrongfully sacked from the city’s main drainage scheme five years ago.

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.

A MASSIVE plan to reclaim land along the banks of the Shannon and turn it into prime residential sites will be discussed at a meeting between the backers of the project and senior management of Limerick City Council today.

LIMERICK City Council has decided to drop one of its court actions taken in relation to the Uniform Construction debacle which could cost the taxpayer up to €50 million.

A LIMERICK city councillor has tabled a motion calling on the Minister for Finance and Minister for Environment to fully reimburse the City Council the estimated €50 million bill for the controversial main drainage scheme.

THE taxpayer will have to foot multi-millon euro damages awarded to a construction company that claimed it was wrongfully fired by Limerick City Council, it emerged last night.

LIMERICK City Council breached Department of Finance guidelines in the manner it sold off a part of the People’s Park, according to the Finance Minister Brian Cowen in a letter to Junior Health Minister Tim O’Malley.

LIMERICK City Council struck a deal to sell off part of a public park they didn’t yet own to a developer.

LIMERICK City Council is facing financial ruin after an arbitrator ruled yesterday that a contractor was wrongly fired from the city’s main drainage scheme.

Two Limerick born brothers who founded the Irish charity Concern have been honoured with the freedom of their native city, along with renowned broadcaster of traditional Irish music.

MANAGEMENT at Limerick City Council have been accused of refusing to support the opening of a skateboard park in the city because of the fear of compensation claims.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

LIMERICK City Council is €10 million in the red, a four-fold increase in the space of a year.