A LIMERICK City bank building, on O’Connell Street and Bedford Row, is being sold for as much as €10m — a recent Munster-bank investment sale price record.

Dublin’s O’Connell Street will take a step back 100 years on Easter Monday as part of RTE’s ’Road to the Rising’ commemorations.

SHOP fronts don’t come much more historic, or reborn, as at Limerick city’s Grand Central, on pedestrianised street Bedford Row off O’Connell Street.

One of the country’s leading gardaí has revealed he is determined to make O’Connell Street safe for the centenary of the 1916 Rising.

While the Dublin featured in Brendan O’Carroll’s debut film Mrs Brown’s Boys: D’Movie is sun-kissed and colourful, last night’s world premiere in the Savoy cinema had a sodden red carpet and rain-soaked O’Connell Street instead.

Paul Kimmage said he felt like a member of the Beatles when he lay down, drowned in a pool of his own sweat, on the kerb at the top of O’Connell Street, basking in the moment of helping secure the Nissan Classic for his Irish compatriot Sean Kelly in 1987.

THE busiest spot in Cork City right now has to be directly across the Lee from City Hall, along and behind Lapps Quay.

AN Asian woman was dragged from a bus stop in Cork city and sexually assaulted in a nearby road yesterday morning.