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Only the little people pay taxes.” — Leona Helmsley

Just over half of all jobs created in Ireland by foreign direct investment (FDI) last year were in locations outside of Dublin.

Arts Minister Heather Humphries’ Protestant background will help make the 1916 commemoration events more inclusive, the Minister for Finance said yesterday.

The number of part-time jobs have fallen in all eight Irish regions, except for the Dublin and Mid-West areas, according to new official figures.

Heavy weaponry and witness intimidation made Limerick’s gangs almost untouchable in the previous decade. Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe speaks to the man who ended their reign of terror.

Rape support services are facing an unprecedented funding crisis, with one of the country?s biggest centres forced to shut its doors because it cannot pay its staff.

The unification of Limerick city and county at next year’s local elections has already yielded a huge boost for city centre businesses — a 16% rate cut.

Grafton Group has reported a 7.4% year-on-year increase in revenue for the first 10 months of this year, supported by improved trading conditions in its main geographical markets.

Of the 1,546 homeless people in the Mid-West last year, 673 were female.

The news that former US president Bill Clinton will visit Limerick to present third-level scholarships has been hailed as “a god-send” to the Mid-West.

The number of graduates from the University of Limerick getting work in Ireland has risen from 45% to 50% over the past year, but 13% still emigrated to find employment.

One junior doctor in the Mid-West last year received €88,409 in overtime payments, the HSE confirmed yesterday.

The most comprehensive socio-economic review ever conducted in North Tipperary, Clare and Limerick will be launched in Co Clare today.

IN the 1960s and 70s, Ireland’s Mid-West region was recognised as an international benchmark for tourism innovation with a Brendan O’Regan-led Shannon Development inventing everything from duty-free shopping to medieval banquets and from Irish coffee to the folk village recreations.

A DIRECTOR of one of the largest building contracting firms in the mid-west yesterday said he is pleased the company has remained profitable throughout the recession.

ONE of the biggest drugs criminals in Europe has moved to a Co Limerick village.

In the Mid-West constituencies of Limerick and Clare, the country-wide trend of a swing to Fine Gael is being duplicated.

THE crisis at the Mid Western Regional Hospital in Limerick took on new proportions last night when the hospital admitted it could not say how many, if any, surgical operations would take place today.

LAST February Environment Minister John Gormley asked businessman Denis Brosnan to chair the Limerick Local Government Committee to consider how local government might best serve the needs of the Mid-West.

LIMERICK FC are furious that plans to host a glamour friendly against La Liga giants Barcelona at Thomond Park have been scuppered by the FAI as it emerged that the Association has itself been in negotiation with the Catatlans to bring them to the new Aviva Stadium.

THE mid-west brought a respite to the private sector jobs bloodbath yesterday with an Ennis-based company announcing that it will add 350 to its workforce over the next 18 months.

AS rural areas blew cold on Lisbon in the run-up to the referendum, yes campaigners were heard to assure themselves that whatever happened in the regions, the Pale would keep the colour in their cheeks.

It will be several weeks before a potential deal to reinstate the Shannon-Heathrow link can be tabled, it was revealed tonight.

Aer Lingus pilots are optimistic that a solution can be found in a row with the airline’s management over job conditions at a new hub in Belfast, they said today.

THE deployment of just two consultants to the Mid-West from the 68 the HSE propose to recruit, has been criticised by a former health minister.

Union chiefs tonight called on the Government to hold an emergency jobs summit following the spate of losses in the Mid-West and Cork.

PEOPLE with arthritis are suffering needlessly in the Mid-West due to inadequate specialist care, it was claimed yesterday.

UP to 1,000 people who die in this country from stokes each year could be saved if there were enough specialist stroke unit beds in the health system.

MORE than 2,000 jobs were created in the Shannon region last year, bucking a trend of heavy losses that saw industrial employment nationally dip by 2%.

LIMERICK city doctors are drawing up new proposals which they will bring to the Health Service Executive and the Shannondoc coop about out of hours cover in the city.

TWO ambulance crew attacked by an angry mob, during an emergency call to Southhill on Thursday night, were back on duty in Limerick yesterday.

THE employers body IBEC yesterday came out in favour of the sell-off of Limerick docks for development as a major property area.