A €6m deal signed yesterday will see a major film studios set up in Limerick.

The green light is expected today for the creation of a new film production industry in Limerick, through a partnership between the city and Ardmore Studios. It will create more than 750 permanent jobs and could benefit the local economy to the tune of an estimated €80m yearly.

The distance between Hollywood and Limerick is set to get a whole lot shorter as plans for an international film studio based in the Treaty City leap ahead.

Up to 1,000 potential film industry jobs in Limerick are on hold over the stalling of talks involving a major studio, it was claimed last night.

A top US medical devices company has chosen Limerick to make its new product, creating 270 high-end graduate jobs.

Fifty new jobs are being announced for Limerick today.

THE Mayor of Limerick last night issued a ‘shape up or ship out’ warning to the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) after Limerick and the mid-west drew a blank with new industrial jobs during 2005.

There is further bad news on the jobs front in the Mid-West today with the announcement that a Limerick-based firm is to close with the loss of all 178 jobs.

Two separate investigations are underway into the cause of an explosion at a Limerick factory which killed a married man in his 40's.

TÁNAISTE Mary Harney came under fire last night as a Limerick-based multinational began the shutdown of a plant where she announced hundreds of 'ghost' jobs last year.

Gardai in Limerick are investigating an aggravated burglary at a computer component factory in the city overnight.