Prodi to get aerial tour of ambitious riverside project

EUROPEAN Commission President Romano Prodi will be given an aerial tour of the ambitious €1 billion Limerick Riverside City Project today.

The project is an imaginative blueprint for a new cityscape in Limerick centred around the River Shannon and aimed at creating 5,000 jobs over the next nine years.

It focuses on developing the riverside and canals and projecting Limerick as a high-quality place to live, work, learn and enjoy leisure activities. The main features of the project are: