25,000 households face €100 community charge

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.

Tenants living in city council owned houses may be levied through a €2 a week rent hike.

Sources in the council said a community charge was one of the options being considered by city manager, Tom Mackey.