Best laid plans

OMINOUS signals had been coming from the Limerick Regeneration Agency in recent weeks.

Set up to redevelop some of Limerick’s rundown estates and crime blackspots, there were rumours the Government was not going to deliver on its side of the deal.

So the announcement over the weekend from Minister for Defence Willie O’Dea that the Government will not be able to deliver the €1.7 billion it promised will come as no surprise to the residents of Moyross, Southill, St Mary’s Park and Ballinacurra Weston.