Call for action as mid-west ‘dying on its feet’

THE Government was warned yesterday the mid-west was dying on its feet and action was urgently needed to turn around the economic fortunes of its Limerick city hub.

A Government-commissioned report to set out a new roadmap for the governance of the region proposes one single council to administer Limerick city and county and an extension of Limerick city into parts of Clare and Co Limerick.

Former Kerry Group supremo Denis Brosnan, who headed up the Limerick Local Government Committee Report group, spelt out the urgent need for action to turn around the fortunes of the mid-west, a region he said which was now in rapid decline