Rat infestation threatens to close city businesses

RATS which have infested a derelict city centre shopping centre site in Limerick are now threatening nearby businesses.

One of the city’s biggest nightclubs has been forced to close due to health and safety concerns emanating from nearby derelict buildings, which were due to be levelled to make way for the proposed Opera Centre, a massive shopping mall.

A rat infestation has now spread through the Patrick Street site which has lain idle for some years.