Residents protest over lack of regeneration

Residents in the disadvantaged estate of St Mary’s Park, Limerick have begun a roadside protest to highlight their anger at the City Council’s handling of the estate’s regeneration.

Earlier this week the resident-led St Mary’s Community Group, which had engaged for the past five years with the regeneration, resigned from the process.

Mary Mallard, who sat on the board of the group, said: “We’ve been sitting around the table with Regeneration for five years and everything has changed again and again. We got frustrated this week and said we couldn’t handle it any more. As a committee, we felt we were wasting our time going to meetings.”