Limerick market’s magic framed in black and white

Riverdance composer Bill Whelan last night cast his eye back on times past to childhood days in his old Limerick neighbourhood.

A black and white photo exhibition, which captured the magic of the city’s Saturday Milk Market in the 1970s, was officially opened by the composer at the National Photographic Archive in Dublin’s Temple Bar.

The exhibition consists of 95 studies of the characters, traders, customers and children at the market during those years. The images were captured by Gerry Andrews, who was then works manager with the Limerick Leader newspaper.