Limerick’s culture on full display as it bids for 2020 status

Yesterday’s 12th of July celebrations North and South would have bamboozled King Billy himself.

Predictably, bonfires blazed across the Six Counties to the beat of Lambeg drums.

But in Limerick yesterday, where the Williamite army wrought plunder and woe, the street party was more akin to a Munster Heineken Cup victory homecoming as the Treaty City managed to out-12th the Northern ‘Twolft’.