'Chaos' for motorists as Christmas lights fall on traffic in Limerick city

It is understood a crane attached to a truck, that had been delivering materials to a premises at the time, made contact with the overhead festive lighting structure causing it to fall down.

Christmas cheer took a nose-dive in Limerick this morning when a section of the city’s festive street lights collapsed onto traffic.

One of the motorists involved, Martin Hennessy, got more than he bargained for after taking a day off work to do some Christmas shopping when the heavy-duty lighting structure fell and struck the roof of his car with a “big bang”, he said.