University of Limerick starts work on new city centre campus

The new campus, located at the former Dunnes Stores site on Sarsfield Street, could be ready for use by October

The University of Limerick bought the Dunnes Stores site on Sarsfield Street in Limerick for €8m in 2019. File picture: Brendan Gleeson

University of Limerick (UL) on Monday announced the start of works on a new city centre campus to be located at the former Dunnes Stores site on Sarsfield Street.

A portion of the building’s first floor will be dedicated to creating a new space for an innovation lab, the UL FabLab, a digital fabrication laboratory founded in 2012, the +CityxChange project focused on the research and innovation of “smart cities and communities”, and a community engagement lab.