Some Limerick communities may see 'no benefit' from €337m regeneration plan

Councillors have warned that if promises are not kept, parts of Limerick could find themselves worse off

The demolition of Pineview Gardens in Moyross under the regeneration programme in Limerick. The regeneration plans were partly in response to gangland feuding that resulted in 20 deaths and mainly affected the communities living in Moyross, Southill, St Mary’s Park, and Ballinacurra Weston. File photo: Sean Curtin Press 22

Some Limerick communities will have seen “no benefit” from the €337m regeneration plans if promised developments are not delivered, the director of the programme has been told.

Labour Party councillor Conor Sheehan told the director of regeneration, Joe Delaney, at a special meeting of the Metropolitan District of Limerick, that if a planned community centre in St Mary’s Park is not delivered, the “community will not have benefited from regeneration at all”.