Andy Lee’s retirement is being described as a sad day for Irish boxing. The Castleconnell fighter has confirmed he is hanging up his gloves, following a 16 year career at both amateur and professional level. The 33 year-old former world champion and Olympian retires with 35 wins from 39 fights, 24 of those by way […]
‘He smiled through it all’: One year anniversary of baby Evan Jones from Newport
He had just been rushed in an ambulance from Limerick to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, with a collapsed lung. An hour later he was in theatre but his smile is so wide you would think it was taken on Christmas morning after Santa had been. Evan’s first anniversary was on Sunday. He was just […]
New Irish National Opera for concert at Limerick’s Lime Tree Theatre
THE new Irish National Opera has launched its 2018 programme, which includes a show in Limerick later this year. The body, which was created through the merger of two award-winning companies, Opera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera, launched its programme in Dublin this week and announced details of a show for the Lime Tree […]
Mercury Rev to play Limerick show on classic album tour
MERCURY Rev are to play an ‘intimate, acoustic’ show in Limerick as part of a tour in support of classic 1998 album Deserter’s Songs. The American indie group will play Dolan’s Warehouse on Wednesday, April 18, on a 20th anniversary tour celebrating the seminal album. The intimate, acoustic evening featuring many of the stories and songs surrounding Mercury Rev’s album, […]
Young filmmakers get Fresh chance to be ‘seen and heard’ at Limerick festival
THE Limerick-based Fresh Film Festival has put out a final call for entries for Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year 2018. Fresh, which encourages young people to make films by hosting annual film festival for young people, takes place in Limerick from March 20 – 25 and is open to young people from 7-18 years […]
24 Hr Plays: Limerick’s Belltable to showcase cream of local theatre talent
ALMOST 30 theatre Limerick makers are to create five short plays in one venue which will be written, rehearsed and directed in one 24 hour period. Belltable:Connect is about to embark on an ambitious time-limited challenge that will see thespians write, direct and star in five original plays across the course of one day and one […]
Limerick’s Ormston House celebrates Savage Town in new exhibition
AN EXHIBITION celebrating the Limerick inspired graphic novel, Savage Town, opens tonight at Ormston House, marking the first exhibition of the year at the cultural resource centre. Created by Declan Shalvey, Philip Barrett and Jordie Bellaire, the graphic crime novel is set in the city at the beginning of the noughties and is loosely based on […]
Janey Dillis goes wild at Limerick’s Belltable
POPULAR local theatre company Callback make a return to the Belltable this week with new show Janey Dillis – Queen of the Wild Interior. Written and directed by John Sheehy and starring Cora Fenton, Janey Dillis is about a woman prone to fantastical flights of fantasy who hasn’t left her house in 25 years. The […]
Katie Kim to make much anticipated return to Limerick for Dolan’s show
KATIE Kim makes a much-anticipated return to Limerick for a show this weekend. The Irish musician, quite simply one of the finest on the national scene, plays Upstairs in Dolan’s for promoter Seoda Shows this Saturday night (9pm, €10). Those lucky enough to witness a spine tingling, intimate show in Bourke’s Bar for the promoter […]