The governing board of Limerick City of Culture 2014 has announced that Karl Wallace has been appointed as Artistic Director. Karl Wallace, originally from London in the UK is the current chief executive of Siamsa Tire, Home of National Folk Theatre of Ireland and will take up his position in Limerick next month. Mr Wallace [...]

A fascinating insight into Limerick’s social history has been unlocked with the transfer of almost two hundred years of records from St Joseph’s Hospital to Limerick City Archives. The St. Joseph’s Hospital Archive Collection has been transferred from the Health Services Executive (HSE) to Limerick City Archives on long term loan. The transfer of records [...]

FORTY construction jobs will be created in Limerick over the next 18 months, as the Brother Stephen Russell House is set to be demolished and replaced by a new €4m centre. Br Russell House on Mulgrave Street in Limerick has been providing care for homeless men in the city for more than three decades, but [...]

BUS services in Lord Edward Street, which were axed in Bus Eireann’s timetable shake-up, are to be restored next month. In September last year, Bus Eireann changed its timetables, in a move which saw direct services between Raheen, Dooradoyle and Westbury. But certain parts of the city were cut out of the loop, including Lord [...]

THE principal of a Limerick school that suspended 28 students after they ‘liked’ an offensive post on Facebook has called on the Data Protection Commissioner to carry out a full out a full investigation into the issues surrounding the case. Noel Malone, principal of Colaiste Chiarain, Croom, wants the Data Protection Commissioner and the Department [...]

MORE than 50,000 people lined the streets of Limerick city for this year’s Saint Patrick’s Day parade. The parade – the biggest outside Dublin – saw more than 100 different groups and organisations march from Sarsfield Barracks through the city centre to Island Road. A giant Saint Patrick led more than 4,000 participants, including 285 [...]

Tens of thousands of people are set to take part in St Patrick’s Day celebrations across Limerick today. In addition to the eight parades which are taking place in the city and county today, there are dozens of other festivals and events taking place in honour of our national saint. Several well-known buildings such as [...]

A COMPREHENSIVE plan aimed at addressing the homeless problem in the region has been published. The Mid-West Regional Homeless Action Plan 2013 to 2018 contains a variety of measures to try to make sleeping rough unnecessary. It looks at a wide range of issues which causes people to fall into homelessness, including mental health problems, [...]