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A new shopping area at Arthur’s Quay, set to come before planners by Christmas, will give Marks & Spencer a prime central location, Limerick city’s economic boss has said. With rumours the British retailer is about to sign a deal to move into the yet-to-be-completed Parkway Valley shopping centre on the Dublin Road, Tom Enright […]
Jerry Brown, Governor of California, recently visited Glenstal Abbey in County Limerick during a two week holiday in Ireland and Germany. While the trip was a personal one he did meet with Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore before returning to America at the weekend. “We like to go back and connect the dots,” Governor Brown […]
A new book which had two launches in Limerick this week has all the ingredients to be a ”blockbuster” film or television series. That was the verdict of Limerick Leader deputy editor, Eugene Phelan, who launched the novel Shanagolden by John Redington,(Seán Ó Roideacháin)in Limerick on Tuesday night while on Monday night in Shanagolden acclaimed […]
‘ART, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder’ That adage certainly holds true in the case of murals painted near King John’s Castle last week that have caused a conflict of opinion amongst locals. The murals, commissioned by Limerick City Council, as part of the ‘Make a Move’ festival have been described as […]
The director of a research centre at Limerick Institute of Technology has hailed a growing reputation of invention in Limerick. LIT lecturer Darragh Naughton runs the centre which specialises in helping inventors to turn their ideas into a viable product.live streaming film Wonder Woman 2017 online Limerick’s reputation as a centre of innovation has been […]
Limerick hurler Naill Moran has questioned the direction that inter-county GAA is going in and believes it is a concern that only certain jobs lend themselves to playing at the current elite levels of the sport. “Look at the four semi-finalists as an example and look at the age profile. Most guys are in college. […]
Fitzwilliam D’arcy, the dashing yet aloof hero in Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice was inspired by a Limerick man. Descended from an old Huguenot family, Thomas Langlois Lefroy was born in Limerick in 1776 and went on to become Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Despite his political and academic renown, Austen’s ‘Irish friend’ is […]
Limerick FC have signed two players with underage international experience as they enter the final stage of games in the Airtricity League Premier Division. Ireland U-19 international Carel Tiofack is joining the club from the relative obscurity of the Cadiz B team in Spain while Ballynanty’s Jason Hughes will make the step up from junior […]
Martins Coache Hire in Limerick announced today that it has taken delivery of two new state-of-the-art coaches to add to it’s current fleet of 25 coaches. The latest delivery brings the total investment in new buses for 2008 to around €600,000. The new vehicles will be immediately rolled out in Martins current bus operations, which […]
