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New Enterprise Programme launched for Limerick schoolchildren

Local Enterprise Office (LEO), Limerick and BizWorld Ireland have teamed up to deliver a series of enterprise workshops throughout Limerick City and County. BizWorld Ireland is a national organisation that promotes entrepreneurship skills amongst young people. It delivers workshops for children aged 10 to 13, teaching them about money management, critical thinking and enterprise in […]

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August 20, 2021 By Dominic Taylor Leave a Comment

Do you have a story you'd like to share with the local community on Limerick.com? E-Mail news@limerick.com Send us your pictures Send images or add them to your story and we'll publish the best. We welcome all contributions! All content is moderated before … [Read More...]

Irish Travellers from 1972 Film for German TV.

November 12, 2021 By John Donnelly Leave a Comment

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How to find creatives in limerick

August 29, 2015 By Shane Vaughan Leave a Comment

Thursday, August 27th saw the launch of creativesinlimerick.com at the Red Hen bar. This is a website with a clear goal in mind: to link the various artists of limerick in one solid place, making it easy for them to find each other, and also for outside business, too. The website is the brainchild … [Read More...]

Soul Songs – a collection of poetry by Kieran Beville (Revival Press, 2020). Review by Ciarán O’ Driscoll, poet and member of Aosdána

September 28, 2021 By Dominic Taylor Leave a Comment

In this collection, Kieran Beville’s exuberance and energy are refreshing and infectious. The range of emotions and occasions are many in its celebration of love and its grieving for loss of love and attendant loneliness. The tirade against Trump’s America and American colonialism, reminiscent of a … [Read More...]

County Limerick company shortlisted as a finalist in the 2013 Q Mark Awards

September 14, 2013 By Joe Taylor Leave a Comment

A community-based homecare provider, which has its head office in Hospital, Co. Limerick, has received the Q Mark for Quality Management Systems and has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2013 Q Mark Awards for Quality Management Systems. Formerly known as RCCN Caring Ltd., CareBright has … [Read More...]

SPOTLIGHT On Limerick’s Cultural Heroes – Myles Breen

January 30, 2022 By Joe Taylor Leave a Comment

The Importance of Being Myles Breen Myles Breen is a Limerick legend! I first met him at UCC in 1984 when we were engaged in postgraduate studies in Education. We both auditioned for a part in a UCC Dramatic Society play by Samuel Beckett. Myles got a minor part and the role I auditioned for was … [Read More...]

Remembering the Hiring Fairs of County Limerick

September 28, 2010 By Mangaire Sugach 1 Comment

The hiring fairs was part of the Irish scene for at least two hundred years up to about the late 1940s. Hiring fairs were held in two centres in County Limerick in the grounds of the railway station at Kilmallock, and in the Square at Newcastle West. The hiring fairs in Kilmallock commenced on … [Read More...]

Limerick and Kilkenny reach camogie final in Croker

August 17, 2014 By Joe Taylor Leave a Comment

LIMERICK FANS WILL be back in Croke Park next month, and given the opportunity to exact some revenge on Kilkenny. The Treaty ladies overcame Waterford in today’s All-Ireland intermediate camogie semi-final, despite a late, late showing by the Déise — they now face Kilkenny who eased past Kildare in … [Read More...]

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