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Limerick Sports Clubs

The Spring time is here and Summer is not far off, hopefully we will get a nice warm sunny Summer this year. This is the time of year when many people think about joining a sports club for themselves or signing their children up to a club. I have been searching around for a list of Limerick clubs, after much time spent searching, i found a very good list on the Limerick Leader Newspaper website, the list includes lots of different sports clubs such as Horse Riding, GAA, Soccer, Tennis and lots more. The list includes a website link for all clubs. Have a look at the list below and if you are interested in joining any club, then contact the club directly.

Limerick Sports Clubs List.

GAA clubs

Ahane GAA www.geocities.com/ballybrickengaa/

Camogue Rovers www.geocities.com/camogueroversgaa/

Cappamore GAA www.geocities.com/cappamoregaa/

Claughaun GAA www.hoganstand.com/ronanburke/claughaun.htm

Crecora/Manister GAA http://crecoramanistergaa.ie/

Croom GAA http://croomgaa.com/

Doon GAA http://doon.limerick.gaa.ie
Effin GAA http://www.geocities.com/effingaa/

Galbally GAA http://www.geocities.com/galballygaa/

Galtee Gaels http://galteegaels.limerick.gaa.ie/

Glenroe GAA http://www.glenroegaa.com/

Kildimo GAA http://homepage.eircom.net/~kildimogaa/

Kilteely GAA http://www.geocities.com/kilteely_dromkeen_gaa/

Knockainey GAA http://www.knockaineygaa.ie/

Knockane GAA http://www.knockane.com/web/

Milford GAA http://www.milford.limerick.gaa.ie/

St Pauls, Mungret http://www.mungretstpauls.ie/

Na Piarsaigh GAA http://napiarsaigh.limerick.gaa.ie/

Newcastle West GAA http://newcastlewestgaa.csn.ul.ie/

Pallaskenry GAA http://www.pallaskenrygaa.com/

Patrickswell GAA http://www.patrickswellgaa.com/

St Patrick's GAA http://www.stpatricksgaaclub.ie/

Fr Casey's GAA http://www.frcaseysgaa.ie/

Pallasgreen GAA http://pallasgreen.limerick.gaa.ie/


UL Hurling http://www.ul.ie/~hurling/homepage.htm

Limerick GAA site http://limerick.gaa.ie




Rugby

Munster Rugby www.munsterrrugby.ie

Bruff RFC www.bruffrfc.com

Shannon RFC www.shannonrfc.com

Young Munsters RFC www.youngmunster.com

Garryowen RFC www.garryowenrugby.com

UL Bohs RFC www.ulbohs.com



UL Bohs Video Blog www.ulbohemian.wordpress.com

Old Crescent RFC www.oldcrescentrfc.com

St Senan's RFC www.stsenansrugby.com



Soccer

Limerick 37 www.limerick37fc.ie


Pike Rovers www.pikeroversfc.com

Sunderland FC www.sunderlandecho.com


Holycross AFC www.holycrossafc.com


Golf

Castletroy Golf Club Castletroy
061 335753

Limerick Golf Club Ballyclough
061 414083/ 415146

Adare Manor Golf Club Adare Manor, Adare
061 396204

Limerick County And Country Club Ballyneety
061 351881

Foynes Golf Club Foynes
069 65522

Killeline Golf Club Cork Road, Newcastle West
069 61600

Abbeyfeale Golf Club Dromtrasna Collins, Abbeyfeale
068 32033



Horse Racing

Limerick Race Company plc, Greenmount, Patrickswell
061 320108
www.limerickraces.ie


Tennis

Limerick Lawn Tennis Club www.lltc.ie/LLTC/Welcome.html

Catholic Institute Athletic Club http://homepage.eircom.net/~catholicinstitutehc/aboutus/about_us.htm


Fencing

Limerick School of Arms http://www.skynet.ie/~nvl/lsa/main.php

Sub Aqua

Limerick Sub Aqua Club www.limericksubaqua.com

Blast From Limerick's Past

Packet and Tripe - Limerick's Cavier
By Billy Mulqueen

France has snails, London has bubble and squeak, Scotland has haggis, Holland has cheese, Germany has frankfurters, Itialy has pasta, Dublin has coddle but Limerick has packet and tripe. Or had. It is a dish little eaten in these affulent days, McDonalds and Burger King have triumphed over a dish that was a staple food for many a Limerick family up to about 30 years ago. It was the McDonalds of its day.

It was a dish that transcend class barriers, rich or poor, it was eaten with relish by all.

To the exiles over a certain age, the mere mention of packet and tripe was enough to bring a wistful longing to the eyes and palate of most exiled Limerickmen in lands far away.

The "shop factories" where the packet and tripe was bought were in the oldest part of the city...Kings Island.

There was the Barrett family in the "sandmall" they were renowned for their packet and tripe in the early part of the last centuary, but the most famous and, the only one I remember, and the last to go, was Treacys.

Tracys was a cottage on a street called Courthouse lane, off the sandmall. A latched door gave way to a stone flagged room, whitewashed and divided by a counter. Large buckets held the packet and tripe.

Tripe is sheeps belly and is very much an aquired taste. The nuns in the local St. Marys convent had Treacys scrape (prepared) a special belly for Sunday and a "well-in" Treacys customer might, on a rare ocasion, and as a great favour, get a piece of the much coveted "nuns belly".

Treacys were the original owners but it was later run by Jim "packet" O'Halloran, who is credited with the immortal words: "Its 3 o clock, and not a belly in the house scraped yet".

A time honoured way of cooking tripe is to chop in into small cubes and steep in water overnight. Then, cooked in water, its cooked again a second time in milk with onions and breadcrumbs and the packet added with a knob of butter.

Jim Kemmy, a local historan and scholar, wrote about packet and tripe:" Packet and tripe, washed down with strong sweet tea has been found to be easily digestable and rests gently on the stomach, especially one ravaged by an excess of alcohol. For this reason the dish is very much in demand after a weekend "feed of porter" has rendered the stomach hostile to other forms of nourishment Packet and tripe is reputed to give a "lining" to the stomach so the dish has been traditionally been a weekend treat, a distintive Saturday night/Sunday morning ritual."

Packet is a blood sausage,or pudding and dark in colour. Sheeps' blood is poured into a skin taken from the intestine of the sheep, with spices and chopped onion added and boiled in a vat. Thereafter boiled again in milk with the packet and breadcrumbs.

Packet and tripe no longer comes from Limerick but is brought from Cork a few times a week and a small number of butchers sell it to an older and older customer base as each year passes. The younger generation would never eat the dish, prefering instead to eat "fast food" with ingredience that is made from god knows what.

But packet and tripe was an honest food, it was an "in your face" what you saw was what you got. And for a hundred years and long before, it helped to make life a bit more bearable in poverty stricken streets and lanes of the city in long gone days.

A little addendum. a sideline of Jim "packet" O'Halloran was that he used to sell an oil, derived from "trotters" (sheeps feet) as a hair restorative -Im not kidding. It is MOST unlikely that this oil was effective in restoring hair,but he did a roaring trade, and as a Kings Island wit remarked,"It might not work, but it does makes colourful patterns on the pillow.

The text of this post is copyright of the author Billy Mulqueen

Star Spots

The Limerick Star received various e-mail scams in the last few days stating that our e-mail address won a cash lotto and a new car. This is a known scam, so the best thing to do if you get a similar e-mail is report it as spam to your e-mail provider.

The Mayor of Limerick Kevin Kiley (FG) has blamed the Green Party for Limerick loosing its cabinet minister in Willie O Dea T.D. (FF), after last week Mr O Dea stepped down as Minister For Defence, Peter Power T.D. (FF) stated this week that Willie O Dea dedicated his whole life to Irish politics. Whilst Willie himself stated in an interview on Sunday with the Sunday World Newspaper that he will be back in the future at cabinet level.

Willie O Dea Tape Recording

The Limerick leader has released a controversial tape recording of Willie O Dea T.D. (FF). The tape has been live since 1.00 PM today on the Limerick Leader website. To listen to the recording log on to www.limericktoday.com

10 Years Later And Still Missing

Aengus (Gussie) Shanahan (Limerick)

Aengus (Gussie) Shanahan

Missing since 11th February 2000 in Limerick City.

Born: 23 Jan 1980

Height: 5' 10

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Blue

Build: Thin build



Aengus (also known as Gussie and when he was a child he used to sign his name 'Aonghus') Shanahan was last seen at 22.30 on Friday 11th February 2000, and is on cctv leaving Coopers Bar (now Eric's Bar) on Joseph Street, Limerick at 23.30. (See photo of him taken that day at 15.31) He was born in 1980 and is 5ft 10 inches and walks with a slight stoop forward: eye colour is blue. He was wearing dark blue jeans with a blue top and a red, white and blue adidas jacket. If you have any information whatsoever, please call in Strictest of Confidence a new helpline number Tel: 085 2092119 or Email. find.gussie@gmail.com or write to PO Box 55, Limerick Leader, 54 O’Connell Street, Limerick

STRICT CONFIDENCE IS ASSURED

or contact Roxboro Garda Station: Tel 061-214340

We are still no wiser as to what happened to him. Somebody somewhere may know something. We are appealing to people to come forward with any information that they have. What may appear as trivial to one person may be of vital importance to us.



Copy & Paste the following link into your browser for a picture of Gussie Shannahan. http://www.missing.ws/_missingPersons/missingPerson.asp?id=45

Here is a personal appeal from Bob and Nancy Shannahan, Gussie's parents,

"I can't grieve. I can't move on. My life has been a daily torment for the past ten years," she said.

"After ten years of not knowing I am sure I could say 'I forgive you' to someone who may have harmed my son. Just please tell me where he is. Tell me what happened to him."

His father said the mental anguish of not knowing is most painful. "I've always had an open mind on the whole thing, and we've never had any clue since the last time he was seen down that lane," he told the Limerick Leader.

"My mind was open to everything, my view always was that I mightn't like it but at least I can manage it. Not knowing – it's very hard to manage it."

There have been rumours about Gussie's disappearance over the years but nothing precise, nothing definite. "We are not interested in rumours, we are looking for positive information," Bob said.

"Somebody knows and they might have been frightened to come forward in the past but any information that will come will be treated in the strictest of confidence.

"There's the telephone, the email and the PO Box, and they are all independent of the police," Bob said.

If you have any information on Gussie you can visiting www.missing.ws and contact Gussie,s uncle in confidence or you can use the new methods of contact below.

Information will be treated in the strictest of confidence.
Telephone number: 085-2092119
Email address: find.gussie@gmail.com
Or write to PO Box 55, Limerick Leader, 54 O'Connell Street, Limerick

Or of course you can contact the any Garda Station.

Portrait Of A City

A fascinating new publication featuring paintings, sketches and the earliest detailed maps of Limerick will shed light on the development of the city and the events that shaped it, writes Jennifer Moore
HAVE you ever wondered why the heart of Limerick city today is not centred on its historic foundations at St Mary's Cathedral as a Viking port in the tenth century?

Or why the city held such strategic importance in the seventeenth-century turmoil when Limerick citizens endured three sieges?

Or what the city may have looked like if its walls and gates were not taken down in the mid-eighteenth century?

The answers to all these questions, and more, can be found in the Royal Irish Academy's latest publication, 'Irish Historic Towns Atlas, No. 21, Limerick' by Eamon O'Flaherty.

The publication offers a fascinating insight into the city's development over the centuries and the major events that shaped it.
The atlas comes in two main parts: large loose sheets of maps and views of Limerick and a text section containing an essay describing the urban development of the city from its Viking foundations to the start of the 20th century.

Several thematic maps project Viking and medieval Limerick onto a modern map, pinpointing sites such as the original Viking longport near Athlunkard, the Frank House of Knight's Templar, or the long since disappeared, St Nicholas's Church.

There is also an extensive gazetteer of topographical information that breaks down into 22 sections that range from population, to the street names, factories, areas of primary production, hospitals, entertainment and residences, for example.

To accompany the text, and help bring Limerick's urban history to life, there are 27 historical and reconstructed maps and 12 views and photographs of Limerick depicting its growth, shape and importance as a trading post and one of military significance.

This work on Limerick is the fruit of many years of research by author and Limerick man, Dr Eamon O'Flaherty, a former Crescent student who now lectures in UCD.

The atlas traces the complicated histories of Limerick's three distinct urban cores: the Viking and Anglo-Norman Englishtown located on King's Island; the medieval Irishtown off the axis of Broad Street and John Street; and the Georgian Newtown Pery where today's city is concentrated.

Limerick is exceptionally well endowed in terms of illustrations, maps, plans and accounts of the city. The three earliest maps are from about 1590, pre-dating Dublin's earliest known map by 20 years.

Each map, varying in style, captures Elizabethan Limerick and shows individual houses, gardens, as well as the defences and religious houses. The originals are to be found in Hunt Museum, Trinity College Dublin and the National Archives in London, so it is fascinating to be able to compare each of these cartographic wonders side by side.

Common to each is the characteristic hourglass shape of Limerick city that continues through to the late eighteenth century. On closer examination of the beautifully crafted Hardiman map (TCD), a windmill and a hound may be seen chasing a bird in Irishtown; such details as these will entrance history lovers.

When compared to the later eighteenth-century maps and plans, the development of the three urban cores in the city is quite apparent.
Other sources, such as the Civil Survey, commissioned by the Cromwellian government and completed in 1654, supplies the basis for a detailed reconstructed map of mid-seventeenth century Limerick.
It provides the reader with a snap shot of the city that highlights the different types of houses and cabins, and also positions the mills, forges and tan houses of early modern Limerick.

Much of the information from the early religious churches of the city have been taken from the famous Black Book of Limerick. It records churches such as St John's dating back to 1200. The later thirteenth-century Dominicans, Augustinians and Franciscans built their substantial religious houses on the west side of King's Island.

King John's Castle has always featured prominently on the urban landscape of Limerick and has had many functions through its near 800 year history, and was even granted to the citizens for ten years in 1427.

The castle, while domineering at times, proved to be expensive for the crown to maintain with many enhancements added to it over the centuries, as it had to withstand many assaults, sieges and undermining.

The walls of Limerick, dating to c. 1175, have been vitally important to the protection of its citizens over the centuries. They were constantly being rebuilt, extended and strengthened up to the late seventeenth century when the city was famously besieged in 1690 and 1691.

Limerick was one of the last fortresses in Ireland to have its walls removed in the 1760s. The city was expanding and needed more space for its growing population.

It was at this point when a new town, adjacent to the medieval one, was planned out by Edmond Sexton Pery, a prominent politician.

He inherited vast tracts around the city and commissioned Christopher Colles to plan a new town on his land that became known as Newtown Pery.
This sparked a flurry of building on the grid system to specifications akin to the Georgian developments in Dublin and London, and still characteristic to Limerick today.

Important buildings, such as the Custom House (now the Hunt Museum), the Matthew Bridge and the canal were built on his land. All of which improved communication and transport to Newtown Pery.

Added incentives for people to move from Englishtown and Irishtown were lower taxes, better amenities, modern housing, drainage and entertainment facilities. The Newtown was even governed by a separate body for nearly 40 years, and Limerick became the second fastest growing city in Ireland after Belfast until about 1830.

In no other town in Ireland can the divide between medieval lanes and winding streets and the grid system be seen so clearly. Colles's extraordinary plan of the city is reproduced in colour in the atlas and shows Limerick at the dawn of its greatest change – shifting the heart of the city from King's Island to Pery's land.

In terms of the various factories in the city, Limerick proved to be a bustling trading post. From mills dating back to 1,200 the city had countless granaries, stores and warehouses earning it the epithet 'The granary of North Munster'.

The nineteenth century saw a number of bacon curing factories dotted around the city including Matterson's and Shaw's. Limerick also had many markets around the city, the first documented in 1108.

The printing trade is well represented in the city, the earliest known printer was established by 1673. However, it did not become a popular trade to enter until the later eighteenth century when large numbers of printers established newspapers and printing houses, notably on the corner of Bridge Street and Mary Street where John Ferrar's Limerick Chronicle was founded in 1768, the Republic's longest running newspaper. Indeed the Leader's Office is recorded on a detailed insurance map of the city from 1897.

Longstanding Limerick institutions such as Cruises Hotel, and Todds and Cannock's department stores feature in the atlas. Their histories are traced as drapery stores in the early nineteenth century to their expansive department stores by 1900.

In the entertainment section of the gazetteer, we learn of the numerous theatres, club houses and dance halls that were the social focal point for Limerick people from the eighteenth century.

The sporting element of the city was also present in the nineteenth century with numerous gymnasiums, tennis and ball courts, bicycle, athletics, rowing and tennis clubs all forming in the second half of the nineteenth century.

For more on the project see www.ria.ie/projects/ihta, or contact Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 21, Limerick by Eamon O'Flaherty is available in shops from the 6th of February and retails at €35.

Jennifer Moore is an editorial assistant with the Irish Historic Towns Atlas and also a Limerick historian.

Credit: Limerick Today - www.limericktoday.com

Worst Pub In Ireland

Yesterday the Sunday World took a go at Limerick, in its publication yesterday the Sunday World claimed The Mucky Duck in the city was the most lawless pub in Ireland. The full article will be available on the blog later today. Check back soon.

Sean O Neill ( RSF ) - Limerick Regeneration

The 26 County Administration Defence Minister Willie O’Dea must be complimented for telling the truth in relation to the non payment of the 1.7 billion euro for Limerick Regeneration,
a spokesman for Republican Sinn Fein said today

Sean O’Neill, from Prospect, a local RSF community activist said news will be devastating for the countless families in Limerick’s troubled estates who had looked forward to a bright new future free from crime gangs, arson, murder, violence and anti-social behaviour.

Many will recall the images of the fleet of shiny black Mercedes cars sweeping into the deprived estates of Moyross and Southill and Ballinacurra Weston and St. Mary’s Park all heralding a new dawn of enlightened local government and a vindication of the rights of people living in Local Authority housing.

Sadly the dream was only a mirage. The hope raised among the residents was merely words spun by well paid spin doctors. The tragedy is all the more depressing by the comments of the leaders of the failed Regeneration effort saying that private investment will come to the rescue. There is now way that private investment will make up the shortfall.

In effect private investment will engage in what can only be described as an ethnic cleansing exercise where families in local authority housing are evicted to make way for new private marinas, waterside apartments and leisure centres.

This awful image of privilege over people is the sad reality of regeneration in Limerick today. All those who promised false hope to people living with crime and violence should hang their heads in shame.

www.rsflimerick.com or www.rsf.ie

Fire At Hassetts Pub

Gardai have confirmed the Army Bomb Disposal unit based in Cork will be in Limerick later this Friday to examine a suspicious object found at the rear of Hassett's Cross pub.
The pub was damaged by fire at around 4am this Friday morning. A considerable amount of smoke damage was caused.

Emergency services attended the fire at the pub close to Thomond Park at approximately 4:10am this Friday morning.

According to gardai, the fire was small, with only minimal damage caused. No-one was on the premises at the time.

Credit & Copyright: Limerick Today www.limericktoday.com

Statement From Des Long ( RSF )

ECONOMIST FAILS TO CONDEMN REASONS FOR SHOPPING

A claim by a leading economist that cross border shopping is a factor driving young people to emigrate has been described as yet another tale from the Homer Simpson School of Higher Learning
by a spokesman for Republican Sinn Fein.

Des Long from Cobally in Limerick a member of the RSF Ard Comhairle said that the assertion by Jim Power that people who shop in the Six Counties should save to visit their children in Australia is one of the most misguided theories to emerge from the economic brains trust in recent years.

The very idea that people who shop outside the 26 Counties are in any way contributing to young people emigrating is a farce.
The fact is that Jim Power never once reflected on the reason for the border or indeed why this false economic division exists. Instead he decided to focus on shopping and to link it to emigration.

There are many reasons for young people emigrating but the main one is a shortage of jobs in manufacturing and services and that fault lies firmly at the door of the job creation agencies.

Never once does this so called leading economist denounce the evil of partition nor the false divisions caused by the border imposed by the British Crown.

The island of Ireland operating as an economic unit could well achieve its full potential if there was unity and the natural entity operated on an all Ireland basis.

However partition enforced by the British prevents the achievement of this full economic potential and the outcome is the shopping that Jim Power condemns.

Instead of criticizing people trying to make ends meet it would be more in his line to expose the evil of political and economic partition

www.rsflimerick.com or www.rsf.ie

Limerick Leader To Launch Digital Edition

The Limerick Leader is set to launch a digital edition of its paper. The editor of the Limerick Leader has confirmed that there WILL be a charge for the digital edition. Is this a fair charge or not, before making your decision it would be worth to note that the Limerick Post have a digital edition online and its free. Below is the statement from the Limerick Leader.

We are sorry that due to logistical issues we have been unable to update the local notes in recent weeks.

While we do have a big selection of local stories online, updated many times every day, often every hour, we are of course conscious that many readers of the website - particularly those abroad - do enjoy reading the notes from their locality.

I'm afraid we cannot promise the immediate return of the notes online - but we are working on a project which would offer readers full online access to the Limerick Leader exactly as it is printed - every page of every section. There would be a charge for this service but it would compare favourably to the cost of buying the print edition.

We hope to bring you news of this in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we apologise for the absence of the updated notes.

ALAN ENGLISH
Editor
Limerick Leader

What does our readers think ? Send all comments to limerickstar@gmail.com .

Blast From Limericks Past - Todds Fire

The text below is copyright of Limerick's Life www.limerickslife.com

The Todds department store occupied about four-fifths of a large city block fronting onto on O'Connell Street. On Tuesday, 25 August 1959, at 11 in the morning, a fire was noticed in the building. By 12:30 the entire block was a blazing inferno. Todds, Burtons, Liptons, Goodwins and Cesars were completely gutted. While Gayware, Cromers and Nicholas were badly damaged.
The rubble from the fire was taken to the baths on the Mill Road in Corbally. It was spread where the new estate is now ,alongside the city nursery where they grow the plants for the city. For years locals could see bits of the Todd's pillars sticking out of the ground.


The Text below is copyright of Noel Hanley


A personal account of the fire, courtesy of Noel Hanley {Noel Hanley recalls his time with the Irish Red Cross during the 1950s}

"It was during that time frame that Todds went up in flames, and we parked the Red Cross Ambulance at the corner of Bedford Row and O'Connell St. Our first priority was to evacuate the patrons from Sullivans Bar in Thomas St as smoke started to enter from the restrooms area. During this trek we also liberated some Hennessy's Cognac which was taken to the Ambulance, Mullany's Restaurant donated a large Churn of fresh tea, and this is when we went slightly wrong. We added the contents of our bottles to the churn, and it tasted pretty good! Now the bad news, I went to relieve the Fireman with the hose trying to dowse the flames above the jewelry shop next to Todds. As the firemen got replenished, we were slightly inebriated and suddenly the entire front of Todds facade crashed to the ground. We could hear a gasp from the onlookers that gathered, but when the smoke and dust settled we were both still erect aiming the hose at where we thought the window was previously. Lacking pressure in the hose, (The tide was out) we were unable to break the windows of the Hairdressers above Burtons Tailoring on the corner of William St. This is when we reverted to throwing stones to try and break the glass. Unfortunately, we could not hit the side of the building as the bricks we threw were landing and causing havoc in William St. Somewhere around this time, we lost one Fire tender, and resumed trying to prevent the telephone wires leading into William St Garda Station from melting completely. To those unfortunates who chained their bikes to the railings outside the station, the tires had melted to the footpath. Faced with a lack of hoses, no pressure, the fire raged on. I resorted to throwing a steel bucket filled with water through the Plate glass window of Burtons store front on William St. This enabled the fire to take control and burn the entire block from William St to Thomas St to ground level and below. The only remaining feature was a large safe on what was the second floor. Day's following they uses a helicopter to assist in demolishing what we failed to achieve. And a good time was had by all"

Missing Teenager Found Dead

The body of a 17 year-old female was recovered from the River Shannon in Limerick city on Wednesday morning, following a three-day search of the river.

The body has been identified as Hazel Shannon, who had not been seen since Saturday last.

A day previously the deceased girls mother, made an emotional appeal on radio for anyone with information about her missing daughter to come forward.

Doras Luimni On Immigration Fees

Below is a press release from the Doras Luimni website.

Increase in Immigration Fees
We are appalled to see the government once again reach into the pockets of the hard pressed tax payers of the country for what are essentially small returns in the context of the billions which are required by the state. The new €500 fee for long term residency is an underhanded revenue collection method attacking a small but significant sector of the work force that already makes a considerable contribution to the exchequer in tax and PRSI. By singling out this sector of the work force for further penalties on top of the already demanded fees for work permits (€500 annually), re-entry visas (€100), Garda registration cards (€150) and citizenship application (€950), all of which were highlighted in yesterday’s Irish Times, is unfair.
We ask that the government readdress its fee structures so that all members of society are treated equitably and according to their means.

Press Release Ends.

We would like to hear the opinions of our readers, on whether or not these fees are fair or too hard.

E-mail all comments to limerickstar@gmail.com

For more information on Doras Luimni log on to www.dorasluimni.org

Star Spots

The leader of Fine Gael Enda Kenny T.D has pledged that Limerick will be represented at cabinet level if his party forms the next Irish Government. Mr Kenny made the pledge whilst on a visit to the city for the grand opening of the Limerick based offices of Sean Kelly MEP (FG).

The latest Figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the murder rate in Limerick has halved during 2009. There was a total of three murders in Limerick in 2009, compared to six in 2008. The Mayor of Limerick Kevin Kiely (FG) welcomed the news but added one murder is one too many.

For more news like this and other posts stay tuned to the Limerick Star.

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Volunteer's Needed For The Special Olympics

The 2010 Special Olympics which is set to take place in Limerick are looking for volunteers. The organizers of the event are holding a number of volunteer information nights in the near future, details of which can be found in this post. The Special Olympics is a really good cause, and if you have any spare time you should consider volunteering.

Volunteer Information Nights.

Monday, February 1, 7pm: Strand Hotel, Limerick.
Saturday, February 6, 10.30am: Jean Monnet theatre, UL.
Saturday, February 13, 10.30am: Strand Hotel, Limerick.
Monday, February 15, 7pm: Strand Hotel, Limerick.
Wednesday, February 17, 7pm: Castletroy Park Hotel, Limerick.
Saturday, February 20, 10.30am and 1pm: Jean Monnet theatre, University of Limerick.

The Special Olympics also have a website with information about becoming a volunteer, you can view the site by logging on to www.specialolympics.ie