LIMERICK City South councillor and businesswoman Maria Byrne is to lead a group study exchange down under.

LIMERICK’s Milk Market has received a top national award at an awards ceremony in Dublin.

LIMERICK Youth Service plans to develop a €1.8 million youth centre in the shadow of Thomond Park at Ballynanty, a facility which would bring all of the services it provides for young people on the northside of the city under one roof.

RESIDENTS from the Parteen area say they will continue to fight against proposals for a dual carriageway which they insist will drive through the heart of their village.

MUNSTER have built their success from the ground up and Nicker National School is hoping to emulate them.

LOCALS in Carrigkerry now have a fountain of knowledge on their doorstep following the opening of a community information point in their village.

ELEVEN year old St Paul’s National School pupil Fiona Gleeson will represent Limerick at the provincial finals of the 2012 Eason Spelling Bee in June.

CHRISTMAS is a time for giving and that’s exactly what the Carroll family have done.

AN initiative that aims to get students more involved and engaged in fundraising, volunteering and social projects has just been launched by University of Limerick students.

THE Limerick Rape Crisis Centre is supporting calls for prostitution to be criminalised in Ireland, and its director believes the men who recently came before the courts on soliciting prostitutes should have been named in all newspapers.

OVER 2,000 people attended a charity sale in Limerick last weekend, but the proceeds from the Norma Smurfit ‘spring clean’ event are still being tallied.

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LIMERICK City Sports Partnership has reported a 100 per cent success rate in an inspirational programme designed to take young people from regeneration areas and train them to involve children from their communities in physical activity.

Mayor Jim Long was full of praise last Thursday in the South Court Hotel for a group of family carers and care workers to whom he presented certificates after they obtained their FETAC Level 5 qualification in Practical Care Skills.

THE MEDIEVAL town of Kilmallock will echo to the sounds of pounding feet and pop music over the Easter weekend when it hosts a local festival to coincide with the Headless Horseman Adventure Race.

WITH three Green Flags already achieved, the pupils at Patrickswell national school are “striding” purposefully towards their target - a fourth flag for travel.

POLITICIANS from across the political spectrum gathered this week for the funeral Mass of Maudie O’Dea - the mother of Limerick TD Willie O’Dea - who had “a huge heart and a welcome for everybody”.

NEWCASTLE West solicitor John Cussen has been appointed president of the Thomond Archaeological and Historical Society, one of the oldest societies in the country.

A NEWCASTLE West man has been named national volunteer of the year in recognition of his five decades of community and charity work.

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