The development, set to transform two units between the Charlie St George pub and Luigi's fish and chip shop, will see the construction of a three storey building containing a coffee shop, merchandising retail area, amusement hall, courtyard and putting green, with an international sports museum taking over the second floor.

According to Murrough O'Byrne, the site owner, "The sports museum will house a unique collection of over 1,000 items of Irish and cosmopolitan sports memorabilia intertwined with Limerick history and spiced for familiar international interest with connections such as Richard Harris, Terry Wogan, Russell Crowe and our own rugby legends. The collection will be presented as the core in a wider, entertaining visitor attraction."

Mr O'Byrne told the Limerick Leader that many parts of the collection in the international sports museum have been purchased from Johnny Brennan, the Hyde Road man who had previously donated to the rugby museum at Thomond Park.

When the project is complete, the visitor will be able to enter a sports retail shop, have pictures taken, before embarking on a tour through the "rugby sports collection".

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