Infrastructure from €78K project gets new lease of life on city boardwalk

FURNITURE from a parklet which cost Limerick City and County Council over €78,000 will be reused in the coming months.

The parklet, built during the summer of 2020, cost €78,501 and was located on O’Connell Street. The parklet was removed when work started on O’Connell Street's €10m refurbishment plan in April 2021.

It will now get a new lease of life, with a spokesperson from Limerick City and County Council confirming that “some of the street furniture will be put on the boardwalk on Clancy Strand in the coming months” and the remaining street furniture will be used in one of the public parks during the summer.

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In 2021, when it was announced that the parklet was to be removed, a spokesperson for the Council defended its cost, saying it had been developed as a “medium-to-long-term amenity” and that the parklet’s windbreaks and furniture were of a “particularly high standard” and are reusable.

It was also highlighted, at the time, that 10,000 vehicles, which ranged from articulated lorries to double-decker buses passed by the O’Connell Street location each day - with the council stating that this too was a factor in the parklet’s cost.

Meanwhile, a separate parklet on Catherine Street in the city, built at the same time as the parklet on O’Connell Street, cost the Council €43,375.