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New platform planned at Limerick Junction to keep time improvements on track

A NEW platform at Limerick Junction railway station could be on the way, with Irish Rail hoping this will drive improved journey times to Cork and Dublin. The state rail company has submitted a planning application to Tipperary County Council for ...

15 Apr 2018 at 14:04

Crime and Courts

Large number of cars broken into at Limerick car park during Storm Emma

GARDAI in Limerick have launched a full investigation after a large number of cars were broken into during the recent bad weather. During the virtual shutdown of the city on Thursday and Friday, around 20 cars were targeted by thieves who braved ...

05 Mar 2018 at 22:00

Business

Irish Rail protest in Limerick: 'We are finding it hard to meet the bills'

A SIPTU representative for Irish Rail workers in Limerick has said that some staff are finding it hard to pay the bills following “10 years of austerity”. More than a dozen Irish Rail workers formed a picket line outside Colbert Station this ...

01 Nov 2017 at 15:52

Local News

Transport firm gives update on long-derelict site in Limerick

CORAS Iompair Éireann (CIÉ), the State transport provider, has said it is exploring alternative uses for a derelict site in the city centre. The former CIÉ club at Carey’s Road in the city centre has lain idle for more than 30 years, ...

29 Apr 2025 at 19:59

Business

Anger as charge for parking at Limerick rail station almost doubles

THERE is anger after the charge for motorists using the car park at Limerick Colbert station has almost doubled. Motorists catching a train or bus from the station and those working in the city were left furious, and aghast, after ...

20 Jul 2025 at 18:00

Community

Limerick footballers do 'passionate football supporters' proud in Croke Park final

YOU’D have got good odds at the start of summer on Limerick’s footballers being the county’s only senior men’s GAA team to contest a major final at Croke Park. But the hurlers’ shock early exit from the championship to Dublin, ...

18 Jul 2025 at 20:00

Environment

Limerick's Colbert Station receives free water refill station

LIMERICK'S Colbert Railway Station will be one of the first locations under a new agreement to receive an outdoor bottle filling station. Ecofil, Ireland’s leading provider of sustainable bottle filling solutions, has ...

17 Jul 2025 at 14:00

Local News

Limerick train services affected by Bus Eireann strike

MANAGEMENT at Iarnród Éireann have confirmed that no train services are operating in or out of Colbert Station this Friday morning as workers have not passed pickets placed by Bus Eireann workers. The all-out strike ...

24 Mar 2017 at 09:05

Sport

World champion Freya Colbert enjoying being ‘under radar’ for Paris Olympics

Freya Colbert heads into the Olympics as a world champion – but she accepts gold is almost certainly out of reach in Paris with Summer McIntosh looming over her. Colbert won the women’s 400 metres individual medley ...

23 Jul 2024 at 10:03

I thought I’d got it – Matt Richards after narrowly missing out on swimming gold

Sport

Matt Richards defies lane one to claim silver in frantic 200m freestyle finish

Matt Richards defied being in an outside lane to claim Olympic silver in the men’s 200 metres freestyle – but he missed out on gold by an agonising two-hundredths of a second. Richards claimed Team GB’s second ...

29 Jul 2024 at 21:03

Sport

Matt Richards rues his finish after narrowly missing out on 200m freestyle gold

Matt Richards was kicking himself for a poor finish that cost him Olympic gold in the men’s 200 metres freestyle final after missing out by just two hundredths of a second. Richards thought he had defied ...

29 Jul 2024 at 22:05

Motoring

Disruption to Limerick train services likely as workers vote for strike action

TRAIN services out of Limerick's Colbert station – and around the country – look set to grind to a halt later this month and in the run up to Christmas after National Bus and Railworkers Union (NBRU) ...

20 Oct 2017 at 14:43

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