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The five farmers who are the subjects of the At Home on the Farm exhibition at Limerick City Gallery of Art have met to view the exhibition in person.

Deputy Mayor of the City and County of Limerick Cllr Asad Talukdar welcomed the five farmers who generously participated in the making of the exhibition, by artist Mary Burke, which features five Co. Limerick farms.

The streets of Limerick City will become a movie-set this month as the new tv drama comes to town. In association with Screen Ireland and Screen Flanders, RTÉ and AMC Networks’ Acorn TV have announced a new six-part Irish drama called Hidden Assets.

Limerick’s own Ruth Negga is one of this year’s judges for the ENGINE Short Film Scheme, an ambitious new short film scheme for emerging talent in the Mid-West have announced their judging panel. The team at Film in Limerick is delighted to announce a panel of distinguished film industry professionals who will be green lighting the final six short film projects.

Consultation undertaken for the N/M20 Cork to Limerick Project in recent months generated unprecedented levels of public engagement with over 40,000 interactions received using a range of avenues available through the N/M20 Project Office.

A new outdoor photography exhibition is being unveiled in the heart of Limerick city today (Thursday), showcasing the lives of 10 of its citizens, entitled Shaped by Limerick.

Limerick Sports Partnership has secured over €365,000 for a wide range of sport and physical activity measures in Limerick. The funds are part of an investment package of €5.9million in Dormant Accounts Funding announced by Sport Ireland. The investment aims to engage communities across Limerick, focusing on people with disabilities, people who are educationally disadvantaged and from disadvantaged communities.

The latest in a series of touchless water fountains across Limerick has been installed at the People’s Park. Located close to the pedestrian entrance near Barrington Street, the new bottle filling station provides clean and safe drinking water without the risk of touching high-use buttons that could increase the spread of infection.

Limerick City and County Council has launched a new jobs initiative focusing on people living in the regeneration areas of the city.

“Every day it breaks our hearts that he’s not here”…these are the words of Det Garda Jerry McCabe’s daughter Stacey at a commemoration ceremony in Adare in 2016 to mark the 20th anniversary of her father’s killing.

The Mayor of the City and County of Limerick Cllr Michael Collins has fired the starting pistol on the new €3 million Regional Athletics Hub in Newcastle West.

Children across Limerick are being invited to take part in this year’s Cruinniú na nÓg on 12 June.

The Mayor of the City and County of Limerick has called on the people of Limerick to once again show their true Limerick spirit to help reduce the rates of Covid-19 infections in the city and county.