Council Newsroom

A spectacular fireworks display will start this year’s Limerick’s St. Patrick’s Festival with a bang, it has been announced today (Wed 30 Jan 2019).

Registration is now open for the fifth edition of Team Limerick Clean-Up (TLC), set to take place this Good Friday 19th April, across Limerick city and county. Celebrating what will be a milestone year for the much-loved community event, volunteers are urged to sign up early at www.teamlimerickcleanup.ie and help make this the biggest and best TLC to date.

Limerick City and County Council and the Health Service Executive is concerned that bituminous (‘smoky’) coal continues to be sold to, and burnt by, a small minority of householders in Limerick City and its environs.

Limerick City and County Council has been shortlisted for nine awards at this year’s All Ireland Community and Council Awards, including the top award - ‘Council of the Year’.

Limerick’s entrepreneurs are being encouraged to enter the search for Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneurs (IBYE) 2019 and win a share of a €2 million investment fund and business supports as part of the competition.

The former Mayor of the City and County of Limerick Cllr Kieran O’Hanlon has been selected as this year’s 'Gael of the Year' from the Queen’s County St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Culture Committee, Queens County, New York.

Any correspondence that Limerick City and County Council has on the city’s Bike Share Scheme is directed to the appropriate office - the National Transport Authority, which oversees the scheme and not the Department of Tourism, Transport and Sport.

A special event is taking place to allow businesses and householders throughout Limerick to drop off confidential documents, computer hard-drives and other forms of data carrying media to be shredded free of charge.

A new campaign has been launched by Limerick City and County Council’s Marketing & Communications Department to highlight a selection of the numerous walking and running routes across Limerick.

A wealth of opportunities lie ahead for the business, tourism, education and culture sectors in Limerick following the creation of links between Limerick and one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial cities of the United States.

More than 30 older people from across County Limerick have been presented with special tablets as part of a programme to reduce incidents of social isolation and open up a new world of communication.

The Mayor of Limerick has welcomed the Piano for Dolores event due to take place in Limerick tomorrow to allow fans remember Dolores O’Riordan, on the first anniversary of her death.