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Limerick’s resilience has come to the fore during COVID-19, with key indicators from the second of this year’s biannual Limerick Economic Monitors reflecting well on the city and county’s ability to ride out the pandemic.

Limerick City and County Council has been shortlisted amongst some of the world’s top cities for three international awards, which celebrate outstanding place branding, destination marketing and investment promotion.

Limerick Museum and Limerick City Gallery of Art to close.

Limerick’s Library branches will close to members of the public this evening due to the government’s announcement that the whole country is moving to Covid Level 3.

Limerick City and County Council is leading the way in innovation when it comes to consultation for the Limerick Development Plan with a new ‘Virtual Room’. The ‘Virtual Room' is an online consultation room that has been set up to allow members of the public to access a ‘virtual consultation’ of the new Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028.

Limerick City and County Council and the Health Service Executive are reminding the public that the distribution, marketing, sale and burning of bituminous or ‘smoky’ coal is illegal in the greater Limerick City area. The joint appeal comes as the weather begins to turn with cooler temperatures returning, resulting in the more people putting on their heating in their homes.

October is Ireland’s National Reuse Month and to celebrate Limerick City and County Council is hosting a number of webinars aimed at getting more people to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. It’s about valuing our stuff, by using and reusing it for as long and as often as possible. This avoids the need to extract raw materials, manufacture and distribute new stuff, and avoids waste, thereby cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions.

Sport and physical activity in Limerick has received a welcome boost, with €281,005 being allocated to Limerick Sports Partnership (LSP) through the Dormant Accounts Fund. The allocation is part of a total investment package of €7.3m in Dormant Accounts Funding announced by Sport Ireland for a wide range of sport and physical activity measures countrywide.

Five young Limerick hurling fanatics went to school on a high this week after enjoying a once in a lifetime opportunity to train with All Ireland winning legend Cian Lynch. Nine year old Rory McCarthy, from Cappamore was entered into Limerick City and County Council’s 50 Days of Summer competition by his mum Miriam which saw him win a VIP training session for himself and some lucky friends.

Galway’s Eva Bourke is winner of 2020 Michael Hartnett Poetry Award.

Festival in a Van is the novel response of the organisers of Éigse Michael Hartnett to Covid-19 restrictions, which will bring live entertainment to audiences in the grounds of the Desmond Castle, Newcastle West this Saturday afternoon.

Latest Limerick European Green Leaf Seminar.

To coincide with the Tree Council of Ireland’s Tetra Pak Tree Day on Thursday 1st October, Limerick City and County Council is hosting a special webinar on the subject of Tree Diseases.

‘We’re stronger together’ is the message from the Local Enterprise Office Limerick (LEO Limerick) at the launch of events to mark National Women’s Enterprise Day on Wednesday 14 October 2020. The interactive events are moving online to LocalEnterprise.ie/NWED and the big themes this year are resilience, self-care, innovation and opportunity.

There will be no change in the levels of Local Property Tax (LPT) payable by Limerick homeowners for 2021 following a meeting of Limerick City and County Council this afternoon. Councillors voted in favour of increasing the LPT by 15% from the base rate for 2021, which means there will be no change to the LPT next year.