Limerick City and County Council

Limerick City and County Council: Adare - Rathkeale, Cappamore - Kilmallock, Limerick City West, Limerick City North, Limerick City East, Newcastle West local electoral areas LEAs

Father of retired Limerick footballer crushed to death by ‘unsafe’ automatic steel gate

Health and Safety Authority warns about dangers of automatic gates at coroner’s court

Gardaí examine allegations related to Niall Collins’s role in Limerick land deal

Presumption of innocence applies to complaints made to gardaí, says Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin

Tánaiste accuses Paul Murphy of ‘weaponising’ Sipo over Niall Collins complaint

Martin accuses website The Ditch of distortion and creating a toxic atmosphere online

Collins says ‘no law was broken’ in relation to wife’s purchase of property

Minister of State says that in hindsight it would have been better if he had not participated in a local area committee meeting

‘No law was broken,’ junior minister Niall Collins insists as he addresses Dáil

Minister of State for Skills and Further Education was defending role in wife’s purchase of property from Limerick County Council in 2008

Niall Collins should have absented himself from council meeting over land sale, Taoiseach says

Junior minister says he was not on council when land was sold, so had no ‘pecuniary or beneficial interest’ in property at time

Niall Collins statement on Limerick property unlikely to silence questions

Junior minister responds to series of stories published by The Ditch website about his wife’s purchase of a property in Limerick

Forbes Magazine in talks with Limerick officials to organise promotional event

Move comes after an online article in 2021 referenced the city as the ‘murder capital’ of Europe

More than 3,000 HAP households in rent arrears since establishment of scheme

If tenant does not pay their share of rent, HAP payments by council will stop

Niall Collins called upon to make further Dáil statement on planning application

Minister of State for Skills Niall Collins argues planning permission was properly granted

Niall Collins: Glaring unanswered question after planning statement leaves him in political danger zone

Minister of State fails to address key question in statement to Dáil

Niall Collins ‘entirely satisfied’ planning application correctly handled

Limerick TD addresses Dáil over allegations on The Ditch website

Niall Collins to make Dáil statement on 2001 planning application

Decision to address Dáil follows allegations on The Ditch website relating to Patrickswell house

Limerick leads rest of country in collecting parking fine money

Illegal removal of vehicle clamps increased sixfold in Dublin from 2021 to 2022

Court challenges brought against €450m Limerick road project

Farmer says motorway will cut across his land and negatively affect his herd of 130 cows

Drug dealer banned from parts of Limerick for two years

William Cody (32) claims he will be left homeless by the ban as he lives with his mother in the exclusion zone

Waterford council leads way in converting vacant homes to social housing

Councils to tell Oireachtas Housing Committee of ambitious social housing programmes over next five years

Limerick Greenway sees huge increase in visitor numbers to boost tourism in West Limerick

The route, which opened in July 2021, has seen over 800,000 visits since coming into use

Fears ability to remove elected mayors will lead to US-style ‘impeachment hearings’

Concern over process to remove elected mayor will become ‘political football’

Gardaí investigate after tree is felled at site of fatal road incident

Road is thought to have been closed to traffic during ‘criminal damage’ incident in Limerick

TII confirms N20 corridor as route for Cork-Limerick motorway

Project costing €1.2 billion to go to An Bord Pleanála by 2023 for planning approval

UL plans new security system to monitor vehicles on campus

Privacy concerns are raised over proposal that would place some cars on a ‘watch list’

Cork-Limerick M20 Motorway expected to be open by 2027

Long-awaited €850m upgrade due after design phase of project was put out to tender

Limerick council taking legal advice on aspects of CCTV project

‘Smart city’ pilot will see cameras introduced in 14 towns around the county

Limerick put down three times more dogs than rest of country

Pressure on shelter: Council says it is successfully working to cut its euthanasia rate

Sinn Féin councillor resigns over alleged ‘toxic’ bullying

Gerry Adams says internal investigation into claims by Lisa Marie Sheehy found no evidence

Mobile app developed to fight back against invasive plant species

Limerick local authority will feed valuable data into national biodiversity database

The regeneration of Limerick

Scale of ambition reflected in plan for €500 million worth of ‘transformational investment infrastructure’

Voter registration deadline sees late surge in applications

Union of students says it was involved in registering more than 27,633 voters

Limerick City of Culture not facing losses, says County Council

Council official says budget was spent but authority not suffering financial shortages

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