LimerickIndependent.com Editorial Feed http://www.limerickindependent.com Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:57:19 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.limerickindependent.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.limerickindependent.com LimerickIndependent.com Editorial Feed http://www.limerickindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3866&Itemid=85 Limerick people are often accused of being too sensitive about their image, but with Cllr Kevin Kiely taking to the national airwaves last week to propose internment as a workable solution to gangland crime, we’d better get the hard hats on. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:03:24 +0100 http://www.limerickindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3293&Itemid=85 Some months ago, Limerick Independent journalist David Raleigh, inspired by the daily grind of the traffic commute to and from Westbury on the outskirts of the city, penned an extensive feature about his experiences on the road. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:35:13 +0100 http://www.limerickindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3153&Itemid=85 Limerick is a great place to live and work in. Its residents are fiercely proud of their hometown and trenchantly rebuff negative images of the city lazily painted by outsiders who should frankly focus on problems on their own doorstep. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:55:33 +0100 http://www.limerickindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3086&Itemid=85 It’s a symbolic week in the history of Limerick City with the long-awaited publication of radical plans to transform the social and infrastructural fabric of Moyross and Southill and Ballinacurra Weston. Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:19:18 +0100 http://www.limerickindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2478&Itemid=85 The proposal being prepared by the Cathaoirleach of Limerick County Council which calls for local authorities to be given powers in community policing, health, education and taxes, is a bold one, which should be applauded. Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:18:40 +0100 http://www.limerickindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2017&Itemid=85 I know this column regularly calls for the Government to get their act together on a whole range of issues; most recently on the whole subject of arming the Gardaí. Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:43:22 +0100 http://www.limerickindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1994&Itemid=85 The shooting of an unarmed Traffic Garda in Dublin last week has once again thrust centrestage the debate on whether our police should be armed. Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:13:31 +0100 http://www.limerickindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1997&Itemid=85 It’s difficult to credit that Limerick actually lost this year’s All Ireland Senior Hurling Final to Kilkenny. Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:00:00 +0100 http://www.limerickindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1995&Itemid=85 If ever there was an issue that demanded some kind of cross-party, non-partisan arrangement, it would be Shannon. Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:00:00 +0100 http://www.limerickindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1996&Itemid=85 And so finally… Limerick has done the right thing and honoured Richard Harris. It has taken long enough, and one wonders why, really. Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:00:00 +0100