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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
LIMERICK charities are being encouraged to attend a unique conference
on November 20 to share best practice and experiences with the private
sector.
‘Partnering for Success’ will take place at Croke Park and is the first
event of its kind where the voluntary and corporate sectors will come
together at a conference to share information.
It will include representatives from both sectors and will explore the
leadership and management challenges facing organisations in Ireland as
well as insights into how the community and voluntary sector is
developing and the main challenges that face its leaders.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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A SENIOR executive at Limerick computer components firm Analog Devices
has called on the Government to introduce bonus points in the Leaving
Certificate for higher level Math’s and Science to encourage students
to focus on the subjects.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
A LIMERICK priest has been elected as Superior for the Peru Region of the St James Society.
Father David Costello of the Diocese of Limerick has been elected
co-ordinator/superior for the Peru Region of the St James Society for a
period of three years.
Fr Costello—who is originally from Corbally but has been working in Peru for the past five years—was ordained in 1995.
Fr Costello has held many fundraising appeals in Limerick over the
years and has thanked local people many times for their contribution.
Bishop Donal Murray, the Bishop of Limerick, congratulated the well-known priest on his new responsibility.
“I offer Fr David my prayerful support in his new role as
co-ordinator/superior of The Missionary Society of St James the
Apostle. Fr David Costello’s pastoral work, while challenging, benefits
many,” he said.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
SPIN South West and Limerick's Live 95FM have both performed extremely
well in the latest JNLR radio listenership figures with both coming out
at number one in several categories.
Limerick’s Live 95FM is once again the number one local radio station
in the country, now reaching 85% of the total Limerick radio audience
every week-the highest seven day reach figure of any local or national
station in the country.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
TWENTY-TWO submissions of motions against and in favour of a major
gas-pipeline from North Kerry to Co Limerick have been made to An Bord
Pleanála, the Limerick Independent can reveal.
An Bord Pleanála are to hold an oral hearing into the second phase of
plans for the major gas terminal, which, if given the go-ahead, will
take the gas along the Shannon estuary into West Limerick.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
SIOBHÁN O’Brien, co-ordinator of Lava Java’s Youth Café, said that
before its foundation, Limerick was much in need of a space for local
young people to simply hang out—a need which is thankfully now being
met.
The newly revamped café was the lucky recipient of €350,000 in funding
from the AIB Better Ireland Programme and was re-launched by the
Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, this Monday.
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 |
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THOUSANDS of people are expected to throng St Joseph’s Church on
O’Connell Avenue later today, as innocent gun victim Shane Geoghegan,
Kilteragh, Dooradoyle is laid to rest after being murdered by gangland
criminals in a case of mistaken identity.
Meanwhile, in Limerick yesterday, the Garda Commissioner said that he
wanted the force in Limerick to “be in the faces” of gangland criminals
and those thought to have been behind the cowardly attack on Shane
Geoghegan.
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 |
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CITY councillors have called on the council to be “more proactive than reactive” and allocate funding from its annual budget to replace lead pipes across the city, after repeated applications for Government funding have failed.
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 |
LIMERICK City Council has hit back at claims that it acted in a discriminatory manner against a GAA Club for its request to remove a sign from outside the club’s premises.
PRO of Na Piarsaigh GAA, Aidan Ryan, claims this was “naked prejudice” against the club by the Council, but City Hall denies the claim.
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 |
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GARRYOWEN rugby club have taken the step of permanently retiring the number ‘three’ jersey from the club’s Third’s team, which had been worn for successive years by the side’s captain Shane Geoeghan.
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