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Alan Jacques

Limerick

Multimedia Journalist at Limerick Post

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  • 4 days ago | limerickpost.ie | Alan Jacques

    A TOTAL of 22 applications were received for the Historic Structures Fund in 2024. Social Democrats councillor Elisa O’Donovan asked for an overview of successful applicants including a breakdown of use for residential or community use at the Council’s Metropolitan District meeting for May. Seven projects, Cllr O’Donovan was told, were shortlisted to the Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage for consideration.

  • 5 days ago | limerickpost.ie | Alan Jacques

    INDEPENDENT Limerick TD Richard O’Donoghue hit out in the Dáil that Askeaton has been 49 years without a sewerage system. Raw sewage, Deputy O’Donoghue claimed, is flowing into the Shannon, “water from which the government wants to pipe up here to Dublin to service the city’s water needs”. “Raw sewage is going into the Shannon and the government wants to treat the water from the river and use it to service Dublin’s needs.

  • 6 days ago | limerickpost.ie | Alan Jacques

    INDEPENDENT councillor Ursula Gavan has urged Limerick County Council (LCCC) to call on Government to reinstate the No Fault Eviction ban in light of the worsening of the housing emergency and increasing homelessness across the country. The ban was introduced briefly from October 2022 to March 2023, and whilst it was hoped to reduce homeless numbers, it was acknowledged even by former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to have failed.

  • 6 days ago | limerickpost.ie | Alan Jacques

    LIMERICK City and County Council (LCCC) have been urged to request that the Ardagh Chalice be loaned from the National Museum of Ireland to be put on display for the much-anticipated Ryder Cup in Adare. The Ardagh Chalice is one of the greatest treasures of the early Irish Church. It is part of a hoard of objects found in the 19th century by a young man digging for potatoes near Ardagh, County Limerick.

  • 6 days ago | limerickpost.ie | Alan Jacques

    THE fourth instalment in the blood-splattered slasher franchise Fear Street, based on the RL Stine novels, sees prom season in full flight at Shadyside High. The original Netflix trilogy, saw the first three films shift between the 1660s to the 1970s and 1990s with playful aplomb, as writer-director Leigh Janiak drew us into a horror universe where teenage angst came face to face with supernatural fantasy and queer romance.

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