Former Debenhams Limerick staff mark year on picket line
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Former Debenhams staff mark the grim milestone of a year out on strike outside the firm s former delivery gate in Honan s Quay );
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FORMER retail staff in Limerick have marked the grim milestone of 365 days on the picket-line this Friday.
Workers who up to Easter 2020 were employed by Debenhams Ireland met at the former store in O’Connell Street to mark the first anniversary of the closure here.
More than 110 workers in Limerick lost their jobs when Debenhams’s British arm pulled support for its Irish operation, with liquidators from KPMG appointed a short-time later.
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CCTV for Limerick community would be a game changer
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THE installation of CCTV cameras in the Johnsgate and Garryowen areas would be ‘game changer’ a senior member of An Garda Siochana has stated.
Superintendent Brian Sugrue has confirmed gardai are engaging with Limerick City and County Council in the hope that cameras can be rolled out in the areas.
Speaking at this month’s meeting of the Limerick Joint Policing Committee, Superintendent Sugrue confirmed that levels of crime in Johnsgate and Garryowen have decreased in recent months.
“We’ve rolled Johnsgate and Garryowen together for a policing plan and I think it has had a positive result,” he told the virtual meeting.
Fears for teacher jobs as numbers at Limerick school decline
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Sinn Fein councillor John Costelloe pictured at the gate of St Mary’s National School, where there are fears for teaching jobs );
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STAFF and parents of children attending a city school fear it will lose two out of its six teachers due to declining pupil numbers.
St Mary’s Boys and Girls National School at Bishop Street has seen its student numbers fall from 117 to 100.
And this could mean the school may lose teaching staff, with staff set to learn their fate in the coming weeks.