Big Quiz of 2020: Test your Limerick knowledge and you could win a Bestie Break away
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Take part in our Big 2020 Quiz and you could be in with a chance of winning a fantastic Bestie Break away, including
breakfast and a three-course dinner, at Kinsale Hotel & Spa.
To enter the quiz, simply email your answers to christmasquiz@limerickleader.ie by 6pm on Friday, January 8 - winners details will be published in the Limerick Leader print editions and online.
1. Name the Danish retailer that opened its first store in Limerick in March?
3. Last year’s (2019) National Lottery Christmas Millionaire Raffle was sold at a Centra store in which Limerick town?
Heated exchanges over €58m road, which could open up Limerick estate
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THERE were heated exchanges at this month’s metropolitan council meeting, as the city’s two Green Party members faced criticism over the Northern Distributor Road.
Councillors passed two motions urging more clarity, particularly on the Coonagh to Knockalisheen element of the road, which would see a new link built from the Moyross estate.
Northside councillor Olivia O’Sullivan urged the local authority write to Transport Minister and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan requesting he sign off approval on the scheme, while Cllr Sharon Benson also urged a decision on Coonagh to Knockalisheen.
Enterprise Ireland backs regional centres for life sciences and industry 4.0
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From left: Dr John Cosgrove, Dr Liam Brown, Jamie Meehan, Ciaran O’Loughlin and Harriet Cotter at the launch of IDEAM. Image: Alan Place
The IDEAM manufacturing cluster in Limerick and the Kinetic Labs development in Waterford will play to industry strengths in Irish regions.
Regional funding from Enterprise Ireland will support a manufacturing cluster in the mid-west and a facility where companies can perform lab-based research and development in the south-east.
Kinetic Labs, a purpose-built science and innovation centre in Waterford, will open in the new year to support science-based companies in the region.
97 jobs to be created in the Midlands by Empower Eco
€1.1m investment from the Just Transition Fund and others
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A new economic and environment stimulus partnership has secured funding to progress several ‘firsts’ for the Midlands, that will mobilise the next generation of green-enterprise innovators and stimulate regional job creation.
Empower Eco was formed in the early days of Ireland’s March lockdown as a collaboration between Athlone Institute of Technology, Bord na Móna, Enterprise Ireland, Offaly County Council, LEO Offaly, Limerick Institute of Technology, Maynooth University, and Kilcormac Development Association.
It is chaired by Rita Shah, founder and CEO of Shabra Plastics and Recycling Limited.
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Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) has launched a new service that will provide mental health support to its students 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including throughout the Christmas period.
The free 24 hour crisis text line is now operational and available to all students and staff of LIT, who can access mental health supports by simply texting LIT to 50808.
The Institute’s Student Counselling Service began expanding its service at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, maintaining contact with students and providing a counselling service even during the summer months when students were on their summer break.