Limerick improvement projects

9 units is nuts. That site is tiny and why do we need 9 more units on a street that already has a bunch of vacancies.

Mungret College and 26 hectares around it are owned by Limerick City and County Council. It is managed as part of the Limerick 2030 portfolio. No concrete plans at present. Hopefully something will be done soon before it starts to deteriorate now that the Community College have moved to their new home. Amazing that the alt-right shower aren't out there blathering about immigrants and IPAS or praying for a bit of self combustion.

See here:

https://limerick2030.ie/first-major-step-for-mungret-development-as-master-planning-team-in-appointed/

and here

https://limerick2030.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Mungret-PDF-File.pdf

apparently a “leading fashion retailer” is going into the Debenhams building

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/1731519/major-development-as-retailer-primed-for-former-debenhams-store-in-limerick.html

Stuff like this only adds to the negativity around when it turns out that "major fashion retailer" is sports direct and not Gucci or whatever other weird hopes people dream up.

I've nothing against them but I can see the kind of comments that would pop up if it happened.

It literally happened to the same building when people found out it was going to be an aparthotel and not a Hilton or something.

People need to stop seeing a shop opening as a "win" or a political statement about the city.

This kinda stuff is exactly what I was talking about because when this ends up not being the shop of your dreams that you were never promised you will be on here full of negativity.

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/planning/1734085/social-housing-scheme-in-growing-limerick-suburb-cut-in-size.html

Its no wonder we have a housing crisis in this country when you have councillors voting to cut a development in half in favour of appeasing a few locals. No prizes for guessing which councillors have voted against it. They have form and previous doing this.

The location is fitting for a multi storey apartment scheme. Close to good bus route connections and the Raheen Business park.

https://www.limerickpost.ie/2025/02/22/green-light-for-rail-improvement-plans-in-limerick/

Why are they pushing ahead with a station in Moyross? It makes no sense and will take longer to get to the city centre than bus, given that the route is from Moyross, through Corbally, through Rhebogue, past the Parkway, along Childers Road before joining the Limerick Junction line coming into Colbert station. The term all around the world for sport comes to mind.

That's route the only track from Moyross takes into the city. That is the only route anyone can take on the train. Literally the only people it will benefit is students who need to get to that side of town. That's a massive investment if that's all that will benefit.

It is not to get people from Colbert to Moyross or Moyross to Colbert. Buses do that better.

It's for people not from Limerick.

And it's not really a massive investment in the grand scheme of things. When you look at the amount of money spent or lost on tax breaks or other initiatives during the life of a government it's small and at least we will have some tangible infrastructure to point to which in my life at least seems rare enough with government spending.

There is an interesting thread dedicated just to Moyross station where all this has been gone through already if you are looking for more info.

The power washing of Clancys Strand boardwalk has stopped mid finish. Is this because the wood is showing up as rotten? Has an engineer been pulled in to evaluate?

A poster on another forum took this photo of the works to link the existing Bloodmill Road with the new stretch of road built by Kirkland Investments.

Lidl has a banner at the site stating that the new road opens on March 14th.

Not sure if "busses do that better"

Busses in the city are regularly late, stop at nearly every stop along a route and are heavily influenced by traffic jams in the area. A train from Colbert to Moyross would likely take between 5-10 minutes, the train service is usually on time and doesn't get affected by rush hour traffic

The main people to benefit from this station will be the students of LIT, those directly living in the area and Thomond Park matchday crowds

Agree on the costs, or rather the cost:benefit ratio would be very favourable