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Rising rents teach tough lessons in Limerick
Rising rents teach tough lessons in Limerick. Peter McVerry Trust CEO Pat Doyle. RENTS in Limerick have soared by 11 per cent in the last year with average rent now standing at nearly €1,000 and a huge...
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HAP no help in Limerick
HAP no help for Limerick. Maurice Quinlivan TD, Sinn Féin. A NEW report published by the Simon Community shows the gulf between HAP (Housing Assistant Payment) and rent prices in Limerick, says Sinn...
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Government figures confirm there are 297 homeless people in Limerick
297 people were homeless in Limerick in July, up from 278 on the previous month, according to figures released by the Department of Housing. Limerick City TD Maurice Quinlivan believes that the...
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Opera Centre plan should include housing
LIMERICK Labour TD and Spokesperson on Housing and Local Government, Jan O’Sullivan believes the proposed Opera Centre Development needs to be amended to contain residential units. The Labour Party has...
View ArticleNew ‘family hub’ units will provide a temporary solution for city’s homeless
A TEN-unit ‘family hub’ will be opening in Limerick City this week and it is expected that a second facility, with 30 units, will be operational by the end of next month. Responding to an article in...
View Article67 more children homeless in Mid-West in one month
THIS August 309 people were homeless in Limerick, which was up from 297 the previous month. In the Mid-West there are now 74 families with 147 children without a home which indicates that an additional...
View ArticleStorm highlighted vulnerability of homeless people in Limerick
STORM Ophelia highlighted the vulnerability of people who are homeless, who spend large parts of the day out of doors, those who are rough sleeping and those who are sofa surfing but have no place to...
View ArticleLimerick politician calls on Minister to address job threats
LIMERICK Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins has asked Jobs Minister Frances Fitzgerald to brief the Joint Committee on Business, Enterprise and Innovation on direct threats to foreign direct investment and...
View ArticleCouncil housing effort in Limerick blocked up by sewerage problems
LIMERICK City and County Council is “wasting its time” trying to deal with the housing and homeless crisis if it cannot get its sewerage plants operating properly. That was the view expressed by Fine...
View ArticleHomelessness will scar a generation
LIMERICK politicians have demanded urgent action to tackle homlessness as a new report from Focus Ireland shows that 72 Irish families per month are now becoming homeless. And a Limerick politician has...
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378 Limerick calls to homeless advocacy service
CALLS to Threshold, the free advice and advocacy service for people at risk of homelessness, increased by nearly a third in November with 378 calls coming from Limerick numbers. Of these, 107 were...
View ArticleHousing meeting postponed
Fianna Fáil has decided to postpone the public meeting on Housing which was scheduled to take place this Thursday in Limerick, due to the severe weather warning for the coming days. The meeting will...
View ArticlePublic meeting in Limerick to discuss housing crisis
FIANNA Fáil is holding a public meeting on the implications of the housing crisis in Limerick on Monday, March 26 at 8pm in the Strand Hotel on the Ennis Road. The meeting forms part of a series of...
View ArticleNew builds the only way to solve housing crisis
BUILDING new homes is the only way to seriously tackle the current housing crisis. That’s according to Sinn Féin councillor Séighin Ó Ceallaigh who was told by Limerick City and County that there are...
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Beyond the neon runes
The outer limits I was in Sligo the other week. I’d never been there before, never been compelled to visit, but having been summoned there on business, I girded my loins and prepared for the worst....
View ArticleHousing crisis and worker shortage creating ‘perfect storm’, says Chamber
THE HOUSING crisis and the shortage of skilled workers in Limerick and the Mid West is creating a “perfect storm”, according to Limerick Chamber. Submitting their pre-Budget 2024 submission at Leinster...
View ArticleHouse sale figures show Limerick landlords leaving the market
SIX in 10 houses sold in Limerick City and four in ten in the county in the last three months have been sold by landlords getting out of the rental market, new figures have revealed. According to...
View ArticleRathkeale haunted by ghost estate dereliction
IT IS a “national disgrace” that a 33-home ghost estate in Rathkeale has been left unfinished for over a decade, and in the middle of a housing crisis, a local government party councillor said. Former...
View ArticleJust 15 vacant Council properties ready for tenants
JUST 15 out of a total 225 vacant properties owned by Limerick City and County Council are ready to accept tenants. That’s according to information provided by the Council to Limerick senator Paul...
View ArticleYoung people can’t launch adult life in housing crisis, says Limerick councillor
LABOUR councillor Joe Leddin believes that the housing crisis is having disastrous consequences in the lives of young people in Limerick. Cllr Leddin was commenting in relation to new figures from 2022...
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