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This is a little delayed as I should have posted this on Saturday. Anyway, here it is now. To find out what the Limerick Blogger Election Project is all about, head here.

The Limerick Blogger Election project has completed it’s first week. For those of you who don’t know what the hell the Limerick Blogger Election Project is, here is a brief reprieve. Last Saturday, I send out e-mails to every declared election candidate in both Limerick East and Limerick West constituencies. The e-mail contained an invitation [...]

While Bertie Ahern holes himself up in the tidal wave of controversy surrounding the revelation that he took “loans” from friends to finance the costs of his legal seperation, the news has not been good for the Government either in this part of the country. Newcastle West was dealt another blow after 260 jobs were [...]

Four months after a survey carried out by members Sinn Féin in Limerick, revealed that the residents of three large estates immidiately north of the Limerick City/County border, would prefer to be within the city limits, there seems to have been little or no movement on the boundary issue. Sinn Féin’s representative and city councillor, [...]

Fianna Fail activists in County Limerick found themselves in hot water this week, and could face legal action after they mounted a church gate collection without a permit. It gets worse for the party. A children’s group, who had a permit, had to abandon their collection at the same church because the Fianna Failers had [...]