Tag Archives: Limerick

Typical.

The father’s swanned off.

Mute swans usually lay between four and six eggs; however this Limerick swan had a clutch of nine cygnets in recent weeks. “Nine is an incredible number. The average is four to six although we did have up to 10 cygnets sighted before,” says Westfield Wetlands committee member Sean Ryan.

 

Family Of Nine Cygnets Is A New Attraction At Limerick Wetlands (Niamh Dillon, Limerick Leader)

(Sean Ryan)

Thanks Niall O’M

Ruth Kerins writes:

A ‘mobile’ shop in a estate in Moneymore, Drogheda.

And in Limerick…

Aine O’Connell sez:

Poster paints and card were used to make this bookshop bunting. Definitely time well spent.

 

Tricolour Overloads to broadsheet@broadsheet,ie

A NORTHSIDE community activist has vowed never to use a city pizza firm again after claiming it refused to deliver to his home in Delmege Park [Limerick].

Christy Duhig says when his 18-year-old daughter Kelsey attempted to order a take-away from Apache Pizza, based in Henry Street, she was told that she would have to walk to 15 minutes to Watch House Cross at the entrance of Moyross.

He believes the national take-away company, which has more than 80 branches nationwide, is discriminating against people from Limerick’s regeneration areas.

 

Limerick Activist Cheesed Off At Pizza Delivery Firm (Nick Rabbits, Limerick Leader)

Thanks Niall O’M

Serinna Corbett (above with son, Brian), a mother of four young children, told this week’s Limerick Leader of her campaign – across Facebook – to get re-housed.

She currently shares a three-bedroom council house with her four young children in Moyross, Co Limerick.

But, according to blogger Bock the Robber, Serinna is another example he (contentiously) argues of a growing culture of entitlement. The other being a certain couple from Killiney.

What do a millionaire Killiney couple and an unemployed Moyross mother of four have in common?  Not much, you might imagine, until you compare the demands they make and their complete blindness to the notion of personal responsibility.

…Serinna thinks her living conditions are beyond human endurance.  Having a 13 year old, and an 18-month-old sleeping in the same room is just wrong. It’s just not on. She wants a bigger house from the council.

According to Serinna, the 13-year-old has ADHD, which she says causes fits and hallucinations. (It doesn’t).  He might wake up in the middle of the night and attack the baby, she says.  Oddly, the obvious solution doesn’t seem to occur to her: bring the baby into your own bedroom.  No.  The baby must sleep in a place where he faces danger, just as the other children have done for five years now….

…Serinna’s clincher is this: there’s another baby on the way.  You have to stand back and think about this for a minute.  Another child on the way?  Well, how the hell did that happen?  Did a postcard arrive through the letterbox?  Hi, future mother.  See you soon.  Best wishes, Your New Baby.

 

When The World Owes You A Living (Bock the Robber)

Serinna interviewed on this morning’s  ‘Limerick Today’ (95FM) here.