world wide madness

And once again pulled from the leader is the report that there was a bit of a skirmish up at the dole office in Dominic Street last week when furniture went flying and a full scale mini riot erupted for a few minutes when one of the customers got jumped by four other people. As a result of this, i tnow appears that some fo the furniture may have to be secured to the floor in future... Now i thought that any bit of furniture on general view in Limerick would be nailed to the floor but obviously i was wrong!..

a body has been found in suspicous circumstances out in Parteen.

If like everyone else, you think that traffic around town is getting to be a lot more shite than usual help may be at hand in about four years... 372 is the magic figure as in millions of euros that the cost of the tunnel under the Shannon is expected to cost. The National Roads Authority has given the tender provisionally to a consortium called Direct Route and if all goes according to plan the contract will be signed next spring! What multiple of 372 million it winds up costing in the end is anyones guess but it will be a topic for ust to bitch about another day!

That is the view apparently of a Dublin Radio documentary maker who has spent some time down here in treaty city land and thinks that things aren't as bad as potrayed in the media..... Why exactly we need a Dub to tell us what everyone else here knows anyway is another matter altogether but at least if other people have a listen it might change their minds!! According to the Leader (again) The programme features a slot where the producer drives around Ballinacurra Weston, Southill and Ballynanty while journalist Mr Karl Hanlon talks about the city's gangland feud problem. The programme goes out on monday at 8pm on rte radio 1 so tune if if you like...

Article in the Limerick Leader about more mysterious activity around rugby pitches on the Northside involving holes being dug in the ground... Not the holy ground of Thomond park this time but another Thomond was involved, -vandals dug up over 200 holes at Fitzgerald Park-home of Thomond RFC-on the city's Northside. This time it looks like it was aimed at one of the local councillors in the area who is probably not on the Christmas card list of some of the boyz involved in this activity. Meanwhile back at fortress Thomond Park on Saturday, one must say that the pitch looked none the worse for having the 490 holes dug in it a while back and the boys in red put on a Five-star display as they beat Castres out the door by 42 points to 16. Certainly a bit of a redeeming performance after the poor showing over in England last week.

Just time for a quick post with some news. There was another fatal accident out the county in Oola, when the driver of a jeep was killed when she hit a wall. Two people were arrested yesterday in relation to the damage that was caused when people dug up Thomond Park a few weeks ago.
The abandonment of the city centre by local shops continues with the news that Finuncanes have gone from their location on Thomas St out to the Eastway indudtrial estate. At least they are still in business, Newsoms, on William St have announced that they are going to be closing in the next few weeks. Mary's of william st also closed recently. Meteor are going to be opening a new shop at the junction of O 'Connell St and William St shortly where Carl Scarpa used to be. Mcs computers on O'Connell St seems to have bellu p recently and is to be repaced by a "Juice zone" shop - more healthy smoothies to be consumed by people no doubt who want to be skinny. Just across the road, Bentley barkers has opened up on O 'Connell St beside the old Teds- how it will do remains to be seen as i doubt that there is much demand for another pub in the city centre at the minute?- but then again i am open to be being proved wrong!