Limerick

Limerick tops global property price affordability index for the second year in a row

Peter Donaghy (Salmon of Data) on January 25, 2016, 11:37 pm | Readers 691

The latest release of Demographia’s annual survey of house price affordability has created headlines for highlighting how chronically unaffordable property is in Hong Kong. Median property prices in the territory were a staggering 19 times median household incomes in the third quarter of 2015, a new record in the twelve years that the survey has been published. Hong Kong has beaten its own record set in 2014 of properties being valued at 17 times median incomes, which in itself beat …

Continuity IRA plan to kill Limerick soldier foiled

Mick Fealty on December 18, 2012, 4:09 pm | Readers 93

This is worth noting for a number of reasons. One, the sheer numbers of people rounded up in the police operation; two the use of Facebook as part of the plan he needs to look at his privacy settings or some of his ‘friends’; and three, the news that this ‘IRA’ is planning to depart from a generations old truce not to commit offences in the Republic. The Dail will be debating the issue about about 5.06pm this evening… Mick …

There was a young woman from….

Blank on January 14, 2011, 8:32 pm | Readers 16

An idyllic island reliant on tourism from across the world but with a population increasingly impoverished. A young woman just starting out on life with a new partner brutally murdered for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Breda Waters & Des Kelly’s murders aren’t getting much coverage – they were from Limerick and not related to anyone of note. Limerick has been heading murder statistics for a long time and when they happen now they rarely receive …