An elderly lady has died as a result of her injuries after being involved in a road traffic accident on Henry Street yesterday at approx 6.45pm. It is believed that she was a pedestrian crossing the road near Bedford Row and was hit by a truck. The road was closed for over an hour as Gardai and Ambulance attended the scene.
Limerick Blogger contributors fired.tk have been busy, and have managed to get the attention of local press.
Two articles in the papers this week. The first was in the Limerick Chronicle (left, click to enlarge) and the second was in the Limerick Independent.
Well done lads. The Limerick Independent article was too big for the scanner so I have transcribed it below.
ALL FIRED UP
by Ciaran Ryan
THROUGH word of mouth alone, two Limerick teenagers have generated something of a cult following for their online radio show.
John Buckley, who presents the www.fired.tk Audio Entertainment Show along with Shane Geary believes that they have in the region of one hundred regular listeners to their programme.
This weekend, the duo will broadcast the final of four shows in their second season. Both presenters are still in secondary school and the idea for the radio show came about as an extension of work they were doing on a website. With minimal equipment and resources, the programmes are put together and recorded in the spare bedroom of John’s house in Raheen.
Two Irish internet radio stations stream the programme. Buckley explains how this came about: “We contacted Ice Radio and they said that they would be interested in playing the show, but Smack fm just fell into place. After hearing Aaron Carey’s sketch on The Blast with Ray Foley on Today FM, I chased after him to feature on the show, which he was very happy to do. It just happened he was involved with Smack fm also.”
John sees the half hour show as essentially a comedy programme, with sketches and quirky information integral to it. It is clear that the show is very much targeted at a teenage audience with some of it vearing towards toilet humour that could potentially offend older listeners. Each programme so far has featured guests, of which there were many highlights for the presenters. “Kevin “The Bull” Keogh from Des Bishop’s Joy In The Hood was hilarious. But Karl Spain threw guest passes our way to one of his gigs in the city, so all guests are equally great.”
The pair are delighted with the response to the programme so far, and John has plans to do some more radio work when he undertakes work experience with Regional Hospital Radio in the coming weeks. He thinks that basic media skills should become a more important part of the school sylabus to help develop the likes of Shane and himself. “What is really needed is for ICT to become an exam subject. Upgrading it would mean that there would be more standardised learning, plus the subject would be taken more seriously.” he added.
The final Audio Entertainment Show goes out live this Friday night through www.fired.tk
Impact theatre company are presenting what promises to be a “heartbreaking example of relationships” in its production, Broken Glass.
According to a release from the Company, it also examines people’s apathy towards political events when they occour in distant lands.
Set in 1938 Brooklyne it is centred around a lady named Sylvia Gellberg, who has recently been struck down by a mystery illness leaving her paralysed from the waist down. Soon afterwards, she learns the events of what is now known as the Night of Broken Glass.
The Night of Broken Glass occoured on November 8th 1938 in fasciast Germany when propegandists blamed a Jewish teenager for the murder of a German in Paris, sparking anger against the Jews by anti-semites in the Reich.
This will be the Irish premiere of Arthur Miller’s play, and the production is to be accompanied by a live violin compositions.
The play runs from 4th – 8th April at the Impact Theatre Company, The Crescent, O’Conell Avenue, and more information can be found at the box office at 061 318121
Thanks to the joys of moving from one telco to another, we bring you, three weeks later than scheduled, pictures of the St. Patrick’s Day parade.
The stopover may be going but Michael O’Leary was back in Shannon this morning to announce new flights and routes to Europe. He stated, “Ryanair’s expansion makes Shannon one of the best served regions of its size anywhere in Europe and is a major boost to tourism and business in the mid-west, bringing 240 new jobs, 240,000 additional passengers and €55m more tourism spend.”From September, Ryanair will base a fourth Boeing 737-800 aircraft in Shannon.
Martin Moroney, Director of Shannon Airport said: “This is another exciting day for Shannon International Airport. The further development of Ryanair’s Shannon base is a great boost for the airport and the region and further establishes Shannon as Ireland’s low cost gateway. ”
The new routes are Shannon to Biarritz and Carcassonne in the South of France, Faro in Portugal, Krakow in Poland and Venice in Italy.It has also increased the frequency of flights on routes from Shannon to Barcelona, Malaga and Milan. The new routes will start on October 12 and bring the total number of destinations served by Ryanair in Shannon to 24. More good news for those who couldnt be arsed going to Dublin to get a flight!!
If you are a Munster fan reading this you are too late but it transpires that there were 150 tickets for the big game at the weeekend on sale in Empire Music this morning. News of the tickets was released on the Munster website this morning. Cue a frantic rush of people to get to O’Connell St. The tickets allocated as two per person sold out in 12 minutes. Other websites have reported that 400 tickets were for sale but this is not true. There were 150 for Cork and 150 for Limerick.
Along with a whole new number of road traffic offences being eligible for penalty points from the first of April it now appears that some of the on the spot fines are going to increase. A standard parking fine is increasing from 19 to 40 euro. Parking in a disabled spot goes up even more to 80 euros. Fines not paid within 28 days will automatically increase by 50%. So be careful where you park and if you get stung by the wasps pay the fine on time!! At least there isn’t clamping yet in Limerick, unless you park down by Steamboat Quay where there is private clamping. And come to think of it, the centre out near the regional hospital where Supermacs is also has clamping as people have had the habit of parking their cars there and going over to the hospital to visit their friends and family. No news yet of the council meeting about the proposed bus route on the Ennis Road which has caused a big stir with the residents and hard done by motorists.
Meanwhile, still traffic related, the National Roads Authority has announced that the Direct Route consortium is the preferred tenderer for the proposed Limerick tunnel PPP scheme. Contracts are due to be signed by the summer. The DirectRoute Consortium comprises the companies Lagan, Roadbridge, John Sisk and Strabag. Construction of the 900 metre tunnel is expected to take about four years and it will be tolled. The expected cost is about 400 million euros, which in Ireland will probably mean that by the time its finished it will be well over a billion!!
The Evening Echo reports today that Anthony Kelly, former gangster and brother of deceased city councillor Mikey Kelly, is fighting the Department of Social Welfare for a €165 a week disability allowance he claims he is entitled to.
Despite spending almost €100,000 on foreign holidays, cars and a security system for his family’s home according to the Echo, Kelly, seen here calling a truce with long term rival Tommy Casey a couple of weeks ago, still believes he is entitled to the allowance because he “suffers from a disability which he sustained after he was injured in a number of shooting incidents”.
A quickpick ticket bought in Ryans Centra in Raheen won the €200,000 jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto Plus 2 draw. Suffice to say it wasn’t me, does anybody know who it was?
Chorus analogue viewers in Limerick and Shannon will have to ‘adjust their sets’ soon as part of a channel reshuffle. BBC2 and Eurosport are moving frequencies and will need retuning. Channel 6 has also been added, with a promo loop at the moment and going live on Thursday at 8pm.
For those of you technically minded, the new frequencies are:
Eurosport: 311.25
BBC2: 271.25
Channel 6: 391.25
Chorus are writing to all analogue customers to inform them of the changes. UK Gold has disappeared though, and this isn’t mentioned by them in the mailout. I’m not sure if it was ever an official part of the package anyway.
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