Would it be like the pool in Kilmallock, where the travellers used bring in their piebalds to wash them?
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It’s a high quality modern, indoor pool.
The issue is they built it on a flood plain without raising the plant room off ground level, with predictable results.
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@TreatyStones 01/12/22 “there is no such thing a climate change”
@TreatyStones 08/02/23 “floods are ruining my life”
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Archaelogists of the future will be scratching their heads to work that one out. The council just filled it in and buried it.
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They’d ruin yours too if you were a shortarse.
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I remember big fundraising for that pool. Was that only 10-15 years ago? Was there an outdoor pool at one stage?
The Astro at the side of the Gaa field is a fine spot,my young ones have soccer training there a couple of times a week.
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Doing the rounds it’s Connor Murray’s father?
I seen the guards up there beside the old cafe as you go out the cork road the other evening alright,I thought it was a checkpoint.
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Coalition colleagues clash over new Limerick cycling route
Fianna Fáil TD Willie O’Dea has led opposition to a cycling lane on the South Circular Road
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Fianna Fáil TD Willie O’Dea: he argues the cycle lane will force residents to forego parking spaces, creating an intolerable situation
Thu Feb 9 2023 - 05:00
Coalition colleagues in Limerick are at odds over a proposed cycle route for the city, with a Fianna Fáil TD being accused of undermining Government policy on active travel and climate change.
Former minister Willie O’Dea has led opposition to the planned South Circular Road to City Centre Active Travel Scheme, the aim of which is to provide a continuous cycle link between Limerick’s city centre and western suburbs. The project has been strongly backed by TDs from Fianna Fáil’s coalition partners Fine Gael and the Green Party.
It is the third significant cycle route proposed for the city. The first, from the University of Limerick and Castletroy to the city centre, is already in place, and the second, linking the Technical University of the Shannon in the northern suburbs to the city centre, is being developed.
However, the latest proposal has hit a snag over plans to place cycle lanes on a stretch of the South Circular Road that is reasonably close to the city centre. Mr O’Dea argues the cycle lane will force residents to forego parking spaces, creating an intolerable situation. He has urged councillors to vote against the scheme when it comes before the council for decision on February 20th. However, his stance has been challenged by Green Party TD Brian Leddin and the Limerick Cycling Campaign.
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Conor Buckley, chair of the campaign group, has written to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste Micheál Martin and Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan complaining about the position adopted by Mr O’Dea, which he claims is sabotaging the policy objectives of his own Government. He said Mr O’Dea’s stance is “anti-climate, anti-worker, anti-job creation and anti-family”.
“While Limerick Council, its Active Travel Team and councillors from all three Government parties have engaged constructively to ensure Active Travel projects proceed to improve our city, Deputy O’Dea’s actions have hampered their continued progress,” he said in the letter.
“To speak very plainly, Deputy O’Dea is working in direct opposition to Government policy in a way that will harm our climate obligations, that will place children attempting to reach school on bikes at serious risk, that blocks our key healthcare workers in reaching their workplace in UHL, and, finally, risks the economic and jobs growth of the Limerick City West and the larger region.”
Green Party TD for Limerick City Brian Leddin said infrastructure such as the cycling route was “critical for investment in the city”.
“With companies increasingly looking to having sustainable corporate credentials, they will not invest. As well as that you move more people by bike and buses than by car,” he said, adding that the route would help the city to grow and meet its climate targets.
Mr O’Dea has said the issue is not black and white, and that his opposition is confined to a short section of the route, which is residential. He said that if the cycle lane goes ahead “there will be no place for residents to park their cars” and “relatives will not be able to visit them”.
He said 90 per cent of the residents in the South Circular Road were opposed to the cycle lanes. He said it was not just blanket opposition. “There is an alternative suggestion of a shared surface between cars and bicycles with a maximum speed for cars of 30km/h. This is a reasonable proposal which I hope the council will accept. ”
Proposed cycle lanes have run into opposition in a number of cities, with the principal reason being residents complaining about the loss of parking spaces. Similar opposition has been voiced to cycling plans in Galway
Jesus Christ
Willie o dea is against making it safe for cycling the day conor murrays dad is hospitalised
Willie O’Dea has built his whole career aroung opposing unpopular government measures in Limerick, but then supporting them in Dublin.
A nice, everyone is wrong except me tweet
Are those cyclists in the correct lanes?
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They are,
As a local resident I have serious doubts about Willie’s figures, the majority of u50s (people rearing families) are in favour of the cycle lane
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Willie knows who votes, and it ain’t youngsters
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They seem to set up that way with the cycle lane closest to the road going in the same direction as the nearest road lane.
I was abused by a cyclist one day when running in the left lane into town on the Shannon bridge. It’s rare enough to see more than one cyclist there at any given time but she was very upset to find somebody else making use of it even though I wasn’t blocking her lane.
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