THE government has approved funding to enable Limerick County Council to accept the tender of €2.798 million submitted by Conwell Contracts Ltd. for the Patrickswell sewerage scheme. The works involve the construction of a pumping station at Barnakyle together with the laying of some 5.46km foul sewers, 3.2km rising mains and 0.85km surface water sewers.
Once completed, the pumping station and rising main will deliver foul sewage from Patrickswell to the Limerick Main Drainage collection system at Raheen, for treatment at the new Wastewater Treatment Works at Bunlickey.
Good Friday first for greyhound industry
FOUR of Ireland’s most prominent greyhound racing stadia will open for the first time on Good Friday, April 6.
Greyhound stadia are among the few licensed venues to be exempt from the Good Friday restrictions on the sale of alcohol.
While greyhound racing has traditionally enjoyed a break on Good Friday, Limerick Harold’s Cross, Curraheen Park and Galway will be open for business.
Corrigan’s ‘cash’ in on McIlroy’s success
CASTLETROY’S Corrigan Brothers have another American hit on their hands.
The brothers, who reached the American top 40 with “There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama,” and with more than nine million youtube hits, are enjoying coverage across the USA with their new single, “Rory McIlroy, World Number One”.
Ger Corrigan, lead singer, told the Limerick Post, “last week we were asked by an American friend to record a song for a golf news site in honour of Rory’s achievement. “We wrote and recorded the song and 24 hours later it had appeared all over the sports media and mainstream US media.
“We are overwhelmed by the reaction. In the past week we have done more than 20 interviews with US radio and TV”. USA Today, the biggest newspaper in America, featured the song, as well as NBC news, CBS news, the Fox sports website Yardbarker, ESPN and Bleacher report.
The brothers rush released the song as a single in the USA and they think it may be bigger than their Obama hit.
They will film a performance of the single for CBS TV in Ireland later this month, as well as recording a segment for the US Masters official coverage.
They are currently completing the music for a film on George Clooney’s Irish roots due for cinema release in the USA later this year, as well as planning a tour of the West Coast of the USA in September.
