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TUESDAY,JANUARY 16, 2018 €1.20 LIMERICK AND PROUD facebook.com/limerickleader @limerick_leader www.limerickleader.ie WHERE SOLD Rock star Dolores O’Riordan picturedas Limerick will remember her best,infull voice, ringing in the NewYearin2014, for Limerick’s 12 months as National Cityof RIP Culture. Seepage3for story Dolores O’Riordan 1971-2018 JOHNDEIGNANS MENSWEAR &SHOES Nowisthe time to buyyour suit! WINTER SALE NOWON! 2O’Connell Ave, Limerick. Opposite St. Joseph’sChurch. |Phone 061-317492 |Monday-Saturday09.30am 6pm 2 LIMERICK CHRONICLE Tuesday, January 16, 2018 YOUR CHRONICLE ● Main switchboard forour office at CONTACTUS 54 O’Connell Street,Limerick Call us on Since 1768 WEATHER 061-214500 Check updatesonlimerickleader.ie ● Tell us your story The Limerick Chronicle hasthe proud distinction E-mail us at of being Ireland’s oldest newspaperand has [email protected] been publishedcontinuously since 1768,more 54 O’Connell Street,Limerick ● Place an advert than 120years before its sisterpaper the Lim- www.limerickleader.ie E-mail us at erick Leader first appeared in 1889.For many [email protected] yearsthe twotitleswererivals but the Chronicle ● Photographic sales was bought by the Limerick Leader in the 1950s, EDITOR Copiesofpictures takenbyour photographersaswell as since when theyhavebeenpart of the same TODAY TOMORROW THURSDAY Eugene Phelan the archivephotographs in all our editions can be newspaper‘stable’, and broughttoyou by the MOSTLYCLOUDY RAIN IN THE CLOUDS AND SUN orderedfromour office at 54 O’Connell Street,Limerick. same team of award-winning journalists. The 061-214503 WITH SOME AFTERNOON WITH ALITTLE Theycan also be orderedonline from picture- Chronicle shares itssisterpaper’s highly popular SHOWERSABOUT, WITH APEAK OF [email protected] [email protected] or through our website RAIN AND AHIGH website HIGH OF 6°C 8°C www.limerickleader.ie www.limerickleader.ie OF 6°C PICTURE OF THE WEEK So long oldfriend: Keithshows Donnacha aclean pair of heels on his waytothe tryline Keith Earls of Munsterbeats Donnacha Ryan of Racing 92 as he starts the move thatended with the Limerick man scoring his side’s second tryduring the European RugbyChampions Cup Pool 4Round 5match between Racing 92 and Munsteratthe UArenainParisonSunday PICTURE: BRENDAN MORAN/SPORTSFILE INSIDE YOUR CHRONICLE TWEETS OF THE WEEK We want to hear your news andviews @limerick_leader NEWS ....................................................1-10 Bookinfor a @DanielButlerFG @JHOD1852 @PietaHouse KEEP IT LOCAL ...............................14 3practical prior- It mightlooklikea Blue Monday? If youare ‘me day’ READERS’PICTURES ................16 itiesfor #Lim- scene from the Wild feeling the blues esp THE GUIDE .......................................... 17 erick in 2018? West, but it'sjustan- hardtodaydowhatusu- OUT &ABOUT ...........................18-19 MeghannMix:Kick Let'sget the con- other busyday in ally helpsyou feel MEGHANNMIX ............................. 20 versation going! downtown Limerick better.Awalk, achat the January blues FASHION&HEALTH ...........21-27 of the 1890s. #Lim- with afriend or just and schedule some PICTURES .......................................... 28 erick photographs keeping to your routine. MOTORS ........................................32-33 time foryourself Thomond Society Lec- It'sjustanother day. It CLASSIFIEDS ......................... 34-36 Seepage20 ture Jan22nd will pass. Animal videos SPORT ............................................ 37-39 help us smile.. Tue sday, Januar y16, 20 1 8 LIMERICK CHRONICLE 3 N EWS GETTHE TRIBUTES: C R A N B E R R I ES ’FRONTWOMAN DIES Shock following BEST Dolore s’ sudden death in London CASH PRICFOR YOURE OLD GOLDTHISWEEK Dolores ringing in the New Year in 2014 for the opening of City of Culture. She passed away suddenly in London on Monday, it has been confirmed. She was 46 PICTURE: KEN COLEMAN AINE FI TZG E RA L D & ALAN OW E NS wedding to tourmanager of the early 1990s as front- e-mail: n ews @ l i m e r i c k l ead e r. i e rock band DuranDuran, womanof The Cranberries. Twitter: @ L i m e r i c k _ Lead e r Don Burton in Holycross She auditioned for the band Abbey in County Tipperary after the departure of its TRIBUTES have been paid in 1994 and alsoofficiatedat previous lead singer and following the sudden death the funeral Mass of Dolores' they would go onto sell over father Terry in Ballybricken Whenyou recycle your old of rock star and Limerick 40 million records world- in 2011, said: “My heart goes wide during a stellar career. woman Dolores O’R i o rd a n . outto thefamily.Dolores Last year,the group can- wantedgoldAtlimerick’sThreeLevel Je The Cranberries front- was their pride and joy. We celledtheir European and woman passed away sud- all US tours due to illness after ellery Store denly on Monday. She was Dolores cited back issues. 4 6. She had an immense President Michael D Hig- While the circumstances influence on rock gins said: “It is with great of her death areas yetun- sadness that I have learned Up to € pergram known, it has been con- and pop music in of the deathof Dolores O’Ri - 33 firmed that the Ballybricken I re l a n d ordan, musician, singer and native died suddenly at a song writer. Highest Cash &Insore CreditPrices Paid hotel in London. President Higgins “Dolores and The Cran- A spokesperson who rep- berries had an immense in- resented the singer con- fluence on rock and pop firmed to the Chronicle: loved her very, very much. music in Ireland and inter- “Irish and international “She goton well all the n at io n a l l y. singer Dolores O’R i o rd a n way through her life. I was “I recall withfondness has died suddenly in London very disappointed to hear the late Limerick TD Jim today (Monday).She was46- today that she has leftus so Ke m my ’ s introduction of years-old. The lead singer early in life. Her family did so her and The Cranberries to with the Irish band The muchfor her and supported me, and the pride he and so Cranberries, was in London her all the way through.” many others took in their for ashort recording ses- Fr James Walton, priest suc c e s s e s . sion. No further details are in Dolores’home parish of “To all those whofollow available at this time.” Ballybricken, also ex- and support Irish music, Family friend Canon pressed his deepest sym- Irish musicians and theper- Liam McNamara who wasa pathies to the family. forming arts, her death will co-celebrant at Dolores' Dolores shot to fame in be a big loss,”he added. 8O’Connell Street, Limerick. T: 415583 4LIMERICK CHRONICLE Tue sday, Januar y 16, 20 1 8 N EWS TROLLEY CRISIS: CALLS TO RE-OPEN CLOSED HOSPITAL BEDS IN LIMERICK CITY F UNDING Heritage Council call out for scheme THE Heritage Council has issued a call for funding applications from Lim- HSE management ‘must be erick under its Com- munity Heritage Grant Scheme. See www.herit- agecouncil.ie for more. taken from political arena’ E D U CAT I O N NICK RA B B I T TS AT CITY HALL Talk on bird names e-mail: n i c k @ l i m e r i c k l ead e r. i e Twitter: @ n i c k 4 68 o f f i c i a l and trad music MANAGEMENT of the Bird Watch Ireland Lim- erick branch will give a public health service in Ire- presentation on bird land must be taken out of names, tunes and tradi- the political arena and tional music tomorrow handed over to experts. evening 7.45pm in T h at’s according to Fine room 3B05 at the Limerick Gael councillor Daniel Institute of Technology. Butler, whowas speaking as thetrolley crisis con- P OLITICS tinuestospiral outofcon- trol this winter. People waiting in emer- Gavan wants May gency departments for referendum date treatment climbed toa re- cord high of 677 over the New SINN Fein Senator Paul Year period, and at this Gavan has called on gov- we e k ’s metropolitan ernment to ensure a date council meeting,members for the referendum to re- called for change. peal the eighth amend- Locally, thatmeans re- ment of the constitution opening the emergency unit happens in May this year, at St John’s Hospital, pro- rather than the autumn. posed by Cllr Kieran O’Hanlon, while Cllr Cian COUNCIL Prendiville lodgeda formal notice of motion urging beds Management at University Hospital Limerick are being called upon to attend the next council meeting axed over the last decade to Horses seized near be brought back into use. railway tracks “Our health service has fewer beds then in the 1980s, University Hospital Lim- chael Hourigan pointedout Sinn Fein councillor Séi- basis. I am fed up to the back LIMERICK City and even thoughthe population erick on theclosure of beds a spend of €14bn on the ghin ÓCeallaigh calledon teeth of hearing stories of County Council says two has gone up hugely in that in St John’s Hospital, plus health service. members to invite new Uni- peoplewaiting ontrolleys. female horses which were time. It’s an emergency, it’sa Ennis and Nenagh. “No-one likes to see versity of Limerick chan- I t’s unfathomable what’s seized near railway tracks crisis, but it’s no accident,” “Nomatterwho is in gov- people on trolleys, butthere cellor, and former Health going on.” at the rear of Glasgow he said, “One-third of people ernment, we will have this needs to be arecognition Minister Mary Harney to Councillor Elenora Park, Galvone last week who go to A&E wait more crisis. It’snot going to be that quite a lot is being done. ask her why, when she pre- Hogancalled on bossesat will be disposed of if they than six hours.