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A COLLABORATIVE ‘cross-border’ exhibition will run in one Limerick school for 10 days, which will see artists ‘join hands’.

The initiative known as Hands Across the Border is a joint collaborative by two cross-border textiles groups – The Irish Patchwork Society (IPS) and the Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild.

For every exhibition, a theme is set for the members, with this year’s theme entitled ‘Walk in the Park’.

From August 10 to August 20, the Mid-Western Branch of the Irish Patchwork Society will host an exhibition in the Cathedral Gallery of Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD).

With over 30 quilts in the exhibition, the theme has been widely interpreted with quilts reflecting nature, places, and people.

Speaking in…

THE ORGANISERS of an advanced course for young tractor drivers in Limerick are encouraging parents to sign up their sons and daughters for the pilot initiative.

“It could be the best three hours they ever spend,” said John Macnamara, a dairy farmer from Knockainey and one of the organisers.

The course, which takes place at Kilmallock Mart on Thursday, August 17, has been organised following a number of tragedies involving young people driving farm machinery.

Mr Macnamara said farmers’ sons and daughters are well able to do general farm work but they have very little experience of driving on the roads, or the weight of a slurry tank or trailer full of silage. Plus, the speed tractors are able to travel nowadays has vastly increased compared to a…

HERITAGE group An Taisce has expressed a number of concerns over plans to transform an old hotel in Limerick city into student accommodation.

Businessman Mark McMahon secured conditional permission from council to redevelop the former Railway Hotel, opposite Colbert Station in the city centre.

The proposal would see 111 student bed spaces across 25 apartments at the former hostelry, which ceased trading in 2016.

On top of this, the neighbouring former McEnery’s general store is slated for demolition, with a cafe taking its place and a seven-storey building behind the existing listed hotel.

However, Ian Lumley, head of strategy with An Taisce has lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleanala on behalf of the group.

The national planning appeals body is expected…

WRITER, director and actor Mark P O’Connor has been honoured for his short film debut.

He won the Best Narrative Short Award at the Red Cedar Film Festival in the United States.

The Limerick city man was inspired by the people he has shared pints with over the years. His debut, Pints, was filmed in JJ Bowles and Souths public houses.

Speaking of his debut short film, Pints, he said: “It’s supposed to represent three characters coming from different parts of Ireland and they’re going for a pint and we don’t know who they are. Are they goodies or baddies? And it’s up to the audience to decide who they relate to the most.”

According to Mark, there are a lot of conversations happening in pubs that never make it to the screen.

“I just wanted to point…