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As if once wasnt unlucky enough on Friday for the gas main to be hit out at Coonagh, some muppet driving a digger obviously wasnt too fresh after the weekend and managed to hit it again today! Fortunately, there wasnt too much damage done this time , with no need to evacuate anyone. One lane inbound and outbound were closed off from about two o clock until approx 5pm!

Mayor Diarmud Scully will be oblidged to tow the party line from now on after his friends at Fine Gael have decided to restore his party whip, so says the Limerick Leader. although they say it more professionally. This means that should he decide to run in the constituency of Limerick East under a Fine Gael banner in the future, he is free to run.

However he will not be able to run in the 2007 election for the Dai as the Fine Gael party has already selected who should run for the Limerick East constituency. Michael Noonan TD and Kieran O’Donnell have already been picked. The chances of a three candidate strategy being run by Fine Gael is unlikely, so it would be more like 2012 before we are likely to see Mr. Scully with the letters “TD” after his name.

Mr. Scully is said to be “reasonably pleased” by having his party whip restored after it was decided during a meeting at the Limerick Remada Hotel during the weekend by the Fine Gael National exuitive comittee.

Mayor Scully lost his whip after he won the mayoral office by voting against his fellow Fine Gaeler Maria Byrne and winning the office for himself with the help of Fianna Fail councillors and Independents. Talk about shitting on your own doorstem!

Meanwhile an offer to reduce the tempriture in Hell to zero degrees centigrade if John Gilligan is made mayor of Limerick was rejected by Liemrick City Council.

The EV+A project has often been criticised for not getting the ordinary man on the street involved. However, a new project being run by the ENSO Art collective are planning to do just that.

The group are seeking imput from members of the public on their opinions of Limerick, such as the problems facing the city and asks how these problems can be solved.

A website has been created for people to post their comments and ideas. These comments will all be collated and put into what they call a “new treaty for Limerick” and will be presented to the people of Limerick during the EV+A festival.

A back seat passenger of a car has become the first person to die on Limerick roads in 2006.

The man, believed to be in his 20s, was travelling in a car which collided with another car near Castlemahon, County Limerick in the early hours of this morning.

He was pronounced dead on arrival at Limerick’s Mid West Regional Hospital.

A new free sheet newspaper is to be launched in Limerick on March 15th

The Limerick Independent is set to target the readership of the Limerick Post, with a circulation of 35,000 copies compared to the Post’s 30,000 copies.

The paper is owned by the Independent Free Newspapers Group, who run the Cork Independent and Galway Independent.

The set up cost for the paper is estimated at more than €1m.

A married couple, who have wished to remain anonymous have collected their €250,000 winnings from National Lottery headquarters in Dublin. The couple purchased the ticket in O’Neill’s newsagent on William Street. They say they plan on paying off their mortgage and going on a few nice holidays.

They also said that they have been doing the same numbers for the past ten years.

A syndicate of fourteen employees from the Davin Arms are planning to collect their winnings on Tuesday.

And mystery still surrounds the identity of a third lotto winner who purchased their ticket at Newsland at the Crescent Shopping Centre.

The numbers which yielded the three Limerick winners were 3, 6, 9, 12, 21, and 24 bonus number 17.