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A Moyross man was before a special sitting of Limerick District Court facing four charges relating to an attempted arson attack on a house in the area.

A woman and two children had to flee their house on College avenue following the attack.

Today Kenneth Slattery, with an address of Sarsfield Gardens was before the court charged with three counts of causing criminal damage, and one count of threatening to cause criminal damage. Judge Tom O’Donnell reserved a decision on bail in the case and remanded Slattery in custody to apear before the court at a later date.

Controversial solicitor and election candidate, John Devane intends to sue St. John’ s Hospital as he claims that he is suffering from the superbug MRSA, after he received treatment there six years ago.

He has told the Limerick Leader that his 80-year old mother is healthier than he is, and that he fears passing something on to his children if he gives them a hug. “My immune system is shot, so what will it do to them.” he told the paper.

He is also calling for the hospital to either close down or clean up it’s act. He says that regaining his health would be like winning the lotto. Right now, he says that he has to sleep with a ventilator machine and has missed out on the bones of €500,000 worth of work due to ill-health.

Despite this ill-health, it would appear that Mr. Devane isn’t turning down any more work, and is taking on the rigours of an election campaign as well. If he is afraid to go near his kids for fear of passing it on to them, how will he manage the close proximity of others in the Dáil chamber. Actually forget that, If all our TDs ended up being infected, they might get up of their arses and do something about the various nasties going around our hospitals.

This is the man who will be given all sorts of access to government ministers and departments in an effort to sort out Moyross as well as other troubled areas in Limerick.

Former Dublin City Manager, John Fitzgerald (59) and originally from Galbally in Limerick, is a widower with four children. Both Willie O’Dea and Tim O’Malley have described him as “not a talking head,” and “a man who likes to get things done.”

There has been some criticism however from some Liemrick City Councillors, particularly from Independent John Ryan who is quoted in today’s Liemrick Leader as saying the government is “very very short on specifics.”

“I am concerned that John Fitzgerald comes from a local authority background, and i think the emphasis will be on bricks and mortar. I don’t think bricks and mortar are going to solve the problem.” Said Mr. Ryan, who has a local authority background as a member of Limerick City Council.

Meanwhile, a recent survey found that the majority of childrens playgrounds, community centres and schools were found to have bricks and morter as a vital component in their structure.

I say give the bloke a chance to get here before knocking his efforts. If he can do for the likes of Moyross what has been done for the area of Tallaught then it can only be a good thing.

For reasons which are out of my control, I am neither able to add substantial posts or edit a previous post. This is down to the those who host the blog and their inability to either fix a problem promptly or respond to requests to do so.

Hopefully it will be fixed by tomorrow or I am going to have to move the whole blog somewhere else.

UPDATE: It seems to have been corrected. but for how long, is anyone’s guess. Expect more interuptions as they move everyone over to this new fangled blogger beta.

Some video clips, ten of them in all of this evening’s tie between Munster and Bourgoin. Hope you enjoy

07:00 - Munster break their duck, with their first tri.

17:00 - Bourgoin take the lead again after ten minutes

18:00 - Ronan O’Gara puts Munster back in the lead with a penalty score

27:00 - Mikey Prendergast finds himself in the sin bin after pulling the shirt of a Munster player, and Ian Dowling scores Munster’s second tri.

33:00 - Barry Murphy scores Munster’s third tri

48:00 - Just when it looked like it was going to be another Munster tri, this happened.

50:00 - Boyet converts, narrowing the gap even further

54:00 - O’Callighan tri and O’Garra converts

60:00 - John Kelly tri for Munster

72:00 - Boyet scores with another penalty kick, but newly substituted Kyriakou responds with a tri for Munster. O’Gara finnishes things off with a conversion.

Two new blogs are being added to the list of Limerick blogs on the right hand side of the page.

Firstly Random Thoughts is written by a Limerick girl who calls herself , well Limerick Girl, who lives in Atlanta Georgia USA.

Another blog being added is that of someone who has been commenting on the site in recent weeks, Bock The Robber. No pictures, No flashing doodas, just his thoughts on current events in its purest and most humourous form.

Anyway, happy reading