Limerick City and County Council has announced that Úna McCarthy has been appointed as Director/Curator of Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA). A native of Charleville, Co Cork, Úna McCarthy has worked as Head of Festivals with The Arts Council since 2004. She is due to take up her position as LCGA Director in Limerick […]
Month: January 2015
Following the decision of Limerick City of Culture last November to bid for the designation of European Capital of Culture 2020, the local authority has today announced the creation of a team to work on preparing the bid for Limerick. Limerick National City of Culture Director Mike Fitzpatrick will lead the team and continue to […]
In a recent guide compiled for the EU’s Committee of the Regions, the various funding opportunities for tourism available to local and regional authorities in the new programming period 2014-2020 were collated and outlined. As the third largest EU economic sector, tourism has a wide-ranging impact on economic growth, employment and social development. A specific […]
€104,000 is being made available to community groups, voluntary organisations, and festival and event organisers in the wider Ennis area under four new schemes, details of which have been announced by Clare County Council’s Ennis Municipal District Committee. 11 community groups and organisations throughout Ennis are to initially benefit from a €43,400 euro contribution
Everyone has their own ideas about how they would like to spend their golden years. You have worked all of your adult life and you hope to have some quality time after retiring. Many of us begin to plan that trip of a lifetime that we have always fantasised about. Others plan to learn […]