Limerick s Live 95
Search By Live95 News Team Live95 picture library A debate has begun over the future of a number of Georgian cellars, which have been uncovered during works on the O Connell Street Revitalisation project.
The 250 year old structures are now visable below a section of road outside Brown Thomas in the city.
Live 95 has sought to clarity from Limerick City and County Council as to what plans are in place for the cellars, and their possible impact on the project.
Limerick native and Senior lecturer in Architecture at UL ,Peter Carroll, believes they could be used in any number of ways.
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image captionBilly Caldwell, pictured with his mother Charlotte in 2018, needs medicinal cannabis for his rare form of epilepsy
MPs and peers are calling for funding for families forced to buy medicinal cannabis for their children privately.
The treatment was made legal with a prescription in 2018 for those with an exceptional clinical need .
But a cross-party letter from 100 politicians says only three NHS prescriptions have been given out since, forcing families to spend thousands on private treatments.
The government said it sympathised with those facing hard-to-treat conditions.
The change in law came about after the high profile cases of Alfie Dingley and Billy Caldwell, who had both been denied access to cannabis oil to treat their rare forms of epilepsy.
The Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Peter Carroll PlanNet21 bought rival business eCom for an undisclosed sum during October
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PlanNet21chief executive Peter Carroll has been chosen as The Irish Times Business Person of the Month for October.
The IT solutions company bought rival business eCom for an undisclosed sum, and said it was eying other acquisitions following the deal.
PlanNet21 said revenues would exceed €50 million on the back of the deal and reiterated its intention to double turnover in the coming years.
Founded in 1998, the company is headquartered in Dublin with branch offices in Cork, Galway, Belfast and Edinburgh. The acquisition brings combined total headcount at the group to 140.
Architectural historian
The 5k lockdown has demonstrated the enduring appeal of the city as a place where people come together. A city is more than just a collection of buildings. It is also the spaces in-between. It is a public place where people linger, strolling about chatting and people watching. COVID-19 has exposed the inequality that exists in our mobility measures in our cities.
I posed the same question to architects across the country –
how can we make our cities work?
Dublin
Dominic Stevens, Director of JFOC Architects
Let s understand Dublin as a collection of neighbourhoods, not as a central business district surrounded by sprawling dormitory suburbs as was foreseen in the 1970s and 80s. In the great cities of Europe there are people living on every street and people working on every street. Shops at ground level, cafes on corners, daytime and night time activity. In Dublin this high-density lived-in city should stretch from the centre out to the surrounding u