Covid-19 marks a tough business year in Limerick
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Not since the late 2000s crash have businesses found times so difficult! Nick Rabbitts looks back on 2020 - a year like no other.
JANUARY
Limerick’s new brand, Atlantic Edge: European Embrace, was unveiled at a special ceremony in St Mary’s Cathedral, as well as in New York City.
Limerick received its first jobs boost of the New Year, with financial services firm Axiom SL planning 100 jobs over the course of five years in the National Technology Park.
A planning application was finally submitted for the Horizon Mall site at the Dublin Road. Over the course of 2020, the old concrete structures on the site which was once planned to be a shopping mall and ice rink were demolished, with a new residential and commercial development proposed for the land.
Rising opera star from Edina comes home for A Holiday Special COVID and a Christmas special bring rising opera singer Liv Redpath home.
By Rob Hubbard Special to the Star Tribune December 18, 2020 10:22am Text size Copy shortlink:
Gretel got her.
Liv Redpath was an Edina eighth-grader when that fairy-tale character who s seduced by a witch s giant gingerbread house convinced her to become an opera singer. She sang the role at age 14 in a production of Engelbert Humperdinck s Hansel and Gretel staged by Minnesota Opera s youth program, Project Opera. After I sang that Gretel, I was totally hooked, she said last week.