Limerick hatches plan for €200m tourism destination

City aims to attract half a million tourists every year to Shannon quarter

David Conway, chief executive of Limerick Twenty Twenty Liam Burke/Press 22

Limerick Twenty Thirty has plans to rival Belfast’s Titanic Quarter with a major new €200 million development.

The property development company, a special-purpose vehicle of Limerick City and County Council, wants to attract 500,000 tourists annually by creating a major tourist attraction in its ten-acre Cleeves campus on the northern bank of the river Shannon.

The €200 million Cleeves project, on the site of the former toffee factory, is expected to deliver over ...