The Irish Times

A Limerick City Council plan to remodel the city and make it more pedestrian-friendly will give the city its first public square in 100 years. The 16-storey Clarion Hotel which towers like a giant ship's funnel over Steamboat Quay, and the tall glazed former Spaights building on Henry Street, where Dunnes Stores is located, are gleaming examples of a new generation of building in Limerick. They stand out like beacons because little else has changed architecturally in Limerick city centre over the last 10 years.