The city celebrates its famous food and pork production history when the Milk Market hosts the Pigtown Culture and Food series with a display of their giant pigs and family pig floats.
A children’s speakers corner is being set up at the courtyard of the Hunt Museum with young people invited to say what they would do if they were Mayor, and Mayor of Limerick Cllr Daniel Butler will be there to listen and hear those views. In Kilmallock young people have been busy working with the Lumen street theatre and art company designing and installing drain art across the town, brightening up the drains on the towns historic streets with colour and creativity.
In Mountshannon in east Clare groups of children from the local schools, along with parents and their local community groups,will have a Lantern parade to Mountshannon Harbour to mark the start of autumn, the shortening of daylight, and the illumination of their local lakeside at Lough Derg sending some of their lanterns out onto the water.