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Limerick Lifelong Learning 2025 takes place Monday 7th to Sunday 13th April 2025. Pictured are Yvonne Lane, Learning Limerick, Eimear Brophy, Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board and Richard Lynch, ilovelimerick. Picture: Olena Oleksienko/ilovelimerick Limerick Lifelong Learning 2025 takes place Monday 7th to Sunday 13th April 2025. Pictured are Yvonne Lane, Learning Limerick, Eimear Brophy, Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board and Richard Lynch, ilovelimerick. Picture: Olena Oleksienko/ilovelimerick

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Limerick Lifelong Learning 2025 takes place Monday 7th to Sunday 13th April 2025. Pictured are Yvonne Lane, Learning Limerick, Eimear Brophy, Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board and Richard Lynch, ilovelimerick. Picture: Olena Oleksienko/ilovelimerick

The 2025 Limerick Lifelong Learning Festival returns for its 15th year, running from Monday 7th to Sunday 13th

Limerick Lifelong Learning 2025 takes place Monday 7th to Sunday 13th April 2025. Pictured are Eimear Brophy, Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board and Yvonne Lane, Learning Limerick. Picture: Olena Oleksienko/ilovelimerick
Pictured are Eimear Brophy, Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board and Yvonne Lane, Learning Limerick. Picture: Olena Oleksienko/ilovelimerick

The Limerick Lifelong Learning Festival offers over 120 free events and activities to choose from throughout the week both online and in-person.  There are a wide variety of interesting and diverse topics to choose from, including Art, IT Skills, Language Tasters, Entrepreneurship, Guided Tours, Open Days, Educational Pathways, Dance, Music, Cookery, Wellbeing and much more.

This festival was launched on March 21 in Newcastle West Library, Co. Limerick by the Mayor of Limerick, John Moran.  

Speaking at the launch and noting the positive effect of the festival, Mayor Moran said, “Limerick City and County Council is proud to support all of Learning Limerick’s projects and delighted to be one of the lead partners for this festival. At the heart of the festival is the belief that learning should be fun and accessible for everyone.


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“Following our motto – Communities, Connecting, Learning – we invite you to come with us on a journey of exploration, engagement, and pure celebration. I anticipate strong participation from our local communities and the broader public, both from within Limerick and beyond, mirroring the high levels of engagement we have witnessed in previous years. It is a mark of our commitment to promoting learning in all its forms and the interest shown in lifelong learning across all groups across Limerick.”

The festival theme for 2025 is ‘Literacies for Life’.  There is also a key interactive seminar event as part of the festival week, titled ‘All Literacies Change Lives’, being held in UL Access Campus on April 10th. This event is a collaboration between Learning Limerick, the Adult Literacy for Life (ALL) Office and Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board.

Eimear Brophy, Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board, and Chair of Learning Limerick Steering Group highlighted the relevance of the festival theme and the importance of Limerick’s role as an UNESCO Learning City. She said, “The theme of literacy is very timely and celebrates all the literacies that we need to embrace throughout our lives, including digital, financial, health environmental literacies etc.  At this time of year, we are also reflecting on the work of Learning Limerick over the last year and the importance of connection and our membership of regional, national and international fora promoting lifelong learning. We are very proud of our membership of the UNESCO’s Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) and the Irish Network of Learning Cities (INLC) and value the sharing of best practice ideas and supporting other cities as we all continue our good work.”

Some of the events taking place through the week include a Cooking Demo with National Learning Network; Gambling and Gaming – how to avoid possible problems – in UL City Campus; Learner Art Exhibition – hosted by Northside FRC at Watch House Cross Community Library; Singing for Lung Health – hosted by PAUL Partnership in the Moyross Community Centre; and a Creativity for Well-being Workshop –, hosted by the Hunt Museum and Mid-West Aries.

Other events include A Taste of Higher Education – with TUS Moylish Campus; Women’s Easter Bonnets with Hospital Family Resource Centre; and Introduction to Wet Felting – with College of FET, Mulgrave Street campus.

Also speaking at the launch, Yvonne Lane, Festival Coordinator said, “We are delighted that our programme includes many events taking place in the heart of Limerick communities; and this helps make the festival as inclusive as possible, Many events are the result of collaborations between the various learning providers, working together to participate in the festival and engage a wide audience. These new links and partnerships between event hosts often continue beyond festival week.”

A complete listing of festival events is available on the festival website.


Pictured at the launch event at Newcastle West Library were, Learning Ambassador Chinazo Nnaya, Adrienne O’Connell, West Limerick Resources, Mayor of Limerick John Moran and Yvonne Lane, PAUL Partnership. Photo by Alan Place
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