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PHOTOS: Limerick Monopoly Launch huge success at the Hunt Museum

Limerick Monopoly Launch huge success at the Hunt Museum.
Second from left, Katie Whelan, Lisa’s Light, pictured with members of her family at the launch of Monopoly Limerick at the Hunt Museum. Picture: Cian Reinhardt/ilovelimerick.

This past Friday, Limerick passed “Go” as the new Limerick Monopoly board was launched at the Hunt Museum. The board features prominent organisations and places in the city and I am thrilled that I Love Limerick is featured with its own community chest square! Limerick Person of the Year for 2015, 19-year-old student, Katie Whelan was the guest of honour and launched the board as her charity project Lisa’s Light is also starring on a Community Chest square.This follows a competition which involved the public voting

 

Limerick Monopoly Launch huge success at Hunt Museum. VIP members of the public were invited to be the first people to play Monopoly Limerick. Picture: Cian Reinhardt/ilovelimerick

Limerick Monopoly Launch huge success at Hunt Museum.
VIP members of the public were invited to be the first people to play Monopoly Limerick. Picture: Cian Reinhardt/ilovelimerick


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This follows a competition which involved the public voting for a charity project to be featured on the board and Lisa’s Light was chosen. Jake Houghton, of the organisers Winning Moves Representatives, said, “Unlike the property squares on the board, there is no price tag on the Community Chest square so it reinforces the message that you can’t put a price on charity.” Katie said, “It means that Lisa’s Light will always be

 

Katie said, “It means that Lisa’s Light will always be remembered as an integral part of Limerick. The charity promotes positive mental health as a means of suicide prevention, “reminding everyone that there is a reason to smile in every single day.”

Over the past year, adjudicators from the Monopoly company held a contest to find the ideal city and town in Ireland that would be featured on the board. Games promoter Graham Barnes said that Limerick was selected because of its “tourist magnet” landmarks, namely King John’s Castle, the Treaty Stone and the Hunt Museum.

The board will see around 30 local landmarks replacing the famous original Monopoly streets like Mayfair and Park Lane, including Munster Rugby and The Hunt Museum. The Limerick Leader and Limerick Chronicle will feature on the board replacing the famous Fleet Street square.

You can find out more about Lisa’s Light here.
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Pictures: Cian Reinhardt/ilovelimerick

Richard is a presenter, producer, songwriter and actor. He was named the Limerick Person of the Year (2011) and won an online award at the Metro Éireann Media and Multicultural Awards (2011) for promoting multi-culturalism online. Richard says that the ilovelimerick.com concept is very much a community driven project that aims to document life in Limerick. So, that in 20 years time people can look back and remember the events that were making the headlines.