PHOTOS Moyross Hollywood sign marks ten years of growth in the community

Moyross community relaunched the Moyross Hollywood sign and the new Moyross documentary on Friday, September 19, 2025. Picture: Olena Oleksienko/ilovelimerick

The relaunch of the Moyross Hollywood sign, ten years since the Moyross Play gives the community the chance to reflect on the change and growth over the past decade

The Moyross Hollywood sign was officially relaunched on Friday, September 19, as the community gathered to celebrate the return of the installation and giving them a chance to reflect on a decade of change in the community.

The installation is part of a project for a new documentary facilitated by Grace Dyas and Karen Keehan, who hope to revisit the 2014 Moyross Play which featured as part of the Limerick City of Culture celebrations in 2014, and gave the community a chance to have their voices heard beyond the media headlines.

Speaking with I Love Limerick at the event, Grace said the project will give the community another “right of reply” to the media. She said, “This particular project, me and Karen Keane are co-directing a documentary where we’re facilitating the community to have another right of reply to the media 10 years later from the Moyross Play.”

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Grace explains that things have changed over the past decade, where Moyross was receiving negative publicity in the media and beyond the community. She said, “Things were very different back then. We put up this installation as a way of asking the community about their views on how they’re being portrayed in the media and stuff.

“Myself and Karen are revisiting those people who were in the play, and we’re asking them what’s changed in Moyross in the last 10 years, and ‘how do they feel about the media now?'”

“One of the things that has come up is that while the headlines might be gone, the legacy of those headlines is still knocking around in the general public’s perceptions and communities. Well, Moyross has gone from strength to strength and probably has more facilities than any kind of regeneration community in the country,” said Grace.

She added the community also sees incredible groups and young activists leading the way. Grace told I Love Limerick, “The are amazing groups of people working together and young activists who’ve grown up in Moyross, like Laura Hughes and Jason Craig and Adrian Power, are all doing amazing work. Still, sometimes outside the community, there can be this misconception.”

Grace said that development would have meant the kids in Moyross could see “ this is my path to secondary school and this is my path to college”.

 ”For one reason or another, certain residents had concerns, and it was blocked, Grace explained, adding, “But we’re very hopeful it’s going to come to light again, how it’s part of the documentary is that it’s the legacy of, we’re asking the question, is that the legacy of the previous headspace?”

The proposed University Avenue was meant to give Moyross children a straight path from Corpus Christi Primary School, to secondary school, and on to third level. A plan to connect the community to TUS Moylish and beyond, it promised to open doors and inspire young people to see college as part of their future. But the scheme was blocked by some of our elected representatives, and some neighbouring estates, with some going as far as stating “some people shouldn’t mix”, leaving the barriers around Moyross in place.

It is on this contested ground that the Moyross Hollywood sign is returning for its “Second Act.” First installed in 2014, the 42-foot artwork became a symbol of pride and creativity, a right of reply to the media, and the backdrop to MOYROSS, a massive community play that celebrated the talent of the estate during Limerick’s City of Culture.

The day saw the community out in force, celebrating the return of the installation, with Corpus Christi school choir pupils performing at the event.

Pictures: Olena Oleksienko/ilovelimerick