Football games of all hues in Limerick have attracted the presence of a man who stands behind goalposts and in the line of cameras with a yellow banner proclaiming "John 3.7". Thus he draws attention to a Biblical passage beloved of born-again Christians. The DL candidate in the Limerick East by-election John Ryan knows a good thing when he sees it. He now has his own man behind the opposite goalpost with a replica banner carrying the words John Ryan 1.
DL leader Proinsias De Rossa saw it all when he attended his first ever rugby match Shannon v Garryowen in the city recently. It was possible, his people say, because Limerick is the only place in Ireland where it is politically correct to go to rugby matches.