{"id":135137,"date":"2025-11-12T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135137\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:48:10","slug":"date-revealed-for-popular-limerick-swimming-pools-re-opening-to-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135137\/","title":{"rendered":"Date revealed for popular Limerick swimming pool&#8217;s re-opening to schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASKEATON swimming pool is to re-open for use by local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/232\/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">schools<\/a> this Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick City and County Council has made the announcement that the facility will typically operate between 10am and 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>The re-opening follows a major programme of works and investment at the town&#8217;s leisure complex.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/community\/1940705\/ryanair-expands-shannon-airport-base-with-fourth-aircraft-and-four-new-european-routes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ryanair expands Shannon Airport base with fourth aircraft and four new European routes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These works have been partly funded by the Department of Sport\u2019s Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund and Limerick City and County Council.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the final stage of preparatory work, including comprehensive water testing, was successfully completed, allowing for this phased reopening to begin.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this initial reopening, local schools will resume swimming lessons and activities at the pool.<\/p>\n<p>This reopening applies to the pool area only and does not yet include the remainder of the leisure complex.<\/p>\n<p>Further phases of reopening, including access for members of the public, will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n<p>Swim Ireland are the appointed operators of the Askeaton Swimming Pool and Leisure facility.<\/p>\n<p>The pool was meant to re-open last month, but this was delayed to allow for the verification of water testing results, which are required to ensure public safety.<\/p>\n<p>An official reopening event is also being planned to take place in the near future to mark the full return of services at Askeaton Pool and Leisure.<\/p>\n<p>Leader of\u00a0the Adare-Rathkeale municipal district, Cllr Ger Ward has welcomed the news.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick City and County Council sait it would like to extend its sincere thanks to the community, staff, and all users for their patience and understanding throughout this process.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASKEATON swimming pool is to re-open for use by local schools this Wednesday morning. Limerick City and County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14351,61,60,1396,78055,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-135137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-askeaton","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-limerick","12":"tag-local-history","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}