President Mary McAleese officially opened the Our Lady of Lourdes Community Youth Centre on Thursday 21/01/2010. The event fell two years to the day since the launch of the Vision Documents for the Limerick Regeneration Programme.

Today, with the opening of this facility for the community of Ballinacurra Weston, we can truly begin to talk of “Our Community, Our Vision, Our Present”. Physical regeneration and improved physical infrastructure is one major element of realising Ballinacurra Weston’s true potential, but without the true buy-in of the community, its effect would be limited. The essential element in making all this work has been the backing of the community, and the surging new confidence that Ballinacurra Weston is not destined to forever relive the suffering of the past but can instead be an active player in drawing the blueprint for its own future. Extract from President Speech.