J&C O’ Brien’s Coffee Shop, Chapel Court | Free Wi-Fi Hotspot

J & C O’ Briens is the only coffee shop in town offering Free Free Wi-Fi. Plug in your own laptop or use the in store PC’s completely free, while enjoying top quality coffee and cappuccinos. With daily breakfast and lunch specials served alongside a delicious selection of hot and cold wraps, panini and sandwiches you can eat in or take out, with indoor and outdoor seating once you plug in you may not want to leave. J& C O’ Briens Coffee Shop also provide a catering service for meetings and lunches.

Guinness Christmas Racing Festival | Limerick Racecourse | From €20

Great racing, great fun, great food and entertainment all guaranteed at the Limerick Races 4- day Guinness Christmas Festival. Live action starts at 12.35pm on the 26th to 29th of December at Greenmount Park with special online admission on St Stephen’s Day for only €20 per person at www.limerickraces.ie. Family fun is guaranteed with the supervised kids club open keeping the little ones amusied with face painting, drawing and games. The Spa Zone operated by Fitzgerald’s Woodlands will also be open and the racing action will be topped off with Live Music each night.

Limerick Printmakers Member’s Winter Show | Robert Street | Prints from €100

Opening at December 3^rd, the Member’s Winter Show is a presentation of works priced at either €100 or €200 that will be sold right off the wall. Showcasing a variety of work created at the Robert Street Studios during the year, from over 50 artists this exhibition celebrates the best in printmaking in the Mid-West. Photo etchings, collographs, silkscreens, woodcuts and monoprints are among the different types of prints on show, along with digital and photographic print making a special gift with a difference for Christmas

Snowballs | Bean a Tí, Little Catherine Street | €1.60 each

Oh my, oh my, oh my, yummy gooey goodness befitting the festive season baked or handrolled (how do you make a snowball?) daily in Bean a Tí. Homemade, huge and heavenly, there’s some work in eating a whole one but we suspect y’all will take on this jolly challenge and raise us one of those other strawberry creamy spongey things they bake too. They also make a great cup of coffee. Double score.

Peter Curtin’s The Block | Spin South West 102-103 | Every Saturday 9.45pm – 11.45pm | €Free with a radio or internet connection assuming you have a radio and computer/internet

‘Music is my sanctuary’ or so goes the byline for The Block with Peter Curtin which airs every Saturday on Spin South West. His love and vinyl-digging obsession, is evident when you listen to this music programme for music lovers which is unlike anything else on the airwaves. The Block covers a broad span of musical spectrums from hip-hop to funk, soul, reggae, jazz and everything else in between. Listen back on http://theblockpc.wordpress.com/