Comments on: Offering perks to the media won’t make them say nice things about Limerick

By: Cheebah and all that - Limerick, Ireland

Cheebah and all that - Limerick, Ireland — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:15:01 +0000

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By: michael

michael — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:22:49 +0000

Your post is quite good, I agree with some points being from Limerick myself, I have traveled alot in my time and I have to be honest ,Limerick is an average city at best and it has serious issues to address , now we can talk about galway and dublin being worse true or not limerick has a bad name because it deserves it I lived in nyc for years and I felt safer there. There are people in a city with a tiny population with grenades , automatic weapons you name it they seem to have it. The people running the city are not doing enough , I like the idea of the naming and shaming of people but do this to the politicans of the city the promise so much and dont deliver , they build hotels every month but what about the kids , to play soccer in the university it costs 50 euro an hour or basketball, in france they have playing areas on the streets free of charge we have nothing like this ,they are finally building a skate park and they’ll probably charge for that too. Stop going after the media spend time going after the politicians ,they dont do enough .Its there job to run the city , and as for the limerick leader the chronicle these papers are bias and are constantly trying to make limerick like its this amazing vibrant city which it is so far from, all of you who defend it do, ye have this arrogant opinion that limerick is great and in some respects frank mcourt is right in saying the people are snobs, these are some of the reasons the tabloids report limerick the way they do , they know it will sell copies. Respect the fact that this city has serious issues to address and stop claiming it to be a city of culture and greatness because it is far from it, be honest if you are a person who has little interest in pubs and clubs or drugs , Limerick does’nt offer a whole lot ,I mean the standard of restaurants here is appaling ,its the only place on the planet where an italian restaurant serves chips!
So just ignore the tabloids and hassle your local politician the next time he calls to your door or name and shame them about the broken promises over the years the limerick leader never reports any of that, and as for Brendan O Connor the Irish Independent Reporter well I once watched him stumble down grafton street fall to his knees and vomit pretty much all over himself, not exactly a man of greatness nor a man who’s words should offend anyone.
thanks mich

By: boshgo

boshgo — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:03:17 +0000

whats with all the comment nazis today? sheeesh. And yes shamnbooley, it was satire, well done. but it wasnt satire for the sake of it but rather to counteract all the rose tinted nonsense from some people here.
Fact: Limerick has some severe socail and crime problems which are not being addressed, pretending theyre not there or dismissing their impact wont actually help.

for what its worth shannbogley, i simply made referernce to the numberous fatal and non-fatal assaults, stabbings, gun and grenade attacks, petrol bombing of houses and children, foreigners being set on fire, families being forced out of their houses by (well known) thugs, hard drugs be pushed on very young teens and other serious crime incidents in limerick, all in the recent past and some occuring all the time.

starkie, what problem have you got with freedom of speech or perhaps you think it should be limited to those who only say things you agree with, yeah? is this so, comrade starkie?

By: starkie

starkie — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:39:39 +0000

i am amazed that squid allowed it; its not worthy of further comment. but im disapointed with squid. and please dont say freedom of speech.

By: shannaboley.

shannaboley. — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:48:47 +0000

satire! humor! thats really in poor taste.

By: boshgo

boshgo — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:00:08 +0000

zzzzzzzzz Says:

ive only got a few friends who were stabbed in limerick, both with broken bottles, and only one of them died as a result. THo i do have a friend who lost an eye ater beng struck with a full and unbroken bottle. I really dont know what all the fuss is about.

i know, alot of fuss about notin, with all the shootings and stabings and grenade attacks around the city only a few ppl have actually died. Even the people getting burned out of their houses in south hill, sure they didnt get it too bad. And in fairness there was alot of noise made about those two kids getting burned when their mothers car was petrol bombed last year in moyross but like it coulda been worse like. I myself have only been assaulted a few times and even tho twas for no reason i didnt complain too much, shur i was out of hospital ina few hours.
I think people blow all this stuff out of porportion to be honest.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:09:10 +0000

I hadn’t heard the term “Stab City” before my first time visit to Limerick in the early 90’s. Possibly that’s because it was before I discovered the Internet and/or before Google was even born. That was the best vacation I’ve ever had. I made my Royal George Hotel reservation after finding their listing in an actual tour book and then calling long distance from California. After booking my room, I asked the hotel receptionist if she might know of a local Limerick person who would like to act as my guide, for pay of course. She arranged the whole thing and then even wound up driving up to County Galway with us for a day of checking out my Irish roots (Kane). The people in the hotel were terrific although I could have used a room as far away as possible from the night club in the same building. I was treated to an audience with the president of the university, managers of this and that, the reigning Rose of Tralee (from Limerick that year) and even met with the mayor on my last full day before returning home. “Yer Man” even had to go to a funeral (wake?) one evening and I went with him for a great time. Aside from a few Tinkers who were more interesting than troublesome, I had no run-ins with the dregs, which every city has by the way, just like rats. “Stab City”??? Have prospective tourists talk to me!

By: shannaboley.

shannaboley. — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:15:24 +0000

He was a big guy he could quiten shannaboley road with a roar! but he had an excellent sense of humor.I think I may have paled with your sister we had a flashlight thing going on at one time.

By: starkie

starkie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:40:08 +0000

yes shanabooly. their certainly was great humour around in the past but it has gone. but that seems to be allover ireland. its the one thing that keeps me sane. having a good sense of humour. i can also find a bit of hunmour i9n some of the negative things said about estates. example i met a lady from the ennis road recently and she told me that her mother used to call her two dogs the ballynanty terriers. one cant take every remark to heart. but i do know when its sarcastic. i think i know you shanabooly. does red hair mean anything to you. of corse i wouldnt know you well but i think i remember your father. corner ouse or next one big man he was.

By: shannaboley.

shannaboley. — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:13:14 +0000

Sorry screwed up there, What starkie is talking about is the condesending tone you get when you say you are from one of these areas.I got it my whole young life, the are you really from Ballynanty? oh did you go to the salesians? no! was your mother very strict? usually comes next she was!

Limerick has fantastic salt of the earth working class people, I send yanks there regularly and they never come back with horror stories just humor!
It has a pallet full of history and an unmatchable river.

The new generation of scum bags are in a different league altogether, someone needs to tell the crowd in the island that tupac is dead.