Town and Country Magazine: [Limerick] has the reputation of not being particularly safe.

thanks hof.
btw. why do people say tbh. does that mean they are not always honest. tongue in cheek hoof.

Limerick will be fine once the "hotpot's" are sorted out......we shall be waiting.

tbh=to be honest.

fall in to a bit of shorthand now and then. pure laziness.

hoof.
forgive my ignorance. but what does TBH mean

i agree with mikey.
we need to be mature and honest and admit that limerick is shabby,run down and completeky unsafe.
if you think im being negative or too critical,then you are naive

anyone who says limerick is safe clearly doesnt know what there on about.
nowhere else in Ireland are the streets ruled by intimidation and fear.
there is no faith in the guards.

wake up and deal with it or it will never change.

lets

It's doubtful any of the 14 readers of that magazine had planned to come and visit us anyway.

Some of the comments above are true though. There is little in any of the Irish cities to please tourists.

All Irish cities are all pretty dull tbh, that even includes the "officially designated" party town (by RTE and our D4 betters anyway) - Galway.

By and large we offer little outside of some barely passable sights and attractions for tourists. But before beating ourselves up about it, remember the main attractions are by and large in the countryside or by the ocean. People come here to get away from cities and only stay in the Irish ones as base-camps for trips to The Ring of Kerry, Bunratty/Cliffs of Moher, Southwest Cork, Connemara, Donegal, etc.

Dublin for instance is far too busy a commerce centre, but the few tourist attractions are snowed under in the (traffic) jam-packed centre, even the awful Temple Bar is little more than a British Stag&Hen hellhole more on a par with Benidorm than the Pompidou Centre style intended for it initially.

We have to think outside the "go to a pub" mentality when offering fare for tourists to our cities, and by and large, our cities are still very bland and uninteresting to visit. Nice to think we could borrow some ideas from Barcelona or Seville, but with the state of our urban planning, barely or no-existent infrastructure in our cities and this damn weather, I wouldn't be holding out much hope for a rise in tourism figures.

We should first of all make our cities - all of them - clean, safe and friendly places where WE feel comfortable enough to live, work and enjoy ourselves in. And for a start, that means the Gardai clearing these centres (and here I fear Limerick fares worse than most) of a growing band of tappers, junkies and hooligans infesting our streets. The Local Authorities must clamp down hard on filthy bastards who use the streets as litter receptacles, not least the chewing gum pockmarkers....I could go on but the point is we need a big clean up and more-so a good look at where society is heading before inviting people to come here and expect them to spend hard-earned cash in some very shabby centres.

I'm living in Cork at the moment and this is a dull city with very few interesting places to visit. Driving in the city is a disaster and the place is generally dull.
Limerick is a far better looking city but with equally few interesting places to visit.
Both cities have a couple of interesting spots but will generally charge stupid prices to do them. EG The Folk park (Clare I know but a short drive) and the Shandon bells in Cork. The latter was €6 to climb a stairs.
I live with two foreign girls who have been looking around for things to see and do but both agree with me.

Some of the city is still pretty shabby-I think work is due to start on the likes of William St next year & it will improve a part of the city that badly needs to be visually enhanced.
There's other parts that need to be cleaned -that area across from the Horse and Hound is awful.The area near the train station is uninspiring to say the least.
Large parts of the city have improved which is a plus.But can you for instance say Limerick has the appeal of say Kilkenny.
I'm not trying to have a go at the city but I'm just being honest.
King Johns Castle, the art gallery, the Hunt Museum and the shops could be covered in a half a day or so.
Thomond Park looks great but if you're not interested in rugby it ultimately means nothing.
It annoys me too when people throw out the 'stab city' rubbish but some of the criticisms about some parts of the city looking rubbish are valid.

me here i agree with you but i was just giving an example of how a rip off country we are

@ Mickey, how is limerick city shabby, there is a shabby parts of limerick outside the city centre. But the city its self looks great. new buildings popping up all over the place.

Limerick's shabby parts are no worse than dublin cork or galway etc, especially dublin that is far worse than limerick, apart from the city centre in dublin, theres lots and lots of shabby parts.

Limerick gets a bad name, ive lived in dublin for awhile before and the dubliners love slagging limerick

But if they had any sort of brain they would know dublin is worse than limerick, more gangland murders in dublin than limerick, more drug addicts in dublin than limerick, there is one housing estate in dublin called bluebell and nearly every person from being a young teenager to mid 20's have a sexual transmitted infection, this is not haersay this is fact do your research, and this post is not an attack on dublin people, im just pointing out that limerick is not the worse place in ireland

@ Hazel
No offence but that is sad, call me unromantic or anything else but €50 for that!! Then they say love is blind...:-)

Well to be honest being from Limerick I'd have to agree with the comments. We do have a reputation and it doesn't come from no where. There isn't that much of interest here in comparison to other areas of Ireland. The city is pretty shabby, yes good work is being done but A LOT more need to be done. If I was talking to a tourist that was visiting Ireland for two weeks I wouldn't particularly recommend them to visit Limerick at the same time I wouldn't discourage it either. We had some friends visiting here from Canada last year and general attitude of the group was ya we better bring them someplace nice, King Johns castle is interesting for like 5 minutes. So we brought them around the ring of kerry and kilkee which was great. People get too easily offended in this city.

wel i agree with ye if he has that kind of money he would get much nicer hotels around limerick
to be honest i think places like dromoland castle are over rated
when i met my now husband for the first time we decided to go out there for our tea
50 euros for coffee and a sandwich for the two of us CRAZY
and it was nothing special
we were seated in the dining room and there was an open fire which kept billowing out smoke

yeah squid is still alive squid no ofence to paddy and patrick but there not you .theres only one squid but i bet theres a thousand paddys.squid for mayor.squid for president ..if that fails squid for trafic warden .on henry street..and if not squid for culchie of the year

i have no sympathy for anybody who pays that amount of money for a hights board. i would use a guest house where you would get a huge breakfast. i dont know what guest houses charge these days but i would expect to pay less than 100 euros per night.

I'd pure stab anyone that slags Limk

To bad "colt" would have fit right in! maybe he's around 45? thats complete stupid snobbery! town and country is like the fox and the hound who cares.