I find it amusing that just 2 weeks before the programme is due to be aired, our own Limerick man “Barry Duggan” decides to release a book about crime in our City. Good to see another journalist jumping on the band wagon like Paul Williams, and lining his pockets with money from the misfortune of others.

There are 2 sides to the coin here and I don't disagree with what Paul Williams does in exposing the scumbags but I would like to highlight that there was no need for Barry Duggan to write the new book “Mean Streets” . The national media has already highlighted the problems in Limerick and thankfully the city is involved in regeneration. I read the book and found that it explains everything that we know aleady and how the Government has failed all of these people.

I think “enough is enough” with all of this negitive reporting, and publicity.

Unfortunately, Limerick will always be labelled stab city and we'll never shake off the smart comments from others outside the county. It would help if our own stopped reporting and continuing the process of keeping Limericks problems in the headlines. We need reporters to start reporting positively and start changing public perceptions of our great city. Thankfully now we have the ERU, CAB and the Regeneration in place in Limerick, we have what we need. time to move on.

If I were Barry Duggan I'd donate all proceeds from the book towards the regeneration areas. I'm sure his proceeds would set up a nice astroturf in The Island, Westen, Southill and Moyross and keep a few youngfellas off the streets.

And btw these fellas love bein called scum, they just look at it as bein called “gangsta”.

Anyway, there’s not a hope of it happenin. What would it be, like? – one of the boyos sayin “we do dis, we do dat, sham nawot i mean”

Limerick isn’t mad enough to fit in with these other places, of course there are mad bastards but i’m sure there are some mad bastards in roscommon too

As for McInytyre, let him come for a holiday, no problem with him spending some time and money here, if any British audience are shocked though by anything he shows of Limerick, that in itself would be a surprise. I think he’ll there’s more criminal activity going on in Hackney, Govan, Salford or outside the UK, in parts of Chicago’s west-side in a fortnight than he’d find…not just in Limerick…but even Dublin for that matter. He should be given the tour and maybe an opportunity to have a can of special brew in Ma Kelly’s. I’d imagine that unless he gets some barstool journos or defence lawyers to beef up the story, comparisons with Sao Paulo and DC will be somewhat disappointing.

Just so long as he doesn’t deprive anyone of a ticket for a European Cup match at Thomond Park.

Maybe it was “The Indo” in its own inimitable way, with its sensationalist “murder capital of the EU15″ statistic. Always a handy one when nobody can give an accurate population figure for a city whose actual urban area straddles three local authority boundaries.