The characters of Limerick

(sorry in advance for my poor spelling)

Dodo Redden - Kept the same dogs until they died.
As far as I know. RIP dead

Mad Monday -dunno if hes still about

Sammy Joyce local wino with the long beard -RIP dead.
He came from a Ballynanty originally. I think his marrige broke
up and he drank himeslf into oblivian eventually he had rats infesting
his home and was evicted. As far as I know he had family but refused
to ask them for help. He got cleaned up a few times but always
went back to the drink.

Willy 3 toes is still about - Has a tricycle with a sign sateing invilid
on board and when walking he often holds a mirror and looks behind him with it.

Fat Frances - RIP dead. He was known for his knowledge in old Cinema flicks.
The Kids used to say he was the shape he was cos he molested children and
a truck was driven over his stomach but that was all rumor.

Rashers was another crazy homeless dude

There was a homeless guy with jack russell that used to sit
at the top of william street near the AIB that used to beg for
money and play the mouth organ and any time you gave him money
he would fire it back at ya dunno his name.

There was a chap called Gabrelle that used to stand next to the AIB holding
a sign. He often lashed out and hit women! He hit my mother when she was a girl.
and when his father died he tried to bury him in his garden.

Captain Birds eye - Homeless man who looked like Captain Birds eye
he used to wear yellow plastic rain pants and used to rummage around
the bins in Limerick if anyone looked at him he pretended he was not
looking through the bins. He walked with a limp and often slept in Heroine
lane near Domonic street.

Theres a heavy guy with long hair that used to walk from Punchess Cross
to town and get the Raheen Bus back he always wore a greay sweat top and
a wine coloured tracksuit pants.

Another Raheen bus regular was an old ex-airforce captain that used
to talk to all the girls on the bus. He used to only get on for 2-3 stops
and get off at punches cross. He aked my girlfriend would she like to
goto the pictures with hime before. At the time she thought he
was the bus conductor as he was dressed in a navy uniform!!

There are a few more raheen bus crazies. Dunno what it is about buses
they love em and always drive the bus drivers nuts.
There is a slightly backward harmless bloke who used to go about
the place with his 2 friends they looked like the trio out of the
last of the summer wine. and often hung around Roches stores entrance.
dunno their names.

Anyone remember the partially blind guy that used to sit
outside william street and Todds years ago. He claimed he was fully
blind but was not. (not to be confused with the guy who was running the
scam that the limerick leader exposed)

There was a bloke who used to play the trumpet outside roches
and he had malformed hands. He moved back and forth dublin-limerick

There was a guy years ago who had a monkey and used to get it to sit
on poeples shoulders and he took your photo. The monkey bit someone and
he eventually disappeared.

John Binden?? and his sister ?? used to hang around aurthurs quey AIB
the place you used to need to swipe your card for access. They always
had a dog and used to harress people for money.

There was a well know Hooker that used to travel on the buse's a lot too
used to dress in black a lot.


There was a guy with flaming red hair who smelled real bad and
wore a green rain jackett and went around with his dinnear in a plstic
bag. He would remind your of a cross between a wearwolf and shaggy
from scooby doo with a little igor thrown in.

There was another homeless guy that walked and walked and walked
he had weird boobley eyes and wore a worn suit. He was always very
polite never begged he used to sometime go around the place
with what looked like flear poweder or baby powder covering his
hair and shoulders.

There was a guy who had very very thick yellowish glasses and
he used to wear a suit and he had black shortish wavy hair.
he used to stand outside todds staring at all the woman and
walked quite often up Roxboro Road. he used to freak all
the girls out. He looked like some School Teacher gone
terrebly terribly wrong.

There was a guy who had all the anti-abortion poster who
stood outdide todds.

There was the dude with the megaphone that used to preach on
Cruises street with the paper and water paints.

On the gothish looking types:

Cora Peters - one of the first Goths ever in Limerick
(or who looked like a goth) everyone about the place
for a bit would know her to see her.

Catherine Moloney - Another well known goth that used to
hand out Termights flyers outside Todds. she still looks
the exact same as she did 10 years ago.

There was Me who about 7-10 years ago used to have a go around with a long coat
and black leather jackets until they became popular with the spooky kids
and I decided to stop wearing them as I looked like an idiot.

Bob O'Connell - The bloke who started Termights club. Well known figure
around Limerick when it came to alternative music. lark in the Park kinda things.
He used to wear tinted/dark glasses regardeless if it was day/night.

The ex termights bouncers who now do security at the church near wealons
camera shop they were well known Limerick Characters.

Jimmy Butler - The bouncer from Docs niteclub who was also a
body builder.

Mad Micheal - Guy who used to sell doors near the Markett where
the car park is. He used to Cycle from Patrickswell to the City
and call EVERYbody Michael.

I suppose not all the characters of Limerick are either homeless people or people that hang around town all day - for instance I know some people who mightn't be well known but would still be characters in their own right. For instance, one guy, how I shall call ****** ******* cos he might not want people to know I put his name up on the web without his permission.

During the summer of 2003 I was at a house party in Elm Park and my friend ****** ******* who is completely nuts showed us his party piece. Basically you have to be at a party in a student house for this to work or else the whole trick falls apart. What you do is go into the kitchen, get a bottle of Fairy Liquid and squirt it all over the kitchen floor. Then you sit back and watch, while keeping drinking of course. That way when anyone walks into the kitchen will slip and fall flat on their arse, with hilarious consequences. Problem. By the following morning the people living there hadn't got round to cleaning the house up and they were all asleep, when their landlord called to show a future tenant around the house who was looking at it with her mother. Didn't the 3 of them walk into the kitchen and all fall on their backs!!! True story. The Fairy Liquid thing really works really well. I think the landlord was none to pleased.

One night the same guy and a friend of his went to termights and had all this money from some country that was worth absolutely nothing over here and started throwing it all around the place going crazy and telling people they had won the lotto and word spread anyway and eventually a neighbour of mine thought he had actually won the lotto because somehow or other the word had got back to my neighbour's mother that they had won the lotto but of course they hadn't, they were just throwing worthless money around termights for the laugh.

willie is still alive hes in a nursing home in killaloe

John2002 wrote: »

Powlie (spelling?) was the name of the dog IIRC.

The dog was killed on him some time back. Was a bloody heart breaking story. Bunch of scummers grabbed the little dog and walked down to the bridge by the Potato market and threw the dog off the bridge.