Limerick it's a hole (say something crappy about limerick)

Buglim

Let the games begin!!!!!!:pac:

Fighting Irish

no traffic, cos nobody wants to be hit by corssfire from a driveby

Mr E

We've had enough of that crap for the last few weeks, thanks very much.
Don't need a thread devoted to it.

Mr E

Reopened.... keep the comments funny or else.

Kess73

Tipp town is nearby. Actually that may be the single most damning thing I can say about Limerick.

Buglim

I agree, way to close to Tipp.

ronaneire

Can I say the best thing about Limerick City???


Is the road heading out of it :D:D

solice

The amount of chips on peoples shoulders, i love chips!

bazz26

Interesting the amount of posters who are not from Limerick who come out of the woodwork just to contribute to threads like this.

zuroph

damn students take months and months to get as good at jaywalking as the natives. We have it down to a fine art, then they come in and hold up traffic as they run screaming across the road in sheer terror. :rolleyes:

coolkidd

Limerick is a dirthole full of saps. its grand though,, eventually they will all kill each other off,,, saps.

Chong

coolkidd wrote: »

Limerick is a dirthole full of saps. its grand though,, eventually they will all kill each other off,,, saps.

bazz26

I can see why these type of threads end up being locked or deleted.

Karmafaerie

Buglim wrote:

Limerick it's a hole (say something crappy about limerick)

Threads like this, end up like this thread probably will.

Spudmonkey

For people interested in hillwalking, it's got no bloody mountains!!

Poxyshamrock

Half of it's in Clare!

And we could so do with a KFC in town...and throw in a starbucks too sure. :P

jmccoy

Even the Shannon runs though Limerick !

bonnieprince

Is William Street up for the title of "the most jaywalked street" in the world??

CDfm

Its Jurys Inn is for real Juries.

Saffy

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

Half of it's in Clare!

And we could so do with a KFC in town...and throw in a starbucks too sure. :P

ooh, yes a starbucks!

CDfm

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

And we could so do with a KFC in town...

It would have to be a Drive By:P

FredH3as

Best thing that ever came out of Limerick????

























The Dublin Road!

CDfm

FredH3as wrote: »

The Dublin Road!

UL

Saffy

I don't get why people knock Limerick all the time.....theres loads of places in Ireland that have way higher crime rates!!

Melion

I fúcking love Limerick, try living in Shannon and you'll appreciate it much more

Berty

The best thing about Limerick is the decentralisaztion programme.

Lots of Dubs sold their houses and came down here buying houses for a lot less money than they were used to knowing they have a tidy sum in their back pocket. Now the housing market has crashed and

THEY ARE TRAPPED HERE WITH US

Liam Byrne

Amazing! A bull**** thread devoted to talking crap about Limerick and every post is....well, crap! :rolleyes:

CDfm

Saffy wrote: »

I don't get why people knock Limerick all the time.....theres loads of places in Ireland that have way higher crime rates!!

Limerick is a really go ahead town sure enough. I lived there and have gone there on business and I feel uncomfortable on the main street. Last time I stayed on O Connell Street I nearly got mugged between the resterant and the Hotel - a short distance.A busker got robbed. This was quite in the open.You dont get in Cork or Galway.

Lots of places have higher crime rates but given the demographics it shouldnt be so. Maybe there is an acceptence of the situation and the local population need to get wise to it.

Its like the worst thing about Limerick is the denial that there is a problem.As a City it tolerates it.IT needs a public rejection like a meeting or March up O.Connell Street reclaiming the town and pat the castle etc.

Rineanna

CDfm wrote: »

IT needs a public rejection like a meeting or March up O.Connell Street reclaiming the town and pat the castle etc.

Who's Pat the castle?

LimeFruitGum

Interesting...

During the week, I and another poster made an observational comment about an area in Dublin, based on real incidents that had happened to us. We were told not to be so bigoted and the thread never got past page one.

But the posts here are a lot worse!

Of course there are problems, but you have the same gang and drug issues in the likes of Finglas and Tallaght.

I'll out myself as a Limerick native at this point. I accept that people may not like the place or maybe they had a bad experience there which influences their perception. Fair enough.

But if you've never been there, then shut your cakeholes.

CDfm

Rineanna wrote: »

Who's Pat the castle?

Probably a dealer.

Amazotheamazing

CDfm wrote: »

Limerick is a really go ahead town sure enough. I lived there and have gone there on business and I feel uncomfortable on the main street. Last time I stayed on O Connell Street I nearly got mugged between the resterant and the Hotel - a short distance.A busker got robbed. This was quite in the open.You dont get in Cork or Galway.

Lots of places have higher crime rates but given the demographics it shouldnt be so. Maybe there is an acceptence of the situation and the local population need to get wise to it.

Its like the worst thing about Limerick is the denial that there is a problem.As a City it tolerates it.IT needs a public rejection like a meeting or March up O.Connell Street reclaiming the town and pat the castle etc.

I always wonder what the crime rates would be if you excluded gang crime from Limerick figure. I just don't see the crime in the city centre you seem to see.

CDfm

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

I always wonder what the crime rates would be if you excluded gang crime from Limerick figure. I just don't see the crime in the city centre you seem to see.

Thats the denial thing.Gang crime is still crime.

If you accept the undercurrent of violence thats part of the City thats sad.

If you live there it becomes normality.You just have a higher tolerance to it than an outsider would.

roadrunner 1

i have stayed in limerick and am a frequant visitor. i just don't understand why there is a free for all to knock. the people are lovally people and so friendly i love the way the city can combine old with new and so very tastefully. i have never come across any city anywhere in any country that doesn't have problems. sureally can we not see that by making harmfull comments about this city in our fine country we will just put holiday makers off.

if you really want to slag anything about limerick how about the way dell have come in raised the living costs built up peoples living standards created other companies to materialise and when they decide the time has come to go they drop its employees almost immediately as a christmas present and setup in poland they havent even been in limerick long enough for anyone to have paid there morgage yet these people have my prayers. some comments that i have read may lead some to think that they cant blame dell for moving on dell have been a plague to all. IF dell were really leaving because of the cheaper polish wage of 3eph why didnt they have a staff meeting and hand it to its employees. take a pay cut or loose your jobs! i am sure everyone would have took the cut as 50 per cent of something is better than 100 pc of nothing to my knowledge this offer was never offered.

so please everyone l lets stop fighting ourselves and lets have a pop of the real gangsters, they always come in the form of a shirt and tie

UP LIMERICK.

poisonated

Not to get too off topic and this is just a shot in the dark here but....
Im guessing the move had something to do with the unions...many problems root from them!
I think UL is a really cool universty.I dont know limerick well...I know that the area around the train station is horrible but areas around most train stations are!

Amazotheamazing

CDfm wrote: »

Thats the denial thing.Gang crime is still crime.

If you accept the undercurrent of violence thats part of the City thats sad.

If you live there it becomes normality.You just have a higher tolerance to it than an outsider would.

It's not denial, I'm just asking a simple question. Not all crime is the same, you need different approaches to deal with gangs and individuals.

CDfm

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

It's not denial, I'm just asking a simple question. Not all crime is the same, you need different approaches to deal with gangs and individuals.

Wow.

Excuses mate.

Its a Limerick Cultural thing. When did it become acceptable?

miralize

Limerick is flange..

roadrunner 1

i dont think hes in denial and i think youve bought into the media hype we are not talking gangs as in the krays here we are talking about a relativly low scale two family feud

LimeFruitGum

The gangland feuds are generally confined to the suburbs. It is a skanger family feud going on since the 70s that has gotten waaaay out of control. :mad:

Amazotheamazing

CDfm wrote: »

Wow.

Excuses mate.

Its a Limerick Cultural thing. When did it become acceptable?

At no point did I say it was acceptable, I simply wanted to know what percentage of crime is caused by the gangs.

I don't think it's a "Limerick Cultural thing", any more than Dublin gang crime is a "Finglas Cultural thing" or whatever. I don't think it's something inherent to Limerick, it's an issue that has risen to prominence in the last decade, as late as 1997, senior Gardai did not think Ireland had established drugs gangs, most of the drug dealing involved criminals who were involved in all sorts of crimes.

Mc Love

I think this thread should close - its really not a good thing to be shouting this kind of tripe from the rooftops, if you dont like Limerick, then **** off out of here!

I have no time for people who are actively trying to bringing down the good name of this city and county, and the good work people have done in promoting the city!

roadrunner 1

sparkysrovers wrote: »

I think this thread should close - its really not a good thing to be shouting this kind of tripe from the rooftops, if you dont like Limerick, then **** off out of here!

I have no time for people who are actively trying to bringing down the good name of this city and county, and the good work people have done in promoting the city!

here here and amen to that

Mr E

Done. Told you it wouldn't work.