Article in Independent today

Skuxx

Any else read this article in the Independent today?

Not sure what the point of it is, but who ever wrote is was out with one agenda and one agenda only!!

http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/limerick-the-street-is-deserted-but-for-teenagers-looking-to-buy-ecstasy-34244932.html

panda100

What a pointless and ridiculous article. I guess you can't really expect much more from the indo.

Second Toughest in_the Freshers

"the street is deserted but for teenagers looking to buy ecstasy"

"It can get hairy at times, but it's all down to drink"

At least he's not blaming the drugs.

Stellaluna

Pointless is right, you could substitute pretty much any city into the title of that article. Drunk people talking rubbish, fighting and urinating in the street outside nightclubs in the early hours of the morning. That's up there with the news that 'the world is round'.

bazz26

Predictable gutter journalism. If the writer really thinks this only goes on in one city or town then they really do live a very sheltered life.

No real surprise it's found it's way into Indo though, it's what they do best.

Eugene Norman

Not from Limerick but what he sees is.

1) 19 years olds looking for yokes. Which could be anything. Marijuana more likely.
2) a guy peeing.
3) a taxi driver with a story.
4) man gets kicked out of night club and shouts.

I'd honestly walk past that kind of thing on a Friday and not even notice. Wayne is a precious flower.

Second Toughest in_the Freshers

yokes is yokes, is yips, is pills, is disco biscuits, is eccies, is e is ecstasy

Totally Tropical

There's a thread on the Galway forum discussing a spate of unprovoked assaults in that city.An assault in Cork city centre yesterday evening yet the Independent decide to print a non story to portray Limerick in a negative slant yet again.I suppose the thinking in the head office was that we can't be having people thinking that bad things happen in Galway and other places.We better write up some sort of botch job article on Limerick again sigh.

Jofspring

Has anyone seen the article in the paper. Supposedly it's a tiny write up in corner of the page? Seems worse as a stand alone article online.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. Most people with half a brain can see right through these rubbish articles. Not only does it describe every city in Ireland it describes pretty much every city in the world.

I have pretty much given up on reading papers, be that online or in physical form. Mainly online as now it's just thousands of click bait articles about rubbish. It's so hard to find good articles these days it's not even worth bothering. Have also unliked dozens of pages on Facebook and Twitter that continually feed my news feeds with pure muck.

riverrocked

The Waterford Whispers seems to have taken their own slant on it http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2015/11/30/these-pubs-all-closed-at-2-30am-what-happened-next-will-amaze-you/

People walking around at 1am are drunk, story of the century.

Comhrá

Ironically this other story was linked on the same page.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/streets-of-chaos-no-one-paid-any-heed-as-brawl-lasted-15-minutes-34244927.html

Makes Limerick look sort of boring by comparison.

Miike

It feels like the article is a blog post as opposed to an news piece? Strange journalism.

From the comments of the blog post "Good journalism promotes debate and here we are". I don't think it is counted as debate when people are questioning the actual purpose of the article.

wingnut

My reply to the author would be 'cool story bro'