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bfclancy · 19-01-2020 10:29AM

Travellers at it again. Innocent bystander attending the music festival was the second person injured. Now that village is a **** hole

Widdershins · 19-01-2020 10:40AM

bfclancy wrote: »

Travellers at it again. Innocent bystander attending the music festival was the second person injured. Now that village is a **** hole

There was a machete attack that (iirc) involved a chase through a school yard a while back in Ennis.

Feuds are at least very rare now

topper75 · 20-01-2020 10:54AM

The 'this place is good, that place is bad' narrative is ball locks.

It's not a geography issue; it is decent people v scum. An endless war, in which the forces supposedly protecting the decent people have gone lax.

90 odd percent of all Limerick, S'bridge, Ennis, Dublin, Cork, and Louth people are all actually A1.

Strumms · 20-01-2020 11:18AM

BeerWolf wrote: »

Better ban knives.

You’ll end up buttering your bread with the belt off your trousers.

PhuckHugh · 21-01-2020 09:12AM

Poor chap covered in petrol and set on fire Sunday night .... no knives used tho so nothing to see.

Widdershins · 21-01-2020 10:09AM

topper75 wrote: »

The 'this place is good, that place is bad' narrative is ball locks.

It's not a geography issue; it is decent people v scum. An endless war, in which the forces supposedly protecting the decent people have gone lax.

90 odd percent of all Limerick, S'bridge, Ennis, Dublin, Cork, and Louth people are all actually A1.

I completely agree they are.
Maybe it's more a question of how safe any of the 90% feel.
There are parts of Limerick I'd have walked thrpugh at night with awareness but no unease a few years ago. They feel more crowded with people who seem 'off' now. Im not saying it's a major issue.

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 21-01-2020 10:20AM

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Maybe the disdain shown to Limerick by official Ireland is due to its revolutionary and anti treaty past, it even had a short lived soviet.

Or perhaps for its anti-Semitic progrom?

beauf · 21-01-2020 10:25AM

There's a chart here with the rise and fall in the 2000s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_feud

The Cork thing is a countrywide issue. While there has been an increase in reporting, there had also been a rise in population so you'd expect crime to rise.

But I think there is a rise well beyond that.

beauf · 21-01-2020 10:25AM

Widdershins wrote: »

I completely agree they are.
Maybe it's more a question of how safe any of the 90% feel.
There are parts of Limerick I'd have walked thrpugh at night with awareness but no unease a few years ago. They feel more crowded with people who seem 'off' now. Im not saying it's a major issue.

Same every where.

topper75 · 21-01-2020 10:31AM

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Or perhaps for its anti-Semitic progrom?

Why do people still hype up that incident as a pogrom?

It was unsavoury yes, a nutcase priest egging on a small number of dumb hotheads, but the numbers of Jews in Limerick actually rose in its aftermath. Pretty **** pogrom if that is what it was supposed to be.

Widdershins · 21-01-2020 10:34AM

beauf wrote: »

Same every where.

Living through social change is still remarkable, I suppose

beauf · 21-01-2020 10:55AM

Widdershins wrote: »

Living through social change is still remarkable, I suppose

Dunno about that.

We have to look at the other countries that manage crime and lawlessness better. If there are any

Cina · 21-01-2020 10:59AM

beauf wrote: »

Dunno about that.

We have to look at the other countries that manage crime and lawlessness better. If there are any

Not many. We're the 10th safest country in the world apparently.

Although everyone says Dubai is the safest city they've been to so maybe we need a dictatorship that cuts off the hands off anyone who so much as pisses on the side of the road?

jimgoose · 21-01-2020 11:11AM

topper75 wrote: »

Why do people still hype up that incident as a pogrom?

It was unsavoury yes, a nutcase priest egging on a small number of dumb hotheads, but the numbers of Jews in Limerick actually rose in its aftermath. Pretty **** pogrom if that is what it was supposed to be.

John Creagh - he was out of his bloody mind. They eventually shifted him to Australia via Belfast, and he had a nervous breakdown shortly afterwards.

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 21-01-2020 11:23AM

topper75 wrote: »

Why do people still hype up that incident as a pogrom?

It was unsavoury yes, a nutcase priest egging on a small number of dumb hotheads, but the numbers of Jews in Limerick actually rose in its aftermath. Pretty **** pogrom if that is what it was supposed to be.

Pogrom is Yiddish, to destroy or devastate, and historians have recorded the event as a pogrom, but if you prefer you can call it a boycott if that makes it any more palatable to you.

However calling it a boycott hides the fact that there was violence against Jews in Limerick at that time.

It lasted two years, a lot longer than the few days old Soviet that some people hype up.

The number of Jews in Limerick was 171 in the 1901 census, and dropped to 122 by the 1911 census and continued to decline. It had been steadily rising before.

jimgoose · 21-01-2020 11:25AM

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Pogrom is Yiddish, to destroy or devastate, and historians have recorded the event as a pogrom, but if you prefer you can call it a boycott if that makes it any more palatable to you.

However calling it a boycott hides the fact that there was violence against Jews in Limerick at that time.

It lasted two years, a lot longer than the few days old Soviet that some people hype up.

The number of Jews in Limerick was 171 in the 1901 census, and dropped to 122 by the 1911 census and continued to decline. It had been steadily rising before.

"Pogrom" is a Russian word, not Yiddish. And that episode was primarily an economic boycott.

21-01-2020 11:40AM

All of these issues in our cities and towns ties into our Welfare system.
We pay people who shouldn't have children to have kids. They get more welfare along with child benefit.

And because they're having kids for income they have large numbers and dont raise them correctly.

After a few years these become "Homeless" and people are crying for houses for Ireland's forgotten.

Ourselves and the UK have such an ingrained society of this and it's not going to change until we start to incentivise people who cant raise kids not to have them as right now the problem is growing and growing with the current system.

Mad_maxx · 21-01-2020 12:00PM

gilberto_eire wrote: »

All of these issues in our cities and towns ties into our Welfare system.
We pay people who shouldn't have children to have kids. They get more welfare along with child benefit.

And because they're having kids for income they have large numbers and dont raise them correctly.

After a few years these become "Homeless" and people are crying for houses for Ireland's forgotten.

Ourselves and the UK have such an ingrained society of this and it's not going to change until we start to incentivise people who cant raise kids not to have them as right now the problem is growing and growing with the current system.

The welfare state ( of the kind we have) turns people into life long babies who believe that the government should parent them in every way

We must have more faith in people to make the right choices

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 21-01-2020 12:02PM

jimgoose wrote: »

"Pogrom" is a Russian word, not Yiddish. And that episode was primarily an economic boycott.

I was going by this, but in the end, it still means the same thing.

c.p.w.g.w · 22-01-2020 03:19AM

bfclancy wrote: »

Travellers at it again. Innocent bystander attending the music festival was the second person injured. Now that village is a **** hole

Lad shot is known drug dealer from Shannon who was the target, 2nd person was innocent bystander

dd973 · 22-01-2020 03:33AM

Some alarming stuff happening in Cork lately, it always had it's poorer parts but in time gone by you'd never associate it with the viciousness of Dublin or Limerick.

Drogheda used to be a one horse market town back in the 80's and 90's, (can't picture anyone with a duff Drogheda accent sounding threatening), it's more than likely been the encroachment of Dublin turning it into a de facto northern satellite.

PhuckHugh · 27-01-2020 08:55AM

dd973 wrote: »

Some alarming stuff happening in Cork lately, it always had it's poorer parts but in time gone by you'd never associate it with the viciousness of Dublin or Limerick.

Drogheda used to be a one horse market town back in the 80's and 90's, (can't picture anyone with a duff Drogheda accent sounding threatening), it's more than likely been the encroachment of Dublin turning it into a de facto northern satellite.

The armed support unit had 5 lads on the ground and held at gun point in Blackpool last night --- the place is a war zone.

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