Limerick gang feuds.

Karoma · 07-04-2008 08:43PM

ioctl wrote: »

Nuke them, along with the middle east.

I'd support this if you agreed to carry the nuke.

Burning Eclipse · 07-04-2008 08:57PM

Karoma wrote: »

I'd support this if you agreed to carry the nuke.

I like your style :pac:

Melion · 07-04-2008 09:15PM

Im with the others who said it. Limerick is fine as long as you're not a scumbag. I go into town 4-5 times a week and have never ever felt in any danger. I worked in there for 3 years and had no trouble walking the streets in there. Its just the poorer areas of the city where you will encounter trouble and all counties have areas like that.

ninty9er · 07-04-2008 09:41PM

A mandatory 5 year no parole for possession of an unlicenced firearm.

Shoot to kill if someone opens fire at Gardaí.

CAB

rossie1977 · 07-04-2008 10:40PM

lmfao at dubs criticizing limerick :rolleyes: when dublin has the fastest growing homicide rate of any European capital city. 73 murders in dublin last year ain't anything to be proud of

Tha Gopher · 07-04-2008 10:44PM

rossie1977 wrote: »

lmfao at dubs criticizing limerick :rolleyes: when dublin has the fastest growing homicide rate of any European capital city. 73 murders in dublin last year ain't anything to be proud of

Limerick has the same size population of your average west Dublin new-ish suburb (roughly the same as Tallaght, Clondalkin or Blanch, all of which from memory have around 70-90k each)

My area, of similiar size, had from memory one fatal shooting and two or three fatal stabbings last year.

Limerick has had two gangland killings this weekend.

Dragan · 07-04-2008 10:52PM

Melion wrote: »

The one at the weekend was just ridiculous, a guy was shot in Garryowen just because he had been spotted with a member of a gang.

In terms of gangland killings it was very clever. You kill someone who was seen even talking to a member of your rivals and suddenly people don't want to talk to them so more. The suppliers for these guys will have less weight in the city than the families themselves. This is really the first time the killings have spread outside those who are actually involved so hopefully it should bring enough heat down to finally wipe out the people who can think in such ways.

EamonnKeane · 07-04-2008 11:07PM

ninty9er wrote: »

A mandatory 5 year no parole for possession of an unlicenced firearm.

Bit harsh considering rapists serve 5-6 years, murderers 7-8.

Tha Gopher · 07-04-2008 11:11PM

ninty9er wrote: »

A mandatory 5 year no parole for possession of an unlicenced firearm.

Shoot to kill if someone opens fire at Gardaí.

CAB

Please tell me you are not intending to run for FF.

Not that the ideas are all that awful. More that you seem very knee jerk and reactionary.

ninty9er · 07-04-2008 11:12PM

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Please tell me you are not intending to run for FF.

Not that the ideas are all that awful. More that you seem very knee jerk and reactionary.

Not anytime soon anyways:rolleyes:

edit:
I'd just like to be able to sleep without being woken by that f*ing Garda helicopter passing over every half hour when something goes arse over tit not too far from where I live.

Real punishment for first serious offences has to be part of solving this problem. A serious brainwashing programme to turn these people into productive members of society over that period would then be in order. After, in 5 years you could get a whole secondary education.

CAB has punished criminals' pockets, now the tables need to be turned on them so they feel the pain they've inflicted on their neighbours.

rossie1977 · 07-04-2008 11:26PM

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Limerick has the same size population of your average west Dublin new-ish suburb (roughly the same as Tallaght, Clondalkin or Blanch, all of which from memory have around 70-90k each)

My area, of similiar size, had from memory one fatal shooting and two or three fatal stabbings last year.

Limerick has had two gangland killings this weekend.

and dublin has a population about the size of a small tokyo suburb but yet its homicide rate is about the same as Tokyo's 23 special wards (population 85 million)

closer to home; london metro (population 8.5 million) has just over twice the murders of dublin

Whatever way you paint it Dublin's and limerick's murder rate are poor. Population size should never be used as an excuse. Some of the biggest murder centres in america are smaller towns like Gary, In and Flint, Michigan. New york the biggest population centre in the USA is well down the crime rankings

Tha Gopher · 07-04-2008 11:33PM

I said it before.

Quit trying to pretend Limerick does not have a disproportionate amount of gangland crime.

It does.

Your mates on the bebo band page seem quite proud and aware of it.

Gary Indiana is on the outskirts of Chicago metro.

Flint is a short drive from Detroit, the most violent city in the US.

rossie1977 · 08-04-2008 12:34AM

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Gary Indiana is on the outskirts of Chicago metro.

Flint is a short drive from Detroit, the most violent city in the US.

gary is 40 miles from downtown chicago, flint is 70 miles from downtown detroit. Thats like saying athlone's drug/crime problems can all be attributed to its proximity to dublin.

affluent detroit suburbs (and yes there are a few) have zero or well below average (USA) crime levels

everyone is well aware of limerick's problems but as i have said previous dubliners should address their own problems BEFORE they throw stones in someone elses direction. You guys can start by removing some of the addicts along the quays and around marlborough street that seem to multiple every day.....

Brint · 08-04-2008 01:52AM

I thought it was just 12 yo kids, or dorks with leather jackets in movies who were in "gangs" - how sad, that a bunch of pathetic inbred losers would take a "gang" fued so seriously as to kill someone.... lol @ "gangs" - how clichéd. Get a life.

Dave! · 08-04-2008 09:43AM

Caught using a firearm in the commission of specific crimes (eg; armed robbery, murder) = life in prison

Kev_ps3 · 08-04-2008 10:41AM

I think all them gangsters should be put against a wall and shot. Internment for all the other criminal scum who rob cars, throw bricks at cars etc And dont let them out until they have respect for people and the law.

Amazotheamazing · 08-04-2008 10:55AM

Or middle class Ireland could stop buying the drugs that give money to these gangs?

If you got rid of all the gangs in Limerick and Dublin, new gangs from elsewhere in Ireland would step-in to supply the market with drugs. Rather than focus on just two areas, the entire country needs to accept that the problems in these areas are being fuelled by recreational drug users from everywhere in Ireland.

ioctl · 08-04-2008 11:02AM

Karoma wrote: »

I'd support this if you agreed to carry the nuke.

Done. I don't think nukes have any affect on gingers so you'd be safe. :pac:

Dragan · 08-04-2008 11:11AM

Brint wrote: »

I thought it was just 12 yo kids, or dorks with leather jackets in movies who were in "gangs" - how sad, that a bunch of pathetic inbred losers would take a "gang" fued so seriously as to kill someone.... lol @ "gangs" - how clichéd. Get a life.

No real point in focusing on the term the media use to get our attention about these issues. These people do not consider themselves to be "gangs". They are families and crime is their family business and has earned them a good living for some time. They will not readily give it up, either to the cops, the people they have been feuding with for years now or the new elements that are currently establishing themselves in the country.

meathstevie · 08-04-2008 11:25AM

In addition to what I posted earlier about denying movement to gang members and continious stop and search strategies. Indeed the big lad will be sitting in the gav watching the wall sized plasma tele but while the minions' wings are being clipped his operation is being crippled as well and he will become quite uncomfortable quite quickly. And as for it being riskfull for the actual cops on the operation, indeed it would be quite dangerous but when supplied with the proper equipment it would be feasable. Proper equipment being at least : a powerfull car + trained driver, high quality body armor not a stabvest, the right kind of armament and training to use it.

Nobody should be allowed to leave Templemore without having done an advanced pursuit driving course and without having been trained on all the weaponry in the Garda arsenal. This doesn't mean that every Guard out there should be a tooled up rambo but it will lead to a better trained force that will have the capability to switch from your everyday variety of policing to the rougher sort of work if needed. In the case of the Limerick gangs it looks like the need is well established in my opinion.

MikeHoncho · 08-04-2008 12:16PM

These are not problems that can be solved in the short term. What we need to be doing is looking to the future. Making sure that there is no next generation of these types of characters. This is an education / social problem and not a Gardai one. This means improving the terrible enviroments these people are forced to live in and giving them opportunities outside of the criminal lifestyle.

pwd · 08-04-2008 12:31PM

I've been living in Limerick for 9 months - living in the city centre for most of that time.
Like several people have said, unless you're involved or living in one of the bad areas you don't get hassle usually. I've seen none at all personally, and people tend to be more courteous than average around the place. I lived in Waterford for a few years and you were far more likely to see hassle there, in the city centre and elsewhere.

Jumpy · 08-04-2008 02:44PM

pwd wrote: »

I've been living in Limerick for 9 months - living in the city centre for most of that time.
Like several people have said, unless you're involved or living in one of the bad areas you don't get hassle usually. I've seen none at all personally, and people tend to be more courteous than average around the place. I lived in Waterford for a few years and you were far more likely to see hassle there, in the city centre and elsewhere.

None at all here in 8 years. Most I have seen is tryhard skangers shout at me while I am cycling past.

Dragan · 08-04-2008 02:47PM

Jumpy wrote: »

None at all here in 8 years. Most I have seen is tryhard skangers shout at me while I am cycling past.

LoL, no point in telling people that you have lived there and it's not as bad as people think....i mean, the papers say it is a murderous hell hole and you can't even walk your dog in safety.

What would the people who live there know?

Personally i spent 4.5 years in Limerick and really the only trouble i ever saw was in the usual environment of handbags in the pub and the absolute worst of it that i saw was when i was working doors.

This is hardly suprising mind.

Don1 · 08-04-2008 02:48PM

In the words of Duke Nukem; "kill em all and let God sort em out"

Tha Gopher · 08-04-2008 11:56PM

rossie1977 wrote: »

gary is 40 miles from downtown chicago, flint is 70 miles from downtown detroit. Thats like saying athlone's drug/crime problems can all be attributed to its proximity to dublin.

affluent detroit suburbs (and yes there are a few) have zero or well below average (USA) crime levels

everyone is well aware of limerick's problems but as i have said previous dubliners should address their own problems BEFORE they throw stones in someone elses direction. You guys can start by removing some of the addicts along the quays and around marlborough street that seem to multiple every day.....

Dublins built up urban sprawl spreads about maybe 20 miles westwards (from memory) and a surprisingly small scale out my way (12 miles tops). Chicago on one end pretty much links with Malwaukee ffs.

And yes, Id wager that most drugs in Athlone passed through a Dublin or Limerick source at one point. At the same time cocaine use in Dublin is dropping it explodes in the countryside. Its more than a coincidence.

Anyway, the latest dude dead...

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3243804067

Crumble Froo · 09-04-2008 07:01AM

i love how it's all ok so long as you dont live in a poor or scumbag area... :rolleyes:

what about the impressionable kids growing up there? what about the people who could quite easily become tied up in that **** when they get to their teens, when it could be avoided if action was taken?

im not saying i have a solution, im just saying that just cos you dont live there, doesnt mean it isnt a serious issue for plenty of other people, and your society in general. mistakes get made, innocent people get injured and tied up in things that get out of their control.

Dragan · 09-04-2008 10:21AM

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Anyway, the latest dude dead...

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3243804067

Jesus,

when the Ninja Squirrels finally cross the Vortex and extinguish my life a ****ing curse on anyone who remembers me in text speak.

Sports : Joyroidin'

.........awesome.

Hanley · 09-04-2008 10:51AM

meathstevie wrote: »

Should be so simple...just deny movement for every gang suspect. They put a foot on the street, stop them and search them. If needs be a couple of times a day. Say : known gangster A leaves his house and gets stopped and searched. Nothing is found on him and he walks on and walks into let's say the local hardware store. Stop him again and search him again : reason : he could have armed himself in there. And so on and on and on until they're sick to teeth with it. You can rest assured that in no time given the kind of scumbag they fundamentally are one or more is going to loose control and take a swipe at a cop, lovely : bang him up and maximum sentence will keep them of the street for a good while.

Remember this was a popular and effective tactic used against Martin Cahill, so it has worked. It was on a MUCH smaller scale on that operation tho.

And believe me, I know people who have been victim of contiunous stop and searches and STILL don't get the message and end up getting arrested on serious charges.

thelordofcheese · 09-04-2008 02:37PM

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Dublins built up urban sprawl spreads about maybe 20 miles westwards (from memory) and a surprisingly small scale out my way (12 miles tops). Chicago on one end pretty much links with Malwaukee ffs.

And yes, Id wager that most drugs in Athlone passed through a Dublin or Limerick source at one point. At the same time cocaine use in Dublin is dropping it explodes in the countryside. Its more than a coincidence.

Anyway, the latest dude dead...

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3243804067

well, i don't think we lost a cure for cancer with that one.....

Limerick gang feuds.

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