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When did the Stab City phrase first get coined?

  • 18-07-2011 10:12PM
    #1
    veryangryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭


    Someone told me recently that this started on Scrap Saturday...Is this true?

    I first heard it around '99 but I was a late bloomer (17 at the time)

    I know "why" its called it, but whats the earliest recollection of it that you can find.

    Something i found funny - if you type stab city into google, it just finds Limerick, despite the fact that there is no mention of the phrase within the article...


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  • #2
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    When someone got stabbed..


  • #3
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Stab city was first used to describe Limerick way back in the 70s .Fact


  • #4
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    when limerick received its charter, some time around 1987


  • #5
    BluesBerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭BluesBerry


    I heard somewhere today that it was Dermot morgan skit?
    I could be wrong but think it was him that did it

    When I first heard it I was on a bus from sligo to dublin alone and ` limerick junkie and his girlfriend were telling me where they were from Limerick aka stab city ( they relished in the fact that it was called that ) it was the longest journey of my life that was years ago


  • #6
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Late 1970s


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  • #7
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    1832


  • #8
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    First time I ever heard it was here on this thread:)


  • #9
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Gerry Stembridge & Dermot Morgan coined the phrase for a sketch not realising that idiots around the country would exaggerate it out of all proportions and use it as a cheap, ill-informed slur.


  • #10
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    Does it go back as far as 70s? I first heard it on Scrap Saturday as a teenager in the early 90s...


  • #11
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    mrsdewinter wrote: »
    Does it go back as far as 70s? I first heard it on Scrap Saturday as a teenager in the early 90s...
    Yes,mid to late 70s was a time when that term was being used a lot by the Irish media in newspapers and tv .


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  • #12
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    Who ever came up with 'coined the phrase'?
    Does it mean the first person to come up with it gets paid? In coins?


  • #13
    veryangryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    easyeason3 wrote: »
    Who ever came up with 'coined the phrase'?
    Does it mean the first person to come up with it gets paid? In coins?

    Is the liver called that because you need it to live?


  • #14
    Seloth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭Seloth


    Live in Cork but go to College in Limerick and I'd be far more afraid of Knives in Cork and Dublin then I would Limerick.


  • #15
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    I heard it in 1996 when my cousin warned me to roll up my windows as we drove through Limerick towards Kerry. I was holding on to the door handle the whole time incase someone tried to reef it open!


  • #16
    Mr. Denton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Mr. Denton


    In a way I'm glad Limerick moved on from knives to guns. Otherwise this guy might still be alive.

    I come back to that story occasionally as it always gives me a good laugh.


  • #17
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    veryangryman wrote: »
    Is the liver called that because you need it to live?

    *strokes chin slowly*
    Interesting...


  • #18
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Seloth wrote: »
    Lie in ork.....

    We playing hangman ?

    My guess is "Lice in pork" :D


  • #19
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,665 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    stroke city is another good name


  • #20
    veryangryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    easyeason3 wrote: »
    *strokes chin slowly*
    Interesting...

    Your not helping the "Im female damnit!" claim with that line! :P


  • #21
    slippy wicket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 693 ✭✭✭slippy wicket


    Mr. Denton wrote: »
    In a way I'm glad Limerick moved on from knives to guns. Otherwise this guy might still be alive.

    I come back to that story occasionally as it always gives me a good laugh.

    Indeed.

    Nice to see that sort autodarwinate himself as opposed to killing others.


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  • #22
    Turkana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭Turkana


    Mr. Denton wrote: »
    In a way I'm glad Limerick moved on from knives to guns. Otherwise this guy might still be alive.

    I come back to that story occasionally as it always gives me a good laugh.


    Yeah... that was feckin' hilarious. Probably the only time I've laughed at somebody getting shot! Was that the guy who had the massive knacker funeral with black horses and the coffin draped in tri-colours?


  • #23
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    It was coined at half 12 on a Tuesday.


  • #24
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Right after we discovered which end of
    the knife was the business end. :D


  • #25
    CorkMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    It's new nickname should be "L-M-K". Much in the way Compton is referred to C-P-T.


  • #26
    jprboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭jprboy


    Gerry Stembridge was interviewed by Matt Cooper on The Last Word on Friday last and said that neither he nor Dermot Morgan coined the term.


  • #27
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    I think Rimlick is funnier than calling it Stabbers. :pac:


  • #28
    Mr. Denton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Mr. Denton


    Turkana wrote: »
    Yeah... that was feckin' hilarious. Probably the only time I've laughed at somebody getting shot! Was that the guy who had the massive knacker funeral with black horses and the coffin draped in tri-colours?

    Haha yeah. The only service he ever did the country was killing himself.


  • #29
    veryangryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Mr. Denton wrote: »
    Haha yeah. The only service he ever did the country was killing himself.

    QFT - If only all the feuding families did that


  • #30
    Itsdacraic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,362 ✭✭✭Itsdacraic


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Gerry Stembridge & Dermot Morgan coined the phrase for a sketch not realising that idiots around the country would exaggerate it out of all proportions and use it as a cheap, ill-informed slur.

    No they didn't.

    Gerry Stenbridge was on the radio just last Friday evening where he said that Stab City existed long before he used it in the sketch.


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  • #31
    veryangryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Itsdacraic wrote: »
    No they didn't.

    Gerry Stenbridge was on the radio just last Friday evening where he said that Stab City existed long before he used it in the sketch.

    The phrase? Or the city?

    Better question for our more (ahem) mature boardsies.. How long back can you remember the first knifing in Limerick?


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