Sad City
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Well, Limerick has been getting a lot of bad publicity lately.
It is rather sad, given that it contains so many fine and unique georgian houses. Went to see some of them in Pery Square, and suffered a torrent of abuse from a load of weirdos who tried to mug me.
While there, I was told by a local that the large office block in the city (revenue offices?) is listed as its construction was the first of its type in Ireland – anyone know of this building?
Also, in spite of Frank Mac Donald’s recent generous article about Limerick, it seems that the city has changed only in terms of architecture…..:(
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It really is not that bad. I have never seen anything anytime I was there. It has some fantastic assets…
– King Johns castle
– the Hunt Museum
– University of Limerick
– Home of Munster Rugby
We are in danger of generalising and tarnishing everyone in the city with the same brush.
Do we really think that people like…
– Richard Harris (rip)
– Terry Wogan
– Deloros O’Riordan
– Keith Wood
– Sam Smith
– Frank McCourt
– Willie O Dea etc etc
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Paul C
You say that none of those people you mention would steal my Camera, but the last time I was in Limerick I had my car nicked as I went in to buy a bag of chips. I’d only been gone a couple of minutes too!I said, “Oh my God, who stole my car” and a group of lads replied at once, “it was Wogan”!
Now, if Wogan is capable of stealing a car, a camera would be childsplay to him!! -
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Really hate the way everyone in the media jumps on Limerick… ok so there are certainly serious feuds between certain familys etc which is obviously not good, but this does not make it a city where ordinary people risk being abducted or having their camera stolen !!! I’ve been around the Pery Sq area many many times and never had any hassle at all.
As for that building JS mentioned, it might be Sarsfield House which is where the Collector General’s Office is based… if I recall the Revenue Commissioners’ moved out of it and moved to new offices in Charlotte’s Quay. Was not aware that Sarsfield House was listed though…
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Well, that revenue building seems to be the one – it was the first of its type when built in Ireland.
I’m sorry, but go on an architectural walk around there at your own risk! I was only in the city a day when I was targetted! I wish I was exaggerating, but it is such an awful city. So much potential….just get rid of the mingers and it would be much nicer – just proving that architecture can only do so much… Saw a report of the city, and I have to say, I’ve seen nothing like the amount of boarded up and abandoned houses that were shown on TV.
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Ive only been to Limerick once in my life, and found the city very uninpsiring apart from one building, the hotel I stayed in: the Clarion. Its a beautiful structure the locals have nicknamed the rugby ball, fittingly enough for limerick.
Its beautifully designed and fits in very well at the riverside its on. The upper three or four stories remain closed at the moment im told but will open this year making available some lovely penthouse rooms.
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Dear Independent,
I do not buy your newspaper, in fact i think it is ****, but I have to agree with your recent assessment of the Limerick gang wars.I was born in Cork, but brought up in Moyross, one of the most notorious wastelands in Europe (weekly mortality rate 34%, apparently). According to a recent study by “The Weekly World News”, it is the third most likely place in the world where you could be the victim of an alien abduction. The same article, on which you clearly base most of your information, states that “one council estate in limerick has a nuclear arsenal surpassing that of the US, Russia, and the UK combined.”
There is no question that the recent gang wars are a prelude to something greater. On the grapevine (obviously the same one as you lot are on), I have heard that one of the rival factions has a 40km2 training camp in a secret location near Fedamore. In addition, two members of the St Mary’s Park gang recently visited Kazakstan and swapped 75 tons of cocaine for three nuclear warheads and a jar of smallpox.
If I were you, I would definitely print this tomorrow in your newspaper, it’s a hot story, nearly as hot as the stuff that was in it today! Of course, some of the gangs, such as the one who abducted the two brothers last week, do this purely at random. According to one report from a Web Site that is about as reputable as your newspaper, the same gang abducted 3,748 Limerick residents from their homes last week, 1,211 of whom are still missing. The Limerick authorities have contrived to keep this quiet, frightened of the “bad press”. This is inexcusable when newspapers as impartial as yourselves can be relied upon to report “the action” as it happens as reliably as possible.
You may think that my bitterness toward Limerick is unwarranted, but my personal story will prove otherwise. Having lived in Moyross for 16 years, it is hard to remember a week in which I was not stabbed, shot, or lost a loved one. From an early age, balaclava-wearing, medallion-loving gang members roam the streets, murdering, pillaging, looting. Then they go home and eat their dinner before organizing a few drive-by shootings that evening.
In one week in early 1997, I was shot five times in one day – twice in “the Lobster Pot” (that’s a fast food restaurant, not a part of my body). It is because of this that plans are afoot to give free “woundcare” to everyone within fifteen miles of Limerick.
I suggest you go to any hardware store in Limerick and ask them what their weekly turnover on knife sales is. Then, make up a figure that suits your story… Let’s say $23.5 million (always sounds more credible in dollars, doesn’t it?). Then, throw in a few Libyan guerrillas, those two leading Palestine separatists who are currently in Ireland, and mention the REAL IRA a few times (everyone in Limerick is a member of the real IRA, you can even put in a special paragraph about gang members getting discounts in local Chinese restaurants, but you probably knew that already), and bingo, it’s a story. Don’t forget to add in the most important keywords though, namely “local”, “knife”, “Southill”, “Prospect”, “St Mary’s Park area”, “Moyross”, “gun”, and my personal favourite (well, i’m cheating here because it’s an expression), “city cordoned off”.
Limerick is clearly on the brink of extinction. I have only touched the surface… I can’t say anymore because I am writing this letter from an Internet Café and I have to be home before dark (Police curfew, 5:30 p.m).
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