When did the Stab City phrase first get coined?

gbee

kilburn wrote: »

Ah yeah make fun and mock fierce Limerick, they were glad LImerick was fierce when Cromwell and his buddies came a calling. And ye will be glad of us again next time we get colonised

I'm just glad that beedin cronnie has stopped singing the " .... you're a lady" song. I'm glad of that already.

jimthemental

SarahBeep! wrote: »

The only time students get beaten up in Limerick is when they act the c*nt and p*ss odd other students!! Sure students wouldn't be near ANY of the dangerous ares in Limerick.

LIT is spitting distance from Moyross!

veryangryman

jimthemental wrote: »

LIT is spitting distance from Moyross!

Only as the crow flies (spits)

4 years there and never had a problem around Moylish,Caherdavin nor Thomondgate.

It really is just the families feuding. Can anyone here honestly say theyve had trouble in stab?

lil'bug

i used to work near moyross and I never got stabbed, now that i think of it ive always lived in limerick and i've never been stabbed

YFlyer

mikemac wrote: »

Didn't some Limerick Major try to change it to "Fab City"
And then there was an incident and the Limerick Leader reported "Man fabbed"

That could be an urban myth, Pat Kenny told that joke once

Pat Kenny jokes. Get out of here

grenache

SarahBeep! wrote:

The only time students get beaten up in Limerick is when they act the c*nt and p*ss odd other students!! Sure students wouldn't be near ANY of the dangerous ares in Limerick.

You do realise that LIT is in Moylish, which borders Moyross?! Two friends of mine have both been attacked and had wallets and phones stolen while walking down Old Cratloe Road to the student villages, both of which over-look Moyross. I wouldn't walk down that road at night if you paid me, there are so many knackers hanging around it and causing hassle.

Straight Talker

Limerick is not as bad as people would have you believe but i do think Cork and Dublin have a better vibe.Limerick's main problem is that it just has this very grimey feeling.There's also seem's be a lot of graffiti with the slogan bullitz limerick life!

grenache

Straight Talker wrote: »

Limerick is not as bad as people would have you believe but i do think Cork and Dublin have a better vibe.

Having worked and lived there i think it is as bad and worse than people think. It's just dead and I've never come across so many undesirables in my life. I feel sorry for the decent majority who have to put up with all the crap that goes on.

CHealy

Its a pretty depressing and boring place, but id feel safer going out there than in Cork, only last Saturday night a pal got a knife showed to him on Grand Parade and told to quickly f**k off.

super_furry

As a Dublin native who has experienced the outrage and anger of our country breatheren from time to time on After Hours, can I just be the first to say.....LIMERICK FORUM?

Ahhh that felt good. No wonder you lot are always at it.

The Snipe

Most the limerick forum post here I'm from limerick and there isn't that many knives, more likely in cork or dublin imo. I think the title was given to us quite unfairly by biased media companies based in Dublin (like most things). Before it we were known as the 'City of Pigs' (Back around the 1950's AFAIK)

Robbo

XiledSniper wrote: »

Most the limerick forum post here I'm from limerick and there isn't that many knives, more likely in cork or dublin imo. I think the title was given to us quite unfairly by biased media companies based in Dublin (like most things). Before it we were known as the 'City of Pigs' (Back around the 1950's AFAIK)

I thought it was coined by a disgruntled Limerick person as proof that the "anti-Limerick liberal Dublin-based media elite" were out to get ye? To establish an ersatz Liverpool complex, as it were.

DarkJager

It started after a Turkish guy was stabbed to death with a screwdriver in the 70's or 80's afaik. Someone should be able to get a link to confirm that.

P.S I've walked through Moyross at 2am in the morning and I've also walked O'Connell street in Dublin after that time. There's only one place I felt unsafe and it wasn't Moyross. Go figure.

Jake Rugby Walrus666

cruiser178 wrote: »

Afaik the whole "stab city" b/s nick name that limerick got was because of a few stabings in the late 70's earily 80's. The most famous one (for the want of a better word) was in the earily 80's when two feuding familys were drinking in the same pub in the city.

Infamous?

Jake Rugby Walrus666

DarkJager wrote: »

P.S I've walked through Moyross at 2am in the morning and I've also walked O'Connell street in Dublin after that time. There's only one place I felt unsafe and it wasn't Moyross. Go figure.

Was it O'Connell Street?

grenache

super_furry wrote: »

As a Dublin native who has experienced the outrage and anger of our country breatheren from time to time on After Hours, can I just be the first to say.....LIMERICK FORUM?

Ahhh that felt good. No wonder you lot are always at it.

If this thread was on Dublin, would you be telling people to take it to the Dublin forum : rolleyes:

super_furry

grenache wrote: »

If this thread was on Dublin, would you be telling people to take it to the Dublin forum : rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk

JupiterKid

Limerick gained its infamous moniker the day afer the city was founded.

Straight Talker

XiledSniper wrote: »

Most the limerick forum post here I'm from limerick and there isn't that many knives, more likely in cork or dublin imo. I think the title was given to us quite unfairly by biased media companies based in Dublin (like most things). Before it we were known as the 'City of Pigs' (Back around the 1950's AFAIK)

Cork and Dublin are much bigger places though!

Straight Talker

DarkJager wrote: »

It started after a Turkish guy was stabbed to death with a screwdriver in the 70's or 80's afaik. Someone should be able to get a link to confirm that.

P.S I've walked through Moyross at 2am in the morning and I've also walked O'Connell street in Dublin after that time. There's only one place I felt unsafe and it wasn't Moyross. Go figure.

One place is a suburb the other is the busiest street in the country.As you said yourself go figure.

Stiffler2

Get with the times.
Limierick is no longer called "Stab City" as they use guns instead now.

Itsdacraic

Stiffler2 wrote: »

Get with the times.
Limierick is no longer called "Stab City" as they use guns instead now.

Orginality not your strong point?

[Jackass]

Seloth wrote: »

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.

Yeah, cause you'd get shot in Limerick.

Stiffler2

Itsdacraic wrote: »

Orginality not your strong point?

ya whah ?

Tiocfaidh Armani

Because when ya listen to their accent it feels like you're being stabbed in every one of your vital organs.