Definitely go ahead with the move @Bod95 - you canāt put a price on peace of mind in your own home. Best of luck with it.
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I remember reading/hearing about the history of Moyross, Limerick, that a lot of what went wrong was a lot of Limerick people moved back home from England and ended up in Moyross. These people had a much harder attitude that the folks whoād stayed in Ireland because in England if you were complained about you could lose your entitlements or your kids much more easily than in Ireland (I cant remember what youd lose exactly but it was roughly along the lines being proposed above). This meant that as soon as anyone complained about them it was immediately life or death and violence would ensue very quickly and it led to the place getting a lot nastier very quickly. Or so some chick from UL thought anyway.
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WTF?
Who taught you this?
What kind of stupid shit is this.
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Iām fairly sure it was in a newspaper, this was years and years ago I saw this. I have no idea if its accurate or not.
Log out.
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Maybe it went that way in the late 90s ā¦ i moved in 1991. Till then it was young families from all over Limerickā¦ Limerick had a savage housing problem in the 60s- 70s /80s - so they threw up Southhill, Moyross etc. And families from every part of Limerick ended up in themā¦ I struggle to believe that loads of tans , or half tans, flocked there in the late 90s as the country was starting to prosper.
Moyross didnt get real bad until the 00s
Even if the English part was true the rest of it doesnāt actually make any sense.
@Bod95 if we work in the same place you heard Friday weāre still hiring so your job is oxo for time being. Moratorium to fall back on if things get sketchy.
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Incorrect. The problem with Limerick was that in the 60s and 70s the state started housing travellers from all over Ireland in Limerick. They were dumped into Moyross and Southill. Limerick got badly fucked over in this regard. You are right in that loads of them came back from England when dole started here in the late 60s.
I donāt think there is anything wrong with building another Moyross style estate for council houses. It was by all accounts a lovely place to live initially. It was the abandonment of it by the local council, no services etc and eventually by the Guards who just declared it a no go zone that fucked it ultimately.
Same with Ballymun. The flats werenāt the problem, it was sticking them in the middle of nowhere (at the time) and then just abandoning them to their fates
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When did this last part happen mate?
March 4th 1998
Moyross had an unbelievable sense of community in the 80s. Every mother on my street reared meā¦ And by that I mean tore strips off me. We were one of the first with a phone so theyād all be up with their 20p to make a call. But everyone knew each others bidness anyway, everyone was involved in each others livesā¦of course, that led to some cracking rows between parents. Roaring and shouting and the whole street out watchingā¦ Loads of poverty around but youāre oblivious as a kid. Very little violence tho, just everyone chipping in and helping each other.
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We could have anyone on the road in our house for dinner in the bullring and we could eat in anyone else house of a night.
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Thats the thing though lads, community spirit is more or less dead these days.
No one goes to mass etc - that kept communities together.
ā¦as much as it was derided. Other than the GAA, which isnt in Moyross, thereās mayhem antisocial behaviour wise.
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I can guarantee you theres a majority of good people still in moyross. The few genuine bad bastards give a place a bad name and bring it down.
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Iām well aware of that pal. Community spirit is gone completely everywhere else probably except for Moyross, Weston, Southill etcā¦Iām in corbally at the moment and I would only know the people in the 2 houses either side of us.
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I was like that in my place before we had the kid. Once they go out playing you get to know everyone. I know all my neighbours now
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