Lookā¦ How much of your lineage can be traced back to Drom?
You are either drom or not
I scored a goal and three points in Drom one night. Then drank about seven pints in the local pub.
Junior or Junior B hurling. I canāt remember.
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Lads saying never felt anything menacing about town. Shannon St cab rank, Supermacs and the Lobster Pot were regularly war zones.
Limerick was never as bad as made out in national news but never as meek as some are making it here
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No different to any town or big rural nightclub at the time. I definitely saw more fights in Tarbert and Newcastle West than I ever saw out in Limerick.
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I never once had hassle in Limerick and only saw minor issues.
I went out in Tipp Town a bit. Much worse.
The Lanterns back in the day used to have pitch battles between busloads of lads from different towns.
https://magill.ie/archive/limericks-fearsome-ferocity
Just came across this . The good old days , ha
Nights out in Tipp town were lethal during the summer. Lads playing club games, few pints in the local and then into town for moreādetailed analysisā with the lads they had been beating the head off a few hours earlierā¦the chippers were like something from MMA
Iām not reading all that.
Theres nothing menacing about a few digs
The amount of junkies around OāConnell street in Dublin is frightening. Genuine sense of danger
Iād say in all the years I was going out I saw one scrap outside suoermacs, a complete urban myth
The junkies have a vague air of menace but donāt present much danger. I got a random dig off one in Dame St and generally speaking they are too weak and zombified to give you the type of random assault you might get in a chipper
TLDR - it was the church and the shoddy housing estates with no facilities what done it.
Creagh, led a pogrom against the Jews in the city - about 150 of them, most of whom lived around what is now Wolfe Tone Street, once referred to as āLittle Jerusalemā. Fr Creagh said,. Read about that years ago but didnāt know twas that sectarian ,fuck me lads some on here have grandparents involved in that,mad world then
Limerick in the 80s and early 90s was like any other parochial town, lots of dust ups outside Friar Tucks in the 80s/ early 90s and moved up to Super Macs mid to late 90s. One thing that changed it was Es. All the lads whoād be digging the head off each other were now above in the Tay-ter Royal off their head together. More significantly, the cost of living rose sharply in the 00sā¦ Where a few scrotes could previously afford to go to town they were now totally priced out of itā¦ And it was cheaper to get bombed at home. From the 00s to today, youād very rarely see trouble about. The odd bit if handbagsā¦ Anytime I saw trouble I was usually in the middle of it. But Limerickās issue were and are not on nights out in the city, theyāre deeper than that. They start and end in City hallā¦
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Who are you,Bruce Wayne?
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No comment.
Celtic Tiger price inflation and Es saved Limerick. By God.
Weāve the makings of a David Simon HBO series. A McNulty figure pinning some bodies floating in the estuary to the Henry Street unit. Willie OāDea as Clay Davis.
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Youāre over egging itā¦ I simply meant in relation to Saturday night dust ups. I remember going out when underage around 1995 and there were gangs of lads digging the heads off each other regularlyā¦ Those Castletroy metallarss were always in the mixā¦ Within a couple of years it had all dried up. The Celtic tiger cleared a lot of riff raff out if town.
I remember seeing a bird who must have been at least 6 months pregnant repeatedly rapping another birds head off a pole on Shannon Street. Sickening
Skippy biting Paddy Hayesās ear off
@Thomas_Brady ask Freddy about the time a much older lad threatened us with a fucking coconut inside in the gallery!
And on the eās front, Jamesy McCarthy and his motley crew used to be selling them outside after on said Bosnia/Shannon street, outside the gallery. Said Jamesy one of the 5 who killed Kieran keane. They were some very dangerous people around town