Why does Limerick get so much bad publicity?

Question

I laugh at the constant jokes too but it kinda annoys me that the media loves shining the spotlight on any negative thing that happens in Limerick. Is it because the media is primarily based in Dublin and they want a positive image of Dublin so they will focus on how much trouble Limerick is? i.e RTE and the Star?

Answer 1

When people or places attract negative attention, it is often out of jealousy. Limerick is world famous for giving its name to countless little risque poems written in the style of the common folk's poetry. Dublin ... they are not so immortalized in the global English language.

Answer 2

Actually I don't mind too much, because it means that Limerick is actually Ireland's best-kept secret. If people actually bothered to look past the publicity, they would discover than Limerick is a hotbed of the arts, there is much more going on here than in all of Dublin, at any time. But hey, they want to be blind to this, that's their problem, and it means that the rest of us can enjoy the Riverfest and all the other great things that happen in Limerick.

Answer 3

it's got less crime than dublin...it's only cos it's smaller that it seems like loads. most people i know feel they feel so much safer in Limerick than in Dublin..dubs're tryin 2 deflect attention from themselves and their dire football team who can't win ANYTHING...

Answer 4

Because of Moyross and Southill! People think that those areas ARE Limerick.  I don't think the publicity is an effort to detract from Dublin

Answer 5

if there wasnt so much crime in limerick they wouldnt have anything to report

Answer 6

For a small town it does have more than it's share of crime. However perhaps it is that the name brings to mind the nasty little poems that we Yanks are prone to write on the bathroom walls in Limerick form.

There was a man from Boston

Who bought a car, an Austin.

There was room for his ***

And a gallon of gas

But his balls fell off and he lost them.

Just a thought...~M~

Answer 7

No, it's just because there is so much crime in Limerick to report.there'd be a lot more uproar if it wasn't reported about.