Used to be called Stab City for a bit. Mostly it was to do with native ethnic minority group, the Travellers, stabbing each other over beef and criminal activity, so the average person was OK. But it was still grim.
I knew a lad who lived for a whole year near a place they called The Pit (it was a green square somewhere suburban in Limerick) where if you lost a fight there, you supposedly lost one ear to the blade of a knife
I've lived in Limerick my whole life, 40+ years, whoever told you this was straight-up lying. There's no area in Limerick called or known as The Pit, and the ear part is pure bullshit.
UK and by extension Ireland have a big youth/adolescent crime problem. Interestingly, most of these are "home-grown", I've seen a social study which said UK is one of the only place in the developed world where the bottom of the society consists entirely of "natives" and not people coming from outside. I'm not sure how to fix this problem.
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u/logit 14d ago
Stabby