August 05, 2003
Mercenary
It's never a good sign when the country's assistant pathologist complains that she is spending too much time in the fields around your area. Working.
Recently, it seems like Limerick is trying to take up the slack, now that things have quietened down a bit in Northern Ireland. The Central Criminal Court has decamped to Limerick to clear the backlog of murders, and the Emergency Response Unit of the Gardai has been deployed to prevent even more gangland murders. All in all, not good for a town trying to market itself to tourists (or even as a nice place to live). And while there was a bit of controversy recently when the Sinn Fein website was advertising a T-shirt featuring a"Sniper at Work" logo (of the sort that used to be nailed up on posts around Crossmaglen), there was much less notice taken of a bit of fuss in Limerick, where a jeweller's shop was displaying gold pennants, with an AK-47 as a centerpiece.
Hmmm...I wonder how many people would fork out 460 euro on a solid gold chain studded with semi-precious stones and shaped like a AK-47, but unless your name was Ice-T or Puff Daddy, you're probably the sort of person that could probably help the Gardai with their enquiries. And with that sort of fashion sense, you shouldn't be too hard to spot.
Posted by Monasette at August 5, 2003 04:10 PM | TrackBack