Limerick City Council
The Limerick City Council, or the useless city council as it has become to be known, is the crappy authority who is supposedly resposible for the city but they are too incompetent to do that the mayor is dim schlong who is an idiot!
Municipal and civic affairs[edit | edit source]
All business before Limerick City Council is transacted as a series of the five-line verses for which the town has long been known; news coverage in the local fishwrap, the "Limerick Leader", appears in the same five-line rhyming format. This tends to make the proceedings lengthy and awkward, causing locals to hesitate to run for local office.
The town has largely circumvented this by recruiting municipal talent from abroad. Among the long string of mayors to have held office in Limerick, Ireland one finds:
- There once was a man from Nantucket
- There was a young maid from Madras[1]
- There once was a student from Trinity[2]
- There was a young fellow from France, who waited ten years for his chance.[3]
So far, none of these leaders have run for a second term, all preferring to move on once their original five-line political agendas have been fulfilled. The record for shortest time in office as mayor of Limerick, Ireland was long held by the man from Peru whose limericks end at line two; that record would still stand except that there once was a man from Verdun.
Student exchanges[edit | edit source]
An attempt was made in 2012 to establish an international student exchange between Limerick and Nanjing, China.[4] This effort ultimately failed as the Irish verses proved too difficult for the Mandarins of the era to translate into Chinese.
According to news coverage at the time:
- There was an old man from Nanjing
- Who thought an exchange just the thing
- To translate this verse
- To Chinese seemed perverse
- So to song it was writ so to sing