{"id":298546,"date":"2026-02-15T00:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298546\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:06:07","slug":"limerick-shop-plagued-by-antisocial-youths-who-fear-no-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298546\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick shop plagued by antisocial youths who fear no consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CASTLEROY<\/a> LONDIS and Circle K owner Geraldine Kearney has seen \u201ca fair share of antisocial behaviour\u201d plaguing her business.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on RT\u00c9 Radio One, Ms Kearney told presenter Cormac O\u2019hEadra: \u201cIt is kids under 16, and predominantly under 12 that seem to know the law, know nothing can be done, and feel quite free to walk into any store, my store and help themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The business woman continued: \u201cI\u2019ve had several incidences where I\u2019ve had kids under the age of 12 come in and actually destroy my shop, dance on my counters, turn on my ice cream machines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/environment\/2011219\/japanese-knotweed-discovery-sees-costs-balloon-on-limerick-active-travel-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Japanese knotweed discovery sees costs balloon on Limerick Active Travel project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey come to steal vapes, which are behind your counters, they threaten your staff, they start dictating to your staff, you cannot touch me. They know exactly what they can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Kearney urged for a system where parents are held accountable for the actions of their children, stating: \u201cThe only way that this will change is if the parents are made culpable for what their kid is doing on the streets, in a store, wherever it may be if they\u2019re causing havoc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CASTLEROY LONDIS and Circle K owner Geraldine Kearney has seen \u201ca fair share of antisocial behaviour\u201d plaguing her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7518,8785,61,60,1396,67397,44,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-298546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-castletroy","9":"tag-circle-k","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-limerick","13":"tag-limerick-circuit-court","14":"tag-limerick-city","15":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}