In April 2021 a profile of John and Patrick Collison, the co-founding brothers of payments giant Stripe, caused significant controversy for its description of Limerick as the “murder capital of Europe”.  The profile, which was written by a Forbes contributor, Stephen McBride, was headlined “How Two Brothers Escaped ‘Stab City’ and Made $11 Billion,” and opened with a tale of two prodigious brothers beating the odds and making it out of the Munster war zone which was “the last place you would want your kids growing up”. Additional descriptions of the city as being dominated by gangland feuds and where“shootings,…

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