Limerick men told not to accept hugs from attractive girls outside nightclubs

Men of Limerick be warned: If a woman approaches you outside a nightclub in the early hours of the morning, it’s not necessarily the shift she’s after.

While we’re sure there are plenty of lovely Limerick lasses with amorous intentions at that time of the evening, it seems as if the Treaty City has also been hit with a scourge of thieving young women who approach impressionable males on the pretence that they are going to give them a hug and proceed to rob them blind.

We’re not yet sure if this phenomenon has hit the rest of the country as yet, but a number of cases have been reported in Limerick recent weeks, so many in fact that Sergeant Brian Broderick felt compelled to go on Limerick Live95 FM and warn the young fellas of the city what they could be letting themselves in for.

Describing the tale of one victim, Sergeant Broderick said: “A young man had just come out of a nightclub when he was approached by a young woman who was part of a group of three or four … he felt something slipping out of his pocket but by the time he realised, the woman had disappeared back into the crowd … it appears that there are a number of young women targeting young males for this type of theft.”

While it will undoubtedly be hard for Limerick men with bellies full or porter to ignore the attentions of young females in the early hours of the morning, they can’t say they haven’t been warned if they’re left with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

A big shout out to Eoin Naughton (@MacL0ve) for helping us out with this one.