The Limerick Blogger said this week that the blame for Limerick's Stab City moniker no longer lay fully with members of the media, but also with bloggers who posted unfairly critical holiday journals, and tourism workers who were happy to inform visitors of the nickname the city had been trying to shed for so long.

"More and more often one can find some travel journal where an international visitor to the country is told by the driver of a private bus company, or even Bus Eireann, that Limerick is known as Stab City.

"There are also those that would hear the slur from hotel receptionists
and other representatives in the tourist industry who, should in all honesty, be more professional," said The Limerick Blogger webmaster, Squid, on the site this week.

The Limerick Leader also discovered many examples of travelling bloggers doing Limerick's reputation no favours, with one in particular
one describing an alleged attack involving two men and a plank of wood as the stand-out memory of his time in the city.

"A campaign needs to be set up to name and shame any tourist professional, be it a State owned or private enterprise,
who allow its employees to smear the city," Squid wrote on The Limerick Blogger this week.

He also encouraged Limerick Co-Ordination Office and all the local
media outlets to do their part by taking issue with regional and national papers who unfairly smeared the city's reputation.

"These could be identified by way of making private contact with those who write these blog posts. Once the offending organisations re known, they could be contacted and given an opportunity to respond. If the response is unsatisfactory, they would be outed," he said.