Updated: 10 Apr 2021, 11:56
THE Irish brothers behind billion-dollar company Stripe, has slammed Forbes magazine for saying they escaped stab city for Silicon Valley.
John Collison described the article as daft while his brother Patrick said it was mistaken in the idea that they had to overcome Limerick.
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The pair hit back at the article that described Limerick as stab city Credit: Getty - Contributor
The article, which was published in US business magazine Forbes and has since been removed from it s website, described the success of brothers John and Patrick Collison.
The article said the pair had escaped Limerick, which was described as stab city , prompting backlash online and from the brothers.
Updated / Saturday, 10 Apr 2021
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Limerick was described in the Forbes article as the murder capital of Europe
A Forbes article about Irish tech billionaires Patrick and John Collison has been removed from the US publication s website after being denounced as defamatory and ill advised for its description of the brothers native Limerick.
The profile, by contributor Stephen McBride, introduced it as stab city and continued: Many folks think Ireland is all rolling green hills and five-star golf courses. But in the middle of the Irish countryside is a city called Limerick known as the murder capital of Europe.
RTÉ business journalist, and Limerick native, Petula Martyn, tweeted her disappointment at the article last night and Patrick Collison replied: Not only mistaken about Limerick but the idea of overcoming anything is crazy. We are who we are because we grew up where we did.