Reaction to the planning refusal has been almost entirely negative, with many pointing out it is a space drawing hundreds of people to a previously derelict part of the city

Why even bother to open up the Counting House building and plaza to the public last weekend and tease us all and sundry with that fleeting glimpse of what might have been?

Your columnist is not a science man. All that remains from science in secondary school is a random term or two. The Irish for physics (fisic).

There is a particular sheen to these pictures which is difficult to convey in words because it’s all in the image

The environment is a big part of everybody’s sense of a city, and there are interesting candidates for improvement in this sector

Consulting the Cork bridge names immediately informs you of when, broadly speaking, those names were assigned

Many thanks to the folks at Callanan’s Bar on George’s Quay for posting a picture on social media last week. Of a phonebox just down the street. “Does eircom still exist?,” ran the caption underneath the picture.

It's not the first time Cork City councillors have suggested yet another statue for Grand Parade — a decade ago it was for Ronan O'Gara and Peter Stringer, this time it's of the Big Fella

ST PATRICK'S Street: This is great, it’s so long since I got the bus that I’d forgotten the traffic ban on St Patrick’s Street means the buses roll through unimpeded, double-decker gazelles cruising along the tarmac veldt.

It's deeply depressing to Google the term 'Cork Event Centre' because the milestones which pop up leave the reader frowning