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

I know my beat, don’t worry. I tend not to stray from the mean streets.

Many thanks to the reader who got in touch after last week’s column on Cork’s obstacle-strewn streets.

'On my most recent trip through our fair city I found practically every pavement in Cork chaired within an inch of its life'

I've threatened readers in the past with my story about Joyce Kilmer, the man who wrote the poem Trees, and if there’s one thing I know from reading Elmore Leonard it’s that if you issue a threat you have to follow through with it (preferably with ...

Two mothers, whose sons have both died, have CDs with their sons’ voices on them as 11 or 12-year-olds, which is nice but is also very sad

Michael Moynihan explores The Cut’s new etiquette rules