The part of a city that’s truest is the part that matters most to you. It can be a feeling, a view or a walk or something that doesn’t have to belong to someone else

The world is not constructed entirely for the benefit of one specific individual, writes Michael Moynihan

The question keeps getting asked because it never gets answered.

When AIB announced it was to stop cash services in 70 branches it was interpreted as another assault on rural Ireland

If you’re reading this you don’t need me to tell you that the sports coverage in this paper is the best in the country by some distance. That doesn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of a lot of hard work by a lot of different people. It was a privilege to be part of that.

Events these last few days in Tipperary and Waterford have shown that cold calculation is as prevalent in hurling as it is anywhere else.

A thoroughly decent and honest operator, the man from Cashel certainly deserved better after taking on such a difficult job.

You shouldn't have to shepherd kids away from merry cannabis smokes in the middle of town — children are as entitled to the freedom of the city as everybody else without experiencing a contact high

The city wasn't included in a recent report ranking cities all around the world according to liveability, so I'm just going to have to rank Cork myself — an entirely unbiased and objective appraisal, of course. Watch this space

Galway will be unhappy, to put it mildly, with some of referee Thomas Walsh’s decisions in that second half in particular, while their shooting will give them some autumnal nightmares