On a recent trip into town, I ducked out of the heat and into Vibes and Scribes second-hand shop, where I happened across Vive Moi!, Seán Ó Faoláin’s autobiography. On offer for the extremely reasonable sum of €5.

"Do you take off in a plane not knowing if there’ll be an airport for it at the other end?"

In a lot of places in Cork there are traffic measures in place. They just aren’t observed. Or enforced

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.