'LeBron James was a free agent and everyone was running breathless coverage of his options... My idea was call smart people in other fields and talk to them about it - wine critics and so on'

What's to be done with the old Odlums building on Cork's Kennedy Quay?

The background noise you picked up on last week was a gentle weeping, tears of relief flowing from sports writers, general reporters, political columnists, right reverends and wrong reverends of every stripe.

Everything looks to be on track to open up again (hopefully: no jinxing allowed). That includes mass tourism, with any luck. And that includes buses to Blarney, streams of people to west Cork, beaches packed in Youghal.

As a title it deserves credit for what it may spawn. However, I know that Paul Pogba is a chap well able to draw attention to himself anyway

Damian Drohan's creation, Cork Sound Map, is an aural exploration of the city

I don’t doubt that Larry McCarthy, the new president of the GAA, has plenty of issues clogging up his in-tray at the moment, but I’d still like to see if I can squeeze in another headache or two.

There are plenty of hi-tech answers to the problem of waste, once the rubbish is disposed of

This week I was reduced to false starts and postponed take-offs. Because I am sometimes asked where the ideas come from...

Cork needs a strategy for when Covid is not the number-one consideration, all day every day