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

Can you hear that? Are you sure they’re listening?Apologies for the paranoia. For the last few nights, I’ve been watching Adam Curtis’s documentary series Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, which is bad enough if you’re easily unsettled.

A true confession. Your columnist doesn’t cycle. His relations cycle. His friends cycle. His enemies cycle. But he doesn’t.

When a coach produces a version of “if every individual can do just that little bit more” in the dressing-room, then he or she acknowledges a profound truth