When the virus first laid its dead hand across sports a few months ago, we couldn’t stop speculating.

One of the great myths when you journey beyond Cork’s borders is the allegation that people from the Rebel County have a regard for their own place that is somehow exceptional and exclusive. Seriously.

This morning I am calling for the immediate reinstatement of a vital organisation, one absolutely central to the full functioning of our democracy at this time of turmoil and crisis.

James and Deborah Fallows listed 11 signs that indicate whether a city will be successful. Let's apply them to Cork. 

Our columnist's holidays offered an intriguing glimpse of the Irish sporting public

By slowing down, we can see things in an entirely different light,  Jason O'Gorman tells Michael Moynihan

We may not wish to talk about it but Covid-19 has highlighted the lack of decent and plentiful public toilets in Cork City, writes Michael Moynihan

Now live sport is back, so you needn’t watch the 2004 Munster hurling final or 1982 All-Ireland football final ever again. Joking

There’s no shortage of public spaces in the city which sculptors could enliven with their work  and no lack of artists who’d relish the chance to showcase their work  

You know what the great knock against the modern world is? (Only the big ones here, folks. ) It’s the way everything is covered, everything is frictionless and easy, with no challenge to understanding.