Cork: At your service
THE focus group asked to agree a name for Skibbereen’s Church Restaurant probably prevaricated less than many of those bewildering talking shops. It may have reached a decision with the kind of speed and certainty that made Margaret Thatcher seem so very forbidding, so very bristling.
The building, after all, served the town as a Methodist Church from 1833 to 2003 so the choice was obvious enough. Just three years after its reinvention as a restaurant the building was razed. Owner Regina Daly began an impressive restoration project that has been spectacularly completed. If the light is right it is worth visiting the restaurant to see the vibrant stained glass windows, all new, bright and glistening and in sharp contrast to other windows where time has muted their original exuberance.
