Restaurant review: Monk’s Lane, Cork

Timoleague, an ancient village overlooking the beautiful Argideen estuary, seems a challenged place on a still dark, early spring evening. 

Like many places of its ilk there seems far too many buildings in a deep hibernation, standing silent in shadows like detached wallflowers at a dance unable to do anything but watch the world slide by.

Their cold emptiness is amplified by the buildings around that glow with warmth and light, bright with the business of living.