Restaurant review: Iberian Way, Cork

SOMETIME around 1982 or maybe 1983, just after Felipe Gonzalez Marquez became Spain’s first socialist prime minister after Franco’s dictatorship ended, two of the venerable picadors of old Cork met on St Patrick’s Street. 

They had little in common but their age and the idea, held as firmly by one as by the other, that they were important public men.

One was an active champion of eating good and plentiful roughage and an ardent Catholic who gave expression to his unquestionable faith by fighting with El Caudillo’s fascists in the Spanish Civil War more than half a century earlier.