Restaurant review: Idaho Cafe, Cork

Ask ‘the man/woman in the street’ to describe globalisation in local action and they may well point to their current location, particularly if it is a certain recently gussied up thoroughfare in Cork city centre. 

Every single shop, bar one, is a local outpost of some foreign-owned multinational chain, each identical to counterparts elsewhere in the world.

It could be a street in any of several towns in Ireland; it could equally be a street in Britain or continental Europe.