Colm O'Regan: I mourn the loss of two great Cork pubs - the Western Star and The Crows Nest
I have come to the end of Part 2. That inflection point in life, when you realise you are exactly twice the age you were when you first thought you were a grown-up. I recently walked past two places that were part of Part 1. They have now vanished. Two pubs: The Western Star and The Crows Nest. Two very different types of memories.
The Crows Nest came first. Like other earlier pub memories, I associated it with the Holy Hour. Gather around young’uns and I’ll tell you about when pubs used to close for a while on Sundays and then open at 4pm. It gave rural youth enough time after their Sunday ice-cream with wafers to thumb ten miles to somewhere to play pool and gather around one John Player Blue.
