Colm O'Regan: Sure, Cillian Murphy is great, but don't forget other outstanding Cork people

"People like Anne Bonnie, one of the world’s most famous pirates, terrorizing ships in the 1700s in the Caribbean in the way that Roy Keane might have patrolled the midfield"

Comedian and Irish Examiner columnist Colm O'Regan, pictured in Cork. Picture: Denis Minihane.

By the time you read this, Cillian Murphy’s Oscar win may have received the ultimate Irish honour: a St Patrick’s Day parade float in a small village. 

My money’s on a Limerick village having a float with the slogan: “Cork might have Oscar but we’ve got Liam McCarthy” and on the trailer, a child in full Sciath na Scol kit will be brandishing a hurley menacingly at a floppy-haired classmate in a tux.