Colm O'Regan: Whisper it now, but wonderful Waterford is going places

Columnist, broadcaster, comedian and author Colm O'Regan pictured in the Maryborough Hotel. Picture Chani Anderson
TO PRAISE anything in Ireland, as an outsider, is provocative. We’re suspicious of outside praise. When a global survey accused us of being one of the happiest countries in the world, we were miserable. “How DARE you say that?”
But I’m going to say it anyway as an outside, know-nothing Cork person: Waterford is the nicest city centre in the country.