Everyone loves Cork, like ...

Comedian Tommy Tiernan has a great skit about NASA, and about the space race that culminated in the moon landing in 1969.

Everyone loves Cork, like ...

Tiernan recounts astronaut, Neil Armstrong, crouching low and descending a rickety stairway to the lunar surface.

The world remembers Armstrong’s famous words: ‘a small step for (a) man.... a giant leap for all mankind.’ In Tiernan’s imaginary version, Armstrong said: “It’s great, like, but it’s not Cork.”

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