Ask Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages.
Ciao, I went to the Patrick’s Day Parade in Cork last weekend so I could brush up against beautiful women by mistake and say “Forgive me, by coming for a pizza.” (It worked.) But as far as I could see, there were only two items in your parade — thousands of women screaming ‘we want the vote’ followed by something called ‘De Barracka’, which I think might have been a band. What is the story, I thought you already allowed women to vote here, even when they are not beautiful?
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