Putting Cork’s LGBT history on the map with a walking tour

A new LGBT interactive walking tour is just one of many ways to explore within a 5km radius with a fresh vision, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Ellie O'Byrne at a Cork LGBT Archive interactive tour plaque with a QR code pictured with Orla Egan, creator and curator, Cork LGBT Archive, outside Loafers Bar (1983-2015) at Douglas St, Cork. File picture: Denis Minihane

On a grey November morning, I meet Orla Egan outside Loafers, Cork’s iconic now-closed gay bar, where bright twin rainbow flags decorate the otherwise fading frontage.