Suzanne Harrington returns to her hometown of Cork as a tour guide

Suzanne Harrington returns home with a boyfriend who has never visited Cork and finds there have been many changes over the years to a city which has embraced the new but hung on to the best parts of the old.

My task — to show a foreigner around my home town. Except I haven’t lived in my home town since 1987, and the foreigner — my boyfriend — has never been here before.

When I do visit, it’s always to see family, who live a few miles out of town, rather than explore how the city has changed — Cork could have grown its very own Eiffel Tower and I wouldn’t have seen it.