The Crane Lane’s spirit of forgiveness and understanding has seen it reach out to a farmer and his lawyer to offer them both free dance classes at the venue.

A 55-year-old farmer’s dance moves on the Crane Lane dancefloor got him into trouble and today he appeared in Cork District Court where he admitted charges arising out of the incident.

Conall Ó Fátharta finds publicans in Cork are very upbeat about the trade’s future.

It was a classic case of right time, wrong place, when the Membranes emerged growling and screaming from the English town of Blackpool in 1977. While the media fixated on the punk and post-punk explosions in London and nearby Manchester, the seaside Lancashire town was treated with neglect.