What an interesting, and for me , timely, front page headline on today’s (Oct 19) Irish Examiner, concerning the perilously fragile future for CIE.

COMPETITORS, organisers and spectators alike judged ACC Bank Cork Week 2008 to be the best so far.

The mood of the wind gods had changed for the penultimate day of Ford Cork Week when they decided to give the exhausted sailors a little more wind.