YOU couldn’t call it a storm in a teacup. It was more of a squall in a cappuccino saucer. But Ronan O’Gara’s candour this week was notable no matter how you frame your meteorological metaphors.

As if the English city of Oxford, with its dreaming spires and historic university, did not have enough to attract visitors, Hollywood has once again propelled it into the limelight and on to the tourist map.

IT is a case of ‘out with the old, in with the new’ on Cork city’s Georges Quay.