Shandon's four liars could soon tell the truth

It’s been fooling some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time in its efforts to keep time — but the temperamental behaviour of Cork’s most famous clock may soon be a thing of the past.

Yesterday, the cranes were up and the experts out — inspecting the four faces of our best-known liar — under the watchful eye of a giant golden salmon.

Senior executive architect with Cork City Council, Neil Purkiss, was among those to get up close and personal — by way of a hoist — with the clocks surrounding the lower steeple of St Anne’s Church in Shandon.