Last call sounds for Long Valley’s Mrs Moynihan
One of the most fiercely debated pub quiz questions in Cork City is which hostelry is closest to the statue of temperance campaigner Fr Mathew, and patrons of the Long Valley on Winthrop St defend their claim as fiercely as any.
The Long Valley has been defying the Apostle of Temperance since it opened in 1842, four years after the establishment of the Cork Total Abstinence Society, and it remains more in tune with the citizenry of Cork than the teetotal campaign ever was.
