Michael Moynihan: 11 signs Cork City may or may not succeed 

James and Deborah Fallows listed 11 signs that indicate whether a city will be successful. Let's apply them to Cork. 

Cork is lucky when it comes to research institutions — it has UCC and CIT, as well as the Tyndall. Picture: Denis Minihane

A couple of weeks ago in this spot, I referred to  Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James and Deborah Fallows. It chronicles the two authors’ experiences visiting towns and cities across the States, a journey undertaken in their small two-seater plane.

The pair evaluated how those towns and cities were coping, and at the end of the book they listed the signs which indicate to them whether a city will succeed or not.