Michael Moynihan: Should we start marketing Cork as a destination of death and misery?

An aerial view of Spike Island. "What is it that makes a family get up on a Saturday morning and say, ‘you know what lads, we’ll go to a prison, that’ll be a fun day out,'" asks Gillian O’Brien of Liverpool John Moores University.

Everything looks to be on track to open up again (hopefully: no jinxing allowed).

That includes mass tourism, with any luck. And that includes buses to Blarney, streams of people to west Cork, beaches packed in Youghal. All the signifiers of holidaymakers.