Michael Moynihan: Turning Cork into a cycling city doesn’t have to be an uphill struggle

Conn Donovan says there is nothing (no, not even its notoriously steep hills) to stop Cork benefitting from the bicycle boom

'I wasn’t a ‘cyclist’. I just had a bike which came out of the shed some days and not others...' We could learn a lot from Conn Donovan's observations — both a motorist and a cyclist, he is now chairman of the Cork Cycling Campaign. Picture: Denis Minihane

Because I do not cycle, I felt it only right to consult an expert on the experience of cycling in Cork.

Or would ‘the growing education of a cyclist’ be a better description?