Michael Moynihan: Now is the time to speak up about arts and culture in Cork

Cork City Council's online survey is an opportunity for its citizens to help shape the city they want to live in

Mick Flannery performing for 'Other Voices: Courage' at the Crawford Gallery on Emmet Place in Cork. See the link below for Cork City Council's survey on arts and culture in the city. Picture: Jim Coughlan

IN your columnist’s previous life, he worked in Leinster House: Admitting same in social circles often got a response along the lines of, “That crowd (ungrammatical cursing, a few physical impossibilities, various calumnies)... So I do. That’s why I never vote.”

I never felt the urge to defend the democratic process, as the speaker had usually articulated in their outburst exactly why he or she didn’t deserve to participate in it.