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