Michael Moynihan: On your bike — what kind of city do we want Cork to be?

We need to sidestep some of the sausage-making that seems to form part of every debate in City Hall about infrastructure

A cycle lane in South Mall, Cork. Picture Denis Minihane.

IT’S been ascribed to several authors, but Mark Twain is generally accepted as its most likely creator. Anyone who respects the law and enjoys eating sausages should watch neither being made.

You’ve heard that one, right? Either in its original format, as above, or in something like the offhand reference to be found in Hamilton (“No one really knows how the game is played/The art of the trade/How the sausage gets made”).