Michael Moynihan: Finding a fresh perspective in the familiar is a challenge of city living 

The part of a city that’s truest is the part that matters most to you. It can be a feeling, a view or a walk or something that doesn’t have to belong to someone else

Brian Boru Bridge in Cork city: "A city is more about the energy that comes from having so many people living near each other — not knowing each other, necessarily, but sharing a space and a life together."

WHETHER you’re rolling in over St Patrick’s Bridge of an evening or wandering down Washington Street with the setting sun behind you, the city is before you and around you.

Which begs an obvious question. Are we too close to the city to appreciate it?