Michael Moynihan: We need an app to create a fragrant trip through Cork’s streets

In days gone by people could be stopped in their tracks by the hoppy aroma emanating from Murphy’s Brewery at Lady’s Well in Cork.

A horse and cart crossing Patrick's Bridge to deliver barrels of Murphy's stout to a pub in Cork city in the early part of the last century

A few months ago I wrote here about a smell in Cork so pervasive it seemed to pursue me everywhere, curling its way in under doors, gathering in an unseen cloud to besiege me at bus stops and shop entrances.

It was the smell of weed, and when I raised a light objection to its ubiquity in the city the online reaction was ... suffice to say it rather undercut the idea that smoking the substance has a relaxing effect on its users.