Michael Moynihan: Practically every pavement in Cork city has an obstacle blocking the way

'On my most recent trip through our fair city I found practically every pavement in Cork chaired within an inch of its life'

View at the western end of MacCurtain Street where footpaths are being dug up for strret improvement works. Coburg Street is closed to traffic as works are underway there. Picture: Larry Cummins

IF YOU’RE going to write about a city you have to bow to the master of the topic. And the master told us everything we need to know about the city a century and a half ago.

“Chairs everywhere. Chairs up the river, among green aits and meadows; chairs down the river, where they roll defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Chairs on the marshes, chairs on the heights.