Michael Moynihan: Is it too much to ask for a public space after spending €57m?

Why even bother to open up the Counting House building and plaza to the public last weekend and tease us all and sundry with that fleeting glimpse of what might have been?

The Counting House in the heart of Cork City. Why even bother to open up the building and plaza to the public last weekend, and tease all and sundry with that fleeting glimpse of what might have been?

Here’s my cultural weekend in reverse order.

Sunday afternoon: roaring in vain at the television while the county which invented hurling in the nineties robbed Cork at the death.