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Michael Moynihan: If you want a commute filled with danger and pinch points, try mine in Cork

In a lot of places in Cork there are traffic measures in place. They just aren’t observed. Or enforced
Michael Moynihan: If you want a commute filled with danger and pinch points, try mine in Cork

Cars coming into Cork City via the South Link see the trouble to their right, decide to continue along Eglinton St with the aim of making a right onto Albert Quay. Picture: David Creedon

In a recent bout of one-upmanship a pal of mine offered his morning drive as the pinnacle.

Not of serenity or smoothness, but as the ultimate in awkward stops, in traffic pinch points, in sheer danger. Nothing came close, he said. It’s like Paris-Dakar. With a touch of Fury Road.

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