Michael Moynihan: Does using VQ as a catch-all term affect MacCurtain Street’s identity?

As a controversy, linking the street named after former lord mayor Tomás MacCurtain to Queen Victoria shrinks in comparison with the ongoing failure to rename Anglesea Street after another hero, Terence MacSwiney

The funeral of a victim of the Irish Civil War passes the Palace Theatre in MacCurtain Street, Cork in September 1922. Archive picture

Now the election is over, I think it’s clear who the big winner was — Hairy Baby T-shirts, thanks to the man wearing Maybe I LIke The Misery at the Cork City count. (I’m a Pairc Uí Rinn Or Nowhere man myself).

Anyway, I think it’s safe enough to talk about something political again.