Michael Moynihan: Is the work at Madden’s Buildings a slippery slope for Cork’s social heritage?

Work in a specific part of Cork City, so soon after it lost one of its last green spaces, has been brought to the attention of Michael Moynihan

Madden’s Buildings are part of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, qualifying under the following categories of special interest: Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social. So, why were the limestone kerbstones removed and where have they gone? File picture: Richard Mills

Greetings from the morning after the night before, or maybe a couple of mornings after.

I hope all readers enjoyed Culture Night last Friday: my own highlight included the Fleischmann Choir’s rendition of some Cork classics in the School of Music, an admirable display of ecumenism given the non-Leeside origins of at least one of the choristers well known to me.