Michael Moynihan: Sodcasting, subscriptions, decentralisation and all that jazz

The influx of quarter-zip jumpers during the weekend's Cork Jazz Festival has Michael reflecting on some of the proposals put forward by British prime minister Andy Burnham, in particular one that could be applied to the benefit of Cork

Members of the Dutch jazz outfit The Busquitos outside Bar Barossa on Oliver Plunkett Street during the Cork Jazz Festival at the weekend. Picture: Noel Sweeney

Well, that was the Jazz. All of last weekend, and then some. We knew it by the blue suits, we knew it by the beige chinos, we knew it above all by the quarter-zip jumpers.

Those seemed to be everywhere. Cork seemed to be invaded by centrist Dublin dads, though with the age lowered on average by about 10 years each. Was there a quarter-zip left within the borders of the Pale? I doubt it.