Periscope: Beaten dockets, failed flutters, and eternal woe

100 years ago, the Cork Examiner published a serious of opinion pieces by a contributor known as 'Periscope' on social and political issues that are still relevant today

Bookmaker Richie Ryan at Bandon point-to-point races in May 1929. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive

He is a sadder and a wiser man than he was on Tuesday.

He knows now what he didn’t know before, that, what he thought he knew, he didn’t know at all, and that, what he thought others didn’t know, they did, and that what he ought to have known, he didn’t know.