City should have a marina for the people

THE ‘Ocean to City’ rally, in which a multitude of small boats were rowed from the mouth of Cork Harbour upriver to the city, helped to celebrate the City of Culture.

The event also brought to mind the founding of the city itself by Vikings in open boats doing just such determined feats of upriver rowing.

It is a little ironic to realise that a citizen of Viking Cork would probably have found it easier to keep a small boat in the river there over 1,000 years ago than the average citizen now can.