Proud city should forget about the handout culture

GOD'S own people - as your letter writer Adrian Mulcahy classes us (Irish Examiner, February 28) - should rejoice that Cork is built on a marsh - marais in French.

There's one in Paris as well, only ours is older and marshier. As for floods, Venice gets all the attention, but it is sinking, and even they're thinking of putting in an underground. We have as many hills as Rome without half the scooters or arse-pinchers.

We were eating olives in Cork before they had shoes in Dublin. Yes, we are Corkonians and we should be proud of that. Go on, ye boy, yeh.