No way to honour a martyred lord mayor

IT HAS come to my attention that Cork City Council intends to rededicate Terence McSwiney Quay after our martyred lord mayor who died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison.

This is an insult to the memory of a great man. A little piece of quayside that 95% of the city’s population are unaware of, and do not frequent, can hardly seem a suitable gesture of recognition.

Let me remind the political representatives of the city that at the opening of the North Monastery secondary school in 1969, our former Taoiseach, the late Jack Lynch, asked Cork Corporation and the citizens of Cork to name one of the city’s main streets after McSwiney.