City must first deal with the culture of violence

NOW that Cork is about to assume the mantle of European Capital of Culture, perhaps the city fathers might turn their attention to what’s going on in the city centre at night time, especially at weekends.

Many people feel unsafe walking the streets as coarse and aggressive simian types roam about from pub to pub, while various brutes urinate and vomit against shopfronts.

The city is increasingly characterised by acts of (largely unreported) vandalism and there is an ongoing threat of gratuitous violence - especially at weekends - as neolithics in varying degrees of intoxication crawl home to their caves.