Surely we can do better than knit the longest scarf in Europe?

I HATE writing this letter. Years ago, when I was a student at the Cork School of Art, one of my teachers, a much-travelled man, said that in his opinion ‘Cork was one of the dullest cities in Europe’.

I need hardly say I defended the charge stoutly. And yet, and yet...

I was home recently, proud of the fact that Cork was European City of Culture, and looking forward to the craic.