Welcome to the third Locus Furniture exhibition

Have you ever wandered around Cork City centre on a Sunday?

Apart from a selection of shops opening late in the morning and a few cafés and restaurants, there’s not a great deal going on. So it was rather sad to see, as I did recently, a group of tourist rattling the gates to the English Market on a deserted Princes St.

Often, Cork can feel like a provincial town rather than a European city so I feel a flutter of excitement at the idea of an event taking place bang in the city centre hub, a tourist attraction which will be open after office hours on weekdays, and all day Saturday and Sunday for more than three weeks.