Can I get some love for the Cork footballers?

THE late Gerald Goldberg, Jewish Lord Mayor of Cork, lawyer and politician, was once asked rather pointedly by an interviewer if he had ever experienced prejudice in Ireland.

Can I get some love for the Cork footballers?

“Yes, of course,” he said. “It’s well known that the knife is always out in Dublin for a Corkman.”

Gerald, thou shouldst be living at this hour.

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