Beware a Cork display of modesty

I can trace, to the hour, when it became evident that the current Cork crisis would cut very deep. But we’ll come back to that.

For now, Cork, pull up your shirt and cough, so we can examine the symptoms.

For a people so convinced of their centrality in national and world affairs, we have long been able to admire the capacity for false modesty in Cork, even at their finest hours.