Uncorked

Thanks to work, I had recent cause to visit Cork, a city in southwest Ireland and the Republic’s second largest settlement. Ireland is not a country I know well, having spent only a week or so there in adventures you can read about in my first book.

However, my trip to Cork was frustratingly short, and in the space of a bitless than 48 hours I saw very little beyond the insides of a few taxis, two restaurants, one hotel and some meeting rooms. And the above photo of Cork’s very pretty riversi...