anto

yeah,
Have to agree. It’s a place with a lot of unrealised potential. Just seems to be a bit of malaise about the place. Interestingly it was the only Urban centre that recorded a drop in population in the recent cencus. Hopefully getting the city of Culture for 2005 might spark some activity. Here’s an interesting article about the courthouse that seems to sum the place up

http://www.insidecork.ie/insidecityhall.html