Tripe+Drisheen: The Friday View 23/07
Our weekly round-up of what's happening across the city, county...and in Tokyo
Local Pride
Cork Queeros opens Saturday, July 24 at the City Library and runs for the duration of Cork Pride festival. The photography exhibition is organised by Orla Egan of Cork LGBT Archive and author of ‘Queer Republic of Cork’. It features a cross section of the LGBTQi community in Cork with photographs of the participants alongside biographical information showing their connection and contribution to the Cork’s queer community. The digital version of the exhibition is here.
Tweet of the week:
Lovely preservation work being done at St Finbarr's Hospital. The buildings will be used by hospital staff. @Treb_Cork (who took the pictures above) documents many of the construction projects around Cork as well as things going up and coming down around the county.
The 2020/21 Tokyo Olympics
The Olympics gets underway this weekend in Tokyo, Japan and if you think Cork is boiling at the moment, well then put another ten degrees on it and humidity that would flatten you, and then you have some measure of the Japanese summer.
Amongst the Irish athletes who will be competing this weekend are several Cork sportswomen and men including rowers Sanita Pušpure, Ronan Byrne, Emily Hegarty, Aoife Casey, Marget Cremen, Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan.
Other Cork athletes in action over the coming two weeks are Michelle Finn, Louise Shanahan, Aoife Cooke and Phil Hegarty (athletics); Meg Ryan (gymnastics); Eddie Dunbar (cycling); Alex Wright (walking) and Shane Sweetnam (equestrian).
The very, very best of luck to all of them, and all the athletes in an Olympics that is unlike any before.
Ballincollig native Aoife Cooke is headed to Tokyo from her training base in the U.S. next week. She’ll be moving on to Sapporo in the northern island of Hokkaido where the marathon and walking races will be staged. You can read our long read with Aoife here.
City till I…
Keeping with sports, football was the topic of our long read this week and it was great to be able to commission Andrew Horgan, a sports journalist, to write about the trials and tribulations of Cork City F.C., a fan-owned club that has fallen far. Andrew gets into the weeds of what’s gone wrong at the club over the past few years and how far they have fallen in such a short time. You can read it here.
Indoor, outdoor dining
Best of luck to all the restaurants and pubs around the county and country opening next Monday as restrictions are being lifted. It’s been immeasurably tough for so many businesses in the hospitality industry, and some of them are going to remain closed, or they’re going to keep the outdoor only option going a while longer.
That’s it for this week, enjoy the weather and we’ll be back Sunday with the next instalment of Our Cork 2040.