Rimanete a Cork

Un appello, tratto da peoplesrepublicofcork.com, ai neodiplomati di quest'estate, di rimanere a Cork e di non andare nelle altre città irlandesi a studiare :

Stay in Cork
Far be it from us to tell you where to live but the best advice is to not bother leaving Cork because everywhere else is only a step backwards. Dublin is too expensive, thronged with people on stag nights and hen parties and generally up its own arse.

Galway is pretty and arty but that gets boring after two weeks when you find out its actually smaller than Ballincollig and Conemara ain’t so pretty in the rain. We don’t need to explain why Limerick is a bad choice and Waterford is only worthwhile if you don’t see yourself needing anything except a bookies, a pub or a chipper.

Rather than dwell on the negatives of other places our own Beautiful City has everything you could possibly want. Cork established itself as a technology centre in 1913 when we invented the internet and these days technology and pharmaceutical companies as well as call centres are queuing up to get into the county.

In times past students might have left the city with the intention of meeting people from other countries. In fairness with the amount of emigration out of the country in the late eighties and early nineties anyone wanting to enter Ireland would have been deterred by the flow in the opposite direction so we’ve been on our lonesome at the tip of Western Europe until now.

Walking the streets of Europe’s Capital of Culture in 2005 its often hard to find somebody who is a native English speaker. Cork is full of foreigners especially young students desperate to learn English and who want to meet you too so you don’t necessarily have to go over seas to interact with foreigners. In other words you get the best of both worlds by staying on Leeside!

Ed ancora, sulla notizia che i tre migliori risultati del leaving cert quest'anno sono tre studenti di Cork:

It won’t come as a surprise to hear that Cork has topped the leaving cert results again. Only twice before has anyone in the 26 counties achieved nine A1. Cork smashed the record and got three of those in one go yesterday while the rest of the island got.....none.

Susan Spillane from St. Angelas, Peter Barrett from Pres and Laura Hurley from Mount Mercy are all over the papers today as journalists desperately try to come up with reasons to interpret Cork’s treble. With a staggering 2,700 leaving cert points between them perhaps they could skip university altogether.

...there isn' t any dub that for the number of foreign people the leeside city can lead over all the other cities (less maybe the overpriced Dublin): I was in a pub on st.Patrick till 10 min. ago and all I was listening were the undreds (and funny) ways that not native tongue people (like me) has to spell english...up the mish-mash!!!