Day Twenty - 30/9/2012 - Cork

     Spent a bit of time walking around Cork city this afternoon.  While making a quick stop at Costa Coffee on St. Patrick's, observed a man playing bagpipes.  Their sound appears mournful to me.
     The group of us went to see a movie, Looper, today.  The Gate Cinema has movies for a fiver during the daylight.   The previews at the beginning of the movie featured adverts for local shopping on North Main Street, the street I walk down every day to get into the city.  There was a McDonald's ad claiming that they knew the Irish farmers, from whom they source their beef, by name.  Found out that the Irish film rating system is vastly different, and this particular film, which would have been rated R in the US was rated for 15 year olds in Ireland.
     The name "Cork" or "Corcaigh" in Irish, refers to a marsh or wetland, which indeed, describes the county quite accurately.  This has also made it home to swans, who live on the Lee and in the Lough.