The urge to look back is understandable these last few days: a year ending in 5 offers an obvious half-decade hook. When you consider where we were in 2020, a pandemic on the horizon, it’s clear just how quickly things can change.
Go back further and there are even more changes to be found. In recent days there’s been a focus in these pages on Cork back in 1985, with good reason. When I wrote a book about Cork in the eighties, ’85 seemed to be the year when everything came to a head, and the title of the chapter needed just one word: chaos.
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