aja8888
Moderator Emeritus
As a Corkonian, I do NOT find that funny!
I think he said it to me in jest at the time. But interestingly, where I grew up and started my career in Connecticut was heavily populated by Irish and Italian immigrants. Many of the factories of the area (built around 1900 - 1920) were built in the same style as the ones I saw during that visit to Cork.
However, the manufacturing plant I was visiting in Cork was very new and modern. They were soldering up main boards for hard drives (Western Digital) and the plant was in a newer industrial park.
I really enjoyed my visit to Cork (and Ireland) at that time.