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04th Sep 2013

Video: Here’s a look at over 100 facts you probably didn’t know about Cork

Did you know the first motor boat race in the world was held in Cork? If not, you might want to check out these pure class facts about ‘The People’s Republic’.

Oisin Collins

Did you know the first motor boat race in the world was held in Cork? Pretty cool, right? Well here’s a look at a boatload of other facts about ‘The People’s Republic’.

A few months ago we featured a brilliantly edited video featuring 14 ‘pure decent’ facts about Cork. While the video itself looked brilliant, the facts that it contained weren’t exactly ‘factual’.

So the creators of video, Dynamite Studio, have created this seriously loaded, and fully-factual, fact sheet featuring everything you might not have know about Cork – or ‘the real capital’ as some like to call it.

CORK FACTS POSTER

If you can’t read the text in the image then you can just click on the image above to make it bigger or check out the full PDF over on the Dynamite Studio website here. It’s well worth the look and you can also download the poster in case you want to stick it up on your Corkonian mate’s wall just to prove he doesn’t know everything about the Rebel County…

Via Dynamite Studio

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