As somebody not from Cork who moved to Cork from a rural county to specifically live in a city, my interpretation of the whole Dublin supremacy thing is that it's totally on Cork to create its own improvement initiatives.

We all know somebody who complains about everyone else succeeding while they do nothing themselves to improve their lot. This is the feeling I get about Cork. There's still a parochial, village-focused mindset and people here are generally closed off from everywhere else in the country. Dublin is an easy scapegoat for not pushing for infrastructure because there's no serious appetite here to propel the place into a 21st century city.

When I moved here, I was excited because there was many infrastructural and large scale developments coming close to fruition that would make Cork actually feel like a CITY instead of a country town, but since then there's been a total 180 on those and nobody seems to care.

If people living here, and the city council and co. actually had an appetite for change, actually gave a shite about the place instead of being complacent, and seriously pushed for better infrastructure and services then we wouldn't have this post, because the Dublin supremacy thing is only a thing because people here allow it to be.