James. I feel your pain, and heartbreak, I would appeal to you to think again. Have regard for your fellow Corkonians, in fairness there is no one who can defend the city's honour as well as you can. Furthermore, if you are no longer punting the finest ladies on this site will have little or no incentive to visit the fair city on the Lee.

However if you do decide to go through with this, I for one will be suggesting a three week period of mourning , where the ladies dress only in black, lingerie preferably and do not smile while entertaining clients.

Think long and hard bud, Cork has enough problems without losing such a stout defender.

(sniff...sniff)