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Thu 01 Jan 2005Where's the beef?Cork 2005: The first of a weekly diary from the European Capital of Culture reports how delays and confusion are hindering some eventsThe question in Cork at the moment is not so much where's me culture as where's me programme? The honourable exceptions - Peter Murray with C2 at the Crawford, Triskel with Emigrance and Unveiling in Tobin Street and at the Bodega, the Glucksman with Forty Shades of Green at UCC, the Vision Centre with the first phase of Enlargement - point up the gaps in the unrolling of Cork as European Capital of Culture 2005. This sense of vacancy gets us off to a begrudging start, emphasised by the continued vivacity of Where's Me Culture? (now settling down as WMC?), and the introduction last weekend of a Speakers' Corner, led by veteran defender of free speech, Rossa Ó Snodaigh.