His beginnings were clear enough: born in Cork, brought up in Soho, undistinguished schooldays, a wartime in the navy.
Liam, 21, from Kanturk, County Cork, found himself up to his armpits in water.
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Cork then returned to pick up Bridge for one but Durham still seemed well set as Neil Killeen and Mark Davies nursed them to within three runs of the target.
It also sponsored a just-completed competition at Domaine de Boisbuchet, the prestigious center in France for recent design graduates, where 347 aspirants came up with unique cork objects from chairs to camera cases.
Amazingly absorbent, cork has shown its ability to soak up oil spills in lab tests.
In defence, Mr Cork can reply that, when standing up for innovation and adventure, inclusiveness is best.
Growing up in the city of Cork, the Manchester United fan idolised his fellow Irishman and is delighted to be involved at the Stadium of Light.
He went after tea and only some late hitting from Dominic Cork (46 not out) helped Lancashire push up their score.
But no other batsman passed 30 as Dominic Cork, David Balcombe and Danny Briggs each picked up two wickets to reduce the visitors to 262-8 at stumps.
Turns out Google wanted to take care of that security vulnerability discovered in the browser that could allow keystroke capture when users visit malicious sites, so they put a cork in the RC28 delivery for a minute or two while they cooked up 29 to take its place.
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"Since cork can modulate temperature and damp sound, " says Ms. Moura Guedes, "it could turn up in large public spaces, terminals or restaurants" and be applied beyond existing soundproofing usage in recording studios.
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