Stay in Cork. The drive to Limerick will give you the rage. Buttevent roadworks, "experimental" lanes between Mallow and Cork, the misery of Charleville. Unless you can take the morotorway, in which case it's the tractor infront of you from the Fir Grove, the floods in Herbertstown and the cost of the tolls.
All of this includes never having time to yourself in the evenings because of your early bedtime and non stop visits to the petrol station.