CELEBRITY gardener Diarmuid Gavin has called for a halt to the spending of any more taxpayers’ money on the relocation of his Irish Sky Garden in Cork.

PUBLIC ridicule, controversy and acute embarrassment surround the costly affair of the multimillion-euro Sky Garden that won a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show in June but which, fully six months later, lies mouldering in Cork awaiting its long overdue relocation at the city’s quiet riverside park.

THE idea for a contemporary garden in Cork was the brainchild of William Gallinsky, the former director of the Cork Midsummer Festival.