Cork’s city manager has moved to “finally nail” suggestions that celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin’s flying pod cost taxpayers €2.3m.

CORK City Council has dispensed with the services of Diarmuid Gavin and is to press ahead with the controversial Sky Garden project with other contractors, the city manager has told councillors.

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 local authority overseeing the controversial Irish Sky Garden is under fire again over plans to spend €50,000 on another garden.

CELEBRITY gardener Diarmuid Gavin has claimed that Cork City Council asked his firm to withhold documents after a Freedom of Information (FOI) request about his €2.3 million taxpayer-funded Irish Sky Garden.

CORK’S city manager has defended the withholding of information about Diarmuid Gavin’s controversial Sky Garden project which is funded by the taxpayer.

A LOCAL authority has turned down an appeal and again refused to release documents relating to garden designer Diarmuid Gavin’s controversial Sky Garden which could cost taxpayers up to €2.3 million.

AN outspoken critic of Diarmuid Gavin’s controversial €2.3 million Sky Garden has called on Cork’s city manager to “drop the veil of secrecy” over the council’s involvement in the project.

A LOCAL authority has refused to release a raft of documents relating to Diarmuid Gavin’s controversial €2.3 million Sky Garden which was funded by taxpayers.