The Project Twins, James and Michael Fitzgerald, take part in the Print Symposium.

The long-lost knitted map of Cork, which cost the taxpayer €259,000 a decade ago, is being taken out of storage and dusted down for its first public display in seven years.

Cork’s city fathers have pulled the rug from under a proposal to use a giant knitted map of the city — which cost taxpayers €259,000 seven years ago — as a tourist attraction.