Irishman scoops Tony awards in New York

A CORK city man has won two prestigious Tony awards at this year’s ceremony in New York.

Designer Bob Crowley, from Douglas Road in Cork, and co-designer Scott Pask, won in the set design category for The Coast of Utopia, an eight-and-a-half hour trilogy about 33 years in the life of Russia’s most influential and talkative 19th-century intellectuals.

Mr Crowley also won the Tony for best scenic design of a musical, this time for Mary Poppins.