Sky Garden grounded for a year but will become one of city’s ‘great attractions’

TAXPAYERS may have unknowingly coughed up €2.3 million to build a garden in the sky — but now they’re going to have to wait another year to see their project in bloom.

Cork City Council has said that Diarmuid Garden’s award-winning Sky Garden will not be unveiled in Cork city until next summer as its eventual permanent installation at either Fitzgerald’s Park or at Mardyke Walk will have to be sanctioned through the planning system.

The garden is now in storage at the Showgrounds in Cork city while the garden’s contract manager will store the plants and trees in Dublin.