Council hides Sky Garden bill to 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.

Cork City Council said that, following a new and full internal review of all the documents, it has decided to “confirm the original decision” relating to the non-release of records.

It follows an appeal by the Irish Examiner of the council’s decision early last month to refuse to release the documents following a Freedom of Information (FoI) request.