Management of Sky Garden project ‘challenging’

CORK’S city manager has described the delivery and management of the Sky Garden project as “particularly challenging”.

In a letter to city councillors, Tim Lucey described as “unprecedented” Diarmuid Gavin’s request to address the council in the manner he wanted, and said it would be inappropriate because legal correspondence between both sides was continuing.

Mr Lucey has consistently declined to comment in public about the stand-off between the local authority and the garden designer over the Sky Garden, while city officials worked to secure phase two of the project — its installation in Cork city.