Gavin’s €2.3m Sky Garden — what a load of hydraulics

MAVERICK garden designer Diarmuid Gavin’s controversial €2.3 million taxpayer-funded ‘flying’ garden is set to be grounded by health and safety concerns.

Tenders were advertised internationally yesterday for design consultants to oversee the inclusion of his Avatar-inspired garden, which has already cost taxpayers over €500,000, in a redesigned Fitzgerald Park in Cork.

But the signature element of the Chelsea gold-medal winning garden — the pod which hung from a crane 80ft above the ground in London — will not be allowed on Leeside.