Manager: Sky Garden pod cost €30k, not €2.3m

Cork’s city manager has moved to “finally nail” suggestions that celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin’s flying pod cost taxpayers €2.3m.

Tim Lucey was speaking after city councillors formally agreed to press ahead with the previously announced €1.8m plan to revamp Fitzgerald Park.

It includes the installation of a scaled-down version of Mr Gavin’s Sky Garden in one section of the park.