Gavin: Garden project like ‘working with Father Ted’

Celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin has poured further fuel on the fire in the Sky Garden row by claiming that working with Cork City Council and Fáilte Ireland on the project was like “working with Father Ted... like Craggy Island”.

Mr Gavin made the comments on last night’s Late Late Show, during which he also claimed that he got no help marketing Cork or Ireland from either organisation when he launched the garden at last year’s Chelsea Flower Show.

It is not the first time Mr Gavin has taken a swipe at Cork City Council and Fáilte Ireland.