Restaurant serves up monster pizza for charity

It was a feat of dazzling mathematical precision and took six hours of work — but a West Cork restaurant lived up to its pledge to create a monster 8ft pizza for charity.

Skibbereen pizzeria owner Andrew Loane not only had to make 16 large triangular pizzas, each measuring 4ft in length, but he had to calibrate them to the nth degree to ensure each piece dove-tailed with the others to create a giant circular pizza.

The pizza, which was actually 97in in diameter, took a full six hours to prepare. It was cooked in sections which were then carefully fitted together.