All roads lead to official’s back garden

Cork’s county engineer says he won’t mind people raising issues about potholes with him in his back garden because they’ll be contributing to a worthy cause.

Noel O’Keeffe owns one of seven gardens which will be opened tomorrow to the public in the Carrigtwohill area to raise €20,000 for Marymount Hospice.

Mr O’Keeffe said he had a number of friends who were suffering from cancer and saw a first cousin die from it in Marymount only a couple of months ago.