No home for giant knitted map of city which cost taxpayers €259k

Cork’s city fathers have pulled the rug from under a proposal to use a giant knitted map of the city — which cost taxpayers €259,000 seven years ago — as a tourist attraction.

Councillors were told last night that the Knitted Map, commissioned for Cork’s European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2005, will not be part of the council’s tourism plans.

The 65m x 20m abstract map was the brainchild of the now defunct Half Angel theatre company to mark the city’s historic designation as European Capital of Culture.