€2.3m park revamp plan to include Gavin’s Sky Garden

Cork’s city manager hopes the signing today of a €2.3m contract to revamp a landmark park will finally put an end to the ‘Sky Garden’ controversy which has dogged the scheme for almost two years.

Tim Lucey confirmed last night that contractors are poised to start work immediately on a major restoration and upgrade of Fitzgerald Park as part of the council’s Mardyke Gardens project.

It will include the installation of some of the key elements of celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin’s Sky Garden and its signature flying pod in a riverside section of the park.