Irish island gets cross promised in myth 1,500 years ago – made from cardboard

Legend claims Saint Columba never came up with cross for Tory island so artist Sarah Lewtas fulfils pledge

It is more than a thousand years late, and made of cardboard rather than stone, but the residents of Ireland's remotest inhabited island have finally got their cross.

The 6.5-metre sculpture reached Tory island, a windswept rock nine miles off Ireland's north-west coast, on Wednesday, arguably restoring the tainted honour of a patron saint.