At Belfast City Council they are no strangers to daft proposals but this one from the third biggest city in Ireland is kind of genius. STATUE TO THE MOSQUITO OR MIDGE THAT BIT OLIVER CROMWELL ‘That Cork City Council will erect a statue to the mosquito or midge that bit Oliver Cromwell during his siege of the city, later causing his death through ‘Cork fever’ (malaria); and that this statue shall be the ‘world’s smallest public statue’.’ (Proposer: Cllr. O. …