WICKLOW - along with the entire south-east - was once a centre of sugar beet production in Ireland, but the industry in the county - and country in general - went down the pan in 2005 with the closure ...

Tonnes of white sugar were produced annually from beet grown on contract countrywide and processed at four strategically located factories in Carlow, Mallow, Thurles and Tuam. Mallow Sugar Factory was ...

However, there was a strangely muted reaction to the launch at the event of a €400 million investment plan to revive the sugar industry. While announcements like Intel’s decision last January to begin ...

The redevelopment of the Irish sugar industry can play a key role in Ireland's recovery a Dáil committee has been told. The Chairman of Beet Ireland said that importing sugar costs €200m annually and ...

Close to 2,500 sugar beet farmers held a protest in Mallow yesterday to warn the EU that they will not allow their livelihoods to be wiped out by massive price cuts. The rally was held to coincide ...

Beet Ireland, the lobby group seeking to resurrect Ireland's sugar industry, is in the process of buying a site on the Carlow-Kildare border for a new national sugar processing plant. The organisation ...

The ongoing dispute between the Irish Sugar Company and the Irish Farmers' Association over beet prices paid to farmers may be close to resolution after it was revealed last night that the former ...

THIS work is founded on a series of articles by M. Julien M. Deby, C.E., published about a year ago in the Scientific American; these articles have, however been very much extended, and much new ...