One also could question what we did because I have grave doubts about Greencore's intentions when it closed the Carlow sugar plant. Was it forward planning or simply plain greed? I believe it was the latter because the company closed the plant to make the lands available for development. This was proved subsequently by the speed with which the company moved in to eradicate the plant. This was its scheme and plan, after which it moved on and it was only a matter of time before the company adopted the same process in respect of Mallow. It drew the rug from under the people there and destroyed an industry that had supplied this country from 1926 onwards. It destroyed an industry that had provided so much employment for so many people and which had been one of the main makers of an industrial background here through the provision of apprenticeships and so on.

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