Greencore must focus on a convenient future

JUST before the start of the Greencore annual general meeting in Dublin last Thursday, Philip Kinnane, whose family farm backed onto the Thurles sugar factory, said he believed we had seen the last of beet growing here.

Kinnane’s family has been in the business for three generations, but that was his gut feeling as the AGM loomed and farmers protested outside Jury’s Doyle Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin.

In his view the end of an era in Irish agriculture was already at hand.