Kerry’s cathedral of discovery

Ray Ryan reports on the new era for Irish food development, heralded with the formal opening of Kerry Group’s new innovation centre in Naas.

A CATHEDRAL of discovery that has risen from the ground was how Taoiseach Enda Kenny described Kerry Group’s new global technology and innovation centre which he officially opened in Naas, Co Kildare, the other day.

The description was apt because Mr Kenny had participated in cutting the first sod for the €100m centre in July 2013 and was back to see the transformation of the 28 acre site beside the M7 and M50 Dubin motorways.