Four potential sites have been identified in Cork for a national sugar beet processing factory.

There have been rowdy scenes in the Dáil after a European report found the closure of the Greencore sugar plant in Mallow four years ago may not have been necessary.

BIO-FUEL production at the former Greencore plant in Mallow, Co Cork, is viable, according to a report carried out by Cork County Council published yesterday.

HUNDREDS of people are to march through the streets of Mallow on September 23 to protest at the way one of the town’s biggest former employers has handled the redundancy package for its workers.

The Irish Farmers Association will today apply to the High Court to lift an injunction preventing it from protesting outside Greencore factories.