IFA denies claims over sugar plant closure

THE Irish Farmers Association yesterday rejected any suggestions that it had accepted the closure of Carlow Sugar Factory by Irish Sugar, part of the Greencore group.

It followed the publication of a leaked memo sent to Irish Sugar chief executive Dr Sean Brady by the company’s Dublin-based public relations company, Keating and Associates.

The memo suggested that the IFA privately accepted that the closure decision was the right one but that it had to be seen to react, do a bit of posturing and that it had to say something.