Beet deliveries derailed

THE closure of the rail line at Cahir in County Tipperary, due to last week's derailment of a freight train, has seriously disrupted beet deliveries to the Irish Sugar factories in Mallow, and Carlow.

Beet growers in South Wexford, who normally deliver their beet by rail to Mallow from a depot at Wellington Bridge, have to make alternative arrangements.

Normally, five trains per day transport a total of 150,000 tonnes of sugar beet from south Wexford to the Mallow factory.