Chocolate factory closes for three days as sweets melt in heatwave

Staff at Skelligs Chocolate went on a ‘choco-holiday’ when production stopped for three days because of the heatwave.

Colm Healy, the owner of the west Kerry factory, said there was no point in making chocolate, because it was melting in the heat.

“We did not make any chocolate on Thursday and Friday last week, because it was just too hot,” he said.