Chocolate, oh sweet chocolate: The bitter truth

Irish people are the biggest chocolate consumers in the world, but cocoa farmers earn little more than the cost of a bar a day, writes Jim Clarken

WHEN money’s tight and hard to get, a pint of plain’s your only man, wrote Flann O’Brien.

But looking for relief from current struggles, more people are turning to chocolate than they are to stout in the downturn.