Plum job for Irish sugar-growers

MY heart goes out to the sugar beet factory workers and to the beet-growing farmers who, by all accounts, will be out of a job very shortly.

Suggestions have been made as to other sources of employment for these unfortunate fellow-citizens of ours.

I understand, for example, that the equivalent of petrol can be derived from rapeseed oil, and that the rape plant can be grown in many parts of Ireland.