Biofuel a suitable replacement industry for sugar

IN school, we learned of the importance of the family as the core of society. We also were taught that family farms producing staple foods were essential to maintain a viable economy, especially in a time of international uncertainty.

Visionaries such as Sean Lemass understood this well and the establishment of the Irish sugar industry was but one of the many initiatives on which this State was founded. However, it appears that the present generation has lost the plot.

The EU agricultural food policy became a victim of its own success through overproduction.