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The Carlow sugar factory, having experienced its death in being shut down last month today had the last nail hammered into its coffin. A convoy of trucks - travelling at 4mph - hauling wide-load trailers, each 39 metres long removed most of the remaining plant from the factory, transporting it to Mallow, the last remaining sugar factory in Ireland.
Many local roads were closed for most of the day to allow the massive loads through. I had to travel from Carlow to Abbeyleix myself, but this was along the route taken by the trucks so I had to go via Stradbally… a bit out of the way.