THE ballroom of the Seven Oaks Hotel was packed for the launch of Christopher Power’s latest book, The Carlow Sugar Factory, by cllr Charlie Murphy, cathaoirleach of Carlow County Council’s Centenary Committee, on Tuesday night, 19 November.

CARLOW Municipal District is to write to the owners Greencore Ltd over what plans it has for the former sugar factory site on the Athy Road. After 80 years in production, Carlow sugar factory closed with a loss of 190 full-time jobs in 2005.