A LARGE crowd turned up at the Cathedral of the Assumption, Carlow for a special Mass to remember all former employees of Carlow Sugar Factory as part of the wider centenary celebrations.

OPTICIAN Bernard Jennings was in touch to say: “Paul, as you are doing that Sugar Factory workers talk next month in the Seven Oaks, you should nip out to Killerig Nursing Home and meet Tommy ‘Esso’ Walker.