The
rendering industry in Ireland is in a process of change and thus has
been the centre of much heated debate between renderers, the meat
industry, Irish livestock farmers and the Department of Agriculture and
Food.
With banks in America and the UK encountering major difficulties as previously booming economies head towards recession, a similar and perhaps even worse fate may be awaiting Irish banks. Worryingly, the situation is shaping up to be so bad, that the very future of the banks may be under threat, as Richard Douthwaite explains.