The deal was approved by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin on 5 December 2005, and closed on 12 December 2005.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin said that consumers wanted to see large numbers of native products on the shelves of large supermarket chains.
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Micheál Martin - Current leader of the Fianna Fáil political party and former minister for Foreign Affairs, Education and Health, resides in Ballinlough.
Many well-known Irish names have attended the school, such as Micheál Martin, the current leader of Fianna Fáil, footballers Denis Irwin and Damien Delaney, Green Party Senator Dan Boyle, athlete Marcus O'Sullivan and world champion, Robert Heffernan and former Cork senior football manager and former allstar Billy Morgan (Gaelic footballer).