A group of Irish mushroom growers travelled to the Loire Valley in France on a trip sponsored by Euro-Semy to inspect the company’s facilities - it seems like a good time was had by all.
There was news of expansion at the JF McKenna factory on the Cathedral road in Armagh.
There was a note about Tommy Dudgeon of Monaghan who reportedly flew mushrooms to market in Britain - slightly ahead of his time perhaps?
And news that the mushroom growing in your mushroom house was - ahem - a far out relation so to speak, with evidence that man and fungus shared a common ancestor, back in the day, of the primordial soup.