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Article: Walsh hits out as wool board spends GBP 50,000 on detectives
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- June 4, 2004
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MORE than ten years on from his original breaking of the British
Wool Marketing Board's monopoly, relations between Aidan Walsh and
the board have not improved.
Walsh, owner of Texacloth, Naas, Ireland, claimed yesterday that
the board spent GBP 50,000 a year to monitor his activities and might
be behind rumours that he was not buying wool this year. He said
yesterday: "I am fed up with these rumours. Advertisements will
appear in the farming press this weekend and I have told my staff to
go out and buy twice as much as last year."
That could be more than two million kilos, although how much Walsh
buys each year in the UK, mainly in Wales and Scotland, has been
difficult to establish. What ...