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Fun fact of the day: the Swiss roll produced by the old Thompson’s Bakery in Cork city was once so popular that its dedicated factory produced a mind-boggling mile of the stuff a day. Established in 1826, Thompson’s closed in the late 1980s, and its iconic building on MacCurtain Street now houses a hotel and a number of other businesses, one being Brian Murray’s The Glass Curtain, which takes its name from a distinctive 20th-century addition to the 19th-century original.
In the second part of a three-part series on new traders at The English Market, KATE RYAN sees how the Cork Rooftop Farm is expanding, with plans for .