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The Tropical Fruits company was founded by Ernest FoleyErnest Foley lost his leg in WWI. After the war ended, he settled in TenerifeMoira Griffith was born in Santa Cruz, TenerifeMoire was sent back to Dublin due to bad behaviour and started boarding school ath the age of 7Moira, Great uncle Pat and Ernest visit Ernest's bother who was workimg in TrinadadThe first shipment of 9,000 stems left the West Indies for DublinJohn Van Geest purchased the West Indies section of the company for £750,000, which would be equal to €22,000,000 todayThe tropical fruits company was sold and later renamed Fyffes BananasU2 purchaced the tropical fruit warehouse in dublin and used it as their recording studioI visted the old family's house in Tenerife and the surrounding plantationsTropicla fruit warehouse competion date for the new offices to be built over the old warehouse
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