Sugar cane

Sugar cane is a kind of grass which is filled with a sugar rich fibrous spongy tissue. Sugar can grows tropically. The cane is pressed, the juice condensed and filtered. Brown sugars like the Demera sugar are derived from sugar cane. Rum is made from sugar cane. The leftovers of the sugar extraction is called molasses.

Where to get it in Dublin
Sugar can is found - maybe seasonally - from time to time in the following shops:

The Asian supermarket, one or two shops in Moore Street and in some other Asian and Indian shops.