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1. Apprentice of the year 2024 Issued 20 Feb 2024 -
2. Battle of the Butchers 2024 Issued 20 Feb 2024 -
3. National Sausage & Pudding competition 2024 entry form Issued 4 Jan 2024 -   Entry Form download.  Please return to brendan.sears@craftbutchers.ie  
4. 2024 Spiced Beef Competition Results Issued 4 Jan 2024 - Winner-Tom Durcan Runner Up-Jim Murphy Gold Awards Jim Flavin Butchers James Nolan jerry O Leary Gerry Mitchell Bobs Butchers George King Butchers Deerings Butchers Wilson Butchers Jim Crowley Padraig O Driscoll Alan Kennedy Kellys of Newport      
5. 2023 National Burger & BBQ Competition Results Issued 8 May 2023 - National BBQ Competition Results All products scoring over 90 were awarded GOLD. All products scoring over 80 were Awarded SILVER. The judges commented that “ the standard was very high. It sometimes came down to a single point to decide the winners” The judges were ...
6. Message from ACBI President Jack Molloy Issued 3 Mar 2022 - Dear Members and Customers I hope you are keeping safe and well. As we move on now from the pandemic and our lives return to what will certainly be a new normal. I believe that our trade will emerge stronger and evermore present in customers ...
7. National Sausage & Pudding Competition 2022 Results Issued 26 Nov 2021 - Traditional Sausage Category Winner Conor Wilson Rathfarnham Supreme Champion 2022 Runner-Up James Nolan Kilcullen Gold Runner-Up Brendan Bergin Edenderry Gold Gold Brendan Keenan Finglas Gold Eddie Tuite Drogheda Gold Dexter Browne Balbriggan Gold Laurence Mcgonigal Clifden Gold Tommy Delany Maynooth Silver Fran Feighery Portlaoise Silver ...
8. National Craft Butchers Sausage & Pudding Competition Entry Form Issued 10 Nov 2021 - National Craft Butchers Sausage
9. National Spiced Beef Competition Issued 3 Nov 2021 - ACBI NATIONAL SPICED BEEF COMPETITION 2022                           RESULTS TABLE   DEREK WILSON National Winner BRIAN DEERING Gold Award DONABATE DEXTER Gold Award SEAMUS COSGRAVE Gold Award BRENDAN BERGIN Gold Award MARKWILLIAMS Gold ward CLIF LENEHAN Gold Award TOM DURCAN Silver Award JIM MURPHY Silver ...
10. Craft Butchers Radio advertising campaign Issued 19 Jul 2021 - Associated Craft Butcher of Ireland have commissioned a series of radio ads to run on 17 local radio stations over the next two weeks. There will be 24 thirty-seconds ads broadcast on each station. Listen out and tell your customers to listen for them. Give ...
11. Local Authority Veterinary Inspection Service to finish at the end of November Issued 23 Oct 2020 - The Local Authority Veterinary inspection service (LAVS) is due to finish at the end of November. This is on foot of a funding issue between the City and County Managers Association (CCMA) and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). The LAVS funding is provided ...
12. ACBI on RTE's Ray Darcy show Issued 18 Mar 2020 - A message from the ACBI was read out on Ray Darcy's radio show on March 18th. Your browser does not support the audio element.
13. Coronavirus: advice for employers and HR in Ireland Issued 9 Mar 2020 - ACBI advises all members to follow the advice issued by the HSE to ensure the safety of staff and customers. You are advised to have hand sanitisers available and ensure that staff wash and sanitise hands after handling cash or cards during purchases. Dave Lang ...
14. Craft Butchers National Spiced Beef Competition Results 2018 Issued 29 Nov 2018 - National WinnerSeamus Cosgrave, Cosgrave's Craft Butchers, Rathfarnham, Dublin   Runners UpAnne Marie
15. Craft Butchers National Sausage & Pudding Results 2018/19 Issued 11 Nov 2018 - Supreme Champion Eddie Tuite, Tuite’s Butchers, Drogheda. Co. Louth – Dan Kelly’s Cider SausageTraditional Sausage CategoryWinnerBrendan Sears, Seezers and Sears, Citywest Shopping Centre, Dublin Runners upPeter O’Sullivan, O’Sullivan’s Butchers, Sneem, Co. Kerry Gavin Mitchell, Mitchell Meats, Drumlish Co. Longford GoldSinead Heaney, Heaney Meats, Galway Wayne Burke, ...