Local butchers under threat as cheap is beating quality

IRELAND’S cuisine and food heritage is under threat from industrial production and multinational retailers.

The claim was made in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, by Pat Brady, director of a European Union supported cross Border craft butchers apprenticeship training certificate project.

Some 25 young people took part in the project, run by Associated Craft Butchers of Ireland (ACBI) and the Northern Ireland Master Butchers Association (NIMBA), with the help of funding from the EU Interreg Programme through the Irish Central Area Partnership.