Irish cooked lobster ranked in Europe’s elite

A READY-TO-EAT cooked lobster, processed by a Cork seafood company, was hailed as an exciting new product at the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels.

It was one of 70 products, and the only one from Ireland, that was chosen for the final of the 2008 Seafood Prix d’Elite, from over 1,600 exhibiting companies from 87 countries.

William Carr and Sons, based in Curraglass in the Blackwater Valley — with a second plant, Carrokeel Foods, in Kilalla, Co Mayo — was delighted at having one of its products chosen for the final in the world’s largest seafood trade show.