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NINE IRISH FOOD companies have been honoured at the Bord Bia Food and Drink Awards tonight, designed to reward excellence within the industry.
The awards, which took place in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, are held every two years and recognise the achievements of companies across seven categories. More than 250 industry representatives gathered for the event including the CEOs from some of Ireland’s leading food and drink companies.
The awards are open to all food and drink products manufactured in Ireland and this year Bord Bia received in excess of 140 entries.
So without further ado, here are the winners:
Barry Murphy and Amy Pettitt from Paganini, winners of the Innovation Award category for FitFuel (Gary O’ Neill).
Niall Browne, Chief Executive and Charlie Coakley, Environmental Sustainability Manager, Dawn Meats (Image: Gary O’Neill).
Pat Whelan of James Whelan Butchers (Image: Gary O’Neill).
The Online Champion Award went to Pat Whelan of James Whelan Butchers for Ireland’s first online butcher and ABP Ireland was honoured wit the Business Referral Award in recognition of their co-cooperation efforts.
House Irish before EU citizens. Imagine us asking for a sleeping bag nevermind a social home for life in another EU country? See those EU citizens getting housed on the RTE property doc??
Irish single / separated / divorced males are the very last on the social housing list, and are if they are incredibly lucky offered flats in places like Bohola and Dromahair and other back of behinds. According to EU rules refugees from certain countries are the very top of said list.
Single mothers with kids next and everyone else after but before single / divorced / separated Irish males. A corpse would get a place before them.
@Glen Quagmire: Any info how many EU citizens buy a property in Ireland recently (percentage) ? And I don’t mean foreigner Property Funds as we all know their market share is about 25% already.
@John O’Driscoll: that’s exactly it John. People all over the country are sick of it and it only creates resentment, sure no wonder. If they’re playing an unequal game then the people they’re meant to serve won’t accept and have every right to complain. They’re liars, a friend of mine, male, queried DCC about allocations if a single woman comes before a single man on the list and if non nationals inc refugees are given priority over families waiting longer. “Oh no we don’t do that here, everyone is treated equally” that is just pure utter BS! Someone is pulling strings because all over Ireland so many people know families seeing houses given to people who are not waiting as long but all because of race. That in itself is either racism towards their own or some type of diversity agenda in allocations which they’re not saying.
@Paudi Onail: Syria and Eritrea top of the list with other nationalities coming next and single mothers after them. Irish single males have to wait til the devil skates to work.
@Glen Quagmire: You clown, then EU countries can apply the same for the 1 million Irish living in the EU. What do you think that this is Luxembourg that we don’t migrate?
@Glen Quagmire: it simple change the emigration rules and stop a lot of the people who are coming here putting pressure on housing , schools and hospitals.
Anyone who is offered accommodation in Dromahair is indeed very lucky. It’s one of the prettiest villages in Ireland with a vibrant community. I’ve even heard it referred to as the Dalkey of the Northwest. The only refugees we tend to see are musicians, artists and professional people sick of the sewer that is Dublin. If you want the back of behinds then think of somewhere else.
@ryan3939: Yeah, lets stop the doctors, specialists, consultants, engineers, nurses and foreign companies from coming over here because ryan here is on the dole and rather than get educated to get a job he wants a free handout…..
Honestly, Ireland would be hiring the likes of you for trained jobs if it werent for immigration, and if it werent for emigration there would be at least double the number of people living on this island.
@John O’Driscoll:
I would love to be offered a house in Bohola it might mean I could be a billionaire like all the rest of the locals who are big in London
Social housing now PLEASE
@Glen Quagmire: provate housing only.
@Glen Quagmire: all types of housing, not just free houses.
@Dilly Dong: HAP & Rent allowance are NOT proper social housing. FG & Labour introduced this insult to those needing housing. FF seem ok with this now & they will not get away with this at the next sooner than later election.
More social housing equals more ghettos. We need to discourage the lower classes from resting on their laurels. Social housing should be for the most vulnerable in our society. Instead, it is used overwhelmingly by people who wouldn’t work a day in their lives.
@George Orwell: There is and always has been a majority of people working who live in social housing
@George Orwell: Send our “the lower classes” quickly to Canada before they adopt same immigration regulations Australia did !!!
@George Orwell: “More social housing equals more ghettos.”
It wouldn’t if developers were required to provide a certain percentage of new developments for social housing, instead of paying a fee to (i.e. bribe) the council to avoid it like they can do now.
This would spread out the social housing all around the country, instead of only having it in certain areas.
@Glen Quagmire: The state can build both social and private dwellings – on a site by site basis. There is no reason the state can not use its resources to build integrated developments that have both social housing retained by the state for rental social housing and private dwellings for sale – Sell off to the private sector well built well thought out developments that meet the requirements of the nation – profits go back in building additional developments –
Expecting the private sector to meet the demands of a fast growing population by adding bureaucracy on to the build process is madness – Developers are not the right people to solve this problem our town planners and councils are
@brian boru: You are right in saying that our town planners and councils should solve this problem, but do you seriously expect the current bunch to be up to the task?
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: Yes – I would prefer to see a well thought out strategy instead of leaving it to the random nature of development that goes into private investment builds
The state has the land, has the knowledge, has the resources, the finance, and the information on what housing is needed – instead we leave it to the same process that let us down before to build homes of back room deals and profiteering by cute whoors – Build the homes the country needs and do it right by building well built integrated housing developments and do it while making a profit on the sale of the private sector
@meatyslaps: Why should someone who is paying €400k of a mortgage have to live beside someone who is living for free off the state?!?!?
Wake up would ya….
Build taller in the city centre!!!
@Fred Jensen: Why only in the city (Dublin I presume) centre ?
@cortisola:
Well a little thing called economics…it makes sense to build tall where land values are highest…as per every other country in the world. But anyone who wants to build higher outside city centre has my blessing.
No more landlord welfare
@Glen Quagmire:
No more free house with a garden just because you have two kids.
@Fred Jensen: Having kinds surely is one of reasons we have housing problem. HAVE NO CHILDREN PEOPLE !!!
@Glen Quagmire: Considering they brought in legislation to force landlords to accept rent allowance why do you think it is welfare for them? When they reduced RA and landlords didn’t need to take the drop and put up their rent for new tenants. HAP requires landlords to reduce their rent so again how is this welfare? How about we expect the government to fund social welfare rather than trying to get private individuals to subsidise them?
Find a landlord that will take HAP? Find a decent liveable home that available for HAP tenants in the competition for rent??
@Glen Quagmire: You are talking out from both sides of your month on this. It is obviously not landlord welfare as they don’t need or want to rent to those on social welfare payments. If you aren’t happy with what is provided by the private sector nor the public housing then you don’t have an option other than buy your own.
@Fred Jensen: agree and ship a lot of the foreigners back home
People always say you’re lucky to have a roof over your head – in a developed country like Ireland, this should not be a literal saying.
A delightful combination of young mothers popping out as many kids as they need to in order to get a free house and no accountability for those scamming the welfare system, landlords captialising on lack of supply and pushing rents up past Celtic Tiger levels, and a genuine failure by our government to address any of the housing issues whilst simultaneously dragging new business into Ireland and especially Dublin off the back of Brexit – the ordinary Joe Soap doesn’t even get a look in.
We’re such a small country – the level of corruption is genuinely amazing. Really Irish that we can keep f*cking over our own working, tax-paying or otherwise socially contributing citizens over and over again but sure, that’s the way it is. Apathy and classicism will be the ruination of this country.
Stop stigmatising areas & councils should buy build and restore social housing EVERYWHERE. Councils should have bought private houses in estates & rent them to the most needy & well behaved people on their lists which the majority are. They should build one off houses in the country for those it would suit like they did up until the crash.
@Glen Quagmire: the problem with socialists is they think there is a bottomless pit of money available! Where do you think the money is going to come from?
VULTURE FUNDS APPLE BONDHOLDERS & BANKS HAVE GOT & CONTINUE TO RECEIVE A BOTTOMLESS PIT OF WELFARE
@Glen Quagmire: i actually doubt you understand what any of them mean
@Dark Knight: What you should learn & understand is the rules of capitalism SHOULD have applied to these capitalist companies & THEIR PRIVATE DEBTS are NOT the Irish public’s debt
@Glen Quagmire: ‘vulture’ funds have provided cash to the irish government at a time when nobody else was willing to! Apple were always going to appeal their fine, what sort of idiot would have accepted the cash and then for the ruling to be overturned, lose out every which way then. If the banks failed it would have been fatal and there would be a much worse homeless crisis! I have no idea why you dragged bondholders into this or what your issue is with them. I actually presume it’s just a buzzword you use and you have no idea what a bondholder is
Council own land should be leased or sold to people on low income with a credit union loan they could easily enough built a one bed property then when they have a family add on to the property.
@JustMade Ireland: selling council property is what got us into this mess! Councils should be barred from the sale of property.
@Sham Rogue: I thought the same it only a problem if they don’t use the money to rebuild if they built sold or rented to fund new houseing it better more as people generally have more pride in something they own. We should be asking what did they do with that money.
Ah sure everyone wants to be like the Germans and rent apparently. Anyone have survey of Germans/Europeans and whether they actually choose to rent or whether they would prefer to buy but cant afford
Only problem with houses is that their way too expensive, over half of the building cost of your bog standard 3 bed semi are government imposed, maybe just maybe it might be an idea to remove some of these one off costs (taxes) and move them into the property tax over the lifetime of the property instead of loading them upfront maybe
So many potential homes are mothballed and vacant.
Other potential homes are blocked booked for employees of MNCs.
So many potential homes are allocated to Air B&B.
Social and affordable accommodation is not being constructed.
Large tracts of development land are being hoarded for future speculative gain and profit.
Investment funds are highly selective about the social status of prospective tenants.
Other potential homes are in the wrong location because of bad spatial planning or complete absence of spatial planning.
Banks are holding on to repossessed homes so as to take advantage of a rising market.
Population is increasing.
Why on earth is there a housing emergency?
The threats of high
@Tom Molloy: High taxes and the treatment of saver/investors as villains by media is having a negative effect.
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