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BAD NEWS FOR Irish expats living in Britain who are partial to the occasional cup of Barry’s tea or mikado biscuit.
Retailer Tesco has confirmed that it will discontinue its Irish food section in 202 stores across Britain.
The store has already begun phasing out the products, and the process will be completed by the end of July.
The story was first reported in UK-based outlet the Irish Post.
Speaking to the publication, Eddie O’Kane from O’Kane Irish Foods, a company that supplies Tesco, said that it was a “strange development”.
The World Foods category has been growing rapidly over the past number of years, in contrast to the overall supermarket trend which has been, at best, very flat.
The Tesco Irish section has been in place since 2011 and has seen the supermarket giant stocking homegrown favourites like Tayto, Club Orange, Barry’s Tea and Jacobs biscuits.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Tesco said:
We review our ranges to deliver the best possible shopping experience for customers. These changes will ensure we continue to offer great availability on the most popular Irish products at affordable prices.
Despite the removal of a specific Irish food section, Tesco has said that it will continue to stock a number of Irish brands in other parts of its supermarket – although which products these will be, and how many will no longer be available, is not yet clear.
Although the Irish section is set to go, World food sections will remain at the Tesco stores where they are currently situated.
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Please for the love of god, not another bejaysis review of the Gardaí, we have reports coming out of our arses about the Garda and how to improve them, one literally just released. Have any of these reports ever been acted on? No. Then why are we wasting more money on more reports that no one does anything with. Unreal.
Another insider job. No disrespect to a doubtless fine officer but her previous direct and personal connexions here, and the affable nature of many of them no doubt, (given the longstanding tradition of friendship between Irish and US police forces, sure the one more or less begat the other) should cause her to recuse herself from this role.
Why can we not have an equally distinguished official with no prior connexions as she to this corrupted country? Perhaps someone from the Canadian Police? They too have strong links albeit digging with the other foot. On balance, a better more likely objective prospect anyway,
Who must do the hard things? S/he who can. And is not in some way or other possibly bound by feeling of collegiality and empathy arising from former acquaintance.
@Dave.: ah sure you know we love reviews and commisions
@Dave.: and by a woman that was on the committee that selected Noreen O sulivan, Jezes wept
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh: are you serious Daithi? surely they couldn’t be that arrogant.
frightening.
Sounds good to me sure she recommended O’sullivan what could possibly go wrong I feel perfectly safe.
They really can’t get anything right.
If she’s good enough for Enda Kenny what could possibly go wrong?
She left the position of Garda Inspectorate saying she was a toothless dragon. She’s written 3/4 reports with recommendations. They weren’t listened to first time around.
I wonder does she think they will be this time?
I wonder will they be listened to this time?
If she goes as full on as needed the government at the time it’s delivered won’t be happy cause it will cost a fortune.
She obviously heard about the lucrative Irish pensions, no wonder she’s re locating to Ireland lol
Is she the right toole for the job.
There is a corrupt rotten corpulence deep in the body politic of the so called Republic oozing a sickness into every organ and polluting everything that it comes in contact with! It has several strains, greed, avarice, cronyism, nepotism, jobs for the boyos and “what’s in it for me?” The patient is now terminal as a result of the ravages of this disease, it will take more than yet another report to collect dust on the shelf to fix what’s wrong! But not to fear it will get the symbiotic parasites feeding off the corpse through another shift! God Save Ireland, because the current lot are already measuring up the corpse!
@Jarlath Murphy: lol! nail on the head Jarlath.
@Jarlath Murphy: it’s all of a piece Jarlath. All that was sung all that was said in Ireland is a Lie, bred from the contagion of the throng. We get what we elect. And by now there’s little alternative if any we’ve been electing it so long it’s the only flavour in town. And that’s shite, whatever the colour of their shirts and ties. Slave laundries, covered-up raped childher, wee girls dying in grottos with their babes along and unsuccoured, Shannon War and Torture Port; abuse abuse abuse and all the blind eyes turned to all the cowardice inhumanity and rapine it’d make you boke.
Surely her strong links with the gardai would make her eminently unsuitable for the job! Was it completely impossible to find a candidate without a scandal attached for the post?
Sounds like she has the experience for the job alright. Bit of a daft comment re relocation expenses. Of course the star should pay if she is moving county to take up the job. If we want her we have to pay
Christ that photo ,she looks like she means business
@rowan hill: good point. She won’t take any BS
Does the Garda Inspectorate still exist or is it being replaced by this latest governement puppet organisation
All this review will do is to keep the Minister in position until Enda goes as l will be shocked if the new Leader give her back her job There must up to a dozen inquiries going on
The next one will be on the Minister
The most expensive Minister we ever had
People commenting should read background information first.
She was the first inspector but left as her reviews were ignored. She knows the problems but now she has the power to force change whether management like it or not.
The nun with the gun, fought for ags to be a genuine 21st century police force much to rank and files delight but was ignored. Now let’s see the minister and commissioner ignore her
@Karl: I’d love to think she has the power to enforce her recommendations but really? In Ireland? All she’ll get to do is publish yet another report with many of the same findings and recommendations from other previous reports only to find them ignored once again.
@Karl: yes mrs O’Toole. Take a seat over there. He’ll be with you when he’s ready now.
@Gerry Carroll: this time I think so. Its news, it will be reported and not hidden.
Be honest, how many inspectorate reports did you read our even know about? Not a dig at you, just proving a point.
McDowell set up the inspectorate to be toothless. It was never meant to achieve any real change. It was purely to shut up the gra because McDowell really did believe the gardai were fully resourced and by giving them the inspector it became ‘independent’.
What really happened was she came in, saw a force mired in dysfunction, mismanagement, lacking basic resources, undermanned and having no defined role (its been mentioned multiple times by the inspectorate that gardai deal with too much non policing functions) and lacking logical operations (why does uniform response gardai also investigate crimes, prepare files for the DPP and prosecute their own cases in court? Isn’t that for detective’s and solicitors??? Why are they sent out in the middle of a summer day in a high visibility bag?)
Or maybe, just maybe for the first in a long time I believe change might actually come
This is just dispicable.
She was on the interview panel for
o sullivan,
She formerly worked for the Guards.
Enda has a crush on her.
Cronyism alive and well.
I see that Wallace is questioning this already, what a tool he is.
The police is no job for a woman.
Where’s Veronica. How come a woman got probably the most important job to do with crime, corruption and incompetence in this country considering your view on the Irish male syke. Or does this not fit with your anti male hyperbole you choose to comment on
She didn’t last long in the last job.why.
Well at least the 3 women at the top are doing a much better job than the men ever did…..Minister for Justice; Garda commissioner and Attorney
General…..
They’ve only gone and chosen Dylan Moran in drag to lead the review! A controversial choice….
This lady was one of four who recommended and nominated noreen O’Sullivan for the position she is in now, so how can their be honesty and integrity in yet another Useless wast of time investigation. Hell I know four fully qualified 40 year old police veterans with very good honest proven track records running investigations across the globe, who could run a full and honest investigation in to the running of the Garda Force. Problem is they have no Irish ties and they aren’t Irish Oh yeah this government wouldn’t like what they findings would be.
@Paul Bennison: that’s grossly unfair. The ones you know never made a bad recommendation?
What evidence do you have that someone who has been the chief of police in 2 separate forces hasn’t got years of honest service leading large investigations?
FIX
Why can’t we do anything without getting ones from the EU or US to tell us what to do?
@Alois Irlmaier: so who would you ask to review the police?
She’ll sort ‘em out I’d say , look at the head on her
@Trevor Connolly: yeah ‘magine if she was telling you to get your sums right in school. And the bata still in play under the Law. You’d be quare shitein yourself. If she is the only choice in town I hope she takes a leaf from that book.
The only way to improve the gardai is Pay them what there worth. Wouldn’t it just be amazing if the nurses and gardai say fcuk it were off. Wouldn’t Ireland be in a state of shock and chaos. And there’s nothing our government can do. Pay theses people what their worth or
Great gig, whatever she writes in the report she gets paid, expenses and of course the all important pension, and the government can still ignore the report and add it to all the other reports gathering dust on some basement shelf. Government will still get paid, expenses and the all important pension. Just love official Ireland.
O’Toole by name, Tool by nature!
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