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LOVE BURGERS ?

Saturday 26th January

Frances Shanahan met Jarlath Kelly, who operates a mobile butchers shop from his home near Tuam in County Galway. Maybe some clouds have a silver lining because butchers are reporting an increase in fresh burger sales since the crises

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/countrywide/programmes/2013/0126/364623-countrywide-saturday-26-january-2013/?clipid=983864

Why did we never take to eating horsemeat in this country?

Sunday 17th February

When horse meat was found in burgers and frozen meals in recent weeks, we learned a lot about our attitude to hippophagy. That might sound like a subject in Hogwarts but it’s the term for eating horse meat. Ireland has a long history of saying ‘neigh’ to horsemeat. Irish Times restaurant critic Catherine Cleary came in to talk about the history of the Irish taboo against horse meat, from medieval Irish monks to the Phibsboro horse butcher of 1960s Dublin. Video link: Back in 1966 a Dublin butcher was selling horse meat for human consumption. Mr. Hickey the owner of the recently ...

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-history-show/programmes/2013/0217/367961-the-history-show-sunday-17-february-2013/?clipid=1000490