Cork butchers enjoy a brisk trade, as Irish-produced ham and sausages top shopping lists.
The recent scare relating to contaminated pig feed resulted in the Department of Agriculture withdrawing all Irish pork products from retail outlets as an emergency precautionary measure.
Irish pork is now back on the shelves, and queues at O'Donovan’s butchers at the entrance to the English Market in Cork are evidence of the demand. Customers are looking forward to a traditional Christmas dinner.
It’s never Christmas without a bit of ham.
Sale of ham has been down slightly, with many people holding off until this week in the hope of being able to buy Irish meat. No one will be turned away empty handed, says David Shorten of O’Donovan’s Grocery and Poultry,
Between the Irish and between the imported ones, we have enough.
O’Flynn’s Gourmet Sausage Company traded as usual during the recent pork contamination scare by selling their own beef, lamb and chicken sausages. With pork sausages back on the menu, they are working as hard as they can to supply the demand for their products, as Tony Scott tells RTÉ News
We’ve been getting up earlier and earlier to make more sausages.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 23 December 2008. The reporter is Jennie O’Sullivan.
