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Finnerty’s butchers, which is located on the ground floor of the Eyre Square Shopping Centre and in Oughterard, has just scooped a top award at the All Ireland Craft Butcher Product competitions. It won supreme champion in the sausages and puddings section, quite an achievement when you think that there are about 500 butchers in the association and about 300 in the competition. Nevin Maguire was the main judge at the event so we can assume that the winners were all pretty impressive. I had often passed by the shop but never shopped there, so I decided to call in and try some of the award winning products. The main shop is in Oughterard and it has been supplying locally sourced meat for the last 50 years and supplies many of the main Connemara hotels like the Abbeyglen, Renvyle House, and Cashel House.

Monday night saw TV3 bring the successful TV show The Apprentice to the streets of Galway. Sponsored by Bank of Ireland, the candidates had to choose two local businesses to sell and promote their local produce. Team Zest went with the two businesses they felt would produce the most sales on the day - Martin Divilly’s butchers of Westside and Goya’s café and bakery of Kirwan’s Lane.

Picking up a council traffic cone and driving it through a shop window resulted in a court appearance at Athlone District Court on Wednesday October 5. Darren Molloy.

Have you ever wondered why you can never achieve the right consistency in a sauce you have been trying to master? If so, then you may find the answers at a special cookery demonstration night in Ballina Leisure Centre on Thursday October 27. The renowned Bord Bia presenter Máire Dufficy will perform the demonstration on the night.

Brendan Loughnane master butcher on the Headford Road is offering a great five day meal deal. It is pretty hard to beat this for value at €20. You can buy enough meat/chicken to feed a family of five/six for five days. That works out at about 70 cents per person per meal. Add some Irish potatoes, a veg or two, and the result will feed and nourish the family for a week.

It’s almost D day for Hanna’s Secret to move into their new manufacturing unit and the nerves have hit all of a sudden. Hanna’s Secret was born at home and is now ready to take its first steps into ‘big school’.

In 1883, a sub-committee of the town commissioners reported on the sanitary conditions of the houses in this area. Some were occupied in tenements, others were held by single families. “In none of these houses is there any provision as to water closets, privies or drains which in itself is deplorable; but your committee feel it would be but ill discharging their duty if they stopped short at such an exposition and remain silent as to the absence of every feature which would recommend them as habitations for human beings. The poor can only hope for impoverished dwellings, but when a gentleman enters into commercial relations with them, and on a well intended profitable scale to himself .... he should not be exempted from the obligation of providing them with accommodation somewhat better than Indian wigwams.”

Businesswoman Mary Bennett, who is to be granted the Freedom of the City at a special reception next week, says she was “deeply honoured” to be chosen.

Over the years Loughrea has not had many new cafés/restaurants, and now in the space of less than six months, I visited a third new venture. The Corry family has had a butcher’s business in Loughrea for many years and just two years ago they made the brave move to a new architect-designed building beside the old railway station. The café is situated on an open mezzanine upstairs and is now producing some really good food. Like several places I talked about recently, it is on its third incarnation, the new head chef and proprietor Nigel along with his wife Magaly at front of house, has I believe got the right formula and range of products.

Drink drivers topped the list of offenders at the recent sitting of Mullingar District Court with a total of 10 people prosecuted for taking to the road under the influence.