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80 YEARS OF TORMENT. HISTORY. WASN’T IT TERRIBLE?
Thank heavens you’re alive now and don’t have to experience the horrors of the past. Unlike your forebears who had to suffer through terrible things like conscription, food rationing and dial up the internet. Fortunately, today we are blessed with wonderful things that make our lives absolutely brilliant. Like Rustlers Burgers. It’s time we reminded ourselves that we live in a day and age where a delicious flame – grilled burger takes just 90 seconds to cook… and not in an era when children were forced to shovel coal.
Kepak Heart Heroes
Nathan Davies, 28, survived against all odds when he suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed while working at food supplier Kepak, in Kirkham.
He owes his life to two fellow employees and his quick-thinking boss. Andrejs Bespalovs, 33, and Georgijs Kadakovs, 27, performed CPR on Nathan for more than 20 minutes before paramedics arrived.
MEAT TECHNOLOGY IRELAND LAUNCHED
Meat Technology Ireland, a strategic research, and innovation base in beef and sheep meat processing in Ireland, was launched last week by Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mary Mitchell O Connor TD and Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD.
Meat Technology Ireland (MTI) is a new industry-led initiative with significant funding from Enterprise Ireland that will create a ‘one-stop shop’ for meat processing research and technology. The launch took place at the Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ashtown, Dublin 15, last Thursday.
Five schools selected to rear calves as part of Irish Angus competition
Five schools have been selected by the agri-industry to rear calves as part of the national Certified Irish Angus Beef schools competition. Run by the Irish Angus Producer Group, in conjunction with ABP Ireland and the Kepak Group, the next phase of the competition is set to get underway in September 2017.
Five schools from across the country will take part in the competition, which will run up until March 2019. The finalists were chosen from a shortlist of 34 groups who recently presented project ideas to a panel of judges at an exhibition in Croke Park.
Over 50 Years of Meat Craft and Still Leading The Way
In December of 1941, Noel Keating, the founder of Kepak Group, was born in Kilrush, Co-Clare. His mother and father, Mary and Sonny Keating, owned a family butcher and at the tender age of 15, Noel left school to learn his trade in the Henry Street shop.
Noel was passionate and full of promise, moving swiftly from an apprenticeship in Limerick to the Anderson Butcher’s of Glasnevin and then onto FX Buckley’s on Chatham Street in Dublin. In 1964, Noel married Marie O’Byrne. They opened their own butcher shop on Dublin’s Francis Street in 1966.
Kepak’s John Horgan Honoured With UCD Alumni Award
Mr. John Horgan is the 2016 UCD Alumni Award winner in Agricultural Science
At the 2016 UCD Alumni Awards, held on 11th November, Mr. John Horgan was selected as the recipient of the 2016 UCD Alumni Award for Agricultural Science. John Horgan is a leader in meat excellence who as MD of the Kepak group has been responsible for driving diversification and growth of the group from a traditional meat processing business into a consumer focused food producer.