Fuel, food and retail customers are provided with exceptional value and service in convenient, comfortable surroundings at Applegreen Lusk M1 North, which had the distinction of being Ireland’s first motorway service station when it opened in 2010 and is also the busiest. We dropped in and had a word with award-winning manager Michael Feeney to […]
Fully focused on the consistent, efficient and sustainable production of high-quality produce, Breffni Mushrooms is an exceptional, family-run mushroom harvesting, packing and distribution company headquartered in County Cavan. We spoke to director John Kiernan and his nephew Barry Kiernan to find out more about a wonderful family tradition dating back more than four decades. Nestling […]
SuperValu stores across Ireland are committed to local employment and supporting local suppliers and community groups. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the midlands where the Buckley name is synonymous with the iconic Irish retail brand. The Buckley’s SuperValu and Centra Group is made up of three SuperValu stores in Mullingar, Moate and Birr, […]
Codd Mushrooms is responsible for 55 per cent of all mushrooms consumed in Ireland every year. The development of a €5.5 million environmentally-friendly production and packing unit on the family farm in Tullow, Co. Carlow in recent years has been central to the company’s continued growth. The growing facility is 17,712sq/m and is divided up […]
Based just outside Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, Annalitten Foods, which also trades as Annalitten Farm Eggs has been supplying quality fresh Irish Eggs since 1955. Irish Tractor & Agri learned more about the third generation family business from Michael O’Reilly recently. These are busy times at Annalitten Farm Eggs but, then again, there’s seldom been a […]
When it comes to tradition and longevity, there are very few companies – if any – in Ireland that can match Manor Farm – the home of Irish chicken. In addition to being the largest chicken processing company in the country, with its genesis dating back across the centuries to 1775, Manor Farm is also […]
SuperValu and GAA bring together a true partnership of two of Ireland’s most community focused organisations. Eugene O’Gorman of O’Gorman’s SuperValu Carrickmacross is proud of their strong links with the national’s largest sporting body. At SuperValu, they say ‘We believe in Local’ and nothing represents local more than the GAA, with its strong heritage and deep roots in […]
Greenhill Fruit farm are a family-run fruit farm based near Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford which has stayed devoted to its aim to provide some of the best fruit farm produce available in Ireland. Founder and proprietor Eamonn and Deirdre Crean told Irish Tractor & Agri more. Established in 2007, Greenhill Fruit Farm is one of the […]
At Buckley’s SuperValu, they ‘believe in local’ and nothing represents local more than the GAA with its strong heritage and deep roots in every community across Ireland. For many years now, Buckley’s SuperValu has been giving generously to the GAA in Westmeath. Through SuperValu’s ‘Kits for Kids’ initiative, Buckley’s awards juvenile O’Neills training kits and […]
One of Ireland’s leading strawberry growers is Jimmy Kearns of Kearns Fruit Farm near Enniscorthy. Thrust into the family business at an early age following the sudden death of his father, it has been a way of life for him for almost 50 years. Jimmy was in his early teens when he lost both of […]
