Welcome to our 2024 Blas na hÉireann
Finalists
Session 1 @ 10.30am supported by Total Food Machines And the winners are..
Category
Bacon - Rashers Green
Bronze Home Cured Rashers
Bacon – Rashers Green (Streaky)
Bacon – Rashers Smoked
Producer
James Whelan Butchers
Silver Waldron Family Home Cured Bacon Medallions Waldron Family Meats
Gold Specially Selected Dry Cure Unsmoked Medallion Oakpark Foods
Bronze Sugar Pit Streaky Bacon
Pigs On The Green
Silver Tesco Finest 10 Unsmoked Dry Cured Streaky Irish Rashers Hilton Foods
Gold Simply Better Thin Cut Unsmoked Callan Bacon
Dry Cured Irish Streaky Rashers
Bronze Smoked back rashers
Silver Superquinn rashers smoked thick cut
Gold
McCarthy's of Kanturk
Oliver Carty & Family
Specially Selected Dry Cure Oakpark Foods
Maple Beechwood Smoked Back Rashers
Bacon – Rashers Smoked (Streaky)
Bronze Simply Better Thin Cut Whiskey Smoked Dry Cured Callan Bacon
Irish Streaky Rashers
Silver Tesco Finest 10 Beechwood Smoked Dry Cured
Streaky Irish Rashers
Gold
Bacon – Sweet
Hilton Foods
Specially Selected Dry Cure Hickory Smoked Streaky Rashers Oakpark Foods
Gold Lidl Deluxe Dry Cure Applewood Smoked Honeyvale Foods T/A Oakpark
Streaky Rashers 200g
Bronze Waldron Family Wild Honey Flavoured Bacon Chop
Waldron Family Meats
Silver Waldron Family Sweet Glazed Bacon Chop Waldron Family Meats
Gold Signature Tastes Irish Hampshire slow cooked
maple & honey bacon roast
Bacon – Other added flavours
Oliver Carty & Family
Bronze Tesco Finest Fillet with Spiced Citrus and Pomegranate Glaze Hilton Foods
Silver Connolly Air fryer bacon Joint with Honey and Mustard Connolly Meats
Gold Lidl Deluxe dry cured Irish bacon roasting joint Oliver Carty & Family with a honey and wholegrain mustard glaze 575g
Category
Bacon
Bronze BWG Foodservice Irish Bacon Rack Chops
Silver Connolly Irish Ham Fillet
Gold Home Cured Bacon
Bacon - Smoked
Beef – Fillet
Beef – Striploin / Sirloin
Beef – Ribeye
Beef – Burger Style
Beef – Roast
Producer
Williams Gate Meats
Connolly Meats
James Whelan Butchers
Bronze Butchers Selection Smoked Rind On Centre Cut Ham Callan Bacon with Crackling 1.7kg
Silver SuperValu Signature Tastes Irish Hampshire Smoked Oliver Carty & Family
Bacon Tomahawk
Gold Lidl Medium Applewood Smoked Half Horseshoe Honeyvale Foods T/A Oakpark
Ham Fillet 2.35kg
Bronze Butcher Selection Fillet Steak
Silver Kettyle Irish Wagyu Beef Fillet Steak
Dawn Meats
ABP Cahir
Gold Francis St 14 Day Matured Chateaubriand Kepak Kingate
Bronze Supervalu Picanha Steak Kepak
Silver Aldi Butchers Selection Irish Sirloin Steak
Gold
Aldi Specially Selected Irish Wagyu Beef Sirloin Steak
Bronze Salt Moss Aged Ribeye Steak
ABP Cahir
ABP Cahir
Kettyle Irish Foods
Silver Simply Better Irish Angus Cote De Boeuf Tender Meats
Gold Signature Tastes Hereford rib eye steak Kepak
Bronze Kettyle Irish Wagyu Beef Burger
Silver Kettyle Irish Wagyu Beef Meatballs
Gold
Bronze
Aldi Specially Selected Irish Wagyu Beef Burgers
ABP Cahir
ABP Cahir
ABP Cahir
Signature Tastes dry aged hereford striploin roast Kepak
Silver Signature Tastes Hereford sirloin barrel roast Kepak
Gold
Aldi Specially Selected Irish Wagyu Rib Eye Joint
ABP Cahir with Irish Atlantic Sea Salt and Cracked Black Pepper infused Beef Marrow
Category
Beef – Bone In
Beef – Other
Cured Meat, Charcuterie – Beef
Bronze
Sysco Irish Hereford Prime Mohawk Steak
Producer
ABP Cahir
Silver Lidl Deluxe Irish Angus 3 Rib Roast on the Bone Liffey Meats
40Days Matured in Giftbox 2.5-3.5kg
Gold Supervalu & Centra cowboy steak (counter) Kepak
Bronze
Himalayan Salt Dry Aged Brisket
Silver Kettyle Matriarch Salt Moss SuperAged Bife de Terre
Gold Black Charcoal Ribeye Steak
Bronze Horgans New York Style Pastrami
McConnell Meats Limited
Kettyle Irish Foods
Murphys's Craft Butcher's
Glen Aine
Silver Specially Selected Smoked Wafer-Thin New York Style Glen Aine
Gold Spice beef
Cured Meat, Charcuterie – Ham
Bronze Robinsons Traditional Cooked Ham
Bronze Tesco Finest Canadian Maple Ham 120g
Silver Waldron Family Baked Ham
Silver Zesty Orange & Brown Sugar Dry Cured Ham Joint
McCarthy's of Kanturk
Fred C Robinson
O Brien Fine Foods
Waldron Family Meats
Pilgrims Food Masters
Gold Waldron Family Maple & Mustard Glazed Baked Ham Waldron Family Meats
Cured Meat, Charcuterie – Poultry
Bronze Lidl Deluxe Irish Chicken Breast Slices Cajun 150g
Silver Horgans Roast Turkey Breast off the Bone
Silver Cooked Turkey Breast Joint
Gold
Tesco Finest Smoked Paprika & Chipotle
Carved Irish Chicken Breast 130g
O'Brien Fine Foods
Mc Caughey Foods
Herterich Artisan Butchers Ltd
O Brien Fine Foods
Cured Meat, Charcuterie – Other
Silver
Corndale Farm Fennel Salami
Gold Corndale Farm Chorizo
Corndale Farm
Corndale Farm
Category
Lamb
Lamb – Added Flavour
Pork
Poultry – Chicken
Poultry – Chicken (Added Flavour)
Grade Product
Bronze Fresh Irish Organic Lamb Rack Joint
Silver Fresh Irish Lamb Rack Joint
Producer
Irish Country Meats
Irish Country Meats
Gold Simply Better Irish Connemara Hill Leg of Lamb Tender Meats
Bronze Tesco Lamb Boneless Shoulder Chops with Mint Marinade
Silver Lamb grill steaks with harissa style coating
Irish Country Meats
Irish Country Meats
Gold Supervalu lamb leg with garlic butter Kepak
Bronze Oakpark Sweet Barbeque Pulled Pork Loin
Oakpark Foods
Silver Butcher's selection Irish Slow Cooked Pulled Pork Ribworld
Gold Aldi Specially Selected Butterflied Irish Basted Pork Chop ABP Cahir stuffed with a Mozarella Sundried Tomato and Basil Melt and covered with a Garlic and Herb Crumb
Bronze Regan organic chicken
Silver Free Range Chicken Breast Fillet 300g
Gold Tesco Finest Corn Fed Skin-on Fillet 490g
Regan organic produce
Western Brand Chicken
Manor Farm
Bronze Glenhaven Gold Original Recipe Irish Chicken Fillet Tenders Glenhaven Foods
Silver Chicken Fillet with Basil, Mozzarella & Sun-dried Tomatoes Eurospar Kilkenny
Gold Finest Corn Fed BBQ Chicken Mini Fillet Skewers Manor Farm with Carolina Gold Sauce & Crispy Onion Sprinkle 380g
Poultry – Duck & Goose
Bronze Specially Selected Crispy Duck & Chinese Style
Silver Hill Duck Pancakes 600g
Silver Lidl Deluxe Confit Duck Legs 300g
Gold Aromatic Duck Breast Fillets 2 Pack 350g
Poultry – Turkey
Bronze
Centra Butter Basted Turkey Joint 500g
Silver Hill Duck
Silver Hill Duck
IGWT
Silver Lidl Deluxe Turkey Crown Dressed with Bacon Lattice 2.4kg IGWT
Gold Specially Selected Irish outdoor reared (free range) IGWT
Slow grown bronze whole turkey 4-4.99kg
Category
Poultry – Eggs
Puddings – Black Pudding
Bronze 6 Large Cavanagh Free Range Eggs
Silver Lidl Connell Farm 6 Organic Eggs
Gold Greenes Free Range Eggs 6 pack
Bronze Jack & Eddie's Black Pudding
Silver
Loughnanes West Cork Black Pudding 1kg
Gold Loughnanes Black Pudding
Puddings – White Pudding
Bronze Loughnanes West Cork White Pudding 1kg
Bronze Simply Better White Pudding
Silver Signature Tastes white pudding
Gold Loughnanes White Pudding
Sausages – Pork Sausages
Producer
Cavanagh Free Range Eggs Ltd
Connolly Organic Eggs
Greenes Free Range Eggs
Jack & Eddie's
Loughnane's Of Galway
Loughnane's Of Galway
Loughnane's Of Galway
Loughnane's Of Galway
Loughnane's Of Galway
Loughnane's Of Galway
Bronze Tesco Finest Traditional 10 Hand tied Irish Pork Sausages Hilton Foods
Silver Murphy`s Traditional Pork Sausages
Gold Free range Pork Sausage
Sausages – Flavoured Pork Sausages
Bronze Tesco Irish Pork Sausage with Herb Seasoning
Silver Currywurst
Gold Tesco Finest 6 Pork and Apple Sausages
Sausages – Other Meat
Bronze Turkey Breast Sausage
Silver Gleeson Butchers Boerewors Sausages
Gold Garlic & Herb Grass-fed Beef Sausages
Dietary Specific Meat
Bronze Tesco Smoky BBQ Lamb Kofta
Murphys’s Craft Butchers
Dermot Brennan Free Range Pork
ABP Cahir
Pigs On The Green
Hilton Foods
Herterich Artisan Butchers Ltd
Gleeson Butchers
Lúnasa Farm
Irish Country Meats
Silver Finest Lamb leg steak with sea salt & cracked black pepper Irish Country Meats
Gold Tesco Lamb Rack with a Mushroom & Herb Crumb
Irish Country Meats