They entered five products in the Associated Craft Butchers awards, winning awards for all of them – traditional sausage, bramley apple sausage, black pudding, white pudding and speciality sausage – […]
Blas na hEireann food awards 2014
Jack and Tim were pleased to see their new speciality product Guanciale do well and secure a silver medal in the Blas na hEireann food awards. Guanciale is tasty cured […]
Gold Medal for International Creativity
BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme covered this years event and did a special feature about the McCarthys. Jack and Tim were delighted to receive the only Irish gold medal from […]
Black Pudding that is a European Winner
McCarthy’s win two gold medals and a bronze medal from La Confrérie des Chevaliers du Goûte Boudin, or the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Blackpudding. This gave them the […]
Special Award for Exceptional Contribution to Irish Food
Award for butchers behind the queen’s black pudding Irish Independent The artisan butchers who created the bespoke black pudding that was served to Queen Elizabeth during her state visit to last […]
Jack is awarded the “Twitter Award”
Jack’s twittering reached a climax when he was awarded the “Twitter Award” by Lucinda O’Sullivan. If you want to follow Jack on Twitter and enjoy his insights into Irish food […]
White Pudding Award
McCarthys won a beautiful cup and the Grand Prix d’honneur for their white pudding from the Commanderie des Fins Goustiers du Duché d’Alençon in 2011
Jack is named Local Food Hero by Irish Public
The Irish Restaurant Awards are an important event in the Irish food calendar. This year the Sunday Independent sponsored the award for the Local Food Hero. With tough competition in […]
Jack McCarthy is Bridgestone Man of the Year
At the end of December, Bridgestone’s John and Sally McKenna announced the results of the Megabytes awards for 2010. Jack McCarthy was honoured to be awarded the title of Man […]
Kanturk welcomes the Knights of the Black Pudding
The Brotherhood of the Knights of the Blackpudding, La Confrérie des Chevaliers du Goûte-Boudin, a colourful French food fraternity visited Kanturk in celebration of the Gold Medal Winning Black Pudding […]