New Look Kanturk Store

We are delighted with our newly refurbished store in Kanturk. It looks amazing, call in for a look if you are in town. We have changed the orientation of the shop and added lots of new refrigerated space in a bright new interior. We’ve managed to keep some traditional features and add some lovely new ones like the storyboard on the back wall showing the history of McCarthys since we first opened five generations ago in 1892.

On the Shelves in Aldi

Aldi approached us earlier this year seeking to source the best black and white pudding in Ireland for their shelves for a special promotion in June. We were happy to oblige. Making sure that our recipe, high standards and quality ingredients were preserved, we developed new supermarket friendly packaging for our puddings.

The promotion was so successful that we are going to be back on the shelves in Aldi’s 135 stores in Ireland from November to January.

BLocal

McCarthys have teamed up with BLocal so local customers can avail of the loyalty scheme in the Kanturk Shop. Every time you shop at McCarthy’s you collect points on your card and for every euro spent you get a point.

When you have 300 points you get a €10 euro voucher that you can redeem with us.

Old Butter Roads Food Trail

Jack and Tim have been involved in a new local food producers initiative called the Old Butter Roads Food Trail.

The Old Butter Roads Food Trail initiative is developed by the producers, eateries and visitor attractions to celebrate the range of foods grown and produced in the Muskerry, Duhallow and Avondhu areas of County Cork.

The Old Butter Roads Food Trail escorts visitors through fertile valleys, bread basket of Co Cork, where rich pasture lands provide the most wholesome and delicious dairy, meats, fruits, vegetables and grains in the country.

Find us at The Macroom Food Festival

Thursday 21st to Sunday 24th September
Click for more information

Facebook Live

We’ve been having great craic with facebook live in the shop recently. If you don’t already follow us make sure you check out our page. The videos are hilarious!
www.facebook.com/mccarthysofkanturk

McCarthy’s Award Winning Products

With Jack and Tim’s innovative and creative ideas (as displayed on facebook live…) come prestigious awards.

Butchers Excellence International is the only all Ireland butchery body and we were delighted to win awards at the 2017 ALL IRELAND SAUSAGE, BURGER AND PUDDING COMPETITION 2017 for our Bramley Apple Sausages, Country style Beef Burgers, Prime Steak Burger, Gluten Free Smoked Bacon Chicken Burger and our Traditional Pork Sausages. We won the prestigious Diamond award for our Black Pudding, and White Pudding

We are looking forward to Blas na hEireann, The Irish Food Awards on 30th September where we have a couple of finalists.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

We would like to wish you a very happy and prosperous new year and we thank you for your continued support.

We are delighted to be starting 2016 with a fresh and revamped online shop. If you haven’t visited recently have a look. It is now easier to shop from mobile phones and tablets.

IN THE MEDIA:
Black Pudding – The New Superfood!

At McCarthy’s we take huge pride in our black pudding so we were delighted to see it being celebrated as a new “Super Food” in the media this week.

According to a report from the Daily Mail, black pudding has joined seaweed, black beans, avocado oil, teff grains and birch water as key superfoods for 2016.

Black pudding contains protein, potassium, calcium and magnesium, plus it is practically carb free and rich in iron and zinc – two minerals frequently missing from modern diets.

Two slices of black pudding provides the recommended daily amount of iron for an adult man.

Another reason that black pudding is such a good thing is because it contains offal. Offal is used a lot by celebrity chefs, but not so much in modern homes. By eating offal we ensure that all the animal is consumed and we reduce waste. This is a very good thing for the planet.

You don’t need to serve your black pudding in a greasy fry up – if you really want to reap the benefits of Black Pudding you should grill it and serve it with a salad or accompany it with a risotto of grains such as pearl barley or brown rice.

CLICK HERE TO BUY OUR AWARD WINNING BLACK PUDDING

Shop online with McCarthys

We are delighted to offer some great January offers to online customers in our recently revamped online shop.

We are delighted to let you know that we have just launched our new website. It is now even easier to purchase your meat using your mobile phone or tablet. Click here to visit

Ear to the Ground

Jack and Tim were on Ear to the ground last night on a feature about one of our suppliers – massively successful local business man and farmer, Frank Murphy of Glen South Farm in Banteer. If you missed Ear to the Ground last night you can watch it on the RTE Player. The item begins at 16 minutes in.

Christmas orders

We will doing our final Christmas deliveries on 18th December. Order early as slots are filling fast. We have a wonderful Smoked Ham on the Bone available online as well as our award winning Guinness and Cider Spiced Beef and a new Family Breakfast Pack full of award winning products. As a festive bonus for online customers we are giving away a free black pudding and a free white pudding with every online order until 15th December (whilst stocks last).