On Thursday March 10th, we were delighted to be given the opportunity to be interviewed on Shannonside FM Agriview Programme.
Thid interview gave us the chance to discuss our involvement in the Certified Irish Angus Schools Competition, what we have done to date and our plans and promotions for the future.
You can listen back to the full podcast by click on the following link: Shannonside Podcast
Today we gave out the outlining of the Certified Irish Angus Beef logo to our first years, student council and the learning support department in our school.
The aim of this is to promote this logo more. We have told them to show it to their parents and tell them to look out for this logo when they are purchasing their beef.
When we get them back we will judge them from each class and pick the best ones. There will be a prize for the best colouring of the logo.
On the 9th of March, Chef Sham Hanifa who owns the award winning Cottage Restaurant, Jamestown, Leitrim, visited our school to give a presentation on why Certified Irish Angus beef is superior to other beef breeds. Sham who also works with the Food Council and Euro-toques Ireland demonstrated to 1st years and leaving certs how to cut the best pieces of meat from the carcass off an Irish Angus heifer. Sham showed the students how the fillet, rib eye and sirloin are cut.
Sham explained to everyone the importance of hanging beef to ensure maximum tenderness. Students also learned that beef sweats if left in a plastic bag or left on a work top.
As part of Niall and Johns promotion plans, Sham is putting Certified Irish Angus on his menu in the Cottage restaurant. He also plans to interlink with Home Economic students if Niall and John are successful.
As part of John and Niall promotion of “Certified Irish Angus Beef” they invited Sham Hanifa owner of The Cottage Restaurant in Jamestown, Co. Leitrim to explain to students the importance of using Certified Irish Angus Beef in his restaurant.
On the 29th of February John and Niall visited their local Mart in Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim. Here the two of us met with Helen Kells mart manager and assistant manager Seamus Maguire.
We decided to go to the mart in order to find out how the Angus breed are selling in our local area and also get a brief idea of what farmers are looking for when buying the Angus breed.
We got a picture of ourselves put onto the flat screen television in the mart, for promotion of the Irish Angus producers group, ABP Group and Kepak group.
We also had photos taken with them to show their support for us in the competition.
We were very happy with how the visit went, both managers were very cooperative and offered their assistance.
To help us promote Certified Irish Angus Beef. The BAM staff in our school have got on board with us and are helping us to promote Certified Irish Angus Beef.
They have all said they would purchase Certified Irish Angus Beef for their household. They will also tell all their family and friends to
Today saw the culmination of our TY mini companies with the regional finals in Carrick on Shannon.
Four of our mini enterprises got through to the finals, they included:
On the day, all our groups were commended their product display and how well their interviewed during the judging.
But our congratulations must go to “Idyllic Acrylic”, who won second prize in the overall senior category for their innovation and design of student locker shelving.
Thanks to the Leitrim Local Enterprise Office for all the support over the past six months, but a special thanks to Mrs. Moran who worked with the students throughout the whole programme from idea generation last autumn right through to production and launch.
Well done to all involved.
Best of luck to our 1st year student Ellie O’Rourke who has qualified for the All Ireland Minor Girls Cross Country this Saturday in Sligo. Ellie won the North Connacht Cross Country back on January 25th and came a close second in the Connacht Cross Country finals on February 23rd.
Well done and good luck Ellie.
Ellie is pictured with Kate Gilheany, who also participated in the Connacht Finals. Congrats to both girls.
On the 2nd of March, we were invited to a B.N.I meeting in the Landmark hotel, Carrick-on-Shannon. Here we did our PowerPoint presentation in front of 45 business people from Leitrim/Roscommon/Longford.
We decided to go to this event as it gave us a great platform to promote Certified Irish Angus beef to business people within our community.
We explained to them about what the competition entailed and most importantly we asked for promotion for Certified Irish Angus beef.
We handed around our Certified Irish Angus beef stickers and got a quick photo with all the delegates before the meeting.
The meeting was a great success and everyone wished us the best of luck.
