"Irish" Products No Longer Made Here.

#32 26-03-2011 06:43PM

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Can. Open. Worms. Everywhere.

Only Irish worms canned in Ireland, I hope.

There's a place owned by a famous hurler's brother that produces hurleys which are sourced from Polish wood and 'carved' in Poland and sent back here for the metal bands to be put on them. I would have thought that hurleys should only be made from Irish ash in Ireland.

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#33 26-03-2011 06:46PM

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sugar. thanks to mary coughlan for selling the industry down the tubes

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#34 26-03-2011 07:01PM

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But I wonder does the 'Charleville cheese advert' with the people dancing on the floor making cheese contravene the ASAI rules by implying that it is made in Charleville? Perhaps a few complaints to the ASAI are needed.

Lyons all talk tea adds as well. Notice how all the tea blenders in the add have Irish accents.

Do they not still manufacture cheese in charleville but send the cheese to be sliced to another site? The same way Wexford cheese went to the UK to be sliced and then imported back in smaller consumer blocks.

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#35 26-03-2011 07:09PM

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Irish football jerseys were made here at one stage. I think they're made in China or Vietnam now.

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#36 26-03-2011 07:40PM

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What are the protected products of Ireland?

Also I haven't seen any stickers or logos advertising "Made in Ireland" That could be a big draw for people that wanna buy Irish. I always try to do so...

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#37 26-03-2011 07:48PM

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Saermegil wrote: »

What are the protected products of Ireland?

Also I haven't seen any stickers or logos advertising "Made in Ireland" That could be a big draw for people that wanna buy Irish. I always try to do so...

I did a thread on European Protected products of Ireland. The current protected products are in the link.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=68760687

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#38 26-03-2011 07:51PM

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Hande hoche! wrote: »

Some are caught in Irish waters and some in New Zealand.

Evidence of how much this country has been affected by emigration - It's a long way to swim to New Zealand....

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#39 26-03-2011 07:52PM

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I understood boyne valley is still made here?

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#40 26-03-2011 07:59PM

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brightspark wrote: »

"Erin Soup" AFAIK it's now made in Kent,

Erin gravy and some sauces might be still Irish made though.

Your right, soups produced by premier foods in the uk, all other erin products made by batchelors in cabra, dublin

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#41 26-03-2011 08:06PM

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#42 26-03-2011 09:29PM

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Corsendonk wrote: »

Scots Clans too

Not made in Ireland :eek:

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#43 26-03-2011 09:31PM

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bluewolf wrote: »

I understood boyne valley is still made here?

Theres a factory in Drogheda.

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#44 26-03-2011 09:34PM

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coco1981 wrote: »

Your right, soups produced by premier foods in the uk, all other erin products made by batchelors in cabra, dublin

So true that you had to say it twice.

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#45 26-03-2011 09:37PM

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up for anything wrote: »

Only Irish worms canned in Ireland, I hope.

There's a place owned by a famous hurler's brother that produces hurleys which are sourced from Polish wood and 'carved' in Poland and sent back here for the metal bands to be put on them. I would have thought that hurleys should only be made from Irish ash in Ireland.

the guaranteed irish logo applies when at least 40% of the value is added in Ireland

if you include packaging and the higher cost of irish labour then many products could easily be greenwashed

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#46 26-03-2011 09:47PM

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Saermegil wrote: »

Also I haven't seen any stickers or logos advertising "Made in Ireland" That could be a big draw for people that wanna buy Irish. I always try to do so...

Try "Made in the Republic of Ireland", There are all sorts of products marketed as Irish but they're coming down from the north. Marks and Spencers is an interesting shop to wander around here, they try to emphasise how "Irish" some of their products are because they're marketing to Irish people but if you look at the small print its all from the north, but of course where else would it be from?

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#47 26-03-2011 10:27PM

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Who gives a ****? If the shít (and I notice most of the brands mentioned have been shít for as long as I remember, well before they were moved out of the country) was still made here it would be twice the price and we'd have the unions with an extra excuse to strike whenever the company wanted to bring in new equipment, or change how much sugar to add to ginger nuts. :rolleyes:

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#48 26-03-2011 10:59PM

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Try "Made in the Republic of Ireland", There are all sorts of products marketed as Irish but they're coming down from the north. Marks and Spencers is an interesting shop to wander around here, they try to emphasise how "Irish" some of their products are because they're marketing to Irish people but if you look at the small print its all from the north, but of course where else would it be from?

Northern Ireland is Irish, many people from the ROI work in NI and vice versa, I have no problem supporting a Northern Irish product and would give it preference to something manufactured elsewhere. The north is not some foreign entity which we are totally cut off from you know and they have been equally effected by the ROI's economic collapse, more proportionately effected so compared to other parts of the United Kingdom.

Milk from the north is not English milk!

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#49 26-03-2011 11:09PM

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Milk from the north is not supporting Irish dairy farmers, The companies involved are not paying taxes to our government, for use on our infrastructure, buying a product produced in the north is not the same as buying one produced in the republic.

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#50 26-03-2011 11:14PM

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Milk from the north is not supporting Irish dairy farmers, The companies involved are not paying taxes to our government, for use on our infrastructure, buying a product produced in the north is not the same as buying one produced in the republic.

It is supporting Northern Irish Dairy farmers though, well we all pay the same VAT (13.5% on food right)? So I can't see much of a difference, other than that milk from Antrim has more food miles than Milk from the Golden Vale of Tipperary.

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#51 26-03-2011 11:18PM

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as far as I know Fleetwood/sherwin Williams paint is Irish factory in Cavan, so are Dosco Brushes and Dulux paint is produced in cork

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#52 26-03-2011 11:18PM

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Spice burgers are made in Ireland again thanks to the people of boards and the facebook campaign

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#53 26-03-2011 11:24PM

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Aussie Sean wrote: »

How many Irish products are no longer made here? Lyons tea and HB ice cream are both done by Unilever in the UK,Jacobs biscuits made in the UK and I noticed the other day that Charliville and Calvita Cheese are produced up North. Sign of the times I suppose,but I'm sure a lot of people buy them believing them to be Irish.

So what did they do with the great tea plantation in waterford?

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#54 26-03-2011 11:31PM

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Stinicker wrote: »

It is supporting Northern Irish Dairy farmers though, well we all pay the same VAT (13.5% on food right)? So I can't see much of a difference, other than that milk from Antrim has more food miles than Milk from the Golden Vale of Tipperary.

Yes we pay, how about what the farmer pays on their earnings? What the dairy pays on theirs? The packing companies? The transport companies? Their employees?
If you think VAT is all that a state makes on a product you're mistaken.

What about the equivalent people in our own country? What of their jobs? It was sickening to see the position farmers were put into when the economy kicked it, working to lose money, that's insane.

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#55 27-03-2011 12:05AM

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Stinicker wrote: »

VAT (13.5% on food right)? .

VAT on most food* is 0% in both the UK and the Republic of Ireland

* Except in Resteraunts etc

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#56 27-03-2011 01:51AM

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Who gives a ****? If the shít (and I notice most of the brands mentioned have been shít for as long as I remember, well before they were moved out of the country) was still made here it would be twice the price and we'd have the unions with an extra excuse to strike whenever the company wanted to bring in new equipment, or change how much sugar to add to ginger nuts. :rolleyes:

I agree a lot of Irish companies were inefficient and dragged down by the unions (often caused by very poor management though)
But now we just have to pay a lot of those former employees the dole every week instead. :rolleyes:
If we don't support local jobs, we will have to support more people on the dole!

The point the OP was making is that a lot of us try to buy domestically produced goods, but are being deliberately misled by multinationals who take advantage of the goods Irish heritage. Wonder how many sachets of soup would Premier sell here if they called it 'Albion' or 'British' soup'?

We need to be able to make the decision between maybe spending a little more on a locally produced item or purchase the cheaper item. Of course the more people that join the dole queue, the fewer that will be able to spend that little bit extra and more will loose their jobs

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#57 27-03-2011 02:03AM

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Is anyone else suspicious about all the Aldi products that suddenly have an Irish flag stamped across them? The only information you can find on the back is "This was produced for Aldi <Irish address>, and Aldi <UK address>"
How much was made in Ireland and where in Ireland was it made?

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#58 27-03-2011 02:16AM

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Was never an Irish product, but was made here.

Bring back Cadbury's Top Deck!!

Bit random, sorry.

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#59 27-03-2011 02:17AM

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Unpossible wrote: »

Is anyone else suspicious about all the Aldi products that suddenly have an Irish flag stamped across them? The only information you can find on the back is "This was produced for Aldi <Irish address>, and Aldi <UK address>"
How much was made in Ireland and where in Ireland was it made?

Actually Aldi carry a very high % (42%) of Irish sourced products. If you see the Irish tricolour on the product it is manufactured in Ireland and Aldi have gone out of there way to source Irish. Now Tesco are a little more suspect, if you see there adds in the paper some of there Buy me I am Irish logos have a tricolour others don't. The products with the tricolour are ROI, the ones without the flag are from NI.

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#60 27-03-2011 02:42AM

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Actually Aldi carry a very high % (42%) of Irish sourced products. If you see the Irish tricolour on the product it is manufactured in Ireland and Aldi have gone out of there way to source Irish. Now Tesco are a little more suspect, if you see there adds in the paper some of there Buy me I am Irish logos have a tricolour others don't. The products with the tricolour are ROI, the ones without the flag are from NI.

So the Aldi ones with a tricolour are from the ROI ? Or anywhere on the island?

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#61 27-03-2011 03:08AM

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Unpossible wrote: »

So the Aldi ones with a tricolour are from the ROI ? Or anywhere on the island?

If there is a tricolour on the product its ROI.

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