James Whelan Butchers were delighted to open their brand new shop in Jetland Shopping Centre on October 23rd in the much anticipated, state of the art Dunnes Stores Food Hall. James Whelan Butchers is part of this unique collaboration that celebrates the provenance and quality of some of Ireland’s leading and award-winning Irish artisan producers all under one roof.
In 2016, the fifth generation butchers launched its collaboration with Ireland’s leading retailer Dunnes Stores, another family business with immense heritage and a strong sense of pride in delivering quality products and great value to its customers for generations. This partnership has led to the opening of a number of James Whelan Butcher shops around Ireland – Cornelscourt and Rathmines in 2016, Swords in 2017 and Blanchardstown and Cork in 2018. This year has now seen the recent opening of their ninth shop in Naas, now followed by the opening of their new shop in Limerick this week.
James Whelan Butchers was founded in the 1960’s in Clonmel by husband and wife team, James and Joan Whelan who are fifth generation butchers and farmers. The current CEO Pat Whelan, James and Joan’s son, has been at the realm since 1999 and has developed the brand nationally and internationally, creating award-winning artisan products, which appear on the shelves of some of the leading international retailers, including Harrods, Fortnum & Mason and WholeFoods.
Pat Whelan, who was on hand to welcome Limerick customers to the new shop stated “It’s at times like this that we reflect on the values the business was founded on by my mother and father, which were simply quality and service – and while the business has adapted and grown over the years – the values have never changed – quality and service.”
Pat added, “Our team are so proud to be part of this new food shopping experience and look forward to welcoming customers old and new to our new home in Jetland. We already have so many loyal customers from the Limerick area who visit our many other shops or who shop online with us, so it’s great for us to be able to bring our range of special products even closer to them.”
Jetland’s Food Hall has some of Ireland’s top artisan food brands, offering local food lovers a world class retail experience on par with best international standards. Alongside the family-run butchers, the Food Hall sees stand alone shops from Sheridans Cheesemongers, Alternative Bread Company and Nourish health food store bringing a fantastic collection of some of the best names in food retail in the country together.
James Whelan Butchers will be open seven days a week from 8am to 8pm Monday to Wednesday, 8am to 9pm Thursday and Friday and 8am to 8pm on Saturday and Sunday.
To find contact details, directions and opening hours visit James Whelan Butchers at Dunnes Stores, Jetland Shopping Centre page.
Do you remember when there used to be a little jar of fat lurking at the back of everyone’s fridge? The habit of accumulating the fat left in the pan after roasting a joint of beef has all but disappeared, but we think it’s deserving of a revival. If you pour the fatty residue into a glass Kilner jar, you’ll see that there’s a top layer of white fat and a lower layer of dark and delicious meat juices. The white fat is good for cooking, the meaty juices delicious on toast. In this recipe we fry bread in the white fat and serve it with a piquant, anchovy-flavoured mince that takes us way back.
With almost 56,000 people receive their Leaving Cert results this week, multi-award winning James Whelan Butchers, through its Butcher Academy, is launching a new three-year Butcher Apprenticeship, which includes for the first time in Ireland, a collaboration with France’s leading Butcher Academy, the world renowned “Chambres de Métiers et de l’Artisanat”.
Visitors to the Avoca Stores in Rathcoole and Kilmacanogue will be aware of this award-winning butcher as both shop feature James Whelan Butcher shops on site and many food lovers will also be aware of the original founding butchers shop in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. James Whelan was also the first Irish butchers to open an online shop, back in the early 2000s.
Following the successful launch of our butcher shops in Avoca Handweavers Rathcoole and Kilmacanogue, Dunnes Stores Cornelscourt and Rathmines in Dublin, we are delighted to announce that we are now bringing our craft butchery excellence and expertise to Dunnes Stores at the Pavilions Shopping Centre in Swords, Co Dublin. Our new butcher shop will open it’s doors to the public in early November. We are very excited to be part of what promises to be a really exciting artisan food market with Dunnes Stores. James Whelan Butchers along with Sheridan Cheese Mongers, Baxter & Green and Cafe Sol will bring great excitement to the retail landscape of North County Dublin.
