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BURGER KING HAS announced that it has stopped using beef products from Silvercrest Foods, the Monaghan-based company whose beef products were found to contain equine DNA.
The fast food giant said that the decision was taken as a precaution and that an alternative supplier would be found.
Food production was suspended at the plant last week after further tests, which had been carried out between 3-14 January, found equine DNA.
Silvercrest Foods, which is located in Ballybay, is part of the ABP Food Group.
Fianna Fáil agriculture spokesperson, Éamon Ó Cuív, said that the announcement was “very bad news for the company in question and will be a cause of concern for the entire beef processing industry.”
Ó Cuív went on to say that faster responses were needed in order to prevent further fallout:
I am calling on the Minister not to wait any longer and to come before an immediate sitting of the Oireachtas Agriculture Committee to spell out what he knows, what he doesn’t know and how long it is going to take him to get the answers that he’s missing.
The industry, its customers and Irish consumers need answers and they need them faster than they have been getting them so far.
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Regardless of your allegiances, the fact that a fake tweet was read out on a presidential debate is shocking.
Seanie should just go away and stop making an even bigger fool of himself, if that was possible.
Agreed. RTE need to be more careful about verifying and broadcasting communications or they shouldn’t be hosting such events.
It’s not the first time RTE have allowed misinformation to be broadcast.
Not that I’d feel sorry for him though!
Indeed, two wrongs do not make a right!
Oh no… Poor Seán Gallagher. My heart bleeds for him. Boo hoo…….
It’s not acceptable that our public funded broadcaster manufactures the news is it? – no matter who its aimed at. Next thing they will be telling us things like the economy is on track and all this austerity is working.
Is he honestly complaining about the fact that he was found out as the crooked Fianna Fail toss pot that he is?? Anyone connected to that bent organisation should think twice before raising their heads above the parapet again!! Oh that money was just resting in my bank account…..
Mine too !
and as my mother would say “and so do my piles”
Wouldnt you think the SG team would shut up and go away. He would have been able to deal with the unexpected if he hadnt been so economical with the truth earlier…lesson there Sean if you dont tell the truth to begin with you have to be able to remember what you said ..oh and dont include the word ENVELOPE
It would be great if people could stick to the issue.
It’s the credibiity of RTÉ that’s on the line here. In all fairness to them (and I don’t think RTÉ are a brilliant outfit) they at least mentioned it, believing it to be true. Would it better serve the public interest if the story had been initially suppressed? As long as the source is clearly attributed to twitter people can decide if it is credible or not. The public aren’t stupid and know that a lot of stuff on social networking is not true.
EVERYBODY above seems to ‘forget’ or to be unaware that there WAS NO CHEQUE or money or ‘ENVELOPE’ handed to or collected by Seán Gallagher.
RTE are owned by the state (rember)
I think seany envelope Gallagher is and will do anything to claw back any decent respect,he must think the Irish public are stupid,it’s blatantly obvious thAt this big babboon is guilty,as are all the other affiliates of fianna fail,the way I and the majority of Irish public see it ,is if any so called politician wants to be taken serious,they need to publicly disown and disband fianna fail,there no way any decent educated Irish citizen would even think of voting for fianna fail,anyone associated with fianna fail,if they have any sense of respect or morals,should at least join a credible honest hardworking political or independent party,the heroes of 1916 would be sickened to see what they gave there lives up for,the likes of the low life sneakyhyprocrites,to name a few Bertie ahearn john donohue ray Burke haughey Michael Lowry and many more scum low lifes,for putting my children in a position where they dill be paying off there debts,or worse having to emigrate for what them leeches have done to Ireland and the 95percent ordinary tax paying genuine Irish citizens,I say we should have a Coup and elect our own decent goverment..
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