Beef Troubles

It's always a good day.....

 

When you see the names Pat Wall, Food Safety Authority, Larry Goodman and Horse Sport Ireland in the same news article.

Pat Wall was previously employed as Chief Executive of the Food Safety Authority. Unfortunately, Pat Wall has a new job. More of that later.

Larry Goodman controls ABP Foods Group, which, in turn, owns the Silvercrest Factory at the centre of the Burgergate scandal. Now, you will remember that the same Larry Goodman was the star of that other particularly Irish production, the Beef Tribunal. Yep, the very same Larry Goodman, who, twenty-odd years ago, set the Irish Beef Industry back a further 20 years. It's like, well, shooting yourself in the foot twice, once is misfortune, twice is total carelessness.

Anyway, I digress. Back to Mr. Pat Wall, former head of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, which discovered the horse burgers last month in Mr Goodman's factory. Trace elements of equine DNA in a burger is bad enough, but, to find the rear flank of a creature that roamed the fields of Finglas just a week ago, that's a horse of a different colour. I digress from the subject again, sorry.

Pat Wall is now the new Chairman of Horse Sport Ireland.