Oliver Carty brings home the bacon

The Roscommon-based pork, bacon and food ingredients producer scooped an incredible 13 accolades across nine different categories at this year’s Blas Na hÉireann Irish Food Awards

Ted Carty of Oliver Carty Barry Cronin

If this were the Academy Awards, then Oliver Carty would have been a Hollywood blockbuster collecting Oscar after Oscar. The Roscommon-based pork, bacon and food ingredients producer scooped an incredible 13 accolades across nine different categories at this year’s Blas Na hÉireann Irish Food Awards. No other food producer came close to such a haul.

Included were four gold medals – for an Alabama Rub, a sweet and smoky mustard and pepper seasoning, ...