Shercock

Shercock-based chicken processor Manor Farm is to invest €25m in an expansion plan over the next five years creating 600 new jobs. Today's Irish Times reports that the investment will boost the Carton Bros firm output from its current 900,000 birds a ...

“I love that we can bring value to rural Ireland,” says Vincent Carton as we wash our hands for the umpteenth time at Manor Farm's vast chicken processing factory in the sleepy village of Shercock, Co Cavan. Some 176,000 chickens were slaughtered and ...

Owned by Carton Brothers, Manor Farm currently employs 824 staff at its premises in Shercock, a nearby feed mill and its head office in Clonee, Co Meath. The company had turnover last year of €249 million, of which 90 per cent was spent in the Republic.

CAVAN'S Killian Clarke knows all about county rivalries. He's a Shercock clubman, right near the border with Monaghan, while he does some bar work in Murtagh's of Kingscourt, which is cheek-by-jowl with Meath and not far from Monaghan either.

Winner of the Women's Intermediate 5000m race, Marie Hyland, centre, Crusaders AC, Dublin, with second placed Catherina Mullen, left, Shercock AC, Co.Cavan, and third placed Catherine Whoriskey, right, City of Derry AC Spartans at the GloHealth ...

Winner of the Women's Intermediate 5000m race, Marie Hyland, centre, Crusaders AC, Dublin, with second placed Catherina Mullen, left, Shercock AC, Co.Cavan, and third placed Catherine Whoriskey, right, City of Derry AC Spartans at the GloHealth ...