P&A Quinn Ltd's ongoing sponsorship of Na Piarsaigh GFC personifies the Dundalk pork and bacon processor's undying love of the local gaelic games scene. With the club enjoying unprecedented success at underage level and knocking on the door of senior football, these are indeed exciting times for all parties. Founded in 1970, P & A Quinn Ltd. offers a full range of pork and bacon products to suit customer needs. These products are supplied (fresh or frozen; sliced or unsliced; vac packed or boxed) to high street food markets, traditional butcher shops, wholesalers, delicatessens and even hospitals. The company also supplies catering companies, hotel groups, bed & breakfasts, golf clubs, fast food takeaways, chip shops and large restaurants. By maintaining the highest quality service at all times, P & A Quinn has gone from strength to strength during the 35 years since its inception, ensuring a growing list of satisfied customers. P & A Quinn Ltd has in place a rigorous HACCP Quality Assurance System, which ensures consistently high quality product and service. Recently, the directors have reinvested heavily in the firm's structure and procedures, upgrading all aspects of the Avenue Road operation. All employees undergo hygiene and HACCP training and records are meticulously maintained. Products and raw materials are sourced from approved suppliers, who must conform to the highest standards in the industry. The factory is designed to meet all national and international hygiene standards and is inspected, approved and registered by the Food Safety Authority. It is built to allow for hygienic product flow, with all equipment and cleaning materials used in the factory made to food grade specifications. Like all the cold rooms, fridges and work areas in the factory, the fleet of delivery vans is temperature-controlled, with information downloaded daily to a computer mainframe. The modern technology of the processing machinery enables the company to offer the highest standards of meat quality, prolonging the shelf life of products. Packaging is conducted using an Atmosphere-vacuum packaging machine and can be altered to meet precise customer specifications. P & A Quinn has the capacity to cater for all individual customer needs, providing many variations on similar products. P & A Quinn is the first company in County Louth and one of only a handful in Ireland to have received a manufacturing and processing plant veterinary approval number. Thus, customers can rest assured that they only receive the highest quality pork and bacon products from their FSAI-approved supplier. The product list is extensive, covering the entire spectrum of pork (bellies, fillets, loins, chops, ribs, liver, leg, pieces etc.) and bacon (shanks, gammon, ribs, joints, streaky, smoked, ham fillets etc.) products as well as Quinn's own brand sausages (made from a 100-year-old family recipe) and a selection of cooked meats (hams, turkey breasts, gammon steaks, black and white puddings and even ready-peeled hard boiled eggs!). P & A Quinn is a family-owned food processing company, specialising in pork and bacon products as well as manufacturing sausages and wholesale cooked meats. The company has placed a major emphasis on quality since it set out in 1970. While the majority of its customer base is in the Wee County, Quinn's also supply wholesalers, branded food stores and quality butcher shops nationwide. The business was established by husband and wife team Patrick and Philomena Quinn alongside their son Anthony, after they spotted a niche for producing and selling quality pork and bacon products. In 1972, the creation of a new dedicated company coincided with relocation to a purpose-built factory on Avenue Road. Privately owned and managed, the company quickly garnered a reputation as prime manufacturers and distributors of top quality meat products, blossoming from a small family concern into an efficient, successful company. Upon the untimely death of Patrick Quinn and the retirement of Philomena, Anthony Quinn became managing director, retaining a keen emphasis on quality and service at every stage of processing from farm to consumer as well as injecting fresh ideas, capabilities and attitudes into the food processing business. P & A Quinn passed onto the third generation of the Quinn family five years ago when current general manager Simon Quinn joined the management team. A fully-qualified Craft Butcher, Simon also holds a B.A Business Studies, B.A Accounting and B.Sc in Food Science. He is a member of the national executive council of the AFPS as well as a HACCP manager and industry consultant in food safety management systems. Under his guidance, the company continues to develop whilst remaining true to their ultimate aim of ensuring that consumers are eating only the very finest quality meat products. P & A Quinn is delighted to be main sponsor of the local GAA club, Na Piarsaigh GFC. In addition to the sponsorship, the company enjoys numerous other close ties with Na Piarsaigh. The family has a long affiliation with the town outfit. Managing director Anthony Quinn is Honorary President of the club, while his father Patrick worked closely with Na Piarsaigh founder Fr Vincent Duffy in the club's formative years. Anthony's son, Paddy was a member of the Black & Amber crew that clinched the 2003 Louth U21 football championship and featured on the senior panel in 2005. The company has been sponsoring Na Piarsaigh as far back as Simon Quinn can remember. The general manager notes: "There has always been a very strong association between ourselves and the club. The Quinn family has always taken a keen interest in gaelic football as well as the local community. The sponsorship is an ideal way of giving something back and we're delighted that Na Piarsaigh are going so well. We'd like to take this opportunity to wish them continued success." Founded in 1982, the Rock Road club is the youngest football club in Louth. They've been improving gradually in recent years and enjoyed a landmark success by capturing the 2003 county U21 championship in January of 2004. In '05, the remarkable progress continued unabated with a stunning run to a second county minor final in the space of four seasons. They also spent 2005 at the business end of the Division 2A table, pushing hard for promotion to senior football for the very first time. "The club is growing and getting stronger," Simon observes. "They have a very young team with exceptional talent coming through, so the future is a promising one. They were very unlucky against Cooley in the minor final, but I'm sure these players will go on to win many more honours." Tweet

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