A competition unlike anything you have seen before. 
The Associated Craft Butchers of Ireland are fielding a team of Master and Apprentice butchers to compete against 17 international teams at the World Butchers' Challenge in Paris on the 30th and 31st of March 2025. With butchers from across the globe battling it out for the title of the world's best, this is a butchery competition of epic proportions, and it is often referred to as the 'Olympics of Meat'.
Team Ireland will participate at the event, where each national team of six members, will be given three hours and thirty minutes, to transform a side of beef, a side of pork, a whole lamb, and five chickens into a themed display of value-added cuts.
During Chef Ireland 2025 at Catex, Team Ireland will present to the public, the result of 12 months of hard training, and display the prepared cuts of meat and innovative creations.