09-05-2025
Peace-making pig farmer cooking up storm with colourful sausages for Meath & Louth fans ahead of Leinster GAA final tie
A FREE-RANGE pig farmer has calmed tensions between GAA fans on the border of Meath and Louth by serving up colourful sausages ahead of the Leinster football final.
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Peter Whelan, Aisling Mooney, and Frank Taaffe with the sausages on the border
Credit: Louise Walsh Collect
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Louth captain Sam Mulroy and Meath captain Eoghan Frayne will clash in the final
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Peter has made 10kgs of both red and green sausages for the occasion
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The colourful grub is planned to be cooked barbecue breakfast style at Dolly Mitchells Pub before Meath and Louth fans head off to
The showdown is the first time the teams have met in a
Peter who owns The Whole Hoggs Farm in Slane, Co Meath has a herd of Irish Grazer pigs which are free to roam over 60 acres of farmland and supplies his award-winning produce to the Pantry cafe at the popular pub.
Dolly's lies just on the border of Meath and Louth, between Slane and Drogheda, and the counties are divided by the nearby Mattock river.
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Peter has made 10kgs of both red and green sausages for the occasion - and may try to entice fans to try and down each other's colours without gagging.
He said: "Dolly Mitchells is within yards of the Louth border and so the place has regular customers from both counties.
"I've lived in Meath for 35 years but I'll always be a Dub, coming from Castleknock, and over the years I've got the slagging from both sets of fans when I wear the Dublin jersey to the pub.
"The Meath and Louth customers would say that Dublin were only winning because of the money being thrown at them and I always said that Meath and Louth had to get their game on to reach the high standards that Dublin had set but it was always just banter.
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"When Meath beat the Dubs, I was genuinely delighted because people needed fresh teams in Croke Park and everyone will be more interested in this final because Dublin isn't in it.
"I do live in Meath but I will stay neutral in Dolly Mitchells for this showdown. I've made the sausages for both and it would be nice if they were mixed between the fans - but I doubt it.
BUS SHARING
"It is unusual that Meath and Louth fans will share the bus from Dolly Mitchells - can you imagine the atmosphere on the way home. They are already fighting over seats."
It is also hoped that there will be enough sausages for an apres match style barbecue on Sunday evening.
Meanwhile, Meath supporters have taken things up a gear ahead of the final - by spray painting a car in the Royal colours.
Friends Callum White, Cathal Melia and Meath
Other pals soon joined in the collective effort and over 20 donations from helping hands made it possible to buy the car and all the materials needed.
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Friends Callum White, Cathal Melia and Oran Boylan are excited for the match
Credit: Louise Walsh Collect
