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Tuesday 5 December 2023 Dublin: 4°C

# pigtown

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A look back at the Limerick bacon factories that fed Ireland for 180 years
A lot of the factory workers couldn’t afford expensive cuts of meat, so the offal, spare ribs and pigs’ heads would go to the poorer people of Limerick.