{"id":452020,"date":"2026-05-16T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452020\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:14:11","slug":"people-dont-have-a-sit-down-sunday-meal-any-more-lamb-and-beef-sales-fall-due-to-cost-says-mayo-master-butcher-sean-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452020\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People don\u2019t have a sit-down Sunday meal any more\u2019 \u2013 lamb and beef sales fall due to cost, says Mayo master butcher Se\u00e1n Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Consumers are opting for value-for-money meats and items they can pop in the oven or an air fryer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Se\u00e1n Kelly of Kelly's Butchers in Newport, Co Mayo. Photo: Conor McKeown\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/79d9db3b-c8a7-4ee9-a25c-b676f8dd5a7c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Se\u00e1n Kelly of Kelly&#8217;s Butchers in Newport, Co Mayo. Photo: Conor McKeown<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Households are ditching lamb and roast beef for chicken to save money, an award-winning butcher has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Strained consumer budgets mean Mayo-based master butcher Se\u00e1n Kelly has seen a big change in the meats people are buying for their dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumers are opting for value-for-money meats and items they can pop in the oven or an air fryer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,3361,943,61,60,9865],"class_list":["post-452020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-charlie-weston","tag-cost-of-living","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-money-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}