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Paddy cuts butcher career short to make time for life

THE end of this week will also mark the end of an era, with Cassley Meats in Cronan Gardens closing its doors for the last time. Speaking this week Paddy Cassley said that it is time for him to move on from the business which he has put a huge amount of his time into for decades. “Of course I’ll miss it, but I won’t miss the late nights, all the late hours, I won’t miss that bit of it. You’d miss the customers, the bit of craic and the chat. You’d miss the different characters and things like that.” He was still a boy himself when he got involved in the family business. “I started butchering when I was 11 or 12, I was breaking beef, boning and doing roasts and making sausages and all of that. “I left school then, when I was 14. I’ve been working long hours all my life, and it’s time to take a …

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