Documents lodged with the Companies Registration Office (CRO) confirm that receivers have been appointed to the Shannon based Halal meat operator, Asba Meats.

Two receivers have been apointed from Deloitte Ireland to Asba Meats.

According to the notice of appointment of the receivers the reason why they were appointed was because of a "debenture" - borrowing arrangement - "between Tuffy Financial Services Limited and Asba Meats Limited dated 13 December 2024".

It marks the second time Tuffy Financial Services has moved to appoint receivers to the Halal meat operator.

The company also appointed receivers to the Shannon based firm last September in relation to a debt.

Asba Meats exited that receivership in November of last year following a number of payments. 

Asba Meats

The Shannon based Halal meat operator has in recent months found itself repeatedly before various commissions and courts in Ireland.

Last November the Relations Commission (WRC) ordered Asba Meats to pay compensation of over €40,000 to a part-time female worker for sexual harassment and employment legislation breaches.

In the same month Asba Meats also appeared in court in relation to unpaid debts of more than €575,000 owed to 12 farmers around the country.

It was also ordered in November of last year by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to pay €20,000 compensation after discriminating against a pregnant worker.

The previous month, in October, Asba Meats was also before Ennis District Court in relation to a debt that had been owed to supplier, Town and Country Meats.

At the time Judge Alec Gabbett described it as "a business that is trading using other people as its bank. It owes debts and it is using them as their bank.”

Judge Gabbett had also warned that it struck him "that things are not going particularly well for the company".

He had also told the court that the company needed “to sit down with its accountants and very carefully consider its future”.