From the Farm to the Field: How Monaghan's Agri-Food and Industrial Businesses Are Backing County Sport
Seven million eggs a week, 60 articulated trucks rolling across Europe, and heavy-duty tanks built to last a generation — Greenfield Foods, Maguire International, and Platinum Tanks are the backbone of Monaghan GAA sponsorship.
Seven million eggs a week, 60 articulated trucks rolling across Europe, and heavy-duty tanks built to last a generation — these are the Monaghan businesses backing GAA from the ground up.
County Monaghan has always been defined by its working landscape. Drumlin farms, family holdings, businesses built on agriculture and industry — the kind of economy where you can trace a product from a local field to a supermarket shelf and recognise the Monaghan hands involved at every step of the way. Three of the county team's sponsors embody that working identity better than any others: Greenfield Foods of Smithborough, Maguire International of Ballinode, and Platinum Tanks of Lough Egish Business Park.
They are not glamour brands. They are the backbone. And Monaghan GAA is very glad to have them.
Greenfield Foods: Seven Million Reasons to Be Proud of Smithborough
Senior Championship Football Sponsor
Let's start with a number: seven million. That is how many eggs Greenfield Foods packs and distributes from their facility in Smithborough, Co. Monaghan, every single week. Seven million. From a town of a few hundred people. From a business that started with 800 hens in a single henhouse over 50 years ago.
Greenfield Foods is Ireland's largest egg packing centre. Over 1.4 million birds. Seventy-four local family-owned farms across the county and beyond. A full range of product from enriched colony and free-range to organic and corn-fed, all certified under Bord Bia's Sustainable Egg Assurance Scheme. And all of it running through Smithborough, a quiet Monaghan village that most people haven't given a second thought as they pass through on the way somewhere else.
The company was originally founded as Greenfield Eggs and in 1998 merged with Meadow Farm Eggs of Scotstown — two family-run Monaghan food businesses coming together to create the scale needed to compete seriously in the Irish egg market. Since then it has grown steadily, organically, and without fanfare. That is very Monaghan. Just get on with it. Do it well. Grow quietly.
As sponsors of the Monaghan Senior Championship Football — the county's premier club competition — Greenfield Foods are backing the games that matter most at club level. The Senior Championship is where the great Monaghan clubs measure themselves every summer: Scotstown, Inniskeen, Clontibret, Castleblayney Faughs, Ballybay Pearse Brothers, Monaghan Harps, Donaghmoyne.
Next time you open a box of eggs from a Monaghan farm, you'll know who packed and delivered them.
📞 047-57014 | 📧 info@greenfieldfoods.ie | 📍 Smithborough, Co. Monaghan
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Maguire International: One Truck in Ballinode, 60 Trucks Across Europe
U18 Minor Championship Sponsor
In the 1980s, a transport operation started at Ballinode, Co. Monaghan, with one truck and two trailers. Today, Maguire International runs a fleet of 60 Scania articulated trucks and over 250 trailers, covering temperature-controlled freight routes across Ireland, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Italy. BRC and ISO9001 accredited. Operating in the pharma, food, and energy sectors. A family-owned business, still headquartered at Ballinode, that has grown from a county Monaghan depot into a genuinely European logistics company.
It is the kind of growth story that is easy to overlook because it happened steadily, without drama, over 40 years of hard work and smart decisions. One truck became two. The depot grew. The client list expanded beyond Monaghan, beyond Ireland, beyond the island altogether.
The connection to the Minor Championship sponsorship is one of those organic fits. Maguire International, a family business that started small and grew through determination and quality of service, is backing a competition built on exactly the same values: young players in their first county championship, a generation just getting started. Some of those U18 Minor Championship players will be on the senior panel inside five years. Maguire International are investing in that pipeline.
📞 047-89311 | 📧 transport@maguireint.ie | 📍 Ballinode, Co. Monaghan
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Platinum Tanks: Precision Manufacturing at Lough Egish
Reserve Competitions Sponsor
Out at Lough Egish Business Park — one of the most impressive clusters of industrial activity in south Monaghan — Platinum Tanks operates a rotational moulding manufacturing facility that produces agricultural water troughs, chemical storage vessels, and domestic fuel tanks built to last. These are not consumer products with a flashy marketing budget. They are heavy-duty, practical, essential items that underpin rural life across Monaghan and well beyond — the kind of product that a farmer in Carrickmacross or a fuel yard in Castleblayney buys once and expects to last for twenty years.
Rotational moulding is a specialist process that demands precision, quality control, and deep technical knowledge of materials and design. Platinum Tanks' reputation rests on doing this consistently and to standard.
Their backing of Monaghan's reserve football competitions is a quiet but valuable contribution to the county's GAA structure. Reserve football is where the panel's depth is tested — where a player coming back from injury rebuilds match sharpness, where a young player gets their first real exposure to adult inter-club football. It is unglamorous and indispensable. So is a good water trough.
📞 042-9745780 | 📧 sales@platinum-tanks.ie | 📍 Unit 3, Lough Egish Business Park, Castleblayney
The Common Thread
Greenfield Foods, Maguire International, and Platinum Tanks are not the businesses you'll see on TV ads or trending on social media. They are the businesses that actually make Monaghan's economy function — the egg producer that has built from a single henhouse into an industry leader, the transport company that started with one truck and now moves freight across Europe, the manufacturer in Lough Egish making tanks that hold the county's water and fuel.
These are the employers. The job creators. The businesses that have kept people working in Monaghan across multiple generations. And they are all backing Monaghan GAA.
Support the businesses that support your county. Find their full profiles on monaghanbusinesses.ie.