ONE of West Clare’s busiest stores has received a national retail award for the second year running.
Talty’s Mace in Lissycasey for the second successive year was presented with the Checkout National Grocery Retail Award 2025 for Excellence in Fresh Food Retailing in a convenience store.
Cathal Talty accepted the award at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin recently. The National Grocery Retail Awards highlight best in class performance in retailing and honour those who help Ireland’s pioneering stores and retail outlets achieve levels of service and product excellence that set them apart from their competitors.
Paying tribute to the Talty family and all the team in Talty’s MACE Lissycasey, MACE Sales Director Keith Crawford said, “To be acknowledged with this prestigious award two years in a row is a phenomenal achievement and testament to the excellence of the Talty family and their team in Talty’s MACE Lissycasey. This award is a tribute to the great work they do in providing a wonderful service to their customers and they are great champions for the MACE brand. Well done to all”.
Opened by Máire and TJ Talty in 1974, the store’s long partnership with MACE goes back to the time of the Mangan Brothers, since then they have strived to expand and invest in the store to keep up with modern day customer needs. From the early days they provided hardware, animal feed and fertiliser to the rural customers but over the years have expanded considerably.
In 2010 they introduced a forecourt and in recent years have added further additions in-store.
Ahead of its forty fifth birthday in 2019, Talty’s became the first Mace store in Ireland to install solar panels on its roof.
