Downey's Butcher& Deli

Thomas Downey opened his butcher's shop in 1910; when the new border cut across the trade in 1936 the family moved it to Monaghan Street in Newry, where the fourth generation of Downeys still cut meat today. It is a proper town butcher — a five-star hygiene rating, daily fresh meat over the counter, the deli built up alongside it — rather than a counter in a supermarket. A hundred-odd years on the same street, through a century that redrew the map around them, is its own kind of credential.