Cold water poured on Hot Irishman

THE family firm that makes the Hot Irishman Irish coffee drink will have to rethink its entire export business to the US if the dollar continues to fall against the euro.

Carlow-based Hot Irishman exports close to 5,000 cases of its annual sales of 50,000 cases to the US.

The company founded by managing director Bernard Walsh and his wife Rosemary have targeted the US as a growth area but now worry about their business there. The decrease in the value of the dollar makes their product more expensive in the US.