West Cork Distillers co-founder named EY Industry Entrepreneur Of The Year 

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John O’Connell, co-founder of West Cork Distillers has been named as EY Industry Entrepreneur of The Year 2020. Picture: Naoise Culhane Photography

John O’Connell of West Cork Distillers has been named the EY Industry Entrepreneur Of The Year for 2020. 

Founded in 2008 in UnionHall by Mr O’Connell and friends Denis McCarthy and Ger McCarthy, it is now one of the largest, wholly Irish owned distilleries in the country with a distillation capacity of four million litres of pure alcohol. Its award-winning West Cork Irish Whiskey and Garnish Island Gin is sold in almost 70 countries, as well as manufacturing Irish whiskey for some of the largest retailers in the world.