KARL CAULFIELD was the goalscoring hero yesterday as his strike saw the Munster Senior League defeat their Leinster counterparts 1-0 to reclaim the FAI Umbro Intermediate Inter-League Cup, which they last won in 2008, in Tullamore yesterday.

“A SAD day for Cork” was how Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin described the decision by Heineken Ireland to close its 200-year-old Beamish & Crawford brewery in Cork.

WHETHER either the Beamish & Crawford brewery on Cork’s South Main Street or the Heineken Ireland brewery on the city’s Watercourse Road will still be in operation in two years time is a very real question as the news is digested that the Competition Authority won’t be stopping the takeover of Ireland’s oldest brewery by Heineken Ireland.

IRELAND’S oldest brewery has thrown down the gauntlet to its competitors by announcing a price freeze.

THE Competition Authority is to move to a full investigation (Phase 2) into the takeover of Beamish & Crawford by Heineken.

A MANAGEMENT buyout at the Beamish & Crawford brewery in Cork could be the final resolution to concerns raised by the Irish Competition Authority to Heineken’s proposed €10.5 partial billion takeover of Scottish & Newcastle.

Beamish Stout has won the internationally renowned Gold Medal at the annual Monde Selection 2007 awards in Barcelona.

BEAMISH & Crawford, the Cork-based brewer, has reported another successful year. Beer sales across its Beamish stout, Miller and Foster brands were up by 10% compared with 2005.

Last year was a record year for Beamish and Crawford, company managing director Alf Smiddy said today.

Tickets for the grand finale to a summer of fantastic entertainment — the Beamish Experience Festival — have gone on sale today.

The brewers of one of Ireland’s favourite alcoholic drinks were today toasting their success at a prestigious international awards ceremony.

BREWER Beamish & Crawford put pressure on rivals yesterday by announcing a price freeze for the remainder of the year.

Castleview moved level on points with leaders Avondale after a hard-fought 3-2 home victory over Ringmahon Rangers in the Premier division of the Beamish Stout Munster Senior League as the weather again played havoc with the fixtures.

Beamish & Crawford announced today it is postponing any increase in the price of its draught products until September 1.

A dispute between several of Philadelphia’s Irish pubs and the Guinness Bass Import Co is continuing more than a year after the bar owners halted sales of Guinness-brand beer.