The US makers of Jim Beam, Canadian Club and Makers Mark have been sued for $100 million (€76.8m) by an importer that claims Beam Inc and its Cooley Distillery unit broke a contract to supply it with Michael Collins Irish Whiskey.

Mixing Scotch with our own uisce beatha!

Kentucky-based animal health and nutrition group Alltech is moving part of its whiskey business to Ireland, birthplace of the company’s president and founder, Dr Pearse Lyons.

Export ambitions edged a little closer to reality yesterday for 28 start-up food companies participating in Bord Bia’s Food Works programme in the Guinness Enterprise Centre in Dublin.

American spirits giant Beam Inc has hired five Irish graduates to promote its Irish whiskey brands in the US market.

Irish whiskey is the world’s fastest growing spirit, though coming from a low base, according to a report by Davy Stockbrokers.

A notorious Belfast prison that held IRA inmates during the worst of the city’s sectarian strife is to be transformed into a whiskey distillery as the North tries to revive its economy.

All it took was one good family night and three thirsty nobles to choose the blend for Slane Castle Whiskey.

Beam Inc., a global spirits company, has bought Cooley Distillery, the award-winning Irish whiskey producer.

IRELAND’S last remaining independent whiskey producer, the Cooley Distillery, has been acquired by US spirits giant Beam Inc — the producer of the Jim Beam bourbon brand — for nearly €73 million.

Cooley Distillery, the industry's only remaining independent Irish whiskey distillery, has been sold.

IRISH whiskey is the fastest growing brown spirit in the world with global sales growing 10% each year.

Up to 33% of Irish people believe Leprechauns exist, according to a poll carried out by Cooley Distillery.

COOLEY DISTILLERY has been named European Distiller of the Year for the third consecutive year at the annual International Wine and Spirits Competition banquet held in London.

A conference is taking place in Co Laois today to advise people on how to start and grow their own business.

C&C IS rumoured to be in the early planning stages concerning the partial sale of its non-core spirits and liqueurs division, in a move which could free up funding for a bid for another significant acquisition in Britain sometime next year.

Ireland toasted the inauguration of Barack Obama as US president tonight with whiskey, bread and even a radio station renamed in his honour.

A WHISKEY maker which revived Ireland’s almost forgotten traditions has beaten some of the biggest names in the business to be named the world’s best.

A whiskey maker which revived Ireland’s almost-forgotten traditions has beaten some of the biggest names in the business to be named the world’s best.

The High Court has found that Cooley Distillery have caused confusion by using labelling on bottles of Irish whiskey, sold on the Russian market, similar to that of rival brand Jameson's.

The makers of Jameson Irish Whiskey have claimed before the High Court that the labelling used on bottles of a rival Irish whiskey being distributed in Russia are so similar that it is causing confusion and is leading customers to believe it is from "the same family of products".

The makers of Jameson Irish Whiskey claim that labelling used on bottles of a rival brand of whiskey distributed in Russia is an infringement of their trade mark, the High Court heard yesterday.

A NEW whiskey launched on the Irish market has left a sour taste in the mouths of some public representatives.

ENTREPRENEUR John Teeling has ruled himself out of the running to take over publicly-quoted distribution group Norish, after the company said it had received an approach from a potential buyer yesterday.

Cooley Distillery have appointed Barry Fitzwilliam Maxxium as the exclusive distributors of Cooley Premium Irish Whiskeys.

Cooley Distillery has appointed Barry Fitzwilliam Maxxium (BRM) as the exclusive distributors of its premium Irish Whiskeys range.

An awards scheme for exporting in small to medium enterprises has been launched in Dublin.

Cooley Distillery increased pre-tax profits by 27% in 2002 on the back of a 9% sales increase according to the company’s annual report.