Drinks giant Diageo has reported that net sales in Ireland were flat during its last financial year, but has increased medium-term group profit targets and announced a £1.5bn (€1.7bn) share buyback programme.

A multinational alcohol company has denied claims that it influenced Cork pubs to remove the produce of independent craft brewers from its taps last weekend.

Smithwick’s is the first beer brand in Ireland with new labels detailing alcohol content and nutritional information.

Guinness enjoyed a strong second half to 2015, with year-on-year sales growth of 5% being noted in Ireland and the iconic stout’s global sales jumping by 9%.

David Smith, CEO of Diageo Ireland, sounded like a man with all the answers in dealing with the alcohol problem in this country. He spoke of making a cultural change in regard to alcohol.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has welcomed the decision by the head of Diageo Ireland to step down from the board of the 'Stop Out-of-Control Drinking' campaign.

An exhibition dedicated to Guinness employees who fought in the First World War was opened by broadcaster Gay Byrne in Dublin yesterday.

Net sales of Guinness declined 3% in Ireland over the past year, due to hot weather, significant rises in excise duties and the continuing shrinkage of the overall beer market here.

Global sales of Guinness fell by 1% during the second half of 2013, mainly due to declining beer markets in its traditional core regions of Ireland and Nigeria.

One of Ireland’s oldest breweries is to be transformed into a €3m visitor centre which is set to open its doors in less than a year.

Diageo has announced that it is ceasing operations at its Waterford Brewery by the end of the year with the loss of all 36 jobs.

The drinks industry — specifically pubs, off licences and drinks manufacturers — are contributing nearly €3bn per year to the economy, through necessary outlays.

Demand for barley in the domestic market will be reduced by the recent 22% excise rates imposed on beer, an Irish Brewers’ Association impact analysis study reveals.

Cork is set to go a little bit New Orleans this weekend as the best jazz musicians from home and abroad descend for a Cork City carnival.

Production is due to start at Diageo Ireland’s new €153m brewing facility at St James’s Gate by the middle of next year.

A leading emergency consultant in Cork has described Arthur’s Day as “really regrettable” and “the last thing this country needs”.

Drinks giant Diageo, the maker of Guinness and Baileys, has reported a 5% year-on-year fall in net sales at its Irish operations for the first six months of the year.

Diageo Ireland has today welcomed a large delegation of TDs and Senators to a tour of St James’s Gate Brewery.

A change in Dutch tax rates has resulted in Guinness owner — Diageo — writing off €624 million in deferred tax assets.

THE advertising watchdog has told Guinness they can’t run a rugby ad again because it linked the drink with sporting success and greatness.

THIRTY-FIVE Irish companies and their employees gave €17 million to charity last year — an average of €46,000 a day.

Barely had the presidential plane taken off and Diageo warned of job losses at the old Guinness heartland in St James’s Gate, leaving a bitter taste for some and a challenge for Diageo Ireland MD John Kennedy, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Drinks giant Diageo has announced plans to cut scores of jobs from its marketing wing just a day after securing the ultimate photo-op – US President Barack Obama with a pint of Guinness.

The perfect pint of Guinness proved an alluring temptation for the Duke of Edinburgh today – but one he could just about resist.

DIAGEO Ireland has been rapped by drinks watchdog MEAS over a drinks’ promotion held in the Odeon Bar in Harcourt Street, Dublin.

THE continuing contraction of the pub trade sector of the Irish drinks market led to an 8% year-on-year decline in net sales — and an 8.6% volume decline — for Guinness here in the last six months of 2010.

RESTRUCTURING costs last year totalling €11.6m contributed to pre-tax profits at the main Irish bottling arm of Coca-Cola decreasing by 78% to €953,000.

Up to €1m will again be made available to Irish social entrepreneurs by the Arthur Guinness Fund next year, it was announced today.

GRANTS to the value of €1 million are being made available to successful entrepreneurs who are making a positive impact on Irish communities.

A father-of-one has received a two-year suspended sentence and a €4,000 fine for possessing 450 kegs of beer stolen from Diageo Ireland.

PEOPLE with “business heads and social hearts” were rewarded when the country’s best known brewer handed over €1 million in awards.

Guinness Ireland has announced the Arthur Guinness Fund awardees 2010 at a special awards ceremonyin Guinness Storehouse today.

Dublin: Budding entrepreneurs are battling it out for a cash award of up to €100,000 in memory of Arthur Guinness.

LARGE plumes of thick smoke billowed across Dublin city yesterday as firefighters battled for hours to control a fire at Guinness brewery.

Guinness is producing a live television ad on New Year’s Eve to mark the end of its 250th anniversary celebrations, it was revealed today.

ENERGY minister Eamon Ryan says Irish companies have come into line with their international counterparts in prioritising green issues.

WITH debts of almost €23m the Co Clare-based Lynch Hotel Group, which employs 450 staff, has gone into voluntary examinership and has been placed under the protection of the High Court.

DIAGEO and Cadbury, two of the country’s largest employers not directly involved in the electricians’ strike, have warned of the row’s knock-on effect on jobs.

DIAGEO IRELAND, owners of several international brands including Guinness, has announced it will shed 107 jobs or 5% of its 2,000 Irish workforce as part of a cost-cutting exercise.

The world’s biggest drinks firm Diageo today revealed plans to cut its Irish workforce by more than 100.

THE examiner to the Thomas Read Group, operators of 18 of Dublin’s best known bars and restaurants, wants the High Court to approve his scheme of survival for the hostelries rather than that proposed by the group’s largest creditor, ACC Bank.