Last orders was called at Ireland’s oldest brewery today as it pulled down the shutters for a final time.

ONE of the great advantages of being from the Southern capital is that if you are beaten in the football there is still the hurling. Latterly, if you were beaten in both there is, most of the time anyway, the rugby too.

DRINKERS in Cork yesterday told Carlsberg and Heineken bosses: “Hands off our city’s breweries!”

GUINNESS is to be made in St Petersburg, but rival drinks company Heineken will produce the stout.