HERITAGE campaigners intend to appeal a decision by Cork city planners to grant conditional planning permission for a €150 million development at the former Beamish brewery site.

A CONSERVATION group has said that it is writing to a Committee on Petitions at the European Parliament in relation to the handling of the closure of the Waterford to Rosslare railway line at the weekend following over 100 years of service.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to relocate the Abbey Theatre to the GPO on O’Connell Street have been slammed as “ludicrous and crazy”.

THE conversation isn’t the only thing that flows when it comes to Beamish — yesterday the tears were flowing too among seasoned drinkers of that mellow blended stout.

IRELAND’S oldest brewery will shut today bringing to an end four centuries of brewing on the historic site.

OFFICIALS at the Dutch embassy have agreed to meet heritage campaigners fighting for a tourist centre on the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery.

HERITAGE campaigners are prepared to step in and help develop a tourist attraction on the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery.

BREWING giant Heineken has, for the first time, confirmed plans to sell off the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery after it is decommissioned.

HERITAGE campaigners have thrown down the gauntlet to brewing giant Heineken just days before it closes Ireland’s oldest brewery with the loss of 120 jobs.

A LEADING heritage campaigner has urged the state to loosen its purse strings, step in and buy Michael Collins’s revolver at an auction this weekend.

A further round of talks are due to take place on future plans for the historic Beamish and Crawford site once the iconic Cork brewery closes.

ANY development on the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery which is due to close within weeks will be considerate and appropriate, Heineken bosses said yesterday.

CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save the home of Ireland’s oldest brewery, Beamish & Crawford in Cork, are due to meet its owners within days to discuss its future.

FORMER Beamish & Crawford boss Alf Smiddy has been honoured by vintners for his three decades of work in the industry.

PRESERVING the Beamish and Crawford site will pay for itself in tourism, according to the chairman of the National Conservation and Heritage Group.

Rising tides are eating away at Ireland’s most historic landmark – but experts today said there was no danger of O’Connell Bridge falling into the sea.

An independent expert has been called in to examine one of Ireland’s foremost landmarks over fears it is falling apart because of global warming.

HAULIERS have decided to call off their threat of a campaign of “civil disobedience” in protest at the new barrier-free scheme on the M50, which comes into effect this Saturday.

A FINAL decision on the sale of the historic Guinness brewery site in Dublin is expected to be announced later this week.