Brewer Guinness was prepared to drop associations with Ireland and promote itself as an English company during the Falklands crisis, state papers have revealed.

Brewer Guinness was prepared to drop associations with Ireland and promote itself as an English company in the 1980s because of the IRA bombing campaigns, state papers have revealed.

RUMOURS that Guinness was planning to wind up operations at St James's Gate, Dublin, and move its headquarters to the Park Royal Brewery near London were finally killed off this week with the news that the Park Royal operation is being closed down instead.

Diageo said it plans to move its Guinness brewing operations from London to Dublin, with the loss of around 90 jobs.

Guinness, one of Ireland’s proudest products, has joined a handful of billion dollar earners, a survey released today has shown.