Many moons ago, The Menu took great pleasure in regularly visiting a wonderful old period home, Lettercollum House, in Timoleague, Co Cork, enjoying splendid meals based around organic produce grown on site afore heading upstairs for blissful repose in the collectively-run guesthouse. 

Complaints against two adverts which sexualised women have been upheld by the advertising watchdog.

A judge has heard how a British pub group plans to tackle drunkenness and disorderly behaviour in Ireland.

John Teeling’s Irish Whiskey Company will spend €35m over the next four years transforming the Great Northern Brewery in Dundalk, Co Louth.

ABOUT 2,300 glasses of Baileys are consumed every minute of the day across the world.

“We are 91 days from the end of this decade and there’s gonna be a lot of refugees... If you’re hanging onto a rising balloon, you are presented with a difficult decision. Let go before it’s too late or hang on and keep getting higher, posing the question: how long can you keep a grip on the rope? They’re selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man. The greatest era in the history of mankind is over. And as Presuming Ed here has so consistently pointed out, we have failed to paint it black.”

GAELIC football legend Pat Spillane is not about to let the turf grow under his feet since taking early retirement from teaching in October, 2011.

The Bord Bia-organised Ireland stand will feature some of our utterly splendid raw milk cheeses.

Diageo is to raise the price of its beers at the end of the month.

A PINT of plain is still your only man as Guinness has cemented its status as the most popular drink in Irish pubs.

SALES of Guinness in its home market fell by 5% over the course of the past year, according to latest figures from parent company, Diageo.

IRELAND’S oldest brewery has thrown down the gauntlet to its competitors by announcing a price freeze.

PINT drinkers are to be hit in the pocket for the second time this year with the price of stout, ale and lagers all set to increase.

The drinks firm Diageo is reportedly planning to impose a 2% price hike that could put an extra 10 cents on the cost of a pint of Guinness.

THE town of Dundalk has pledged to try and fight the proposed closure of the Diageo plant with the loss of at least 85 jobs.

ST JAMES’S Gate is to remain the home of Guinness, despite losing half its site and one third of its production.

Drinks giant Diageo will today make a major announcement on the future of its landmark Guinness brewery in Dublin.

Drinks giant Diageo is to make a "significant" announcement on the future of its flagship Guinness brewery in Dublin tomorrow, it emerged tonight.

The price of a pint could increase by as much as eight cent from today.

GUINNESS has blamed warm weather and fewer people going to bars for a fall-off in sales of the black stuff.

DIAGEO is to use its €300 million acquisition of Bushmills to try and topple Jameson as the world’s top selling Irish whiskey.

BREWER Beamish & Crawford put pressure on rivals yesterday by announcing a price freeze for the remainder of the year.

Beamish and Crawford has extended a freeze on its wholesale prices in an effort to take more business away from Diageo.

DRINK suppliers are being urged not to increase prices as speculation grows that a hike could be imposed as early as next month.

In advance of the Ireland/England match on February 27, inspectors from the Office of Consumer Affairs carried out a survey last week of 19 licensed premises near Lansdowne Road to establish the prices displayed in the bar areas, in respect of nine different drinks.

Plans to freeze the price of a pint of Guinness are merely a stay of execution for Irish publicans, it was claimed today.

THE smoking ban and a shift to drinking at home left sales of Guinness flat in the first half of the year.

THE Government last night warned brewers and publicans they will do serious damage to the tourism industry if they go ahead with a combined 15 cent hike in the price of a pint.

The Labour party has accused the Government of permitting the “ugly spectre” of a €5 pint of beer to become a reality following reports of a 15c increase.

The Consumers’ Association has called on publicans to absorb the possible 15c increase in the price of a pint next week.

The price of beer in the Republic is set to shoot up by as much as 15c a pint next week.

THE price of Guinness draught beers is being topped up with a six cent on the pint increase from March 1.