Bill Linnane spends a spell on Speyside and discovers how Scottish distillers have a lot to teach the booming Irish whiskey trade.

Donal Hickey learns how uisce beatha is truly the water of life.

Drinks giant Diageo today unveiled £100m (€149m) investment plans to boost scotch whisky production in Scotland, creating 200 jobs.

Diageo has resolved its dispute with the drinks industry in Britain over criticism that it was risking the reputation of single malt whiskey after it sold its Cardhu "pure malt" whisky in the same bottle and packaging it had previously used for Cardhu single malt.