An exhibition dedicated to Guinness employees who fought in the First World War was opened by broadcaster Gay Byrne in Dublin yesterday.

The drinks industry has urged the Government not to increase excise on alcohol in the next budget as it could threaten a sector that has huge growth potential in the future.

The world’s biggest stout brewery has opened at St James’s Gate.

The world’s biggest stout brewery was officially opened at St James’s Gate in Dublin today.

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

One of Ireland’s oldest breweries is to be transformed into a €3m visitor centre which is set to open its doors in less than a year.

THE majority of TDs questioned for an Irish Examiner survey said they never sought nor had penalty points cancelled from their driving records.

Irish construction firm Sicon — the holding company for the Sisk group’s construction assets — has said its 2012 accounts will show a return to profitability, after it incurred a pre-tax loss of €153.6m in 2011.

Production is due to start at Diageo Ireland’s new €153m brewing facility at St James’s Gate by the middle of next year.

Drinks giant Diageo, the maker of Guinness and Baileys, has reported a 5% year-on-year fall in net sales at its Irish operations for the first six months of the year.

For a nation known — fairly, or not — the world around for its drinking habits as well as its riches-to-rags economy, it’s disappointing that no Irish hostelries feature in a compilation of the planet’s 50 best bars.

Diageo Ireland has today welcomed a large delegation of TDs and Senators to a tour of St James’s Gate Brewery.

A change in Dutch tax rates has resulted in Guinness owner — Diageo — writing off €624 million in deferred tax assets.

DIAGEO has confirmed its intention to invest €153 million in upgrading and expanding its iconic Guinness Brewery at St James’s Gate in Dublin over the next two years.

A SOFTWARE developer believes he has finally solved James Joyce’s notorious near century-old riddle: Can you cross Dublin without passing a pub?

Barely had the presidential plane taken off and Diageo warned of job losses at the old Guinness heartland in St James’s Gate, leaving a bitter taste for some and a challenge for Diageo Ireland MD John Kennedy, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

FOR a moment, in a parallel universe, it looked like it might be her namesake Elizabeth Dawn, aka Vera Duckworth, sidling up to the bar in a futuristic version of The Rover’s Return on Coronation Street.

The perfect pint of Guinness proved an alluring temptation for the Duke of Edinburgh today – but one he could just about resist.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh declined to sample Ireland’s most famous export – a pint of Guinness this afternoon.

A BATTLE between amateur brewers at St James’s Gate has thrown up some exotic new flavours with the winning tipple now set to be sold in Europe and possibly on Irish shelves.

THE magical brewers at the home of Guinness are getting a run for their money.

Drought-hit Dubliners were turning to Guinness tonight as water taps ran dry in homes across the Irish capital.

GLOBAL celebrations to salute the world’s most famous stout kicked off in style last night with Tom Jones leading the toast with pints of Guinness in Dublin.

SURE Jaysus who could imagine 50 million pints of the black stuff being sunk around the globe at the same time.

A GUINNESS heiress has called on Irish companies to mirror the brewing family’s spirit and fund hospitals, schools and small businesses hit by the recession.

Global celebrations to salute the world’s most famous stout kicked off in style tonight with Tom Jones leading the toast with pints of Guinness in Dublin.

Millions of revellers will raise pints of the world’s most famous stout today to toast the birth of Guinness.

Millions of revellers will raise pints of the world’s most famous stout tomorrow to toast the birth of Guinness.

DIAGEO and Cadbury, two of the country’s largest employers not directly involved in the electricians’ strike, have warned of the row’s knock-on effect on jobs.

DIAGEO IRELAND, owners of several international brands including Guinness, has announced it will shed 107 jobs or 5% of its 2,000 Irish workforce as part of a cost-cutting exercise.

The world’s biggest drinks firm Diageo today revealed plans to cut its Irish workforce by more than 100.

DIAGEO, owners of Guinness and Baileys in Ireland, said sales in the third quarter of its financial year were flat.

A proposed €650m Guinness brewery may be in doubt after drinks firm Diageo announced a review of the project today.

DRINKS group Diageo is investing €24 million in the expansion of its research operations in Dublin, a move that will position its Irish operations as the global centre for all beer development within the group.

DRINKS giant Diageo has rejected a claim by farmers that just one cent for every pint of Guinness sold in Ireland goes back to barley growers.

GUINNESS was warned yesterday that it will have to pay a realistic price to Irish malting barley growers if it wants to keep the harp on the pint of stout.

THE Diageo announcement saw Mary Coughlan walking into her first row since being appointed Tánaiste and Enterprise Minister less than 48 hours earlier.

BY the time the famous St Francis Abbey Brewery in Kilkenny reaches its 300th birthday in 2010, activity will have all but stopped following yesterday’s Diageo announcement.

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

The Director General of IBEC, Turlough O'Sullivan, today warmly welcomed the €650m capital investment plan announced by Diageo.

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

GARDAÍ are to talk to people linked with a yard where items from last week’s audacious theft of 450 kegs from Guinness were found.

THERE will be red faces at Guinness this Christmas after a man drove a truck into the brewery’s main dispatch centre and stole 450 kegs of beer under the noses of security and staff.