Guinness to stay at scaled-down St James’s Gate
However the black stuff will no longer be brewed in Kilkenny or Dundalk, with both of those facilities due to close in five years’ time.
Under a restructuring programme unveiled by parent company Diageo yesterday, a new brewery will be built “close to Dublin” in 2013 which will take over all production from Kilkenny and Dundalk, some duties from the Waterford plant and a third of the work carried out at St James’s Gate.