Will two city brewery sites survive?

WHETHER either the Beamish & Crawford brewery on Cork’s South Main Street or the Heineken Ireland brewery on the city’s Watercourse Road will still be in operation in two years time is a very real question as the news is digested that the Competition Authority won’t be stopping the takeover of Ireland’s oldest brewery by Heineken Ireland.

With one of the Cork city breweries on a riverside site and the other just five minutes from the city centre and on a good road network, it could go either way.

Estate agent, Alan Burke, who works with Cork estate agents, Lucy Wolfe and Associates, has said the owners won’t be able to ignore the lucrative landbanks at their disposal.