Heineken under fire over layoffs

“A SAD day for Cork” was how Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin described the decision by Heineken Ireland to close its 200-year-old Beamish & Crawford brewery in Cork.

Up to 40 employees from Beamish & Crawford will transfer to Heineken Ireland and 120 people will lose their jobs.

“The announcement of 120 redundancies at Beamish & Crawford and the closure of its brewery in March 2009 is a sad occasion for the workers concerned, their families and for Cork.