Campaigners vow to fight on as Heineken says no to developing heritage centre at Beamish site

BREWING giant Heineken crushed heritage campaigners’ hopes yesterday of developing a heritage centre on the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery.

But the National Heritage and Conservation Group, which is fighting to secure a tourist attraction on the historic Beamish and Crawford site in Cork City, vowed to fight on.

Senior Heineken executives Declan Farmer and Eamon O’Sullivan met members of the group yesterday and confirmed the company’s plans to decommission the brewery site once operations cease, and then sell the site on the open market.