Guinness heiress urges charity in these recessionary times

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.

Joining the 250-year celebrations at St James’s Gate, Jasmine Guinness, 32, the great granddaughter of the last family director, said now was the time for the more fortunate to show their charity.

“It’s a very good reason to go to the pub and raise a pint and raise money for charity as well. Just drive around Dublin and see the parks, hospitals and schools and everything they [the Guinness family] built.