Award-winning distillery has a lesson for brewery

I FIND it hard to believe the Competition Authority and the Government let Heineken proceed with the takeover of the Beamish brewery in Cork.

How they perceived it to be a good thing for the country beggars belief.

A little research would have shown that under the Fine Gael/Labour coalition, Diageo attempted to purchase the Cooley distillery purely to absorb the firm and eliminate the competition.