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WORK TO BRING one of the world’s best-selling whiskeys back to its spiritual home began yesterday.
Tullamore Dew turned the sod on their new pot still and malt distillery at a site near Clonminch in Co Offaly yesterday, which will see the creation of some 200 jobs during the construction phase, as well as 25 jobs when the facility is finished.
The distillery will produce nearly 1.5 million cases of whiskey a year when it is finished.
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney was on hand to break a ceremonial barrel of whiskey and commended Tullamore Dew for the restoration of distilling in Co Offaly.
“It is vital that the industry never loses sight of the need to maintain focus on preserving the traditional practices and heritage, which is what Irish whiskey is all about”.
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Irish whisky is on the rise worldwide. Jameson in Cork can’t keep up with the demand. Those 25 jobs will become 250, no doubt about it. If they tap into the Chinese market the sky is the limit.
Should have spelled that “whiskey”.
I’ll drink to that!
marge,
I was up in bushmills distillery a few years ago, it was hard to see any workers, everything was computerized.
I think that there was 20 involved in making the whiskey, which seems to be similar to the employess in tullamore.
I wish them well though.
Jameson are taking on 100 new staff after ungrading. Or was it 200. Ill check it out.
Ok. A quick Google told me the number is “over 60″. That’s 60 new livlihoods. How bad.
Now I have to Google how to spell “livlihood”.
Some happy earthworms in that field…
Good news Margaret wherever it comes from, not on a major scale, but a job is a job…..Good news for the construction industry, and for full time jobs afterwards, and will boost our export sales as well…
Hopefully they will tap into the chinese market, and other asian countries as well….Good on ya Margaret, positive thinking, we need more of that……Cheers.
Thats a feicing waste of good whisky
I assure you, it’s better of in the ground, worse than Paddy….
Dave. Nothing is as bad as paddy
Try Green Spot. Nothing beats it.
Sorry, Knappogue Castle second to none
Tullamore is one of the finest Irish whiskeys I’d reckon!!
Try Mongolian Yak piss whiskey!
Tullamore gets its due.
Tullamore Dew must be one of the nicest whiskeys produced in the world. Delighted to see it back where it belongs, in Tullamore. D.E. Williams must be looking down with a great degree of pride today.
Jaysus are you going to leave it me me to make an irrelevant comment about bankers?
Ok, if the bankers distiller it the worldwide increasing demand for whiskey would plummet, as Tullamore would taste that weak and ‘orrid the world would believe all whiskey was as bad.
Happy now?
Cheers dude, was getting withdrawal symptoms
Brilliant! Badly needed.
Tullamore Dew is the biggest selling Irish whiskey is Germany. A bad whiskey would not hold such weight in Europe’s largest economy. Tullamore is light, it’s relatively easy to drink as Irish whiskies go, that’s why it’s a winner.
That Coveney lad is doing it wrong.
He should be pouring milk effluent into the rivers for extra illegal dumping.
Peace,
Wise up he’s a bloody minister how can he do anything right. Expecting rather a lot aren’t you. Good God you’ll be expecting the Government to run the country next
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