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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you the five biggest stories of the day.
1. #UKRAINIAN REFUGEES Transport Minister Eamon Ryan has said that modular housing on State land is being considered as part of emergency measures to house Ukrainian refugees travelling to Ireland.
2. #FUEL COSTS Ireland’s consumer and competition watchdog received four complaints about pricing practices by service stations in the 24 hours before the Government signed off on a cut to excise duty on petrol and diesel.
3. #AUGHINISH ALUMINA The billionaire owner of the Auginish Alumina plant in Co Limerick, Oleg Deripaska, has been sanctioned by the UK Government.
4. #GLOBAL GREENING Taoiseach Micheál Martin has written to Irish embassies around the world asking that monuments that would traditionally be lit green for St Patricks Day instead be lit in the yellow and blue of Ukraine.
5. #ELECTRIC PICNIC The lineup for Electric Picnic has been announced this afternoon, with Dermot Kennedy, Tame Impala and Arctic Monkeys set to headline the three-day festival.
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They will continue to suffer while all of the smaller breweries keep popping up and making a superior product. They need to either start buying them up or move towards making better beer. People sitting at home on a Friday night with a six pack will mostly go for craft beer now as opposed to the watery stuff we drank for years.
Spot on Barry. Although I hope they focus on their own offerings as oppose to buying the smaller craft brewers out.
Franciscan Wells doesn’t taste te same since they were bought out by Coors!
Guinness is no longer owned by Guinness but by diageo who have got rid of half the staff and treated them awfully
I have several family members in Guinness and they are definitely not treated appallingly.
Ill drink to that
Surely if you’re making billions in profit 1.5% isn’t a big deal?
Not that I’d wish to see people lose jobs, especially in Ireland, but I have little sympathy for Diageo.
I’ve seen them and their marketing up close and personal, and they way they try to ingratiate themselves with Irish identity and buy a good name for themselves by associating with charities. The absolute cynicism of Arthur’s Day and the complete disinterest they had in the public chaos it caused was what really turned me away from them and their products. It’s profit at all costs there, and then maybe try to have a fig leaf of corporate social responsibility, if it suits.
If they actually invested in their products instead of churning out low quality drinks like they do, then they wouldn’t be in this mess.
I run a pub in upstate NY and it will not be long before sales drop here in the states too. Overpriced and dropped sponsorship of all things Irish. They think they can coast on the brand name. Sad really.
Craft Beers, are on the way up, Erdinger, sweet Jesus it’s good….
The Dropping well…..
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