Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day.
1. #TRACKER MORTGAGE SCANDAL: The Central Bank has fined AIB and EBS almost €100 million for the two banks’ roles in the tracker mortgage scandal. The fines follow an enforcement investigation by the regulator that has been ongoing for five years.
2. #POPULATION: Ireland’s population on Census night was 5,123,536, preliminary data from this year’s Census shows. This marks the first time that the country’s population has topped five million since 1851, the Central Statistics Office confirmed today.
3. #LEAVING CERT: Leaving Certificate results will be issued to students on Friday 2 September, the State Examinations Commission has confirmed. The delay in issuing the results has been criticised by opposition TDs.
4. #PRIDE: Equality Minister Roderic O’Gorman has acknowledged the “increasingly vitriolic” attacks on the LGBTQI+ community in Ireland, particularly transgender people, who have to hear “their very existence debated” in public discourse. In a statement in the Dáil ahead of Dublin Pride this weekend, O’Gorman said Ireland has become “a proud, progressive and modern nation”, but LGBTQI+ people “continue to face significant barriers to full participation in public life”.
5. #UKRAINE: The Russian military has expanded its control of territory in eastern Ukraine in an offensive that could cut supply lines and encircle frontline Ukrainian forces, British and Ukrainian military chiefs have said.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
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…..
have your say