I think Brendan Buckley will be ok. When it was announced in the Irish Independent at the end of September that Buckley – global marketing director at Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard and Whisky Magazine hall of famer – would be leaving the company, I thought, oh. It felt like either the perfect time to exit […]
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Age Of Empires
On March 8th, 1966, an explosion rocked O’Connell Street in Dublin’s city centre. A granite column with a statue of British naval hero Horatio Nelson atop was strapped with explosives and blown in half. Erected in 1809 in celebration of Nelson’s victory at the Battle of Trafalgar four years earlier, it had been a bone […]
Cerberus
In August 2018, the Irish Independent reported that Irish Distillers Limited was planning to build another distillery. Citing the rapidly growing demand for Jameson, it detailed an internal announcement in IDL that another distillery was to be built, with locations such as Youghal and Waterford mentioned. It was not the most surprising claim – Irish […]
Paddy’s Home
Paddy J O’Flaherty was a celebrity. He wasn’t always that way, but it’s how he ended up. He started his career in the drinks trade as a sales rep for what was known as Cork Distilleries Company (CDC) Old Irish Whisky. He was one of the first brand ambassadors – think The Simpsons’ rambunctious brewery spokestoon […]
Evolve or die
Carol Quinn is incredibly pragmatic – a couple of years ago during a chat about the lost distilleries of Cork, I lamented that they were knocked to make way for roads and duplexes and various other developments. Carol – IDL’s archivist – pointed out that unless buildings are being used, they no longer serve a […]
Arise
In the hills outside of Midleton lies the village of Clonmult. It is one of those blink-and-you-miss it places that is hard to find when you look for it, and passes by almost unnoticed when you drive through it. There isn’t a huge amount of things to see up there – the site of one […]
Powers and glory
The resurgence of Irish whiskey was hard fought. It’s easy to forget just how close we came to losing the entire category back in the 1960s. There are a few people who deserve thanks – the coopers, the operators, the staff who lost their jobs or worked a two-day week to keep the industry alive, […]
A long goodbye
In 2013, Barry Crockett retired from his role as master distiller in Midleton. His father Max was master distiller before him, and the family lived in the distiller’s cottage on the grounds. It was in this house that Barry was born. It was an old way of life in distilling, one that just […]
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