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Derry’s legacy of distillation can be ‘brought back’ to life with a new whiskey emporium and distillery, Garvan O’Doherty has said.

Trio Of Irish Whiskeys Finished In Craft Beer Casks Debuts Trio Of Irish Whiskeys Finished In Craft Beer Casks Debuts Hinch Distillery out of Northern Ireland recently launched a trio of Irish whiskeys finished in craft beer casks. The collection, Craft & Casks, includes the Imperial Stout Finish, Irish Red Rye Finish and Rye Export Stout Finish. The collaboration features casks from two Irish breweries; Whitewater Brewery in County Down and Kinnegar Brewery in County Donegal. Each of the three...

Sales of Irish whiskey are soaring in Russia, and the country is now the second biggest market in the world, according to data from the Irish Whiskey Association. Premium brands, including Bushmills, are proving increasingly popular in the country, while smaller companies, including Co Downs Hinch Distillery, are taking advantage of the growing market. Russia is the second largest geographic market with sales of 605,800 cases, or 7.3m bottles, for the last recorded year in 2019, up 231% since 2...

Article content Irish whiskey is having a moment. That might sound redundant coming just before St. Patrick’s Day when everyone claims to be Irish and reaches for the water of life, but it’s reality. Sales of Irish whiskey are up around the world, up by 25% in U.S., over the last year according to Forbes Magazine and the growth is being felt elsewhere as well. Consumers are looking for new experiences and as sales of all types of whiskey grow, a search for something beyond Jack Daniels, Cr...

How the pandemic revolutionised abortion access in the UK Since patients have been allowed to take pills at home to terminate pregnancies, major medical complications have dropped by two-thirds. When national lockdown was imposed at the end of March, and in-person access to healthcare was limited, the government initially flip-flopped over temporary changes to abortion laws. Yet from the beginning of April, it approved measures to allow patients within the first ten weeks of pregnancy to t...