“It’s IDA land right beside a Lidl distribution centre. There’s Guinness obviously, Hop House and Rockshore lager, Smithwick’s ale, Baileys Irish Cream, Roe & Coe Irish whiskey, Gordon’s and Tanqueray gin, and it produces Carlsberg for the Irish market under licence from its Danish owner.Ī planning application has been submitted for a €200 million new brewery in Kildare that will handle all its non-Guinness beers, freeing up space in St James’s Gate for more of the pint of plain.
“Business is going quite well right now,” he says from a funky meeting room at 151 Thomas Street, a building that was formerly the head office of agri-foods group IAWS and is just across the road from part of the Guinness brewery site. Barry O’Sullivan is in chipper form as we sit down to chat about Guinness and the other leading drinks brands in a portfolio that he manages as the head of Diageo Ireland.
