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11/09/2008
Guinness Brewery To Reopen In Kildare
Guinness's parent company has announced it is to re-open a brewery in its original home of Leixlip, Co Kildare.
Owners Diageo have chosen a site near the town for its €550 milion new facility, which it is believed will be the largest in the world in terms of output and will employ 170 people.
Guinness was originally brewed in the Kildare town when bought by Arthur Guinness in the 1756, before the operation moved to St James's gate in 1759.
The new facility will brew exclusively for Guinness’s now extensive export market, while the St James's Gate brewery in Dublin will concentrate on brewing for the Irish.
The news comes several months after controversial plans to close the St James's gate facility and move the historic Guinness brewery to Dublin's outskirts were scrapped. The plans by Diageo to sell the St James's grounds for residential development were crushed following Dublin City Council forwarding motion to prevent planning permission ever being granted for residential development of the site.
(DW/JM)
Owners Diageo have chosen a site near the town for its €550 milion new facility, which it is believed will be the largest in the world in terms of output and will employ 170 people.
Guinness was originally brewed in the Kildare town when bought by Arthur Guinness in the 1756, before the operation moved to St James's gate in 1759.
The new facility will brew exclusively for Guinness’s now extensive export market, while the St James's Gate brewery in Dublin will concentrate on brewing for the Irish.
The news comes several months after controversial plans to close the St James's gate facility and move the historic Guinness brewery to Dublin's outskirts were scrapped. The plans by Diageo to sell the St James's grounds for residential development were crushed following Dublin City Council forwarding motion to prevent planning permission ever being granted for residential development of the site.
(DW/JM)
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