E-Malt.com News article: Ireland: Guinness St James's Gate brewery may suffer from construction of new underground DART

Guinness manufacturing giant Diageo fears the €2 bln underground DART will sink the home of its iconic dark beer, Irish Independent reported on May 2.

The company said Irish Rail plans to put the new line underneath its multi-million euro brewing plant at St James's Gate.

Last week, Irish Rail issued letters to 5,000 home and business owners whose lands could be seized for the construction of the new underground line, which has just received planning permission. Diageo is the biggest business to be affected.

A spokeswoman for Diageo on May 1 said that it had received a letter from Irish Rail in recent days about the compulsory purchase of lands.

Irish Rail said planning permission has been granted with "conditions." One was that environmental risk management and the monitoring of buildings will be carried out at all times during the construction.


02 May, 2014