Full coverage: Drinks Industry

The Waterford whiskey maker has entered the Scarp scheme to save the company, a move that comes just weeks after it sold off its Velvet Cap brand.

The Naked Collective, a healthy drinks company founded by Niall Phelan and Cat Butler, was plotting an international expansion. However, it has now summoned creditors to a meeting to wind up the business.

Ireland will become the first country in the world to mandate health labels on alcoholic drinks. The move is being lambasted across the EU and the drinks industry is frothing. So how did a small team in Ireland make it happen?

Karen O'Neill is walking away from her honey drink brand, which had just raised money from Enterprise Ireland for a US expansion.

Pat Rigney helped Baileys become a global brand and co-founded Boru Vodka. However, be believes his latest business, a Leitrim distillery that produces Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, could be his biggest play yet.

Craft Cocktails, the bottled cocktail lockdown hit, is just one aspect of Dave Mulligan's ambition to change the way the Irish drink. He talks to Alison Cowzer about the changes coming to the hospitality industry, how to retain staff during a national shortage and his vision for Irish moonshine.