Members' News - Week 45 - 2020
Nov 5, 2020,
by Fionnuala Malone - Category: Members' News
Blackwater Tasters Club Reveals Christmas Collection
Blackwater Distillery has revealed the second of its Tasters Club subscription series, a Christmas Collection that includes two 200ml special bottles. Delivered door to door every two months, direct from Blackwater Distillery, the club boxes are always seasonal and handcrafted. The Christmas Collection features a Christmas Pudding Gin and a Cranberry Vodka Liqueur and is available now here.
Lily O'Brien's launch their Christmas Advent Calendar
The beautiful Lily O'Brien's advent calendar is back and is available to purchase here.
Clonakilty Distillery to begin exporting to UK
The award-winning Clonakilty Distillery are partnering with premium drinks importer and distributor Mangrove UK to begin exporting their whiskeys and gins to the UK market. Find out more about Clonakilty Distillery here.
Information from The Irish Examiner.
Shop Local Online with McCambridges Christmas Hampers
Starting from €35 the McCambridges of Galway food and drink hampers are available to order now. Including local Irish producers like Foods Of Athenry -Galway Christmas cakes and gluten-free crackers, Sheridans crackers, Skelligs Chocolates, Builín Blasta dressings and smoked onion mayonnaise and Achill Island Sea Salt. You can find out more about hampers from McCambridge's here.
People can buy their own whiskey cask as Dingle Distillery Launches Descendants Programme
Dingle Distillery is giving whiskey drinkers a chance to invest in a cask to call their own with a sale of 100 full barrels before the end of 2020.
You can find out more about the Descendants Programme here.
Shopping Local the Christmas
The Independent has published a super resource listing local Irish businesses in every county. Part 1 includes businesses in the Leinster and Ulster regions and is available to view here.
Limerick Strand Hotel Launches Christmas Pantry Range
Limerick Strand Hotel is offering The Limerick Food Hamper – Tom Flavin’s produce along with some of his favourite Limerick suppliers including Caroline Rigney and Attyflin Estate. The hampers range in prices from €49 to €99. You can find out more about the Christmas Pantry Range of hampers here.
Foods of Athenry Christmas Range is here
You can get gluten-free and vegan Christmas gift hampers are available now as well as wheaty ones!
Airfield Estate Dundrum to launch free community cooking classes
"Free cooking classes for at-need families in the south Dublin community are set to be launched by the Airfield Estate in Dundrum. Practical, economical and life-skills are to be provided by the charity to help maintain an informed and healthy home cooking environment."
This information came from Dublin Live.
That's it for this week, be sure to come back next Thursday for more news from GS1 Ireland members around the country. If you are a GS1 Ireland member and you have some news you would like to share, please get in touch at
marketing@gs1ie.org, we would love to hear from you.
