Senator Catherine Ardagh and Tánaiste Micheál Martin were on a site visit to St James’s Gate this week and were updated on the work being done to bring the historic Rupert Guinness Theatre in the Liberties back to community use.

The plant would become Diageo’s second-largest brewery in Ireland after St James’s Gate when fully operational

Providing a major jobs boost to the Kildare area, up to 1,000 jobs are to be created during the two year construction period of the brewery and will lead to the creation of a further 50 jobs when operational.

The facility will be Ireland's first purpose-built carbon-neutral brewery on a greenfield site