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Fri 12 Dec 2008An Irishman's Diary
FATHER MATHEW must have turned in his grave last month at the news that, for the first time in its 39-year history, the World Distiller of the Year award was going to Ireland.
Although he didn't live to enjoy it, the Apostle of Temperance would surely have cheered the century-long decline in Irish whiskey's fortunes that began soon after his death. But Cooley Distillery's success at the latest International Wine and Spirits Competition in London suggests his triumph was temporary. Whiskey with an "e" appears to be making a comeback.
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