Distiller makes statement on Facebook after rugby club’s signing of Irish ex-international

$550m deal with Sazerac part of strategy to focus on premium brands

Some of the biggest global M&A deals of the recent past have an Irish dimension

Whiskey brand has value growth of 16 per cent in 12 months to the end of June 2016

Annual sales of the good stuff are expected almost to treble over the next decade

Deal would see world’s fourth largest Irish whiskey still being produced at Midleton

Brown-Forman says sale will add about $475m to its 2016 operating profit

Too few Barbie dolls and flavoured whiskies, not enough snow, and the ‘Sunifesto’ explained