Word: irelanders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would be brilliant if he won because, for one thing, he is related to me, and also it would be good for the village.' HENRY HEALY, a resident of Moneygall, a tiny village in Ireland that recently unearthed records indicating an ancestor of Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama was raised there...
...Closes In Re Brian Bennett's "Last Call in Iraq," about how the violence there is closing in even on the Green Zone [May 7]: The British surrendered and pulled out of Ireland. The French surrendered and pulled out of Algeria. What the Republicans now call surrender in Iraq the rest of the world will surely refer to as "ending the illegal occupation." Jay Williams, Austin, Texas...
Walk into a British pub and order a pint bottle of Magners Original - a premium cider brewed by Ireland's C&C Group - and be ready to cough up the princely sum of $7 to $8. That's as much or more than you'd pay for any other cider or beer on offer. But price be damned, say British drinkers, who are acquiring a growing thirst for ciders in general, and premium ones in particular. Cider consumption in Britain jumped 35% last year - an increase analysts have dubbed the Magners effect. That's a tribute to a brand that...
Cider's a cool brew now, but it wasn't always thus. "It was thought of as a product consumed by vagrants on park benches," says Maurice Pratt, C&C chief executive. Cider was commonly sold in large plastic bottles at discount prices, bolstering its cheap image. In Ireland, C&C's cider is called Bulmers Original (it's the same thing as Magners, but drinks company Scottish & Newcastle owns the Bulmers brand outside Ireland). Struggling with stagnant sales in the 1990s, C&C decided dowdy Bulmers needed a makeover. It cut the alcohol content to 4.5% (about the same...
Rechristening the drink Magners, C&C successfully ventured into Northern Ireland in 1999. It conquered Scotland in 2004 and 2005, hit London in 2005 and took on the rest of England in 2006. British rivals maintain that C&C is just riding a wave of popularity, not creating it. Sales of Strongbow, an S&N brand that boasts a 60% share of the U.K. cider market, have grown consistently for four years, the company says. Analyst O'Reilly disagrees, calculating that more than 70% of cider's recent growth is attributable to Magners. Certainly, rivals have dashed to bring...