What’s happening in our craft breweries as we live through lockdown? Pat Nolan spoke to a number of them to see how they’re coping, what they’re doing to counter the drop in business and what plans they have for when all this is over.

The British Beer & Pub Association has welcomed an announcement by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority that it intends to obtain a court declaration – “on an agreed and urgent basis” - to resolve contractual uncertainty in Business Interruption insurance cover.

Many retailers have become frustrated at the apparent ease with which the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Welfare has introduced the €350 Covid-19 Unemployment Benefit Scheme, according to the Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association.