Wine sales grew here by 1.42% last year to reach just over nine million cases, which helped grow wine’s share of the overall alcohol consumption market slightly, from 27% to 27.2% according to the Irish Wine Market Report 2019 from Drinks Ireland|Wine, just published.

With Ireland slowly emerging from lockdown Ireland’s largest and most experienced independently owned research company Behaviour & Attitudes has examined some of the challenges and opportunities faced by key sectors in the economy such as the ‘eating/drinking/socialising’ sector in its latest Shaping Ireland’s Future report.

Concerns have been raised by operators in the hospitality industry regarding privacy and data protection relating to Track & Tracing practices in the hospitality sector.