IWS Dingle: At the beginning....

  • 06 Feb 2026
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
  • Hanafin's Bar, Main Street, Annascaul
  • 6

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Back to Where it all Began

As some of you already know, the origins of our chapter began in the old backroom of Dick Mack's Pub on April 5, 2013 and it was a sold out evening. At this tasting, we were privileged to be allowed to be the official public launch event of the Teeling 21 year old Silver Reserve, a very big event at that time. 

Of course, we then had annual tastings over the next 3 years and then on April 21 2016, after that year's annual event in Dick Mack's, we hosted our first ever monthly tasting where we had Teeling's Kevin Hurley present a range of Teeling whiskey to us all upstairs in John Benny's Pub. Incidentally, John Benny's hosted the next 3 tastings and other events took place in Benners Hotel, Nellie Fred's, Adams, Paul Geaney's and the Distillery in that first year of the chapter. 


Ten years on and we will now welcome Teeling and their ambassadors, Beibhinn O' Reilly, European Ambassador & Eoin Cooney, Irish Ambassador back to Dingle to present a range of excellent whiskey from them. You will recognise Eoin from his previous passionate presentation in John Benny's for Glendalough distillery a few months ago. Well he is now in pastures new and is looking forward to returning to Dingle, this time to Hanafin's Bar in Annascaul. Beibhinn & Eoin will present some of Teeling's excellent range which has expanded in leaps and bounds over the last 10 years and there may be a surprise or two on the night.


And as this will be the first tasting after the great wins in the All Ireland football club series to all of our teams on the peninsula; 

Comhghairdeas ó chroí le gach ceann dár bhfoirne a bhuaigh Craobh na hÉireann

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