What looks like a good news story at first, turns out to be a bit of a damp squib.
Irish Distillers makes its pre-1937 employee records available to search online – so far so good. However, to do this, they have gotten into bed with Ancestry.com who have carried out the digitisation and as such, expect a return on their investment.
Access to the resource is available for free in July 2021, but will be commercialised after that.