<P> Brewing in Ireland has a long history . Production currently stands at over 8 million hectolitres, and approximately half the alcohol consumed is beer . </P> <P> Lager accounts for 60% of the beer sold, stout 34% and ale 6% . </P> <P> By the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were over two hundred breweries in the country, fifty - five of them in Dublin . In the nineteenth century, the number of breweries fell to about fifty, and by 2007 only about twelve remained . </P>

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