Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has lifted a ban on selling Heineken products in its pubs in the UK after a month-long row.
The firm - which runs the Yarbrough Hotel and the Ice Barque in Grimsby and the Coliseum Picture Theatre pub in Cleethorpes, - had said Heineken had refused to supply Heineken and Murphy's Stout to its second Irish pub due to open in Dun Laoghaire.
The Dutch company was said to be concerned that the pub chain was selling pints of its lager and Murphy's Stout for less than €3 – 40 per cent less than than its competition – at its first Irish pub in Blackrock, Dublin.
But the pub operator has since come to an agreement with the brewer, although drinkers at its pubs in Ireland will still not be able to buy stout brand Murphy's or Heineken, which is the country's biggest-selling draught beer.
It will stock Beamish, Fosters and Symonds Cider in its Irish pubs but the row means drinkers will not have access to either Guinness or Murphy's.
Wetherspoon commercial director Paul Hine said: "We are pleased to have reached agreeable commercial terms with Heineken.
"In the Republic of Ireland we will serve the three Heineken products at prices in line with our other products."
