Spirited response: Irish gin distillery turns hand to sanitiser"You could say it's a very, very strong gin," said managing director Bronagh Conlon. "We would absolutely not recommend anybody to drink it"DROGHEDA (IRELAND) - The gin stills of the Listoke Distillery have been repurposed in the fight against the coronavirus, producing precious hand sanitiser currently in vanishingly short supply across Ireland. - A welcome tonic -On Wednesday, staff worked frantically to serve customers at a hastily erected sales table stacked with sanitiser and gin, with supplies of the former nearly sold out. "Keep warm with that gin, and keep clean with the hand sanitiser," a staff member joked with one customer who bought a bottle of each. Clutching one bottle each of hand sanitiser and gin outside the distillery customer Una Hatch, 70, said the former was "very badly needed".

Source: Bangkok Post March 19, 2020 11:26 UTC