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Irish Times
3 days ago
- Business
- Irish Times
Former Atlantic Mills factory in Longford back on the market for €7.25m
Having paid €5 million in 2021 to acquire the former Atlantic Mills factory in Longford, the Mashup Group has engaged industrial property specialist agent Harvey to find a buyer for the facility and the 78 acres on which it sits. The Mashup Group, which is best known for its ownership of the online business, is looking to secure €7.25 million for the asset, which is being sold with the benefit of freehold title, and planning in place for a range of uses including industrial and logistics, a solar farm, a battery farm and recycling. The guide price equates to €18.50 per square foot after allowing €10,000 per acre on the 60 acres that would be surplus to standard site densities, according to Kevin McHugh of Harvey. The prospective purchaser will have the option of buying the property directly and paying 7.5 per cent stamp duty or buying the company that holds the asset and paying 1 per cent stamp duty on the transfer of shares. The property is just off the N5 outside the town of Termonbarry, 10 minutes' drive from Longford town centre and 80 minutes' drive from the M50 motorway. The site is bounded by the river Shannon for 730m. The building, originally a jeans factory, has a floor area of 33,445sq m (360,000sq ft), with clear internal height of 7.7m-10.5m. Those heights lend themselves to a wide variety of industrial uses and warehousing, with planning permission in place for both. READ MORE The main building is split into five large halls with a link to a single-storey office block. Externally, there is car parking for about 300 cars plus yard and marshalling areas. Loading access is available via four dock levellers and nine level-access doors. The selling agent says the property would be suitable for prefabrication, logistics, engineering, green energy, recycling or possibly a data centre, subject to the necessary planning permission and power where required. The property is in an area that qualifies for €169 million of Just Transition grants. Planning permission has been obtained for a 4MW solar farm on 19 acres of the site, a 40MW battery farm on 1.3 acres and for recycling in part of the building. The property has a water-treatment plant and storage tanks on site. While the facility had been the subject of proposals for the development of a multimillion-euro waste-to-hydrogen facility, those plans were abandoned before the Mashup Group's decision to dispose of the property. Kevin McHugh of Harvey says: 'It is rare that an industrial building of this height and scale comes to the market, especially one on such a large site. The diverse potential of this property is clear with planning permission in place for industrial and logistics, a solar farm, a battery farm and recycling.'
Yahoo
7 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Ladybugs, you should be after this lucky charm
AUGUSTA, Ga (WJBF) – A day for good luck charms, what do you like? 'My little girl, she loves horses, I prefer the horseshoes,' said Heather Lanier. 'Yes, if it lands on you,' Heather said. At Ladybugs Flowers and Gifts, there's no concerns about things going bad on this day. 'Absolutely, I feel lucky. I'm not afraid of Friday the 13th, I'm a ladybug,' said Shannon Pollard. Yes, lots have been written about ladybugs being a good luck symbol. Richmond County's Extension Agent understands and says they're good for the garden. 'Just really good on pests, especially aphids, because aphids will eat succulents on plants and stuff. You really like them in your garden your home gardens.' At Ladybugs they like them in the store…at least in gift versions, and the store is famous for placing one on the flowers they send out. 'The ladybug where we put the flower arrangements, it's very important to our customers. They will call back and ask for their little ladybug,' said Shannon. Ladybugs mean good luck. What would happen if you found a ladybug on a four-leaf clover under a horseshoe? 'That's super lucky. I would say that's double lucky,' said Shannon. 'It would be a good weekend for you, especially on Friday the 13th,' said Campbell. Ladybugs…the best of luck Out There Somewhere in Martinez, George Eskola WJBF NewsChannel 6. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Irish Times
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Resurrected Reverend – Frank McNally on the Irish priest who 'did a Reggie Perrin'
Fans of the 1970s sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin may recall that it gave a new name to a certain desperate stratagem used by people who need to reinvent themselves. Despairing of his bland, suburban life, the hero stages an apparent drowning by leaving his clothes on a beach and disappearing. Thereafter, anyone faking suicide in this manner was said to have 'done a Reggie Perrin'. But the tactic didn't start with Reggie, of course. Almost a century earlier, for example, a Catholic priest from Sligo had resorted to the same thing. He too later turned up alive and well, in James Joyce's Ulysses among other places; although he had been rediscovered well before that and may have been Ireland's most notorious cleric by the time Joyce mentioned him. READ MORE Born to a farming family in 1856, Thomas Connellan attended a seminary from the age of 13 and later Maynooth, before serving as a curate in the 1880s, first in Sligo, then Athlone. A spell living in the diocesan palace, however, left him with a severe dislike for the bishop. And while preparing a sermon on transubstantiation one day, he realised he didn't believe the doctrine anymore. For a time, he wrestled with his conscience, torn between wanting to quit the priesthood and his fear of causing scandal. Then one morning in September 1887, he left his clerical clothes in a boat on the Shannon, swam to the river bank, and changed into the secular outfit he had hidden. Now dressed as a civilian, he made his way to Moate, caught a train to Dublin, and from there travelled to London, where he found work as a sub-editor on a newspaper. He later recalled: 'The load of suffering and care which I had carried for years remained with my clerical garb in the boat'. In the meantime, his death had been assumed. 'The Melancholy Drowning of the Rev. T. Connellan, C.C. Athlone,' read one newspaper headline, while the Athlone Boards of Guardians adjourned a meeting in sympathy. Connellan's reappearance in Sligo two years later caused 'a very great sensation', as the Daily Express put it. Not only was his still alive, he was now a Protestant, almost as dramatic a turn of events then. Catholic sympathy gave way to outrage. And as the gloves came off on both sides, Connellan recovered from his earlier fear of scandal to become a zealot, more Protestant than many Protestants themselves, and a scourge of his former church. The Connellan family reacted in different ways. Thomas's siblings also converted and left the area. Other relatives stayed but changed their name to 'Conlon'. In the propaganda war that followed, Roscommon Herald publisher Jasper Tully led the prosecution, calling Connellan an 'apostate', deriding his 'sham' suicide, and running articles by a local priest who claimed that the conversion was motivated mainly by a desire for women. Connellan dismissed the 'gutter eloquence' of Tully, which he said: 'glides off me as easily as summer rain off a duck's back'. He also turned the fake drowning to advantage, quoting the obituaries as evidence of his good character. The ex-priest toured Britain and Ireland on a mission to expose not just the abuses of the Catholic church but also of a 'crypto-Catholic' tendency in Anglicanism. His lectures often caused riots, though he was warmly received in the Ulster bible belt, at least. A typical letter to the Belfast Newsletter congratulated him on 'spreading the light in darkest Ireland' and compared the campaign against him to the one Martin Luther faced. But Connellan could do calumny too. From 1891, his base of operations was at No. 51 Dawson Street Dublin, where he published a monthly newspaper called The Catholic, dedicated to ridiculing his former faith, exposing supposed scandals in the church, and evangelising. This is where Leopold Bloom in Ulysses, fresh from lunch around the corner in Davy Byrne's, ruminates on religious conversion, including his own father's: 'Mr Bloom turned at Gray's confectioner's window of unbought tarts and passed the reverend Thomas Connellan's bookstore. Why I left the church of Rome? Bird's Nest. Women run him. They say they used to give pauper children soup to change to protestants in the time of the potato blight. Society over the way papa went to for the conversion of poor jews. Same bait. Why we left the Church of Rome?' The Bird's Nest was a Protestant missionary society in Kingstown. In Hans Walter Gabler's version of Ulysses, which corrected many supposed errors in the original, the full stop after its name is eliminated, so that the sentence reads: 'Bird's Nest women run him'. This somewhat changes the meaning, intended or not. In a related vein, Connellan's anti-Catholic campaign peaked with a 1908 pamphlet Scenes from Irish clerical life , a semi-fictionalised account of sexual misbehaviour in the church, which according to the Dictionary of Irish Biography, 'was considered prurient even by some supporters'. Thereafter, his health declined and with it his attendance at public meetings. He continued to edit his newspaper until catching a fatal dose of flu in January 1917. This time, reports of his demise were not exaggerated. Although he had kept a low profile in later years, his death notice stressed he had not reverted to Catholicism.
Hamilton Spectator
13-06-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
Haida filmmaker's documentary shares story about Indigenous basketball and sovereignty
A Northern B.C. basketball team is fighting for more than a championship title on the court. Saints and Warriors, the debut documentary from Haida filmmaker Nang Ḵ'uulas (Patrick Shannon), captures the story of the Skidegate Saints and their journey competing in the 2024 All Native Basketball Tournament in Prince Rupert, but also the present-day fight for the Hadia Nation's sovereignty and getting land back. 'I felt compelled to tell the story of Haida basketball because even though I didn't play basketball growing up, it's still something that has shaped every single person on Haida Gwaii,' Shannon said. 'I knew that sports was always a great vehicle to tell a much larger story of culture revitalization, resilience and it's also an exciting form to do it.' The All Native Basketball Tournament has been on the courts for 65 years and is annually held in Prince Rupert, bringing Indigenous athletes across B.C. to show off their skills and ' foster community spirit and pride .' The senior men's Skidegate Saints is one of the dozens of teams that compete in the annual tourney, and the squad holds an impressive track record, Shannon said. 'The story itself follows the present-day story of this legendary, dynasty team, who are kind of considered the Chicago Bulls [in] in the '90s, but for Indigenous basketball,' he said. Over the last six years, the Skidegate Saints intermediate team has won four championships, juniors with four and masters have placed in the top three and won one championship, according to the Skidegate Band Council's website . Shannon and the producing team worked with Skidegate Saints players and Haida Nation leaders closely for about a year to ensure they were telling their story truthfully, he said. 'A big part of it was engaging with the community in a very meaningful and substantial way,' he said. 'As a very collaborative person at my core, I want to make sure that the community had the ability to have a say in how the story was represented.' The significance of basketball also runs on a deeper level – it was a way for Indigenous communities to fight against gathering laws within the Indian Act. Between 1927 to 1951 , it was illegal for Indigenous people to gather in groups larger than three or they would be fined or jailed. But sports were an exception, Shannon said. 'Basketball became a hugely important gathering vehicle for people, especially in the '40s, '50s and even into the '60s when the laws were repealed,' he said. 'But the pressures on our culture and our cultural practices were still really high, and so basketball came to us through these kids that went to residential school.' Basketball gained popularity because of its accessibility, allowing players in a wide variety of circumstances to take part, he said. The sport made the most sense as didn't require much special equipment, it was cheaper to play and not weather dependent. 'Indigenous communities have been the most economically depressed out of any communities within Canada since [it] began, and so just access to [many sports] was out of reach for most people,' Shannon said. 'But if you have a pair of shoes, if you have a basketball, you're pretty much good to go.' When completing the documentary, Shannon also realized how much Potlatch, a form of governance structure and traditional gathering for many First Nations along the Northwest Coast, intertwined with basketball in Northern B.C. Shannon said the basketball tournament and harvest season happen at the same time, perfectly aligning with the sport. 'I think all those factors really played a big part in having basketball be the preeminent sport that has taken over, especially in the North,' he said. The filmmaker was born in Haida Gwaii and raised in Skidegate, just over 1,700 kilometers from the North Shore. He moved to North Vancouver when he was 15, where he finished high school at Carson Graham. He picked up a camera for the first time in his photography class, where it sparked his passion for capturing images. '[It] really was that exposure, spending time in the dark room at Carson Graham that really got me to fall in love with the art of photography, and which was a natural stepping point in the cinematography later on as I became a filmmaker years later,' Shannon said. His film career began shortly after, when he was an extra on the set of X-Men 3 in Vancouver, and he has gone on to work on dozens of TV shows and movies as a director, writer and actor. Shannon said when he was younger, he never imagined film was something he could pursue. 'Indigenous people weren't seen as storytellers in the medium,' he said. 'Whenever you saw Indigenous people in media, it was depictions of what other people thought of us, or we were usually used in a tokenizing or stereotyping way that wasn't really showing us as authentic, real people.' 'I really believe that there's a responsibility for filmmakers these days to do things not only ethically, but to do things in a way that is being a part of solutions and revitalizing culture, as opposed to holding us back and trapping us in the historical past,' he said. Since Saints and Warriors launch, it is up for four Leo Award nominations for best feature documentary, direction, editing and cinematography and Shannon himself has been awarded the Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Director at DOXA film festival last month. The next screening of Saints and Warriors will be at The Vic Theatre in Victoria on June 21 at 7:30 p.m., and the film will hit movie theatres in the fall. Abby Luciano is the Indigenous and civic affairs reporter for the North Shore News. 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Scoop
13-06-2025
- General
- Scoop
200,000 Plants In The Ground And Growing
Small it may have been but the 200,000th plant placed in the ground near Havelock in Marlborough recently as part of Te Hoiere Project had a huge significance for all involved. Te Hoiere Project Catchment Care Coordinator Aubrey Tai said the special planting milestone celebrated in May at the Havelock Causeway symbolised the massive amount of effort that had gone into making Te Hoiere Project a huge success. 'This small miro tree represents all of that initial mahi, the many challenges that have been overcome, the learnings in those early stages which helped set the standard, the engagement, the passion and the direction for what has been achieved,' Aubrey said. Te Hoiere is a collaborative catchment restoration project to protect the interconnected land and waters of Te Hoiere/Pelorus from the mountains into the sea. It seeks long-term environmental, cultural, social, and economic outcomes to benefit present and future generations to come. 'Te Hoiere Project is a highly visual restoration effort that many people have commented positively about and, more importantly, has continued conversations locally about the need to build on this effort,' Aubrey said. 'This milestone is a measure of how successful the project has been. This is something I'll look back on with immense personal satisfaction, and gratitude, to all those involved in making something like this achievable.' Advertisement - scroll to continue reading Several plant suppliers have been used during the duration of the Project including Morgans Road - Blenheim, Titoki Nursery – Nelson, Rolleston Prison – Christchurch, Landscape Marlborough and Riverside Nursery – Rangiora. Two people who have been involved with plantings since the outset are Shannon and Jasen Mears of Mears Contracting. They and their team have put approximately 160,000 plants in the ground for the Project. 'We planted Stage 1 of the Havelock Causeway in spring 2022 and it was so much of a swamp we planted it wearing dive booties. Stage 2 required getting goats out of the area before we could start, and Stage 3 needed some kiwi ingenuity and bridge building just to access the site,' Shannon said. 'During this project two of our crew have welcomed their first sons and it's been a standing joke that in years to come they will take their boys hunting in the native forests they planted. I really hope this becomes a reality.' Shannon said Te Hoiere Project had enabled the company to offer employment to local youth, giving them an opportunity they may not have otherwise had. 'This is one of the few projects we have seen 'real' collaboration. We have planted alongside Iwi, farmers, school children, councillors, senior citizens from 8-80 years old and every one of them has given it a heartfelt effort. The people in this project have been outstanding.' 'Conservation is about making a choice to do something to better the future, to better the land, to better our people. We hope Te Hoiere Project continues to flourish.'
