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Hill Street Views: The hidden histories of Dundalk
Opinion, views and commentary from former Democrat editor David Lynch
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I’ve viewed it from a speeding car, hurtling past at about 120km/hr for the best part of 20 years or more.
Always there to the right-hand side when you drive down the motorway onramp and steer the car in the general direction of Dublin.
It sits obvious in the field – prominent, grey, ruined, proud. There’s a rather unsightly-looking crack running from top to bottom; almost cleaving the tower structure in two.
When your life is limited to a 5km radius you start to see familiar things a little differently; see them with fresh eyes again. It helps that the mind is more idle these days; looking for anything new within a limited vista.
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TWO of the three troubled BiFab yards have been bought out of administration. Burntisland Fabrications (BiFab), which has yards in Burntisland and Methil in Fife and one on the Isle of Lewis, went into administration at the end of last year after Scottish Government ministers ruled out nationalising the company – pointing to state aid rules. Harland & Wolff (Methil) Limited, a subsidiary of InfraStrata Plc, has now taken on the Methil and Lewis sites in an £850,000 deal. BiFab entered administration in December, two years after a deal in which Canadian firm DF Barnes acquired the business for just £4. The Scottish Government, which became a minority shareholder in BiFab, went on to invest £37 million in it. The SNP has been accused of mismanagement of the country s manufacturing industry.