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Daily Record
2 days ago
- Business
- Daily Record
Glenkens communities to share £10 million of windfarm funding over next 30 years
Developers Red Rock have established a sustainable community fund for their 15 turbine Benbrack development near Carsphairn. Communities across the Glenkens are set to share in £10 million of windfarm funding. Red Rock hopes 15 turbines at Benbrack near Carsphairn will be commissioned by the end of this year. And ahead of the big switch on, it has launched a sustainable community fund worth £5,000 per megawatt – which means communities could receive £10 million over the 67.1MW project's 30 year lifetime. Carsphairn Renewables Energy Fund Limited (CREFL) and Glenkens District Trust (GDT) will administer the fund in Dumfries and Galloway, with 9CC having responsibility for distributing grants in East Ayrshire. Treasurer of CREFL, Rory Clark Kennedy, said: 'The CREFL board and Carsphairn community are pleased and excited to reach an agreement for Benbrack's community benefit funding. 'We are extremely grateful to the Red Rock team for making this happen so smoothly and as the host community, look forward to working with the team over the lifetime of the windfarm. 'We have an exciting pipeline of projects that require funding and will be pleased to see the developments that will be made possible by this investment.' Chair of Glenkens and District Trust, Fiona Smith, added: 'We are delighted, as a local funder, to enter into this arrangement with Red Rock and to be able to consolidate these additional monies into the Glenkens and District Fund. 'We are passionate about keeping the community at the heart of decisions on how these funds are used and welcome the trust shown in us. 'The purpose of the Glenkens & District Fund is to support our communities to be connected, resilient and carbon-neutral places where people choose to live, to work and visit, to bring up their families and to grow old. 'Community groups and organisations across our 10 community council areas work extremely hard to achieve this goal and these additional monies will enable them to achieve more.' Red Rock hopes the money will be used to boost green tourism, help communities reduce their carbon footprint and tackle some of the challenges associated with living in a rural environment. Benbrack project manager, Robbie Williamson, said: 'The Benbrack Sustainable Community Fund is a key example of the wider benefit wind farms can bring to the local area. ' We have spent the last few years getting to know the local community and gain a better understanding of the specific challenges that come with living in a rural area. 'We hope this funding will help to tackle some of these key issues, make a positive, lasting impact and maximise benefit for local people. '
RTÉ News
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Something For The Weekend – Patrick Bergin's cultural picks
Over the past four decades, actor Patrick Bergin has been a welcome fixture on screens big and small, whether starring alongside Julia Roberts in Sleeping With the Enemy and Harrison Ford in Patriot Games, or stealing the show in soaps like Red Rock and EastEnders. He's an accomplished songwriter, to boot! We asked Patrick for his choice cultural picks... FILM My favourite film is one called The Fiend Who Walked the West, it is a gothic-horror. I like westerns ,that film had a profound, almost subliminal effect on me as a teenager. It starred Hugh O'Brian as a bank robber and Robert Evans, who provided the persona for the character I played in Sleeping with the Enemy. Don't watch it on your own… MUSIC Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan and Get Your Ya-Ya's Out by the Rolling Stones loom large in my favourites, as do Merle Haggard and Leonard Cohen. I sang Anthem for the pope at Croke Park. Kíla are my favourite Irish band, and Elanor Shanley is great! I'm always a sucker for a hairy Irish ballad, Liam Clancy being The Master. BOOK The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell. Tressell is obviously a nom-de plume and the book was a definite step in my appreciation of social issues in literature and art. Fanny Hill as bedtime reading… nuff said! I'm currently reading Terror, Tears and Tragedy by Noel Howard is a fascinating book about my wife Helen Gold-Bergin's grandmother Lady Louisa Morgan Mountcashel, one that encompasses the early suffragettes, the first divorce in Ireland and a court case that enthralled the world. THEATRE Philadelphia, Here I Come! by Brian Friel. This was one of the first plays I ever saw with my brother Emmet in it. He sadly passed last year, I had seen him perform in The Eblana, The Abbey and The Gaiety. He was a great and well-known actor. My mother worked in the Green Room at the Gaiety and my father, a Labour Senator helped start The Little Theatre In Carlow, and the theatre is still going strong today. TV Like my hero Bob Dylan, I avidly watch Coronation Street and of course I'm loyal to Eastenders! I love Nationwide and travel programmes. High Road, Low Road is also entertaining. I love anything with a train. My grandfather was the signalman at Carlow Station. GIG Kíla at the Cloughjordan amphitheater were magnificent. Rónán Ó Snodaigh is simply the best bodhrán player I have ever seen, he literally makes it talk and sing with astounding rhythms. Go see him whenever you get a chance! ART I love to visit the Duke Gallery on Duke Street, Dublin. Norman Teeling, Guggi, Graham Knuttel, John Campion, Sarah Langham and Helen Costello's sculptures are amoung my favourites. RADIO I will miss Joe Duffy, but I also love his namesake Louise Duffy, and I am hoping she will play one of my songs on her show someday! John Creedon is brilliant, and if I am away from home the BBC World Service's Shipping Forecast is a great comfort. TECH Spotify, where I can check up on how my humble musical creations are doing, My duet with Eleanor Shanley, My Angel, gets a respectful number of streams every week, she is great. Simon Casey recorded my song The Tipperary Waltz, too.. Check it out! My music has also been used in a number of films. THE NEXT BIG THING... Let me think.. I'm delighted to say I have two movies in this year's Galway Film Festival: Sunphlowers, an Irish production, and The Captain, an English production for which I received a Best Actor award in the U.K. We are also working on the Lady Louisa film project, based on the book mentioned above. All in all I have been busy - on August 8th, I open the King John's Festival in Trim, Co Meath, and this September I am speaking at a brand new event, The Lovely Laois Homecoming Festival, the brainchild of Trudi Lalor, with various events across three days, including talks from myself, Noel Fitzpatrick (Supervet) and many more. Now, it's time to feed the goats!
Sunday World
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
Kin and Love/Hate star on his recovery after having a stroke at age of 38
Actor and writer Stephen Jones on a new appreciation for the simple things Last July, at the age of 38 and without any warning, Jones, who is a native of Dublin's Tallaght, suffered a stroke. 'It was quite a shock to the system and I'm still going through the process of trying to find the reason why it happened,' Stephen tells the Sunday World . 'I was lucky in the sense that I wasn't overly affected physically because some people are left with really bad injuries. "But it was a very, very scary time and a real period of uncertainty. You never think it's going to happen to you. 'It could have been far, far worse, but at the same time you get a sense of your mortality. We all have a sense of it in a sort of abstract way. "We are all aware that we're going to die at some stage, it's inevitable, but that's a philosophical idea. We think that's something to worry about when we're older. Stephen in Falling To Earth 'And then when you're confronted with it here and now there's nothing really romantic about it. It's kind of scary and you feel very isolated. 'There are times today when I'm feeling very vulnerable and anxious and afraid. So it's just trying to accept it and have more good days than bad days.' However, Stephen says that in difficult or challenging times he now draws on that experience to gain perspective. He says: 'On the positive side, I now have a bit of an anchor. I can always go, 'Don't forget that 10 months ago you were lying in a hospital bed crying your eyes out, thinking your life was finished.' 'I have something that can bring you back to a sense of contentment and appreciation very quickly. It doesn't mean there are not challenges… there are challenges all the time. 'Sometimes I don't know what kind of mood or emotion I'm going to wake up in. I could be feeling very fragile and anxious one day and another day I wake up feeling on top of the world.' Stephen, who also wrote and starred in the Northern Lights TV series, as well as appearing in Red Rock, says his main concern is that medical tests haven't found a reason why he suffered a stroke. Stephen says he was lucky that he wasn't badly affected physically Today's News in 90 Seconds - June 13 2025 'I did a check-up a few weeks ago and they are fairly confident that it's not the arteries or the heart,' he says. 'I was able to come off the statin that I was on, although I still take the anticoagulants, the blood thinner, and I'll be on that for life. 'The next thing they are going to do is see if it's to do with some form of migraine that might have brought it on. 'I just have to keep ruling things out. They say that one in three people will find out why these things happen. 'In a way it's a good thing because they're not finding something really obvious and saying it's your heart, you're in trouble here. Stephen as Brian in Love/Hate 'But on the other hand of course it's frustrating to say, hey, why did this happen to me, I'm feeling good, feeling healthy, will it ever happen again?' 'It's just one of these things in life and I know that if I sit around and dwell on it too long it gets me nowhere. I tried to get back to normal life as quick as I could. "I'm trying to eat right, I'm trying to be healthy, I'm listening to my doctor, I'm taking my medicine and I will pursue trying to find the cause. 'It does give you a renewed sense of 'it's great to be alive' and there's a lot of great things to do and see and just valuing time with my partner and my family. 'You do have to work on it every day, but it does give you a sense of trying to appreciate the things you take for granted.' Read more Jones is currently on an Irish tour with the one man show, Falling To Earth — My Summer With Bowie, written by Eugene O'Brien. 'It was the first time back on stage since my stroke and I was really nervous about getting back up there because it's a very intense 80 minutes,' Stephen says. 'It's a very difficult thing when the place that you're the most comfortable in the world — up on a stage — becomes something that you're kind of afraid of. 'To get back up there and do it has been another little hurdle. It's always going to be something that will be with me but you just have to face the fear and do it.' Falling To Earth — My Summer with Bowie has been wowing audiences and Jones reveals that it was originally based around Michael Jackson. 'Eugene originally wrote the play a few years ago and it was the same story, but with Michael Jackson as the superstar,' he reveals. 'Another actor had rehearsed the play and learned the Michael Jackson routine and then the Leaving Neverland documentary came out a week before it was due out. 'The producer said, 'we just can't do it.' It was the timing and the accusations that came out about Jackson, which were just so horrific. So it was put on the shelf. 'The story was really about (the main character) Scut Kelly, who lives in a town in the midlands with his da and they don't get on. 'He's in love with a girl in the town who barely knows he's alive, he does a bit of part-time security work, but is seen as a bit of a loser and is the butt of jokes among his mates in the local pub. 'Then he gets the opportunity to do a bit of security work in a recording studio, which is based on Grouse Lodge where Michael Jackson spent some time, and he strikes up a friendship with his hero David Bowie. 'What follows is a laugh-a-minute, but with moments of real serious human drama.' Falling To Earth — My Summer with Bowie, will play the Civic Theatre, Tallaght next Wednesday; DLR Mill Theatre, Dundrum, Dublin, Thursday and Friday; Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Saturday and Lyric Theatre, Belfast from Thursday, June 19 to 21.
Business Times
04-06-2025
- Automotive
- Business Times
Car dealer with links to Malaysia's Goh Brothers automotive group to be agent for Alfa Romeo, Jeep in Singapore
[SINGAPORE] Red Rock & Rosso Motor (Red Rock), a company linked to Malaysian businessman Goh Kian Sin, will be the distributor and dealer for Alfa Romeo and Jeep in Singapore and Malaysia. Regulatory filings show that Goh is the sole shareholder of Red Rock. He is the founder and managing director of the Oriental Castle group, which has steel and automotive subsidiaries. Oriental is the sole distributor in Asia for steel giant ArcelorMittal, the second largest steel producer in the world and listed in multiple countries. The group has car and motorcycle retail businesses in Malaysia: Goh Brothers, whose retail operations include the car brands Audi, BYD, Lexus, Proton, Toyota and Volkswagen; and Didi Group, which is the distributor and dealer of motorcycle brands Aprilia, Harley-Davidson, Triumph, Vespa and Royal Enfield. The partnership with Stellantis, the owner of Alfa Romeo and Jeep, will be officially announced in July. Stellantis is the car conglomerate which also owns Citroen, Maserati, Peugeot, and Opel, among others. Stellantis and Red Rock did not immediately respond to BT queries on the matter. Malaysian businessman Goh Kian Sin is involved in the steel and automobile industries. PHOTO: DIDI GROUP BT also understands that a Goh-linked enterprise is likely to be appointed as a dealer for both brands in Malaysia as well. BT in your inbox Start and end each day with the latest news stories and analyses delivered straight to your inbox. Sign Up Sign Up In 2024, Stellantis established its own national sales company, Stellantis Malaysia, to distribute Peugeot and potentially other group brands to the country. Alfa Romeo has been absent from Malaysia since 2013. Jeep's former Malaysia distributor was DRB-Hicom, but in an official capacity, the brand has been inactive for the past few years. Red Rock will sell new cars to consumers in Singapore. But in a twist, a former agent for Alfa Romeo – Euro Automobile, part of SGX-listed EuroSports Global – will provide aftersales and service. Euro Automobile held the Alfa Romeo dealership from 2004 to 2022. EuroSports Global executive director and deputy CEO Andy Goh told BT that the company already handles service for most of the Alfa Romeo owners in Singapore. Providing servicing for both Alfa Romeo and Jeep brands would improve that revenue stream for the company, he added. The most recent agent for both brands was Komoco Motors, which held Jeep since 1996 and obtained the Alfa Romeo franchise in 2023. In January, it dropped both brands and said that it would provide aftersales support until mid-2025. Red Rock's showroom will be located at 43 Malan Road, in Gillman Barracks and part of The Southern Depot lifestyle and retail hub. Euro Automobiles' service centre is located at 24 Leng Kee Road. While Red Rock is not Goh's first foray into the Singapore market, it is the first time one of his companies has become a car dealer in the Republic. In 2021, Didi Lifestyle, a subsidiary of Goh Brothers, was incorporated in Singapore and became the authorised dealer and distributor of Aprilia, Moto Guzzi, Piaggio and Triumph, replacing previous representative Mah, which is also the distributor for Kawasaki. Didi Lifestyle is also the landlord of The Southern Depot, which is modelled after The Gasket Alley, a motorcycle and lifestyle location in Petaling Jaya, Selangor that was co-founded by Goh.
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
28-year-old man dies in Noble County single-vehicle crash
NOBLE COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) — A 28-year-old man is dead following a single-vehicle crash Saturday morning in Noble County. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, at around 3:45 a.m., 28-year-old Roy M. Childs of Red Rock was driving his 2000 Honda Accord west on OK-15, around one-mile east of Red Rock, when the vehicle left the road and struck a concrete bridge railing before coming to a stop. One in custody after drive-by shooting in NW Oklahoma City, police say Childs was transported to Integris Health Ponca City Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The OHP report states that he was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the incident. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
