Chapter 1: What was the impact of the Tycor Business Centre fire?
First, though, to Waterford, where efforts continue to gauge the full impact of the damage caused by a major fire at Tycor Business Centre in Waterford City over the weekend. Fire services from Waterford and Kilkenny spent hours bringing the fire under control on Saturday night.
that between 30 and 40 of the 50 premises in the business centre have been severely damaged and won't be able to reopen. Among the business owners affected are Blonad McCann from Nomac Productions and Paul Hearn, owner of Celtic Warrior Martial Arts. Blonad McCann, good morning to you. Good morning. I'm very sorry for this news, which must be devastating for you.
Do you know whether your own premises has been badly damaged?
I think it has, I think, yes. Yes. But I haven't got any great information at the moment because all day yesterday it was in the hands of the fire chief. Still, it hadn't been handed over to the police. Right. But nobody can enter the building anyway. You know, it's just too badly damaged.
Where were you when you heard the news? Just about to have my dinner. I didn't get it then.
No, sure. I just ran. And what was it like on Saturday evening?
Because I presume everybody who owned the business there was there to see what was happening.
Yes, it was devastating just to watch the flames fly up into the sky. And they just didn't seem to be dying down at all. But there was about 14 firefighters there, fire trucks there, you know, yeah. And it was just awful.
Yeah, it sounds it. And tell us a bit about your business.
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Chapter 2: How did Blánaid McCann react to the fire's damage?
And we do it across Ireland. We hire across Ireland.
And you've been in business since the 80s, I think?
Yeah, 88. We started in 88.
And how many costumes would you have on the site?
In the building, I would say I have about 40,000, 50,000 costumes easily.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, and some of them date back to, I have some suits that date back to 1921 and they're all gone. Oh, it's devastating.
I was just about to say, Blánid, I'm so sorry for you and I can hear it in your voice. It must be just soul-destroying.
Absolutely. Absolutely for everybody, you know, for the staff and I just can't believe that it's all gone, you know. And it can't be replaced. There's too much stuff there to even think of replacing. You couldn't.
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