{"id":1690,"date":"2025-02-24T22:22:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2025-02-24T22:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:22:25","slug":"st-johns-point-lighthouse-co-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/st-johns-point-lighthouse-co-down\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s Point Lighthouse, Co. Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Per the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/k2ou2\">Belfast Telegraph<\/a>, the on off saga of the Commissioners of Irish Lights proposals to modernise the lighting arrangements in St. John&#8217;s Point Lighthouse in Co. Down continues, with local residents objecting to the replacement of the fundamentally unsafe mercury based rotation mechanism and light with LED lights and a ball bearing based rotation mechanism, citing a range of spurious arguments against this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many examples of former lighthouse lights preserved as static exhibits in adjacent (and non adjacent) areas and I would suggest that if the local community wish to have a known toxin in their community, they should be facilitated to have the mechanism preserved at a site in the community in the community\/council ownership, with all the associated civil liability for same on the community\/council if the mercury leaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per the Belfast Telegraph, the on off saga of the Commissioners of Irish Lights proposals to modernise the lighting arrangements in St. John&#8217;s Point Lighthouse in Co. Down continues, with local residents objecting to the replacement of the fundamentally unsafe mercury based rotation mechanism and light with LED lights and a ball bearing based rotation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}