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West Australian
6 days ago
- Automotive
- West Australian
Bapcor shares fall on weaker-than-expected sales, board exodus
Shares in Bapcor have shed nearly 30 per cent after the Autobarn owner revealed its second-half trading performance was weaker than expected in May and June. It has also been rocked by the shock exit of three board directors with explanation. The vehicle parts and accessories group — also behind the Burson, Autopro and Midas brands — blamed its weak second half on several factors, including significant disruption in the specialist wholesale segment due to consolidation of activities involving three businesses into its new Auto Electrical Group. In a trading update on Thursday, the group also said it continued to face a challenging retail environment, including lower spending on discretionary categories, competitor activity and changes to its promotional cycle. The group expects pro-forma net profit — which excludes one-off items — to come in between $81 million and $82m in the 2025 financial year, compared with the $94.8m reported the previous year. Revenue is likely to be 1.4 per cent lower to $1.94 billion. However, statutory net profit is forecast to come in between $31m and $34m, a turnaround on its $158.3m loss in the prior corresponding period. This followed a 'comprehensive review' of the company's balance sheet, which identified $43.3m to $45.3m in unaudited post-tax significant items in the second half, in addition to $4.7m recognised during the half-year. Bapcor shares were 28.6 per cent lower, or $1.46, to $3.65 just after 11am. Bapcor executive chair Angus McKay said significant work had been undertaken during the year to simplify the business, including 45 sites that have either moved or closed. 'These changes were disruptive but necessary as we strive to simplify operations to set us up into the future,' Mr McKay, former 7-Eleven Australia boss, said. 'The second-half trading result was also impacted by the continued challenging Australian retail environment and economic conditions in New Zealand.' At the same time, Bapcor also announced Mark Bernhard, Brad Soller and James Todd had resigned as directors. No reason was provided for the sudden departures, but Mr McKay thanked the directors for their service. Bapcor said a board refresh process was now being 'accelerated'. RBC Capital Markets analyst Jack Lynch said it was a 'challenging update' for Bapcor with soft trading performance across all segments. 'Analyst focus on the call will be on the trading outlook across segments, reasons for board changes and how recent balance sheet changes impact leverage ratios,' he said.
Time of India
16-07-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
Tampa Bay Buccaneers walk down painful memory lane for the team's 50th anniversary
(Image via Tampa Bay Buccaneers X) Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrate their 50th anniversary by bringing back the jerseys from the 1976 wardrobe. This is wonderful news! But why is it painful? Because in the 1976 NFL season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a 0-14 record. They lost all 14 games. And, they did not win or tie even a single game! In five of those, they didn't even score a single point! Now, this is a painful memory. But the stance of the 2025 Buccaneers team? They look like they want to reverse the painful record! From 0-14 to 14-0! Technically, 17-0. And we can't wait to have that, can we? Anyway, since the curiosity is kicking in about the 0-14 record, who was the head coach of that season? How did he cope? Let's find out! John McKay was the head coach and he used sarcasm to cope with the 14 losses The 1976 NFL season marked John McKay's first year as the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He came with a stellar record of 127-40-8 from 16 years at USC. But the first year with the Buccaneers was marred by losing 14 games in a row. He used sarcastic humor to cope with the mounting stress. At a press conference, McKay told reporters, 'You guys don't know the difference between a football and a bunch of bananas.' Following this, a member of the media left a case of bananas at his doorstep. Regarding that, he told reporters at the next press meet, 'You guys don't know the difference between a football and a Mercedes-Benz.' Hoping he would wake up and find a Benz at his doorstep! Another way McKay used to cheer his team up was when he told the reporters, 'We have determined that we can't win at home and we can't win on the road. What we need is a neutral site.' When a reporter asked him, 'What do you think of your team's execution?' His response is still echoed today. Because it went on to become one of the most famous quotes of John McKay - 'I'm in favor of it.' The head coach believed in his team through thick and thin. Even though it was a disappointing season, the jerseys made a lasting impression. They were going to be remembered after a long span of 50 years! Now, let's talk about the 2025 Tampa Bay Buccaneers' revamped jersey from the 1976 wardrobe. Tampa Bay Buccaneers players will sport the 1976 NFL season's jersey with absolute pride Leilyn Torres of ABC Action News reported that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would be celebrating their 50th season in the NFL by unveiling the return of the team's original 1976 jersey. The jersey has a modern take to it. The orange numbers are bordered with red outlines. Every jersey has a creamsicle 50th season patch attached to it. The sleeve pattern is in three stripes. The 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers' jersey is a tribute to the fans and players Buccaneers Chief Operating Officer, Brian Ford, told Torres, 'The '76 Jersey represents a piece of Buccaneers history and serves as a tribute to the generations of fans and players who shaped this franchise. As we launch into the 50th season, we're proud to reintroduce The '76 Jersey and the tradition it embodies. It is a reminder that every Buccaneers fan, from the originals to the newest generation, is part of an evolving story that started in 1976 and continues being written today.' Also Read: Shedeur Sanders could be traded to Matthew Stafford's Los Angeles Rams | NFL News - Times of India Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
RTÉ News
15-07-2025
- General
- RTÉ News
'I have to have hope,' says Tuam relative as excavation works begin
The daughter of a woman whose child died in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home has described as "absolutely momentous" the beginning of excavation work at the site in Co Galway. Annette McKay's mother Maggie O'Connor was sent to an industrial school when her mother died in 1936. While there, Ms O'Connor became pregnant after she was raped by a caretaker when she was 17. She was then moved to Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Ms O'Connor was separated from her child after the birth and was moved to St Anne's in Loughrea. It was there where she was told that her baby, Mary Margaret, had died in Tuam. "Even a thimble full of Mary Margaret, to place that baby with her mum, would mean everything" Ms McKay spoke to RTÉ's News at One about her mother's experiences and the subsequent investigations and inquiries into the deaths at the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam. She explained that her mother did not speak about her experiences in the home until she was 70. "It was the birth of my first grandchild that upset her very much, which was not the case for my mum loved babies and it brought out this harrowing tale about her baby; her bonnie baby, Mary Margaret," she said. "It was just unreal, how could we have lived all our lives, and she get to be 70 and we didn't know about this terrible, terrible thing that had happened to her?" Ms McKay said that it also feels "very hard and emotional". "I've had my DNA taken because I'm in the group described as old and vulnerable," she said. "Because I'm on the advisory board, I do have this bird's eye view of the discussions around DNA techniques, what's possible, what's not possible, the ages of the babies. "The way they've been lying in the water table, commingled remains; it is technically very, very difficult, but I have to have hope." "Even a thimble full of Mary Margaret, to place that baby with her mum, would mean everything," Ms McKay said. Ms McKay said that her mother had been moved from Tuam to St Anne's in Loughrea, and she had been told that it was the women who the nuns regarded as "troublesome" or "wanting to spend too much time with their babies" who were moved from Tuam. "There was no bonding with that child to be allowed," she explained. "So mum was pegging washing out in Loughrea, and the nun came behind her and just said 'the child of your sin is dead' and they threw her out the same day - that's all she ever knew about that baby." She said that her mother was traumatised by her experiences in the Mother and Baby Home. "I always tell people the nuns lived in our home because the nuns were always present - all the trauma, all the damage, all the pain, all the stories. "I can recall now, the names of the sisters who abused my mother, so for her to keep that secret for 50 years, was a tremendous stigma and shame visited on those women." "They had no idea about how deep the trauma was and how terrible the experience she's lived through" After leaving the home, Ms O'Connor moved to Belfast, where she met Ms McKay's father. "She had my older brother in Belfast, but (the father) deserted her... she wrote to her sister in Bury and her brother-in-law came to rescue Maggie and my older brother. "My father reappeared again, then there were two more children, and then he deserted her for good. "So, Bury is where she remained and always described living in our town as a sanctuary." Ms McKay said that her mother had always referred to English people as "very welcoming" and had helped her though "traumatic episodes". "They had no idea about how deep the trauma was and how terrible the experience she's lived through." In 2015, the Government set up an investigation into 14 Mother and Baby homes and four county homes, which found "significant quantities" of human remains on the Tuam site. The inquiry found an "appalling level of infant mortality" in the institutions and said that no alarm was raised by the state over them, even though it was "known to local and national authorities". The State inquiry led to a formal government apology in 2021, the announcement of a redress scheme and an apology from the Sisters of Bon Secours. Ms McKay said that her mother had not been very interested in the redress scheme and had asked her daughter to deal with the proceedings. "A solicitor came and said she would take the case on and suddenly all this paperwork appeared - the baby's death certificate, the birth certificate and this place called Tuam. "Years later, in a story in an English newspaper: 'A terrible discovery in the West of Ireland of a grave containing a septic tank containing the bodies of 796 children'. "I knew she was on that list. And she was." A team of Irish and international forensic experts have broken ground at the site of the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam. The excavation will take two years and will try to identify the remains of the infants who died between 1925 and 1961, more than 11 years after Catherine Corless first drew attention to the burial site. Ms McKay described as "absolutely momentous" the beginning of the work at the site. "We were there last week, and the team gave us a chance to see what the site looks like now. It's forensically sealed and they were preparing to work. "I describe that journey as a chance to say goodbye for now."
RTÉ News
14-07-2025
- General
- RTÉ News
Start of excavation work 'momentous', says Tuam relative
The daughter of a woman whose child died in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home has described as "absolutely momentous" the beginning of excavation work at the site in Co Galway. Annette McKay's mother Maggie O'Connor was sent to an industrial school when her mother died in 1936. While there, she became pregnant after she was raped by a caretaker when she was 17. She was then moved to Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Ms O'Connor was separated from her child after the birth and was moved to St Anne's in Loughrea. It was there where she was told that her baby, Mary Margaret, had died in Tuam. Ms McKay spoke to RTÉ's News at One programme about her mother's experiences and the subsequent investigations and inquiries into the deaths at the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam. "Even a thimble full of Mary Margaret, to place that baby with her mum, would mean everything," Ms McKay said. She explained that her mother did not speak about her experiences in the home until she was 70. "It was the birth of my first grandchild that upset her very much, which was not the case for my mum loved babies and it brought out this harrowing tale about her baby; her bonnie baby, Mary Margaret," she said. "It was just unreal, how could we have lived all our lives, and she get to be 70 and we didn't know about this terrible, terrible thing that had happened to her?" Ms McKay said that her mother had been moved from Tuam to St Anne's in Loughrea, and she had been told that it was the women who the nuns regarded as "troublesome" or "wanting to spend too much time with their babies" who were moved from Tuam. "There was no bonding with that child to be allowed," she explained. "So mum was pegging washing out in Loughrea, and the nun came behind her and just said 'the child of your sin is dead' and they threw her out the same day - that's all she ever knew about that baby." She said that her mother was traumatised by her experiences in the Mother and Baby Home. "I always tell people the nuns lived in our home because the nuns were always present - all the trauma, all the damage, all the pain, all the stories. "I can recall now, the names of the sisters who abused my mother, so for her to keep that secret for 50 years, was a tremendous stigma and shame visited on those women." After leaving the home, Ms O'Connor moved to Belfast, where she met Ms McKay's father. "She had my older brother in Belfast, but (the father) deserted her... she wrote to her sister in Bury and her brother-in-law came to rescue Maggie and my older brother. "My father reappeared again, then there were two more children, and then he deserted her for good. "So, Bury is where she remained and always described living in our town as a sanctuary." Ms McKay said that her mother had always referred to English people as "very welcoming" and had helped her though "traumatic episodes". "They had no idea about how deep the trauma was and how terrible the experience she's lived through." In 2015, the Government set up an investigation into 14 Mother and Baby homes and four county homes, which found "significant quantities" of human remains on the Tuam site. The inquiry found an "appalling level of infant mortality" in the institutions and said that no alarm was raised by the state over them, even though it was "known to local and national authorities". The State inquiry led to a formal government apology in 2021, the announcement of a redress scheme and an apology from the Sisters of Bon Secours. Ms McKay said that her mother had not been very interested in the redress scheme and had asked her daughter to deal with the proceedings. "A solicitor came and said she would take the case on and suddenly all this paperwork appeared - the baby's death certificate, the birth certificate and this place called Tuam. "Years later, in a story in an English newspaper: 'A terrible discovery in the West of Ireland of a grave containing a septic tank containing the bodies of 796 children'. "I knew she was on that list. And she was." A team of Irish and international forensic experts have today broken ground at the site of the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam. The excavation will take two years and will try to identify the remains of the infants who died between 1925 and 1961, more than 11 years after Catherine Corless first drew attention to the burial site. Ms McKay described as "absolutely momentous" the beginning of the work at the site today. "We were there last week, and the team gave us a chance to see what the site looks like now. It's forensically sealed and they were preparing to work. "I describe that journey as a chance to say goodbye for now." Ms McKay said that the day also feels "very hard and emotional". "I've had my DNA taken because I'm in the group described as old and vulnerable," she said. "Because I'm on the advisory board, I do have this bird's eye view of the discussions around DNA techniques, what's possible, what's not possible, the ages of the babies. "The way they've been lying in the water table, commingled remains; it is technically very, very difficult, but I have to have hope. "Even a thimble full of Mary Margaret, to place that baby with her mum, would mean everything."
NDTV
14-07-2025
- General
- NDTV
How 796 Babies Were Secretly Dumped In Septic Tanks By Nuns In Ireland
A woman whose sister was among the estimated 796 newborns secretly dumped in a septic tank beneath the St Mary's Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Ireland, has just one mission - to give her a dignified burial. The facility was run by the Bon Secours Sisters from 1925 to 1961, and Mary Margaret died there 80 years ago. Forensic experts started excavating the site recently after years of pressure from families and survivors seeking closure. Growing up, Manchester native Annette McKay, 71, was aware that she had an older sister who died when she was a baby. She was unaware that nuns had buried her in a mass grave. But one day, when Ms McKay gave birth to a son, she thought her mother, Maggie O'Connor, would be ecstatic to know that she had become a great-grandmother. However, she found her crying outside her house, saying, "It's the baby, the baby." Ms McKay told her mother, 70 at the time, that her great-grandson was doing well. Ms O'Connor was not referring to him. "Not your baby, my baby," she remarked, disclosing a long-kept secret. In June 1943, Nuns had informed Ms O'Connor, confined at the time as an unmarried teenage mother, that her "child of your sin is dead" without providing further details, and no dignified funeral was ever planned, CNN reported. Ms O'Connor later relocated to England, where she had six more children and led what seemed to be a beautiful life, said Ms McKay. She added that her "glossy exterior was part of her survival" and that this was her "armour." Ms McKay lamented that she never met her sister, but she took comfort in the thought that Ms Margaret was buried in a small tomb in the Irish countryside. But after the truth came to light, Ms McKay vowed not to rest until her sister's remains were laid to rest with dignity to keep her name at the forefront of this national reckoning. Ms McKay said she would not have her mother's name inscribed on her headstone until she can bring her back together with Mary Margaret. Pregnant girls and single women were taken to dozens of "homes", including the Tuam institution, to give birth in secret over the majority of the 20th century. Children were frequently taken from their mothers by force after they were born. The mother and baby homes didn't save "illegitimate children" before 1960, an Irish government inquiry, launched in 2015, found. Hundreds of babies perished, and their remains were thrown away; their mothers usually never found out what had happened to their children. Some babies were rehomed in places like Ireland, the United Kingdom, or even in other countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia.
