An architect by trade, Mike Treanor established Mullan Lighting in the border village of Mullan, Co Monaghan in 2009. The village had suffered following the closure of the Border Brand shoe factory in the 1970s, but the emergence of Mullan Lighting has been instrumental in rejuvenating the area. In the tint village, it employs 75 people, and now occupies the site of the former shoe factory. It is, by any standards, a local business with an international outlook. Now, the company is currently doubling the size of its manufacturing facilities in a million euro expansion project and has just launched…