29/07/2013 BBC Newsline

Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline. The loyalist killer

Michael Stone is told he must remain in prison for at least another five

years. A mother whose son died taking legal highs pleads with other

teenagers. Don't touch that stuff. You won't

want to be left where Sean Paul was left. You wouldn't want to put your

parents through this. Balancing the books at Stormont, the DUP appoints

a new finance minister. Communities unite to call for calm after an

attack on a Protestant housing estate. More successful one of our

local golfers and we will hear why one Gaelic football manager wants

better protection for his players. And there is a risk of further flash

flooding in some parts this evening. has been told he must serve out the

whole of his original 30 year sentence for the sectarian murder of

six men. That means he will not be considered for release from prison

for at least five years. In 1988, he attacked an IRA funeral Milltown. He

was convicted of the killings and three others and jailed for 30

years. He was freed from the Maze on licence in 2000 under the terms of

the Good Friday Agreement but he breached that license only tried to

kill Sinn Fein leaders at Stormont in 2006. It was an attack which

version -- for which was given a 16 year sentence. That runs alongside

his term for the Milltown murders. There is some flash photography in

this report. Michael Stone was one of the most

notorious killers to be freed from prison under the Good Friday

Agreement. He had been sentenced to 30 years the six murders. Three of

them were carried out drink this attack on an IRA funeral in Milltown

Cemetery in Belfast in 1988. After his release, he reinvented himself

as an artist. But, in 2006, he lost an attack on Stormont, heavily armed

with knives and an axe and an imitation gun. He was stopped by

security guards before he could get into the great Hall. Please evacuate

behind the speakers. Although devolution had looked at this stage

been restored, the Assembly had been sitting as the parties were due to

nominate their choices for first Minister and deputy first minister.

The building was packed with journalists and TV crews ensuring

maximum audience. Although he claimed in court the attack was a

piece of performance art in keeping with his new career, the judge

rejected that defence. He was jailed for 16 years for attempting to

murder Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. Today, a court ruled

that he must serve out his 30 year sentence imposed after the Milltown

murders. The Lord Chief Justice agreed with the original trial judge

and said that Michael Stone had this -- had shown no remorse. He said he

had committed multiple murders with the intent to strike fear into the

community and that the effect on the victims families would with them

forever. Michael Stone was first imprisoned 25 years ago and his

timeout on licence after the Good Friday Agreement counts as part of

his sentence. It is unlikely he will be considered for release before

March 2018. The mother of a young West Belfast

man who died after taking legal highs has published a picture of him

in intensive care in hospital to warn others of the dangers of taking

such drugs. Sean Paul Carnahan died just over a week ago. She said that

after he took the drugs, his personality changed. She spoke to

the Nolan radio show this morning. You may find the bedside picture in

this report upsetting. Celebrating his birthday, a date he

shared with his mum. Just a few months after this photograph was

taken, Sean Paul Carnahan was in hospital and in intensive care. His

mum wants this picture to act as a warning to other young people about

the dangers of so-called legal highs. Don't touch that stuff. You

wouldn't want to be left the way that he was left. You wouldn't want

to put your parents through what we are going through now. The kids are

just devastated. His friends are devastated. So many friends. I only

help -- I only hope that nobody has to go through what we've been

through. All he ever did was smile. His mother says she knew he was

taking drugs but not which once. His mood began to change and more than

once he'd attempted suicide. became very aggressive. The next

day, he told me he couldn't remember and that he was sorry. He told me

who had tried to get off the stuff. He believes -- she believes that he

had taken China White, readily available in certain shops.

believe that if it wasn't easy to buy, it would not have happened to

Sean Paul. It is so easy to get that stuff. I feel like I don't want to

do anything. I just feel life is never going to be the same because

he didn't need to go that far. Everybody loved him. That popularity

showed with these mass cards, more than 600 of them centre 's family

when he died. The 22-year-old pictured with his youngest sister

lost his dad when he was just ten. Tracy believes his partying was in

some way trying to fill the void. It's thought two bodies found in a

car at the scene of an accident in County Mayo are those of two

children who went missing with their father. Garda believe that their

deaths were not the result of the crash. Detectives had been searching

for the man and his sons, aged ten and five. They left their home in

County Carlow yesterday and had not been seen since. Police responding

to a single vehicle crash this afternoon discovered the bodies

inside the car. The driver was not seriously injured.

Stormont has a new finance minister. The DUP MLA for

Strangford, someone how -- Simon Hamilton, replaces Sammy Wilson in a

party rotation that was flagged up two years ago. Peter Robinson says

there will be more changes in the New Year and maybe not just of the

Department of Health, where he has already said that Edward boots would

be replaced by Jim Wells. -- it boots.

Simon Hamilton has been the finance minister in waiting to two years. He

has been the private secondary to the man he now follows into one of

the Executive's most important jobs, Sammy Wilson, who used to call

him his apprentice. Compared to the man he is replacing, Simon Hamilton

is relatively unknown and relatively inexperienced and he says he's ready

for the job. I'm ready for it. I've had two years to prepare. I want to

learn from Sammy, I want to learn who the people are and I'm ready for

the challenges. He will not be as flamboyant as his predecessor.

Bay-mac the Department has spent �7 on flags and flagpoles in the last

five years. So you can see that we get good bargains for the flag in

Northern Ireland! He asked me have I left any notes? There is a note that

says, Simon, there is plenty of money, but you're going to have to

look very hard to find it. One way would be to introduce water charges.

If we introduce water charges, the people paying them are the ones who

are being squeezed in the middle. It would be counterintuitive. People

who would be suffering already having to pay much more. I don't

want to ask those people who are suffering for more money. Compare to

Sammy Wilson, it is a case of Sammy who. The editor of his local paper

is -- believes the job is made for him. He is well versed in the

financial side of him is -- things. The party have hand-picked somebody

for this job and they could not have picked anybody better. You will,

however, want to avoid -- avoid any more encounters like this. Can the

deputy confirm he is not it in the position to recommend acceptance of

any financial package that is currently on offer on further -- and

further negotiation is required? First of all, I'm not the deputy.

And the deputy first minister. In a department where there is equality

between the first minister and myself, and don't you ever forget

it. Simon Hamilton says he's got the best job in the Executive. It is

also one of the most difficult. And the finance minister is with me.

What is your top priority? The top priority for any minister is

ensuring that you have sound and sustainable public finances for the

future, which is a challenge that Sammy faced. And that he overcame,

even though there were widespread predictions of public spending, and

doom and gloom. He has provided me a fantastic platform and great

foundation to move forward. And I will try to drive much more reform

into the public sector so that people get better value for money in

public services. As he well knows, there have been massive cuts coming

from Westminster, but Italy to do with welfare reform, something the

parties have not agreed on. How are you going to get that agreement from

him? It is not my direct responsibility. But your finger is

on the purse. We have had a warning from the Treasury that if we fail,

we could get money taken out of our budget. That is a substantial

amount. On top of the reductions. Given the times we are in and the

pressures we are under, we face some encouraging signs in the economy,

but we do have a burden and we need some agreement on this. You spoke

about it about them heard in on a lot of people in Northern Ireland

who might be in employment but have high food costs, energy costs,

you're not in favour of introducing water charges, but what else can you

do to help them? Amp out my successes have been able to keep

morale in us having the lowest household taxes in the UK. That is a

hard earned reputation. I think what we need to do is look at what we are

spending already and ask ourselves if we are getting good value for

money. Is the way we have done things the best way, is there better

value we can get, different ways in which can provide the same services

that can be better. And look at how we do things rather than just going

for the knee-jerk reaction. Does that mean less red tape and perhaps

more cuts within the civil service in regards to jobs? We've done

pretty well over the last couple of years by not producing the headcount

in the civil service. What we are talking about here is dealing with

less public spending but also increased demands about what the

government should be delivering. And we're looking at new and innovative

ways of delivering services that we have because this is what is going

to be here for, right up 2018 and beyond. We are used to Sammy Wilson

and his relaxed style, what would your style B?

I am not going to try and emulate Sami's style. He is one in a

million. I am going to try to do this job to the best of my

abilities, I am a serious, thoughtful person.

It is important job, a job I have been in training for for two years,

I am ready for the challenges ahead and I look forward to working with

colleagues in the executive to try and make Northern Ireland as great a

place as it can be. Congratulations on your new job and thank you for

joining us. The police are to mount extra

patrols in west Belfast following the weekend's sectarian violence.

Cars and homes were attacked on Friday night. Communities say

relations across the divide have not been damaged by the attacks. The

attack on this street was described by police as a hate crime. It is a

small, mainly Protestant estate on the outskirts of west Belfast. At

the weekend it was attacked by a crowd of up to 100 people.

One resident who did not want her face shone on camera pulled me what

happened. They were like animals. If there had

have been anyone on this road they would have been a murder scene.

How'd did you feel as you watched it happen? Terrified. Police officers

-- residents claimed that police officer suggested residents move out

of the area. The police officer said, if these incidents keep on

upcoming, maybe you should consider packing up and moving out.

In response, the police said they are aware of the claim and were

investigating it. In spite of what happened here at the weekend,

community relations remain relatively good.

Right away on Friday night, both sides of the community came together

to try and stop the attack. On Saturday morning we met again and we

have been out on the streets since then with our colleagues across the

divide, so to speak. There is community support all around here,

as we thought they would be. It was not one community causing problems

for another, these were a party coming through. It was an not attack

by one community on the other. Community workers, politicians and

residents later met with the police to work out ways to try to prevent

further attacks. We want more police on the ground and we want to be left

in peace. We want more police because maybe then the ones who were

in the estate on Friday night were not want to see the police and will

not come in. Extra patrols have been promised and as a sign of cross

community solidarity, Sinn Fein and SDLP politicians stood beside the

local Protestant residents as the appealed for the violence to stop.

There is a lot more to come in the programme, including a chat with the

golfer Michael Hoey, who won the The police in County Tyrone are

asking for help as they try to find a woman who has not been seen by her

family since last October. Charlotte Murray is 34 and had been living in

the area. Today her sisters, including her identical twin, urged

anyone who knows of her whereabouts to contact police. They also made an

emotional, direct appeal to her sister.

Tell us where you are, tell us that you are OK. Somebody somewhere knows

something. Please, just get in touch. If someone knows where

Charlotte is, please get in touch, put us out of our misery, because we

are just... We are just sick, we don't know, and we just need to

know. Please, anybody, anything at all, we just need to know. Next to

something called Wing nuts. Our new finance minister is one of them.

They are all fans of the American television series West Wing. Emily

has gone to Stormont -- there has been a gathering at Stormont as to

episodes were shown in the Belfast Great Hall as part of the Belfast

Festival. Our correspondent was there for us.

As they say in the West Wing, what with me. Into that world of drama,

intrigue and power that was Jed He -- these famous fictional

politicos proved popular at Stormont. A lot of people have never

been to Stormont and this is a lovely way to experience the

building. Why do people like the West Wing so much?

It is fantastic rating, very modern and PC. There were several MLAs in

the audience, including the new finance minister, who thinks the

West Wing is true to life as it tackles difficult issues.

Who is your favourite character? It is hard to get past that. Maybe it

is too much idealism on my part, he was an idealistic president everyone

wanted to have as president, but he was so well acted by Martin Sheen it

is hard to get him. Can you tell us if you will be

seeking a second term? Some say this episode, two

cathedrals, is the best hour of television drama ever made. I am

ashamed to say this, but I sometimes watch the last ten minutes on

YouTube, regularly. Some say the show is too idealistic.

Martina, you have to look after the real world, but in drama we can

dream a wee bit. Would you have Jed Bartlett in Stormont?

There may be a Jed Bartlett in there, but he is keeping himself

head in at Michael but for one politician, the West Wing was a new

experience. -- there is keeping himself hidden. I got the box set

with my hands and and we are watching it from scratch. Is there

anything that remains you of Stormont? Not really, they are all

very glamorous there. Yes, the glamour of Stormont. That

real-life drama returns for a new season in September.

Stormont has its own style. Austin O'Callaghan is Europe with news of a

welcome return to form for a local golfer. You may be thinking it is

Rory, but it is Belfast was Michael Michael Hoey who is celebrating his

fifth career victory on the European Tour after winning the Russian Open

in Moscow. Apart from a paycheque of around �142,000, it is a boost to

morale for the 34-year-old. His final putt was one of the

easiest of the round. In the end, Michael Hoey had what -- four shots

to spear of the risk of the field and a closing round of 7210 to 16

under par for a man who had missed seven cuts in his previous ten

tournament. Everything seemed to come right here. Everything went

right for me, I pushed my drive on 18 and everything went perfectly it

was kind of lucky, but I parted really well. Can't believe it,

really. Before Moscow, he was right outside of the world's top 300. This

victory sees him climb more than 100 places up the rankings.

I have not been very consistent, but when I have a chance I have been

able to do it. Five wins in European Tours is amazing. I have to try at

best on and win the Dunhill again. St Andrews is Michael Hoey's next

big target. On this form he will fancy his chances. Ulster counties

will make up half of Gaelic football's All-Ireland quarterfinal

victory ten. Monaghan play Tyrone, Cavan take on

Kerry and Donegal will play Mayo. Their manager is urging referees to

give his players better protection. Donegal are back on track we gone

from the Ulster deplete -- defeat. After victory Jim McGuinness took

the opportunity not to talk about that win but to voice concerns that

his players are being targeted and he thinks there should have more

protection from referees. It followed a serious injury

suffered by Mark McCue against Monaghan. I was not happy that one

of my players suffered a busted eardrum and was knocked unconscious

and they had a five centimetres hole in the quad as a result of an

impact. That has been tough. As a manager you have a duty of tear to

your players. My biggest fear is there is going to be a serious

injury to one of my players. Not about losing, but maybe there will

be a spinal cord or neck injury. I think that is a real policy --

possibility that we players have been targeted at the moment.

Having lost to Donegal two months ago, Tyrone made there way into the

last eight inspired by eight points from midfielders Sean Cavanagh. I

display his manager described as his best ever for the county. We needed

some moment, we needed a statement for this new squad, and we are

making that bit by bit. But you don't make statements just by

winning the games, you advance as far as you can in the series.

in the quarterfinal, deleted to be there. We have gone out to battles

of different kinds. -- delighted. If we are at our bests, we have a

fighting chance. If we are below par it will be the end of the road. As

well as the usual suspects, Cavan in the quarterfinals as they their

first championship match at team -- GAA headquarters.

The Milk Cup youth football tournament began today with the

cream of young soccer talent on display all this week. It also gave

a testing ground for those starting When your team is facing one of the

biggest clubs in world football, motivation is key, and that was the

task facing one of the youngest managers at this year's Milk Cup

tournament when Liverpool arrived to play County Tyrone this afternoon.

I am honoured, to something I will always remember. My first game as

manager is against Liverpool, especially with the Brendan Rodgers

connection. I admire him and it is very special for me. There is stuff

I will be able to take away from that to learn and pass it onto the

boys, good experience for involved. With Glentoran's Richard Clarke as

his assistant, the junior Tyrone team put up a fight against one of

the world's most decorated clubs. But the Merseyside team took a 2-0

win. Up next for Connor and County Tyrone

is Southampton tomorrow. Not bad for your first steps in management.

The next Sir Alex, who knows? If you were lucky, you may have escaped

today's showers. Let's get the today's showers. Let's get the

forecast. The general setup has not changed a lot in the last few days,

except for the intensity. Of course, there are more showers to

come this week, some could be on the heavy side in the middle part of the

week and we will be looking at a longer spell of rain for a time,

too. Away from the rain and showers, a few bright spells on offer and it

is still relatively warm. It is that warmth which is one of the factors

which helped the showers to grow. I don't think too many places avoided

them, some of the biggest have been across the North and in two parts of

the East. This was taken near Queens University, lightning bolt striking

over Belfast. We also have some dirty menacing clouds building over

Castlerock. This storm cell moved east and someone spotted another

funnel cloud. Things have been very lively. We have some downpours this

evening, though they are starting to shrink. There are still a risk of

localised flash flooding, particularly in the north and east,

but they will die away during the night turning bright with those

little bit of fresh at ten or 11 Celsius. Tomorrow, bright, some

sunny spells, heavy showers developing, and very unpleasant on

the roads. After a dry start, showers will develop quickly from

about 9am on words. They may not be quite as frequent as today, but they

could break out anywhere and could be just as intense. We're looking at

some of those showers giving a lot of rain and some becoming thundery,

in between quite warm, 20 or 21 Celsius. They dry away tomorrow

night to give a dry start on Wednesday, but then we have more