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the headlines: Greysteel remembers, 20 years on. Families of the victims

pay tribute to their loved ones. Total dedication to their family. A

good woman. Attempts by the DUP to prevent same

sex marriage from happening here are criticised by an equality group.

Sectarian chanting mars a local football match. The sports world

governing body FIFA warns of future sanctions.

Find out why ticking a box could help young people in foster care go

to university. Granddaughters of the unionist

leader Lord Carson visit Northern Ireland for the first time.

Rugby Ireland's scrum half is off the hook for the Autumn

Internationals and the women have a tough draw in the World Cup.

And in the weather, showers and blustery South West winds are the

story for the next 24 hours. Within hours of the Shankill

bombing, there was speculation about where and how loyalist

paramilitaries might retaliate. A number of Catholics were killed in

subsequent days. Then, 20 years ago tonight came a gun attack on a bar

in a quiet County Londonderry village and the name of Greysteel

was added to the terrible litany of the Troubles. Our reporter in the

north west, Keiron Tourish, who covered the 1993 attack for BBC

Newsline is back in Greysteel this evening.

Well, 20 years on, there is still a palpable sense of loss in this

community. Many people here simply want to remember their loved ones in

a very quiet and dignified way. In the past few days, I've spoken to

those who were bereaved, those who went to help and those who've tried

to make sure the village can recover.

It was one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles. UFF men entered

this are in Greysteel and shop dead seven people. An ace man died later.

Before opening fire, one of the gunmen shouted trick or treat and

the youngest victim replied, that is not funny. A 59-year-old mother of

five was also one of the bacon. Her son save the family want to look to

a more positive, peaceful future. -- was also one of the victims. Total

dedication to her family. A good woman. The shock when it happened,

the world was torn apart. As time has gone by, it is healing. It will

never stop but you become a stronger person. For those present that

night, it was a dreadful experience they will never forget. Willow-macro

we were stunned. -- we were stunned. There were people that were

obviously shot and wounded laid on the floor, slumped in seats, lying

across tables, people work flying and screaming and all wanting to

help. It was actually very overwhelming. This witness was in

the pub and spoke to me on the night. His uncle was shot dead. The

whole place was screaming, everybody was screaming. I couldn't believe

it. We were terrified. It was all over in two minutes. Two minutes,

four bursts of machine gun fire. In the wake of the tragedy, the

community in Greysteel was besieged by the world of Mac media. -- the

world's leader. -- media. John Hume broke down, reflecting the sense of

the world and felt throughout the wider public.

One priest who was based in the village at the time says it was a

terrible loss of life, the Greysteel community was determined to work

together. Father Stephen Kinney is retired and based near Omagh. the

message was stay that as we are, though we are ourselves. The

forgiveness aspect of it, which is something that people in the press

latch onto, and it was real. The people of Greysteel, through each

other, found the strength or the freedom to offer forgiveness. But

people in Greysteel have been trying to move on with their lives. Is this

units have developed to if the area new employment and renewal. For

employers, they sense the determination to foster even greater

community harmony. Greysteel is a lovely community. I am not here

myself -- from here but I have felt embraced here. I think it is a great

face. It is a race that is very much together, everybody has got a great

sense of community. I think we are in a better Northern Ireland now and

I throw that we have lasting peace here and I hope that everybody can

talk together and make it that we have no more violent or anybody

tiling -- dying again. This evening, there will be an anniversary Mass in

the local chapel at which Protestant ministers aren't you to attend.

Afterwards relatives and friends will make their way here to the

memorial for especial cross community service. After that, Babel

pray for the dead and injured just as they did on this spot 20 years

ago. There will be assigned for those who died and afterwards, local

children in the choir will perform a final hymn. It will undoubtedly be a

very emotional evening. The Equality Commission has said it

backs same sex marriage for gay and lesbian couples. It's the first time

the commission has entered the debate. It says it's a fundamental

issue that needs to be addressed by legislation. Conor Macauley reports.

Northern Ireland was the last part of the UK to be criminalised

homosexuality and in 2005 the first to perform civil partnerships. In

the intervening years, members of the gay community have campaigned

for equal marriage rights. Twice, the Semi has voted in favour, twice

the DUP has tabled a veto to block it. Now, for the first time, the

equality commission has entered the debate. we have said that we support

same-sex marriage. It is a fundamental equality matter. It

needs to be addressed, leadership needs to be shown, people that we

talk to from the gay and lesbian community feel let down by the ace.

We then there was an opportunity to provide leadership here. Some oppose

it on religious grounds. This is where peoples rights will get

trampled on. If the definition of marriage is to be changed, once

there is the change in the legal definition of marriage, then those

who take a concrete review will find themselves up against the law. But

those who have been to the fore in the campaign to have the laws

changed, they say it is no longer tenable. stop hijacking what family

is and we all needed and stop denying that we have it. I love

family values, and I am gay. The commission says Northern Ireland

could be falling behind when it comes to laws tackling

discrimination when it comes to disability and sexual orientation.

The Secretary of State, Theresa Villiers, says all possible efforts

will be made to find those responsible for a recent spate of

bomb attacks. She was speaking after meeting staff at Stormont Castle who

yesterday intercepted a letterbomb addressed to her. Last night, a

controlled explosion was carried out on a viable device found in the

Village area of South Belfast. There was also a second alert on the

Stormont estate this morning which ended with nothing being found,

while another alert at the High Court also turned out to be a false

alarm. These attacks are reckless, disgraceful, and they just won't

succeed. There was very strong support for the current political

settlement here. There was strong support for moving forward and not

going back to a very bitter and divided past.

World football's governing body may order local clubs to play games

behind closed doors if some fans persist in sectarian chanting. The

warning from one of FIFA's vice presidents, Jimmy Boyce, came after

an announcement at last night's Linfield Cliftonville match - saying

that the game would be abandoned if fans didn't stop singing sectarian

songs. Thomas Kane reports. And times, it almost seemed like the

match was a second every event. -- a secondary event. Tenants before the

end of the game, an announcement was made on the public address system.

-- ten minutes before the end of the game. It is difficult to make out

that was a plea for the chancing to stop. Following the announcement,

our camera now -- camera microphone didn't pick up any further sectarian

chancing but there is no question that before it was made, both sets

of fans were involved. This was an example of some of the earlier

singing. It was particularly bad midway

through the second half. SECTARIAN CHANTING. Some supporters

appeared to criticise what was going on. Cliftonville say they will not

tolerate any form of sectarianism and in conjunction with IFA continue

to strive to eradicate from football. At Lingfield today, they

also released a statement condemning the behaviour, saying they have

worked hard and they will continue to work hard to oppose sectarianism

and any other forms of intolerance which have no place in the game.

Former Cliftonville chairman Jim Boyce was at the match coach and

spoke to us on route to a meeting at Geneva. What FIFA and UEFA are going

to do is set out guidelines. They have threatened closure of sections

of the grounds with this behaviour occurs from. If it then occurs, they

can order games to be played behind closed doors and, if it continues,

then there will be point actually deducted from clubs. He also

reiterated that the days of fining clubs are over, insisting it was a

waste of time. It is night up to the Irish football Association. The

government --... BBC Newsline made several attempts

to contact the IFA today but no-one was available for comment. A

statement from the IFA is expected later tonight. Earlier, I spoke to

the group sports editor of the Belfast Telegraph, Jim Gracey. I

asked him first, in his 30 years of reporting local football, if he

could recall a public announcement warning that a match would have to

be abandoned in such circumstances. Not in my time. I have in around

football for quite some time. I have seen worse incidents than that but I

have never heard of an incident where a game was threatened to be

abandoned. Every some confusion as to whether this was from the referee

but the announcement was certainly made and it needed to be made and it

had the desired effect. The club say the chancing was from a small

minority of fans but a new guidelines that will be introduced

by FIFA city clear and they could mean that matches will be played

behind closed doors. Is that realistic which Mark --? People are

fed up with opening up their newspapers and hearing that there

has been sick Caribbean behaviour -- sectarian behaviour. The police need

to take a firmer hand on this. It doesn't happen anywhere else. It

doesn't happen in places of entertainment or other sports

grounds. These people who say -- do it suspect they will get away with

it. If they knew that the law was going to come down hard on them, I

think you would find it would desist. What can clubs do to try and

stamp it out completely? To be fair to them, a lot of clubs have taken

steps. This ban cannot be made blanket across the whole of the

league, it should be but it hasn't been. There are people who have been

banned from Clifton home -- from some games that have been able to go

to other games. The crowds are winding in Irish league football,

what kind of damage does it do? it does shocking damage. People hear

about this and they form an opinion of football and football grounds and

what goes on there. It is not always strictly true. It doesn't go on at

every ground and it doesn't go on week in week out but at the ticker

times, it does raise ugly head. If we had stronger and firmer laws in

operation, we could stamp this out. We did incidentally speak to the

match referee and he tells us he didn't call for the game to be

abandoned but did ask for a call to didn't call for the game to be

be put out over the tannoy for the sectarian chanting to stop.

Plenty to come before 7pm, including: Is Halloween the latest

holiday headache for parents when it comes to entertaining the kids?

Young people who have to be taken into care begin life with much

poorer educational chances. They are much less likely to get five good

GCSEs, and that can damage their chances of getting into university.

Only one in 20 go to university from the care system - much fewer than

teenagers in general. The good news is that admitting they've been in

care can open the doors to more help and our education correspondent,

Maggie Taggart, has been meeting one young man whose future is looking

bright. When Matthew Bingham walked to the

University of Ulster, it was because the nation of years of hard work by

him with support from his foster carers and his birth family.

Declaring his background in care on his University application form did

not help them get on his University application form did not help them

get onto a course, but it opened the door to extra financial help. They

can get extra financial support they can get practical support in terms

of help and they can get support if they manage difficulties at

university. There is a worry that students from care may be

stigmatised by identifying themselves. I was worried that it

would make using different and draw attention to you. That people would

think differently of you. But it is not like that at all. It is just to

give you the support you need. Matthew has been in a foster home

since he was three and his carer says he has overcome some obstacles

to go to university. Matthew's life has not been the easiest. That is

why it is great, as a foster mum, to know that he can get extra support

that I cannot always give. The box to take on a University application

form has been there since 2000, but a mixture of ignorance and fear of

stigma with not enough people have actually ticked bandbox. This

campaign aims to change that box. Still to come - He was the first man

to sign the Ulster Covenant. Today, Lord Carson's granddaughters

saw the table where history was made.

Most schoolchildren are halfway through the half-term break. But how

do working parents cope with keeping them occupied? For many people, it's

quite a juggling act. Chris Page has more.

Having a family and a job can mean giving any -- keeping a lot of balls

in the air, particularly during school holidays. Parents often rely

on holiday clubs -- can't rely on holiday clubs are schemes like this

one become increasingly cock popular during half term. The Halloween

schemes are becoming more and more popular. Mums and dads need the

childcare during the Halloween period as well. His sports, drama

and dance scheme takes place in a school that is otherwise empty. But

schools are do not always keep in step with each other. Some get a

longer time than others. So how can parents solve the childcare

Christmas then to Easter, then the Christmas then to Easter, then the

summer. As you finish the one, you have to plan for the next one. You

just do your best. There is a big cost involved. You have to pay for

all the weeks but you just get on with it. Many kids look forward to

October half term more than some other holidays, perhaps because of

activities like this. At this theme park near Omagh, the Halloween torch

lights have been up for several weeks. Children's coming in their

hundreds. But finding time to make family memories if -- might be

difficult if holidays do not match up. It is difficult with childcare

to arrange my holidays. We just won't have a nice time together as a

family, that can be awkward to arrange and manage. In times gone

by, organising family life was simpler. Now there was more on offer

and managing children's holidays can be a cobbler K to business.

Their grandfather is one of the most famous men in the history of

Northern Ireland. But before today Morwenna Sivright and Sally

Greenhall - both in their 80s - had never even been here. But as our

political correspondent Gareth Gordon now reports this afternoon

they were guests of honour at Stormont in the shadow of Lord

Carson's statue. Under the gaze of a much more recent

Unionist leader arises descendant of the most famous one of all, Lord

Carson. He never wanted a parliament at Stormont, a fact not lost on his

granddaughters. He was a union man, you wanted Ireland as a whole, not

to be broken up. That was not the dream. On their first visit to

Northern Ireland from their home in England, the sisters were welcomed

by the speaker of Stormont's latest incarnation, the Assembly. The bad

weather meant they had to view this statue of their famous relatives

from the comfort of a car. Inside, they got much closer to a bust of

Lord Carson. But what about claims from that -- that their grandfather

had claimed -- and referred to the children from his marriage as a rum

had claimed -- and referred to the lot. I heard that, too. The eldest,

we have not been alive to know what he got up to. We don't even know

when he died. You don't think he directed that, that your own father?

He may well have done! He was very much the younger son and got up to

mischief. He went into the Navy to avoid something. The enterprise

minister show them around Parliament buildings. We have never seen these,

we have only read about it. And there was the table on which, in

1912, Lord Carson signed the Ulster Covenant. It was either the council

chamber of Belfast City Hall. 78 years ago this week, the remains of

Lord Carson were brought back to Northern Ireland on his final

journey. Until you came, no one was buried there. The sisters made the

two hours and this cathedral their final stop. -- in this cathedral --

in this cathedral. They look like they had a good day.

A boost for Ireland's Rugby squad ahead of the autumn internationals

and some daunting news for the women's team. Gavin's here.

British and Irish Lion Connor Murray is available for Ireland's November

internationals after a citing hearing found the Munster scrum-half

should not be banned. He was cited for striking with the elbow during

Munster's win over Glasgow Warriors last Friday and is now clear to face

Samoa, Australia and New Zealand next month. Ireland's women's team

will also face New Zealand. They've been drawn in the same group as the

Black Ferns for next summer's World Cup in France. Since winning the Six

Nations tournament earlier this Cup in France. Since winning the Six

year, women's rugby here has never been more popular, and as Nikki

Gregg reports the team have been out and about trying to recruit the next

generation. There is flash photography in this report.

Nor a key figure in Ireland's grand slam earlier this year. Now she is

making sure that this success last. Coaching clinics are being staged

here at this run a school in Newry and at schools across the province.

They're designed to give girls a chance to try out rugby and see if

they catch the bug. We don't see what goes on at ground level and how

they catch the bug. We don't see girls become more interested. It is

great to see the enthusiasm that they have. They are eager to get

involved, to try something new. For those who are unfamiliar with the

game, there are a few misconceptions to clear up. They compare us to the

Ulster men's team, and you have to be big, huge, physical. But a lot of

these girls looked at me and were surprised that we were the same

size. It shows that this game can be for anyone. It seems that message is

getting across. I have never played rugby before, so it was good

experience. I didn't I'd like it, but I would like to try to gain,

it's been brilliant. We have had massive growth within the female

game. We have secondary teams, six in the pipeline ready to go.

Provided the club game continues to prosper, these are seems we may get

used to. -- these are seems we may get used to.

Rory McIlroy says he's confident he can still reach the European tour's

season finale in Dubai - but it will take a big performance in this

week's World Golf Championship event in China. McIlroy and a handful of

the world's best players were treated to this welcome in Shanghai.

But there can be no room for distractions for the 24-year-old

this week as he aims to salvage something from a season that's seen

him slip from world number one to sixth in the rankings. He's 62nd on

a European Tour money list which he won last season and needs a good

finish if he's to guarantee a place in Dubai.

I feel like my game is in good shape. Last week, I fund (it well.

So if I can get other parts of my game back on track, and give myself

opportunities, it looks good. McIlroy is paired with Luke Donald

and Jason Dufner tomorrow. Thank you, Gavin. I think Rory

McIlroy is on the verge of something big. Now, was it only me or did the

temperatures feel like they were plummeting? Will you tell us?

We have seen some lively showers during the day. Shell is working

their way from west to east. This evening and tonight, it is a much

drier picture. We are not without showers overnight but there will be

confined to the north coast in the main. Temperatures dropping off

quite markedly. So we head into Thursday, that Shari, blustery

picture continues through the day. -- that showery blustery picture.

The rain will come farther inland during the day tomorrow. The West

and the North are going to bear the brunt of them. But it is not a

uniform picture. The Southeast will get the best of any brightness. If

you are out with the kids tomorrow night, the chance of a few showers

in the early part of the evening. Temperatures dropping off overnight.

Friday looks like the best day of the week to get out and about. It is

going to be a dry day, a brighter day. The message really is to make

the most of Friday because take a look at what is heading our way.

This low pressure system has got some newspapers excited. There was

nothing to suggest that it is any more than a regulation autumn storm

but it sits over Ireland on Saturday. With wind and rain

swirling around, things could get lively for us. So this is how things

stack up over the next few days. We will see some showery, blustery

conditions tomorrow and probably a better day by the time it gets to

Thursday, and then the weekend will be a little bit wet and wild. For

more information, check out the BBC weather website. Make the most of

Friday, is the message. Not good news, Jeff!

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