21/04/2016 BBC Newsline


21/04/2016

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A priest has assured a grieving family that they don't stand alone

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against "those who live in the shadows".

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He was speaking at the funeral of 33-year-old Michael McGibbon,

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murdered in a paramilitary-style shooting in an alleyway

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near his home in North Belfast on Friday night.

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His widow Joanne and their four children led the mourners

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at the funeral mass at Holy Cross Church in Ardoyne.

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The words most important in the life and the family

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of 33-year-old Michael McGibbon - husband, daddy, brother, son.

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At Holy Cross, joined by more than 800 mourners,

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Joanne McGibbon stood with her four children - Seana, Shea,

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Michaela, Cory-Leigh - and helped them begin the process

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Inside, reassurance that in their grief after the murder,

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the family of Michael McGibbon do not stand alone.

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The vast majority of people here in Ardoyne and beyond this parish

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are with them, standing strong with them

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against those who live in the shadows and emerge

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from the shadows to perpetrate foul deeds which deprived

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a wife of her husband, children of their daddy,

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a father of his son and siblings of a brother.

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Children from Holy Cross Boys' School played and sang,

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schoolfriends of eight-year-old Shea.

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The death of Michael McGibbon marks another block on the road to

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Thank God for that peace that we had, but

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remember it is very fragile and needs to be nurtured.

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As the family moved on to the committal in Carnmoney,

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The Queen has been celebrating her 90th birthday today and a number

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of events have been taking place here to mark the occasion.

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There was a 21-gun salute at Hillsborough Castle this

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afternoon, and this evening beacons were lit in various parts

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A 21 gun salute to mark the Queen's 21 visit to Northern Ireland.

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More than 900 beacons were lit across the UK,

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including this one in the grounds of Belfast City Hall.

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And helping to light it was Albert Moore,

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who also has good reason to celebrate today.

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He was born within ten minutes of the Queen and has always

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Absolutely charming person. If you speak to her, say a word to her, she

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elaborates on as if she has no new all your life.

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During the Queen's Diamond Jubilee tour in 2012, she visited

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St Macartin's Cathedral in Enniskillen before crossing

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the street to St Michael's Catholic Church.

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An interdenominational service was held before

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Meanwhile, another birthday girl, Peggy Bogue,

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It's an honour to be included in it. I enjoyed it when I was over in

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Buckingham Palace when I was 18, it was lovely and we had a great time.

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-- 80. And the celebrations

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continued in the North West, a spectacular light show rounding

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off a momentous day. Businessman Sean Quinn has condemned

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abusive and threatening signs which have appeared at a wind farm

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which was once part of It comes after a Cork company

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working at the wind farm moved off In a statement, Mr Quinn said

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the intimidation of workers was offensive and unacceptable,

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though he added that more could be done to address the unease

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and tension in the area. There has been a long series

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of attacks on businesses which were once owned

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by Mr Quinn in Fermanagh. Work has started on what will be

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Northern Ireland's second The ?20 million project

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is being financed by Belfast Harbour and aims to be ready by the end

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of the year. Our business correspondent

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Julian O'Neill reports. Planning permission for the studios

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was obtained in February Builders are on site, aiming

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to complete the project by December. The studio complex is off the M2

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on the fringes of Belfast Docks in a redevelopment area known

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as Giant's Park. Belfast Harbour is funding

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the scheme and has consulted with film companies

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on the building's This project will clearly make

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Northern Ireland number two in Europe in terms of film location,

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number two only to the south-east of England, which is dominated

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by international names Northern Ireland is developing

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a reputation as a cost-effective venue for major film

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and TV productions. Demand for specialist space

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is strong, with the only other major venue in Titanic Quarter usually

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tied up doing HBO's Game of Thrones. Belfast Harbour is seeking

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to capitalise on Helped by grants and UK tax breaks,

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Belfast is on the movie map, supporting jobs

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and generating millions of pounds' worth of spend by

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international production companies. Newry firm O'Hare and McGovern has

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been awarded the construction contract and it says the project

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will provide work for 200 people. The Liberal Democrat peer

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who was responsible for liberalising abortion law in Britain says it's

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ridiculous that Northern Ireland continues to operate under

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the 1861 legislation. Lord David Steel introduced the 1967

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Abortion Act to Britain, but that doesn't apply to Northern

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Ireland. Speaking in an interview

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for The View tonight, Lord Steel says the legislation

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is outdated and shouldn't Well, I think we have to face up

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to the fact that the law in Northern Ireland is simply ridiculous -

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1861, and it is time they came up at least

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as far as 1967 if not 2016. You can see all of that,

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including inside the legislation vault, on The View just

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after this programme. He was born in Dublin but always

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regarded himself as an Ulsterman. 100 years ago today,

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Sir Roger Casement was arrested by British authorities

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as he returned to Ireland from Germany, where he'd

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been seeking support He was later hanged for treason

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at London's Pentonville Prison. His arrest at Banna Strand

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in County Kerry was marked today with a special ceremony,

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as Mervyn Jess reports. The Irish President was among those

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who gathered at Banna Strand near Tralee today to remember

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Sir Roger Casement, who was arrested shortly after coming ashore

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from a German U-boat Years later, his remains were

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returned to Ireland and buried in Dublin with full military honours.

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The Dublin-born Protestant grew up in County Antrim and was a former

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British diplomat who sympathised with the Irish nationalists.

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Throughout his life, Roger Casement always thought

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When he and a small number of friends, including

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Erskine Childers, took the initiative of the Kilcoole gun

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runnings in the summer of 1914, they had in mind the example

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of the Ulster Volunteers, who had imported guns from Germany

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This World War I U-boat gun has been sited in Bangor

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for the best part of a century, given to the town in memory of a

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local sailor who won the VC, but it has a connection with

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It is from the German submarine which brought

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Roger Casement back to Ireland from Germany.

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It is no coincidence that the U-boat which carried

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Roger Casement to Ireland, its gun was presented

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to a town in Ireland, and when I refer to Ireland I refer

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to it as it was before 1922, went everybody referred

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Today, Sir Roger Casement was remembered with a wreath-laying near

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Banna Strand, the place where he was arrested.

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The curlew was once common here but has been in decline

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Now a local conservationist is walking 500 miles from Fermanagh

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to England's east coast to try and help efforts to save it,

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as our agriculture and environment correspondent

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In her distinctive curlew-emblazoned jumper, I meet conservationist

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Mary Colwell at a Fermanagh wetland where the birds are known to nest.

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This kind of boggy place provides them with food and cover,

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but drainage schemes to improve farmland have seen habitat diminish

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and that's hammered numbers of this once-common bird of moor

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and mountain, with its evocative call.

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To raise awareness, Mary plans to walk 500 miles from Enniskillen

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to the east coast of England, through places

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I love the way they look, the long bill, it makes me laugh, it looks

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quite comical, and combine that with its call,

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which is evocative and beautiful, especially this time of year

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when they are breeding and you have a collection of characteristics

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This area is managed to help the bird.

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And with just a couple of hundred breeding pairs left

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It'll take Mary six weeks to complete her trek.

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She says she feels she must do something to help a bird

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