:00:28. > :00:34.Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline: The redundancies begin
:00:34. > :00:38.for workers at the Patton Group in Ballymena.
:00:38. > :00:43.Basically, we have all been made redundant and that's it. That's
:00:43. > :00:47.what we expected. A Turkish court hears evidence from
:00:47. > :00:51.a key witness in the murder of two County Down women.
:00:51. > :00:56.A priest who has tried to talk to dissident republicans dismisses
:00:56. > :00:59.them as mindless morons. Honoured with a memorial headstone
:00:59. > :01:03.after 94 years - a tribute to this Portadown soldier.
:01:03. > :01:06.We hear from the All-Ireland winning Gaelic football manager who
:01:07. > :01:12.has joined the backroom team at Glasgow's Centre it.
:01:12. > :01:20.And a cool weekend with a sharp showers but it won't be wet all the
:01:20. > :01:24.time. I have the forecast. More than half the staff at the
:01:24. > :01:29.Ballymena based Patton Group lost their jobs today. The building firm
:01:29. > :01:34.was put into administration on Tuesday and now 190 people face
:01:34. > :01:39.Christmas on the dole. Our Business Correspondent has spent the day in
:01:39. > :01:42.Ballymena. From early this morning, Patton
:01:42. > :01:46.Group's Stafford began arriving at the company's headquarters to hear
:01:46. > :01:50.their fate. Many, like this employee, hoped for the best but
:01:50. > :01:53.expected the worst. He summed up the feelings of his colleagues.
:01:53. > :01:57.has been difficult for everyone. Everyone was trying to keep
:01:57. > :02:02.cheerful and make the best of what is going on and hope for the best.
:02:02. > :02:07.That's all you can do. It's a difficult time for everyone.
:02:07. > :02:10.about 10 o'clock, the first wave of workers made redundant just met
:02:10. > :02:15.beforehand began leaving for the last time. You are just told that
:02:15. > :02:20.you are no longer required and you get your forms to fill in. You may
:02:20. > :02:25.be entitled to redundancy and that's it. How long have you worked
:02:25. > :02:31.there? 10 years and it has been very enjoyable. The workforce was
:02:31. > :02:36.drip-fed been used in groups of 25. Within minutes, they were out on
:02:36. > :02:43.the street. -- drip fed the news. There was no room for a motion and
:02:43. > :02:48.a young couple who had just had a new child were among those laid off.
:02:48. > :02:52.They said we have all been made redundant, basically. That's it.
:02:52. > :03:01.That is what we expected, as unfortunate as it was. What advice
:03:01. > :03:04.would you go then? -- were you given? Advice on redundancy and
:03:04. > :03:09.what you may be owed, what could go ahead and what you could get and
:03:09. > :03:12.what benefits you may receive. Nobody actually knows yet.
:03:12. > :03:16.employee was sent outside to retrieve his company laptop to
:03:16. > :03:18.surrender to the administrators. What has surprised many is the
:03:18. > :03:22.sheer speed with which the administrators have moved to lay
:03:22. > :03:27.off staff. The company only went into administration three days ago
:03:27. > :03:31.but already, a significant number of workers have been shown the door.
:03:31. > :03:36.The administrator said a total of 190 staff were laid off - almost
:03:36. > :03:40.two-thirds of the work for scorn in a single day. I think there is a
:03:40. > :03:45.hope that if the company can be brought back to the core, it can be
:03:45. > :03:49.reactivated. But this is market forces. We have got to recognise
:03:49. > :03:56.that. As more and more staff left with their redundancy packs under
:03:56. > :04:00.their arms, Patton Group's new logo to celebrate its centenary, 100
:04:00. > :04:04.years and building, became a bitter irony.
:04:04. > :04:08.The Patton Group has deep moots -- Brits in Ballymena. Natasha Sayee
:04:09. > :04:12.has been finding out how the company's collapse has affected the
:04:12. > :04:16.town. For a name is stamped all over
:04:16. > :04:20.Ballymena. Ask anyone here and they will tell you that the company
:04:20. > :04:24.built the town. But today, the construction sites are quiet. As
:04:25. > :04:31.well as employing thousands over its history, Patton Group has built
:04:31. > :04:35.homes in Ballymena, offices, the new town hall and this new jobs and
:04:35. > :04:40.benefits centre. I suppose the sad irony of that is that many of the
:04:40. > :04:44.people who were made redundant today will be coming here, seeking
:04:44. > :04:49.advice in the very place that they helped to build.
:04:49. > :04:55.It has been a family business in Ballymena since 1912. This shop has
:04:55. > :05:00.been around almost as long and its owner, 76-year-old Matthew, was a
:05:00. > :05:06.schoolboy with the man who ran Patton Group for 60 years.
:05:06. > :05:12.sometimes think that this economic distress has ruined things. It has
:05:12. > :05:17.but then I did have one of our best companies. Very sad. I went round
:05:17. > :05:22.yesterday and passed by quite a few of his sights and stopped the car
:05:22. > :05:28.and read the name. All the advertising. They have a hoarding
:05:28. > :05:35.up this week, 100 years and still building. Signs of recession in
:05:35. > :05:40.Ballymena can't be avoided but this is not a one-company town. Other
:05:40. > :05:44.companies are all big employers here. Ballymena is a resilient town.
:05:44. > :05:49.It has a lot of industry. Some of the skills the work force of Patton
:05:49. > :05:52.Group have can be transformed -- transferred to the other companies
:05:52. > :05:57.so perhaps there is a future for them. So there is a possibility
:05:57. > :06:00.that those who have lost their jobs can find work in other areas. But
:06:00. > :06:05.sub-contractors who did business with the company have been affected
:06:05. > :06:12.by this, too, so for many, many families it will be a very bleak
:06:12. > :06:16.the run-up to Christmas. Still ahead: From Croke Park to
:06:16. > :06:25.Celtic Park - a match made in paradise for the Donegal manager
:06:25. > :06:29.Jim McGuinness. Judges in Turkey for examining
:06:29. > :06:33.evidence about the killing of two women from County Down have heard
:06:33. > :06:41.testimony from a witness who claims to have seen the two suspects near
:06:41. > :06:49.the murder scene. Father Michael Canny from a new Greek and Cathy
:06:49. > :06:52.Dinsmore from Warrenpoint was stabbed to death in 2011.
:06:52. > :06:58.Victim art and Cathy Dinsmore were good friends and loved going to
:06:58. > :07:04.Turkey. But there trip ended in horror. Their bodies were found in
:07:04. > :07:11.the City outskirts. Two men are charged with the murders. Eyup
:07:11. > :07:20.Cetin, in handcuffs, and his 22- year-old son Recep, who, at the
:07:20. > :07:25.time was the boyfriend of Marion Crane's daughter. This morning,
:07:25. > :07:28.they heard testimony from a witness whose identity was kept secret. He
:07:28. > :07:32.testified by a video link from another courtroom and his voice was
:07:32. > :07:37.disguise. The witness claimed he was in a graveyard near the forest
:07:37. > :07:41.when he heard screams. He told the court he followed a path and then
:07:41. > :07:45.saw the two suspects standing near an electricity pylon. The witness
:07:45. > :07:48.said he went to police the next day after reading a newspaper report.
:07:48. > :07:54.But a defence lawyer claimed the police records show the witness did
:07:54. > :07:58.not speak to police until a month after the killings. Recep and Eyup
:07:58. > :08:04.Cetin said the witness was a liar and asked the court to set them
:08:04. > :08:07.free, but the judge refused. The lawyer representing the victims'
:08:07. > :08:14.family's has told the BBC he believes there will be several more
:08:14. > :08:18.hearings before the case finishes. A priest in Londonderry who has
:08:18. > :08:22.tried to talk to do that and Republicans has now dismissed them
:08:22. > :08:27.as mindless morons who have nothing positive to offer. Father Michael
:08:27. > :08:33.Canny was speaking after the Chief Constable visited Derry yesterday
:08:33. > :08:37.and that community and church leaders.
:08:37. > :08:40.-- net. The dissident threat has been all too evident here. In
:08:40. > :08:46.September, a bomb was left in a holdall and another attached to a
:08:46. > :08:49.bicycle along the banks of the foil when many walking jog. Both devices
:08:49. > :08:54.were viable and dealt with by the army. In the past few years,
:08:54. > :08:57.dissidents have carried out a series of attacks - on this city
:08:57. > :09:01.centre bank and on the City of Culture offices. The Chief
:09:01. > :09:06.Constable says that as Derry prepares to celebrate in 2013, the
:09:06. > :09:10.PSNI will be taking be distant threat very seriously. We know what
:09:10. > :09:17.they can do. We have had to put money back into dealing with it. On
:09:17. > :09:20.occasions, they are sadly able to murder. I want be clear about this
:09:20. > :09:24.- we are really fully behind the City of Culture. We are fully
:09:24. > :09:31.behind making this a successful stock I believe it will be a huge
:09:31. > :09:38.boost, not just for this area but the whole of London Ireland --
:09:38. > :09:43.Northern Ireland. One priest who has had in direct
:09:43. > :09:48.contact with the dissidents says people want a positive year and not
:09:48. > :09:53.more attacks by what he termed a mindless morons. They came from a
:09:53. > :09:56.very, very strong ideological viewpoint that they had no
:09:56. > :10:00.difficulty in planting bombs that would kill police officers, using
:10:00. > :10:05.guns that would kill police officers and endanger other
:10:05. > :10:09.people's lives. My view is there can be no guns, no bombs that
:10:09. > :10:14.endanger lives. So we were coming from two opposites and there was
:10:14. > :10:17.nothing to negotiate, nothing to reflect on so it was hopeless.
:10:17. > :10:21.must say I have to agree with him. Nobody wants to go back to the dark
:10:21. > :10:28.old days again. We just want to see our City progress and everybody
:10:28. > :10:31.been happily together and The Cote -- Chief Constable says he
:10:31. > :10:36.has no doubt that 2013 will be a big success but is under no
:10:36. > :10:41.illusion about the threat posed by dissident republicans. He says the
:10:42. > :10:46.PSNI remains determined to counter that threat.
:10:46. > :10:50.Ahead of Remembrance Sunday, a special tribute has been paid in
:10:50. > :10:55.Portadown to a soldier who died in the First World War. As Gordon
:10:55. > :11:00.discovered, he was at the centre of a mix-up that has taken 94 years to
:11:00. > :11:10.put right. At the going down of the Sun, and
:11:10. > :11:14.
:11:14. > :11:20.in the morning, we will remember A simple ceremony to remember and
:11:20. > :11:27.on a soldier who died almost century ago. This sort is Private
:11:27. > :11:30.James Neale. He was a man with a remarkable life. -- this soldier.
:11:30. > :11:34.It is an equally remarkable story after his death that concerns us
:11:34. > :11:40.just now. A short distance from where his headstone has just been
:11:40. > :11:44.erected, there is this family memorial which includes the name of
:11:44. > :11:49.one Private James Neill, a soldier from Portadown seven with the Royal
:11:49. > :11:54.Irish Fusiliers and he was killed in World War One. But this man is
:11:54. > :11:58.not our private James Neill. It is a coincidence. A cover incidents
:11:58. > :12:03.that was to sow the seeds of bird puzzle that would take nearly 100
:12:03. > :12:07.years to sort out. It is very unusual. The commission did not
:12:07. > :12:10.actually know where this soldier was buried. We thought his name was
:12:10. > :12:14.commemorated on a memorial in the ceremony but it transpires that
:12:14. > :12:20.that is a commemoration to a casualty was buried in France. It
:12:20. > :12:26.is an error on the records. It has not been possible to pinpoint the
:12:26. > :12:30.exact location of the grave, Hell's the wording -- hence the wording on
:12:30. > :12:34.the headstone. His granddaughter travelled from Canada and it was an
:12:34. > :12:37.emotional day for her. I thought about the grandfather I did not
:12:37. > :12:44.know, the grandmother I did know, who lived so much of her life
:12:44. > :12:48.without him, and I thought about my mother, who was 10 when he was
:12:48. > :12:54.killed. All those thoughts were going through my mind, and how his
:12:54. > :12:58.death had been very tragic but also how it had affected their lives.
:12:58. > :13:03.The grief of families never really goes away. It does not matter that
:13:03. > :13:09.it is a hundred years ago. It is as real as it was at the time for them
:13:09. > :13:13.today. I think it is my job and my privilege to be able to pay honour
:13:13. > :13:18.to him and to help to give some release the two that grief. This
:13:18. > :13:22.photograph, by the way, was only on Earth during the recent research
:13:22. > :13:29.after the great mix-up came to light. And the day of the ceremony
:13:29. > :13:39.was the first time this lady had ever seen any picture of her
:13:39. > :13:40.
:13:40. > :13:44.It's been an eventful 24 hours for the Donegal gaelic football manager.
:13:44. > :13:46.He has gone from glory with the All-Ireland champions and
:13:46. > :13:52.disturbing to the football champions.
:13:53. > :13:56.The important thing for Donegal is they are not losing their manager.
:13:56. > :14:00.Last night we revealed that Jim McGuinness was in Glasgow for talks
:14:01. > :14:04.with Celtic. Today, the deal was done - and he was welcomed on board
:14:04. > :14:14.by manager Neil Lennon. He will take on the role as the club's
:14:14. > :14:14.
:14:14. > :14:16.Performance Consultant. That job is initially part-time, so that will
:14:16. > :14:20.allow him to continue managing Donegal. Thomas Niblock reports.
:14:20. > :14:23.Jim McGuinness, where do we start? He probably thought it couldn't get
:14:23. > :14:31.any better than winning the All- Ireland seven weeks ago, until
:14:31. > :14:35.today. Jim McGuinness, a qualified sports psychologist, will work with
:14:35. > :14:42.Celtic on a part-time basis initially. However, he will remain
:14:42. > :14:45.manager of Donegal, a happy Donegal manager and a happy Celtic 1 as
:14:45. > :14:50.well. We are delighted to have brought him in and I think she is
:14:50. > :14:54.pleased, but it will not affect what he's doing with Donegal -- I
:14:54. > :14:57.think he is pleased. He will probably initially come in on a
:14:57. > :15:02.two-day a week basis and we will take things from there, but we
:15:02. > :15:07.didn't want it to remain or affect what he's doing with the Donegal
:15:07. > :15:17.team, because they have been magnificent fish here. It is a
:15:17. > :15:20.
:15:20. > :15:26.great opportunity for myself and number of days a week and that is
:15:26. > :15:30.going to be a great environment for me to be in in terms of what I can
:15:30. > :15:37.take from Celtic Park to Donegal. It is the stuff that dreams. Two
:15:37. > :15:42.years ago, Jim McGuinness took over mediocre Donegal team and after
:15:42. > :15:45.All-Ireland the championships, he is at Celtic. But will it be
:15:45. > :15:49.difficult to transfer the GAA skills to the football world?
:15:49. > :15:53.Coming across will not be a problem for Jim. He will come in and
:15:53. > :15:57.predominantly work with younger players but if I feel there is a
:15:57. > :16:02.first-team player who will benefit from Jim's skill, then there will
:16:02. > :16:06.be no hesitation in using him to do that. And it is those skills that
:16:07. > :16:15.led over 30 Donegal men for to unprecedented success that Neil
:16:15. > :16:19.Madden will be held think -- hoping will continue the Celtic revolution.
:16:19. > :16:21.Now to a man who was at Celtic but is still making his presence felt
:16:21. > :16:24.in the Scottish Premier League. Nial McGinn, from Donaghmore, is
:16:24. > :16:27.rewriting the goal-scoring record books at Aberdeen. And he was the
:16:27. > :16:31.hero for Northern Ireland last month. Denise Watson caught up with
:16:31. > :16:36.him. Niall McGinn has made a great run
:16:36. > :16:40.on the nearside. One-on-one with the goalkeeper. Fires it on to the
:16:40. > :16:45.top corner -- into the top corner. Niall McGinn scores his first
:16:45. > :16:49.international goal. It is Portugal 0, Northern Ireland 1.
:16:49. > :16:53.unforgettable moment for Niall McGinn. He has been making his mark
:16:53. > :16:58.domestically as well. The Thai Rain Main is the toast of Aberdeen
:16:58. > :17:02.Football Club for his recent goalscoring record breaking streak
:17:02. > :17:06.-- Tyrone man. It has been fantastic and I want the fact the
:17:06. > :17:10.manager for bringing me in. I thought it was important for me to
:17:10. > :17:14.get in and have a good reason and I felt I have done that. I picked
:17:14. > :17:17.injury up and I was set for a few weeks but that hit the ground
:17:17. > :17:20.running and playing with a smile on my face, doing well ands Goring
:17:20. > :17:25.goals. -- scoring goals.
:17:25. > :17:34.We will see if the boss is in. There he is, sitting on his nice
:17:34. > :17:39.comfy seat, hard at work. Top man, so he is. It is all good.
:17:39. > :17:45.A very good signing. One of the best, they tell me, that Aberdeen
:17:46. > :17:49.have signed for a long time. He is son-in-law material. I usually look
:17:49. > :17:53.at a guy and say, if my daughter came in with this guy, would I be
:17:53. > :17:57.happy? If my daughter came in with a guy like Niall McGinn, I would
:17:58. > :18:01.say great, because he is a fine guy, he is a gentleman. Can you describe
:18:01. > :18:05.how you felt when you saw him score against Portugal, with Northern
:18:05. > :18:08.Ireland getting a draw against the odds? I felt very angry, because he
:18:08. > :18:13.had the very same chance the Saturday before against Kilmarnock
:18:13. > :18:16.and he blasted it over the top and put it into the seats in the stand.
:18:16. > :18:22.He broke two seats in the Kilmarnock stand when he should
:18:22. > :18:25.have burst the net. I am joking, but I did think to say to him
:18:25. > :18:30.afterwards, try and pass the ball into the net. Niall McGinn has made
:18:30. > :18:33.such an impact at the Pittodrie, he has already broken the scoring
:18:33. > :18:40.record with six goals in six games. Northern Ireland will be hoping he
:18:40. > :18:46.hits the back of the net against Azerbaijan. My main focus is to do
:18:46. > :18:49.well for Northern Ireland. I have loved my time so far wearing the
:18:49. > :18:52.Northern Ireland jersey and and so glad I have got by international
:18:52. > :18:56.goal and hopefully it can kick off from there. It is St Mirren
:18:56. > :19:02.tomorrow with Aberdeen and then his focus is solely on next week's
:19:02. > :19:08.World Cup qualifiers. That is at Windsor Park NICE --
:19:08. > :19:10.next Wednesday. Four Ulster rugby players will run
:19:10. > :19:13.out at the Aviva stadium tomorrow for the opening autumn
:19:13. > :19:15.international. But they're not all playing for Ireland. While Chris
:19:15. > :19:18.Henry makes his home debut alongside Andrew Trimble and Tommy
:19:18. > :19:19.Bowe, they'll be up against their Ravenhill team mate who's starting
:19:19. > :19:25.for South Africa. Gavin Andrews reports.
:19:25. > :19:35.Hunter. Charged down by Pienaar. It is going to be a third of try.
:19:35. > :19:36.
:19:36. > :19:40.and time again, Ruan Pienaar has been the toast of Ravenhill. It is
:19:40. > :19:46.definitely getting ready, they are competing well, and I think they
:19:46. > :19:49.have got a settled side with a lot of experience. I think they have
:19:49. > :19:53.got Irish rugby in good hands, and together with the experience, there
:19:53. > :19:59.is a lot of youth coming through. And the man who will be breathing
:19:59. > :20:03.down his neck all evening in Dublin, his. Team-mate Chris Henry. We are
:20:03. > :20:06.best friends on their pitch but when we go on their pitch -- off
:20:06. > :20:11.the pitch and when we go on, it'll go to the side and my job will be
:20:11. > :20:16.to get stuck in and fluster him, but as we can see, it has a taken
:20:16. > :20:19.an awful lot to get him flustered, because he is world class.
:20:19. > :20:23.Ireland need to deliver after the disappointment of defeat the New
:20:23. > :20:26.Zealand of the summer tour. more we play the southern
:20:26. > :20:30.hemisphere sides, the better for us. If we have to go through the pain
:20:30. > :20:34.we went to the last Test match, it is not something you enjoy going
:20:34. > :20:37.through, but the benefit is you can gain from it in the long run and
:20:37. > :20:41.you see sights like England, they went through the same experiences
:20:41. > :20:45.before they have won the World Cup and if we can go through that, we
:20:45. > :20:49.can become a better side. Ireland have won three out of the last four
:20:49. > :20:54.meetings between the sides. A win this autumn will be a step in the
:20:54. > :20:56.right direction. And that will be Tommy Bowe's 50th
:20:56. > :20:58.cap. In local football, Irish
:20:58. > :21:03.Premiership leaders Cliftonville face champions Linfield in what is
:21:03. > :21:08.the big match of the day. Final Score tomorrow for that and all the
:21:08. > :21:12.local football results. The rugby is on BBC One.
:21:12. > :21:15.Now, arise, Sir Kenneth. The Belfast actor and director Kenneth
:21:15. > :21:24.Branagh received his knighthood from the Queen today. He is famous
:21:24. > :21:28.for Rolls from Shakespeare to the TV detective Wallander and is being
:21:28. > :21:32.honoured for services to drama and the community of Northern Ireland.
:21:32. > :21:35.He said he felt "humble, elated and incredibly lucky".
:21:35. > :21:39.Now let's go for the weather forecast. How was it looking?
:21:39. > :21:43.There are some positive spat at the last I's spell of wet and windy
:21:43. > :21:47.last I's spell of wet and windy weather, there has been a Collette
:21:47. > :21:50.air coming in, so it will be turning cooler as we go through the
:21:50. > :21:55.weekend. There will be at night frosts and some showers around,
:21:55. > :22:00.showery rain for tomorrow, but certainly not wet all the time and
:22:00. > :22:04.there will be some brighter spells. This evening, clear spells are
:22:04. > :22:09.developing across many areas and the showers we have had will tend
:22:09. > :22:13.to ease back to what windward coast, so it will become quite chilly
:22:13. > :22:19.tonight. Rurally, Vicar sea temperatures dipping close to
:22:19. > :22:24.freezing, so we are looking at some frost -- we could see some
:22:24. > :22:27.temperatures. The odd icy patch as well. Tomorrow will eventually
:22:27. > :22:30.start to brighten up but first thing in the morning, the showery
:22:31. > :22:35.rain is going to be the main feature, probably arriving in the
:22:35. > :22:38.West before dawn. It then edges eastwards and some of it could be
:22:38. > :22:43.quite heavy, with the risk of a little bit of Hale in places and
:22:43. > :22:46.the odd rumble of thunder. It could be the early afternoon before it
:22:46. > :22:50.clears away from the east coast and things start to brighten up, but
:22:50. > :22:53.there will still be some sharp showers for areas along the north
:22:53. > :22:58.coast and in parts of the West and for all of us, a chilly feeling day,
:22:58. > :23:03.single figures. If you are heading to the rugby in Dublin, wrap up
:23:03. > :23:07.warm. It should be mainly dry but it will be quite chilly and a
:23:07. > :23:11.chilly night to come tomorrow night again with some frost and icy
:23:11. > :23:14.patches. Still some showers in the north and west, they will die away