04/11/2013 BBC Newsline

Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline: Chaos at a country music

concert - dozens complain they were crushed and trampled on.

They say their stories were never meant to be told - the tragedy of

the disappeared recalled by their relatives. I got over it. -- I don't

know how I got over it am a but I was glad.

A giant tribute to a veteran republican sparks angry reaction

from some politicians. I'll be getting my kicks as the punk

musical of the year opens in the home of the Undertones.

The Newtownards rider who's defied the odds - Martyn Irvine strikes

gold again. Temperatures dropped to minus six

last night. Another cold start tonight. But a change is on the way.

First, to that big country music event in County Tyrone on Saturday.

The promoter said they were overwhelmed by the crowd in the

Ecclesville centre in Fintona. There were thousands of people there. But

as the audience surged in, some were crushed and trampled on. One man

told us they were very lucky no-one had been killed. Julian Fowler has

more on a night out that, for many, turned into a terrifying experience.

People had come to see three of the biggest names in Irish country

music, but these fans aren't screaming with excitement but

screaming in terror. Security staff and police were overwhelmed as they

tried to hold back the crowd. Some fell to the ground in the crash. It

may have been the hottest ticket in town but those who witnessed what

happened believed a tragedy was only narrowly avoided. We had seen the

crowd and got caught up in it, but it was just a nightmare, I couldn't

believe people were getting trampled on and people were screaming and

heard. -- and. This is normally an equestrian centre and has been used

as a concert venue. It has a capacity of 4000 people but only one

set of doors were being used for people to get in and out. As one act

took to the stage, evil tried to get in through those doors, at the same

time other people were trying to get out and those caught in the middle

were crushed. The music was docked four times while attempts were made

to restore order and open more doors. The event's promoter says

they responded quickly. He says just 200 tickets were a billable for sale

from the ticket office on the night and denies there was overcrowding.

Were there more than 4000 people? No, definitely not. The police were

here. Once this issue was sorted out, they stated that everything was

fine, there was still room to walk about in here and they were happy

for the event to continue. And people do not pay at the door to get

in? They did not. Investigations are underway into what happened here.

For the first time on television, some of the relatives of the

disappeared have spoken about their loved ones' abduction, murder and

secret burial by republicans during the Troubles. In a BBC documentary

tonight, the Sinn Fein President also denies an accusation that he

ordered one of the deaths. As Chris Buckler reports, the remains of

seven people have still to be found. By beaches and in blogs, years have

been spent searching for bodies and still adverts are going on to find

the remains of the loved ones who became known as the disappeared. In

truth, they didn't just go missing. They were abducted and murdered by

republican paramilitaries during years when conflict and chaos in God

Northern Ireland. Among them was Jean McConville, a mother taken away

by IRA members in front of her children. When do you think you will

see your mummy again? I don't know. We're keeping our fingers crossed

and pray hard she will come back. My father died on the 3rd of January,

then they killed my mother that year. That is all we had in life.

Michael McConville is one built of who has spoken as part of a new BBC

documentary. He said partly to correct lies told by Republicans

about his mother. It was an injustice done to our family and our

mother and all we wanted from the IRA was for them to apologise for

the murder of our mother. In the programme, some families have spoken

publicly for the first time about what happened to them. For years,

many lived in fear of retribution from paramilitaries as decade after

they disappeared, some bodies were recovered. Maps left anonymously

helped find Charlie Armstrong. Charlie held me down the steps.

Thank you, Charlie, helping me down the steps. His disappearance in 1991

Hadi huge impact on his family. It is only a few years since they could

finally bury him. It was wonderful in one way, in another it was very

sad. I don't know how I got over it. But I was glad, glad to have him

back. There are people still waiting and praying for the return of their

relatives. Only this summer, there were digs in County Monaghan to find

the body of Columba McVeigh, who was murdered in 1975. It was

unsuccessful. The commission set up to find the remains of all victims

says it will continue to search. We know there are people out there with

information relevant to our work and they have not been in touch with

us. Information they supply will only be used to recover victims. In

the years the commission has operated, nobody has been arrested

or convicted or charged with any offences as a result of information

received by the commission. There remain many questions about who knew

what about the killings and who should take responsibility and stop

that is especially true in the case of Jean McConville, who was taken

from her home here in West Belfast. A former commander of the IRA,

Brendan Hughes, said in an interview recorded before he died at the Sinn

Fein president Gerry Adams ordered her murder. This woman was taken

away and executed. Jean McConville. There is only one man who gave the

order for that woman to be executed. That man is now the head of Sinn

Fein. I had no act or part to play in either the abduction, the killing

or the burial of Jean McConville, or indeed any of these other

individuals. Brendan is telling lies. Gerry Adams has always denied

being a member of the Provisional IRA, a point that was put to one of

the organisation's founding members. Was Gerry Adams in the IRA? I want

him to say that to me, face to face. Hidden across acres of land our body

still to be found, buried with them are memories of a period that

continues to haunt. That documentary is after our late bulletin this

evening. The family of the veteran republican

Martin Meehan have dismissed unionist claims that a giant poster

in memory of the Belfast IRA man is a glorification of violence. The

gable wall image of him with a gun was unveiled during a family

commemoration yesterday marking the sixth anniversary of his death.

The police are at a bomb alert in North Belfast.

Murals are nothing new to this part of Belfast, this printed poster of

the former IRA leader in Ardoyne holding a gun has sparked an angry

reaction from some politicians. Euros featuring paramilitaries have

also appeared in the will is part of the city as well, like this one day

were described as insulting to victims of terrorism and out of step

with committee which building and the concept of moving on. The former

IRA man's son dismissed claims it is insulting. There is a legacy issue

here and the historical issue. Martin was under siege a number of

times throughout the 60s and early 70s and my father contributed to the

parents of this committee. -- to the defence of this community. Nigel

Dodds says it amounts to a glorification of violence. We want

to move forward and all this glorification of violence is

damaging committee relations. We need to separate those aspects are

past that are seen as dangerous and non-inclusive and find ways to

commemorate in a more respectful manner. We at Sinn Fein for a

reaction to the image but a party spokesman said they would not be

making any comment. Police are at a bomb alert in North Belfast. They

were called to Jamaica Street in Ardoyne after reports that something

had been thrown at two men getting out of a car. The army's bomb squad

is at the scene, and the police are using a remote-controlled drone

camera to fly over the area. The inquest has opened into the UVF

murder of a Dungannon pensioner in 1994. Roseann Mallon was 76 years

old when she was shot. Her death has been surrounded by controversy, as

it later emerged the army were conducting a surveillance operation

on a nearby house. Helen Jones reports from the Coroner's Court in

Belfast. Roseanne man was shot dead through a window while watching

television. The inquest was told she was hit in her stomach, heart and

lungs. Death would have been rapid. The middle Brigade of the UVF

claimed responsibility. The former LVF leader Billy Wright, who was

killed in 1997, was one person arrested. No one was ever charged. A

relative who lived next door told how she had been on the phone to the

house and warned them about two men getting out of the car and running

towards the house. Roseann Mallon was unable to get out of the line of

fire quickly because of arthritis. Three witnesses gave evidence today,

including Martin Mallon, a nephew of Roseanne. An Army surveillance

camera was found close to the murder scene a few months later. The court

heard how the police had ruled out the camera because it didn't work at

night. This was disputed by Martin Mallon, who have the camera looked

at independently at the time. Some witnesses applied for anonymity,

while others including security force members have been granted

screening whereby they remain anonymous even to the court, which

is sitting without a jury. The inquest is expected to last six

weeks. Still to come on the programme, the

limbering up here as the teenage kicks punk rock musical prepares to

go one stage here at the millennium Forum in Derry.

Two men have appeared in court in Newry charged with the theft of cash

from ATM machines. They had been arrested last Friday in Lisburn. In

the dock today worth 32-year-old and 27-year-old men. They reached based

44 charges in relation to cash machine fraud after a series of

deaths over a ten day period at least 15 cash machines belonging to

the four main banks in Belfast, Banbridge and Newry. Both men have

addresses in Dublin but are originally from Romania. The court

held how one of the men researched online how to carry out cash machine

thefts. It is claimed both men put a device into the money tray, which

collected cash belonging to other users without them knowing.

Sometimes it amounted to as much as ?400. Both men were arrested in a

car in this burden on Friday. Articles and money allegedly linking

them to you thefts were found and the court heard there was CCTV

footage of them collecting the money. The district judge refused

both men bail. They were remanded in custody to appear in court in two

days. The Deputy First Minister Martin

McGuinness says he doesn't believe there's any similarity between the

case of Cardinal Sean Brady and Gerry Adams in how they dealt with

child abuse allegations. Last year, when the Cardinal was accused of

failing to act on a claim of abuse by a priest, Mr McGuinness called

for him to consider his position. The Sinn Fein President has been

criticised for not reporting abuse committed by his brother Liam

against a daughter. But Martin McGuinness told the Assembly that

his colleague had done the right thing at the time. In the case of

the cardinal, a child was sworn to secrecy. In the case of Gerry Adams,

he was in support of his niece, travelled to bunk Rana, confronted

his brother and supported his niece and her mother when she reported the

abuse to the social services and to the RUC.

A World War II mortar bomb discovered on a County Down beach

has been made safe. It was found by two walkers at Murlough yesterday.

Murlough each in County Down is a dog walker's for advice nestled in

the shadow of more mountains, offering ample room for dogs to run

around, but yesterday one dog walker made an unusual discovery. The dogs

were playing in water and I saw them looking at something and running

around something, and I thought it was a huge dead fish, it was very

orange and black. I said to my husband, what is that? He got a

stick and moved sand from around it and we saw the big fins on the tail

of it like a typical mortar bomb. We thought, my word, what we

discovered? The area was sealed off as the bomb was submerged by the

tide, but around 4:30am today, a controlled explosion was carried

out, making the area safe. Anyone walking along the beach, if they

find something they think might be a bomb or chemicals or anything washed

in from the sea, especially during the storms, there are a lot of

debris and things that are washed in from passing ships and boats, so if

you don't know what it is don't touch it, and found the Coast Guard,

that is what we are trained for. Evidence of what happened has now

been covered by the tide, but walkers and their dogs are now safe

to enjoy the beach once again. One of the intentions of the UK City

of Culture was to offer a wide view of culture. This week in

Londonderry, music is once again to the fore. But this time, the city

goes back to the '70s for a musical on punk rock. Our arts correspondent

Maggie Taggart is at the Millennium Forum. A week or so ago, I was here

in Derry for the opening of the art competition, the Turner Prize. This

event is the opposite end of the culture spectrum. A specially

commissioned musical in the home This is how it looks. The writer of

the show is Colin Bateman and he is here. Colin, you have great

choreography, fabulous songs. How have you assimilated all of those?

It has been about trying to find a story and what songs fit into that

story. It is set in Derry for the first part and then takes off to

America. You don't strike me as a punk. I was, but it was a nice

banker punk. Mummy wouldn't let me get my hair spiked. One of the

original undertones is here. They say you were a nicer band then the

Clash or the sex pistols. We were well read, we were a nice guys. It

was all about the music, not anything else and I am looking

forward to seeing this to see what they do with all the songs. It will

bring back memories for you. Yes, and if the ban is good, I will see

if they want a bass player. You are back on the road. We performed

sporadically when we can be bothered, there is no career plan

but I like the idea of playing in one place for a full week. We might

have ourselves out for pantomimes. I'm sure you would recommend that as

well, column. This show is on until the end of this week in the

Millennium Forum. We have cycling golds this morning and the tale of

two men called O'Neill. Football is first and plenty of speculation

since the World Cup qualifying campaigns came to an end next month

was that it now looks likely we will have definite news on both Republic

and Northern Ireland's managerial jobs tomorrow. Understand Michael

O'Neill has now agreed to a new deal with the Irish Football Association

to remain as manager of the Northern Ireland team. O'Neill's current

contract runs until the end of next month, and he is now set to sign for

another two years. Meanwhile, probably the worst kept secret in

football right now. Martin O'Neill look set to be revealed this week,

maybe tomorrow, as the new Republic of Ireland manager with Roy Keane

expected to be named as his assistant. The Republic's next game

is a friendly against Latvia on the 15th of November. Martyn Irvine has

had an amazing year. Two medals at the World Championships in February,

one gold. Then he broke his leg racing in the Far East. We thought

that would be the end of the season. But at the weekend he claimed

another gold, this time at the Track Cycling World Cup in Manchester. And

it all came down to the final sprint for the line. They got half a dozen

laps to go, you can see how much it is hurting therefore Martyn Irvine

but this is an excellent ride. After finishing seventh in the individual

pursuit, Martyn Irvine entered the points race and it turned out to be

a shrewd decision. My legs felt heavy and I was probably the laziest

guy in the first half of the race, but it seems to be my form, the

harder it is, the more I enjoyed it, but I don't enjoy it at all and stop

it just seemed to rise to the top. That is example number one. It is

the final sprint towards the line and Martyn Irvine leads from the

front. Superb 14 Martyn Irvine. The victory completed a remarkable year

for the Newtownards rider. Earlier in the season, he became Ireland's

first cycling champion, only to break his leg cycling in Taiwan's.

Two weeks ago, he won bronze at the world track cycling Championships

which now another gold medal to add to the collection. That bodes well

for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year.

Antrim are set to confirm Liam Bradley as their new Gaelic football

manager this week, after a year away from the job. Bradley's backroom

team will include his son Paddy, the former All-star.

To the Ulster Club Championship, and Roslea will play Glenswilly in the

semi-finals after wins for both sides yesterday, but Ballinderry

will have to wait another week to see who they'll face. That's because

Kilcoo and Crossmaglen couldn't be separated in Newry. A crowd of 8000

people witnessed one of the greatest spectacles of Gaelic footballers,

perhaps ever in the Ulster club championship before the game even

started. You got the sense they would be a gritty steel edge to the

meeting between Crossmaglen and Kilcoo. What most didn't expect was

the down champions to race into an early 6-point lead. Cross did come

back but they needed a goal and it came from a Kilcoo mistake, this

shot saved but it trickled in again. Cross took the lead for the first

time in extra time and most expected the defending champions to put her

on, that back to push on, but right of Kilcoo at your peril. They

surprised many in 2012 and continue to do so in 2013. Thrilling by a

point in injury time, in extra time, this wonderful free levelled it. We

probably could and should have won, we missed a couple of easy chances

early on, but a great learning experience for next week.

Disappointed we didn't finish it out but you will learn to fight another

day and we are looking forward to the next one. The venue for that

replay will be Armagh. To football, and Derry City will

play European football next season by virtue of Sligo's FAI cup final

triumph yesterday. Meanwhile, Linfield remain four points clear at

the top of the Irish Premiership, after a comfortable victory over

Ards, while Crusaders extended their unbeaten run to 16 matches to stay

in touch. Between them, Crusaders and Portadown have scored almost 60

goals this season but it was a solitary Timmy Adamson strike that

made the difference on Saturday. Ronnie McFall felt it should have

been disallowed from offside. His arguing led to the manager being

sent to the stand by the referee. Linfield went behind against Ards,

but two free kicks helped guarantee another three points. There was

plenty of late drama around the grounds. Joe Gormley equalised in

stoppage time for Cliftonville while Coleraine's Stephen Carson struck in

the 91st minute to seal victory over the tavern. Warrenpoint and

Ballinamallard played out aid to all draw and Glentoran came out on the

right end of a seven goal thriller against Ballymena.

Graeme McDowell is second in golf's Race to Dubai, after he came third

at the World Golf Championship event in Shanghai. McDowell was four shots

behind the winner, Dustin Johnson. Rory McIlroy showed encouraging

signs of a return to form, finishing sixth. They are doing well. I was

out walking today and it was a lovely autumn day. Plenty of

sunshine, out walking today and it was a

lovely autumn day. Plenty of but it was a bit chilly. Last night was

definitely a hot water bottle night. Tonight may not be quite that cold,

we saw temperatures last night down to minus six degrees. It should not

get up chilly tonight that we have clear skies so temperatures dropping

sharply through the early part of the night that then later we get

cloud thickening from the West and that brings rain in overnight. That

means temperatures recover a little from early lows of one or two

degrees to maybe three or four by dawn tomorrow. Tomorrow will have a

different feel to the weather. It will be a cold and blustery day but

also a showery day. This is the picture you will wake up to. We will

have some brighter spells during the day but the main feature are these

showery rain clouds rushing in across Northern Ireland across the

day, look at the temperatures, highs of seven or eight degrees and in

that westerly breeze feeling a good bit cooler as we go through the day.

Those showers continue into the evening and if there is an upside,

there is plenty of cloud cover so tomorrow night will not be quite as

cold as tonight. It is this low system driving at, as the wind wraps

around the bottom of that, we get a westerly flow to the weather over

the next few days, so as we go into Wednesday, the picture is

established. It is a blustery, chilly day, some showers around and

we have this westerly wind on the way in. It is a pattern right the

way through to the weekend, we will see blustery conditions, some

showery conditions, that westerly wind pretty much the same setup all

the way through until the end of the week. On our Facebook page this

evening, there is interest in an auction involving Joy Dunlop

memorabilia. Log on and tell us what you think. Goodbye.