10/01/2014 BBC Newsline

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Newsline... Uncertainty over three job -- 300

jobs as Mivan goes into administration. They have given

themselves wholly to this and building it up and taking it to the

stature it has worldwide. The man who was killed in a road

crash in Dunmurry was driving a stolen car.

The most famous pub in Belfast is closed due to an administrative

error. Comments by Ian Paisley over

bombings. The current DUP leader has distanced himself from the remarks.

Ulster's rugby players get ready for the European showdown, we look ahead

to tonight's big game. And it's a weekend of two halves coming up -

One of Northern Ireland's largest construction companies, Mivan, has

gone into administration. The firm, based in Antrim, employs around 300

people and has offices around the world. Our Economics and Business

Editor, John Campbell, is at their base for us now.

The gates are closed now but they will be open on Monday morning when

workers may learn more about what the future holds for them. They will

obviously be saddened but many more people will be shocked by the

troubles of such a well known firm. Made in Antrim but exported all over

the world, Mivan has been a trailblazing company. Since its

foundation in 1975 its ambitions had been global. The specialist joinery

produced here has been used in project is from EuroDisney to Saddam

Hussein's palaces. This company video shows a recent cruise liner

project. It is one of the firm's specialities. It dabbled in

house-building locally but it was to develop and project in Romania that

caused trouble. They contributed to losses at around ?50 million, and in

2012 the firm restructured. But in a tough trading environment problems

remain. Last year, some employees were on a

three-day week and had pay cuts. Then there were talks about a

possible takeover from Lagan Group Holdings. When those talks ended

without agreement company Michael run out of options.

Absolutely devastated, some people have given their lives blood. They

have given themselves wholly to this, building it up to the stature

of company it is worldwide. However, as you know, many companies

have faced this situation, many have faced tough trading and financial

pressures in the past, and this company is not immune to that.

I think it emphasises that everything is on edge and we need to

get action taken that helps all companies, whether it is the banks

or Stormont, it shows that we have to make things happen fast. Workers

leaving the company HQ at lunchtime where Lott and to top, but this

Portuguese workers spoke of his fears.

Do you still have a job? I don't know.

I will come back on Monday but I don't know. They are going to tell

you on Monday what is happening? Yes, eight o'clock, Monday.

You must be very worried. Yes. Stassen face -- staff face a

stressful weekend and uncertain future but the business emphasises

there are still trading, the bank is supportive and options are being

assessed. Just to pick up on that glimmer of

hope from the administrator. Mivan is not your bog-standard building

firm. It does highly specialist work in a global marketplace, so you've

got to think that somebody somewhere will be interested in that.

A man in his 20s died this morning when the stolen car he was driving

crashed into a lorry and versed into flames intermarry -- in Dunmurry. A

woman who was in the vehicle with him escaped with relatively minor

injuries, as did the driver of the commercial vehicle. BBC Newsline's

Mervyn Jess reports. Another stolen car crash and another

life lost. The Chevrolet Captiva had been

stolen earlier at a house during a burglary in Lisburn.

It collided with a lorry on the McKinstry Road near Dunmurry.

It taught large hole in the side of the lorry and damaged the front of

the car. Joyriding needs to be prevented,

because it is death trading and this is the unfortunate consequence of

it. There are victims everywhere. The two people injured in this

incident are believed to be the driver of the lorry and a young

woman who was a passenger in the car.

It is understood she was pulled from the wreckage just before it burst

into flames. Police say a 21-year-old woman was arrested in

connection with the burglary and stolen car. It is reported emergency

service personnel arriving at the scene were shocked at what they

found. I want to thank the emergency services for their hard work this

morning on a really hard circumstances.

At the end of the day, no matter what happened it is a tragedy in our

community and we are shocked by it. The 22-year-old man who died was

from the Dunmurry a Riyadh. He is the fourth person to be killed

on the roads since the start of the year. -- from the Dunmurry area.

The DUP leader, Peter Robinson, has distanced himself from remarks made

about the UVF bombings of Dublin and Monaghan in 1974 by his predecessor

Ian Paisley. In a forthcoming BBC documentary, Dr Paisley accused the

then Irish Government of bringing the bombings on themselves. Our

political correspondent, Gareth Gordon, reports.

These conversations revealed a Matic secrets of the Democratic Unionist

party. This is an Ian Paisley we have not

seen before. The system that existed in Northern

Ireland in the 1960s says a lot is wrong.

But the man who eventually made peace with his enemies and remains a

contradiction. This is what he says about the UVF bombings of Dublin and

Monaghan in 1874, in which 33 people were killed. -- 1974. I was

shocked, very much shocked. But am I mean, who brought that on

them? On themselves? Their own political leaders who they had

endorsed and their attitude to Northern Ireland. Today, his former

deputy and the man who succeeded him as DUP leader was in Dublin as a

member of the current Irish government.

Both denounced their remarks. I believe that those who are

responsible are those who put their hand to placing the bomb and killing

33 innocent individuals. We need to be clear about this, the

bombs which were ex-warrant -- exponent in Dublin and Monaghan in

1974 were acts of terrorism. The people on the street that they

did not bring it on themselves, they were innocent victims of a horrific

act of terrorism and the responsibility of that act rest

squarely on those who planted those bombs. A more benign reaction,

however, from the man who once formed the unlikeliest of political

double act swiftly Ian Paisley. -- double acts with Ian Paisley.

Many people will be taken aback by this reaction will stop other will

be even pleasantly surprised that he was prepared to acknowledge what

happened on Bloody Sunday was absolutely wrong and also prepared

to acknowledge the widespread discrimination that took place

against the Catholic community in the North over many decades.

But it is what Ian Paisley says about the Monaghan village of

Clontibret and the road -- role played by Peter Robinson which will

cause shock waves. It should not have been done. In the

light of what was happening, it was only like a fellow scratching a

match and the match burns out and sat is when he throws it away.

I think there was a recollection failure in terms of Clontibret. I

substituted for Doctor Paisley at Clontibret. He was the one that I

agreed to go to Clontibret, I was to go to another event elsewhere on the

same evening. He had to leave to go to a funeral in the United States so

I stepped in as his everyday to the Clontibret arrangements and someone

else took over my appointment. Mr Robinson said he would be sad if Mr

Paisley's legacy caused disputes with the Church and the DP -- the

DUP. This programme goes out the week

after next. And the first of that two-part

documentary is on Monday night at 10:35pm here on BBC One after our

late news. Still to come this evening...

Enough is enough for one County Armagh farmer, as he turns detective

??NEWLIN The historic Crown Bar in Belfast - popular with local and

tourists - has had to close. It turned out today that its drinks

licence has expired by mistake. Here is our business correspondent,

Julian O'Neill, with more details. Opening came and went without a

drink being served. The Crown Bar closed for business, but has its

licence expired by mistake. Customers outside our confused

something so fundamental had shut this famous pub. We were looking

forward to having a great beer or something really Irish, but we did

not know it is closed today. Shocking, actually. It is, it is a

mean tourist attraction, thank God it didn't happen in the tourist

season! Even Ballymena got up to it.

It is a tourist success and should stay open. A gem of the Oriana which

has undergone major conservation work by its owners, the National

trust. -- Victorian architecture. According

to Ed and the pub it was closed due to an administrative error by the

English pub chain which runs the pub.

They have a responsibility to ensure it is kept running properly.

It is owned by a licensee group in England and suppose it is their

mistake, therefore there fault. The Crown Bar is much more than a pub

come into something of an institution.

There were discussions be hanged the seems to open up the pub today

serving everything but alcohol, coffee for example, but that move

was decided against. Instead, attention is now focusing on the

court date later this month. That court date on January the 17th

will deal with the issue of a new licence and there are hopes it can

be spread through. It was said today the Crown shut as

soon as it became aware of the issue but the licence had run out long

before the busy trading period of Christmas.

Peter Robinson says the fact both nationalist parties and not

Unionists were ready to sign up to a deal on flags, parades and the past

indicates the final document wasn't balanced. The DUP leader was

responding to a challenge from the talks chairman Richard Haass. He

said Alliance and the unionist parties needed to justify why they

hadn't felt ready to endorse his proposed deal. When the hast talks

broke up on New Year's Eve, the chairman remains diplomatic, paying

tribute to the work put in by all negotiators, but now the parties

have returned their verdict, Richard Haass has made it clear he thought

the deal was so good it wasn't even a close call, and the Alliance Party

and Unionists have explaining to do. The two units parties and Alliance

were not prepared to sign on to the agreement and this was collectively

there agreement, this had been the agreement all five parties worked on

for six months and we had gone to enormous lengths to take into

account their views, their concerns and priorities, and we thought we

had done that. The talks co-chair Meghan O'Sullivan warned of the

potential consequences of failing to tackle the causes of division. They

could be a darker downside which is that we have seen issues around

Parade and flags have led to political and social unrest and

violence, and they continued stagnation or stalemate on these

issues could fuel more of those protests and could fuel

rejectionists on both sides of the spectrum. Peter Robinson and Martin

McGuinness were today dealing with the more distant past, attending the

launch of a First World War archive, but what about the future? If we all

get what we want, what is the prospect of getting a way forward?

Zero, so we have to use what I consider to be an honourable word in

politics, compromise. The job of Martin McGuinness and Sinn Fein and

Alasdair McDonnell and the SDLP is not to reach an agreement with

Richard Haass. It is to reach an agreement with Unionists. We are the

ones they will be left with. Richard Haass is happily back in Newark. Two

of the parties singled out by Richard Haass explained their

positions. I imagine everybody around the table is feeling

frustrated but we have to focus on the big prize, we can do better with

parades and flags and the past. I think he is mistaken in lumping us

with unionist parties. We're not as concerned about the document, as

Unionists think it is gone too far for their constituency, but our

concerns are that it does not go far enough and is not ambitious enough.

Stormont's party leaders will meet next Tuesday to discuss the

uncertain future of the Richard Haass proposals.

Schools can now apply to build shared campuses or facilities, as

long as they mix pupils of different religions. At least ten shared

education campuses will be approved. Today, schools have been told which

sort of plans will be favoured. Our education correspondent Maggie

Taggart has been talking to some who have high hopes. In May, the First

and Deputy First Ministers you be and they wanted at least ten shared

education campuses within five years. In the bid of more way, they

are keen to get started because Protestant and Catholic pupils

already share classes and activities. We want to preserve

identities but we also want to respect each other's ethos. We are

proud of our identities but we want to be together. Work on the huge

Lisanelly shared site in Omagh is under way, and other schemes are

likely to be smaller. The funding will go towards new buildings and

sites shared by two schools, mixing Protestant and Catholic pupils, but

the contact must be real, not virtual, and pupils already sharing

classes will get preference. It is not to be used as a lifeline for

failing schools. A group of 70 people who already share schooling

or plan to do so are meeting to find out how best to go about it, so

progress on funding for shared schools is welcomed by then. As the

news came in, the leader of the bid for a new campus in Armagh shared

it. Shared facilities, where new facilities are built to allow shared

use, by June if they can go ahead with

planning their joint campuses. A farmer in County Armagh has turned

detective in. A farmer in County Armagh turned

detective in frustration at the police investigation into tractor

thefts. Three tractors were taken in the Loughgall area earlier this

week. One was crashed and abandoned. The farmer recovered the others.

Tractors are a common sight in rural Armagh but with a price tag often

coming to ?60,000, they have become a common target for criminal gangs.

Last weekend saw three farms targeted in four days. For one

farmer it was a case of enough was enough. Frustrated by an apparent

lack of success for the police, he turns detective and examined CCTV,

called at houses, asked questions and pizza together clues. Within

days he was at this old farm in South Armagh. On Wednesday night, he

and a friend recovered his tractor and that of a neighbour. They also

delivered a suspect to the police after a struggle. He is now on bail,

along with a second man. An MLA who knows the farmer says police

resources are not up to the job. When thieves can steal tractors and

equipment and drive for 25 miles on three different nights undetected,

something is wrong with policing in the area. The police said that while

they were pleased tractors had been recovered and arrests had been made,

they did not want people to put themselves at risk of harm. Mr Irwin

said frustrated farmers felt they had no choice but to do just that. I

understand that, the farmers understand that, but they feel they

have no option. They have said they would not have got their tractors

back if they hadn't acted themselves and trace the movements. That is the

job of the police. Something is wrong when police cannot do that job

and farmers themselves have to find their tractors. Mr Irwin will meet

local police commanders next week to discuss the problem of rural crime.

It's European rugby night. Stephen Watson is here to tell us what faces

the Ulster team at Ravenhill. Ulster take on Montpellier in the

Heineken Cup. They have already beaten the French side so fingers

crossed. Mark Anscombe's side currently occupy top spot in pool

five. The winner of the group will ultimately be decided next week when

Ulster take on Leicester, but that's only the case if Ulster produce a

winning performance tonight. And victory will virtually guarantee a

place in the knock-out stages. If all goes to plan, Ulster and

Leicester will win this weekend, setting up a winner takes all clash

next Saturday and baby tonight is unthinkable from an Ulster

perspective. The taking nothing for granted. It is very important for

Leicester and us. We are probably both favourites to win and as we

found out last year, all it takes is to take your cat litter a week early

and do sums and you end up losing the game, so we're under no

illusions about how tough a game this will be. Montpellier wobbled a

bit in the league over there and I think they will see the game as a

chance to get some momentum and try to get their season back on track.

Rory Best will start for the first time since breaking his arm. He

won't be on kicking duty. That task will fall to one of the best in the

business as Ulster aim to take one step closer to a European final at

Ravenhill. When we start talking quarterfinals, then semifinals, it

can just as easily not happen and then everybody says that was let

down but they got ahead of themselves. We just need to enjoy

the here and now, come here on Friday, enjoy two good teams going

head to head in the European cup game, and why worry about what is

happening next week? Ulster at 33-1 to win tonight. They would be hoping

for a win, they simply expected. -- they simply expect it.

Darren Clarke is a big rugby fan. He remains well-placed after his second

round at the Volvo Masters in Durban in South Africa. He is four under

par after a round of 71 today kept him within three shots of the lead

at the halfway stage. Four birdies on the opening nine holes saw him

briefly lead the field, before slipping slightly back. Other Irish

players, Simon Thornton and Padraig Harrington are both two under, while

Michael Hoey is one over. It's the fifth round of football's

Irish Cup tomorrow - the stage of the competition when all the

Premiership sides enter. The smallest club left in the cup are

Strabane Athletic. The Tyrone side, who play in the Northern Ireland

Intermediate League, hope to cause an upset tomorrow when they take on

Ballinamallard. You have a big game on Saturday. It has been a easy week

for Strabane Athletic manager Martin Doherty as he prepares for the club

clash. He has left nothing to chance, organising a friendly

against Derry City and maintains. It is a big weekend for Strabane. It

has given the tone a real lift. It is the first time the club has been

in the cup in its history so it will be a tough challenge against a

senior club. Strabane Athletic captain Liam McMenamin says there is

a big buzz. The former Sheffield Wednesday defender, who once the --

against Chile to one, says there is a good mix of experience. We have to

go win and enjoy it, all the pressure is on them and we have

nothing to lose. It is probably the team's biggest game to date. High

hopes for the local site, but will the players be standing tall after

this club clash? They hope so. University of Ulster student Niall

McKeever has rejoined the Antrim football panel on his return from a

four-year spell with the Aussie Rules side Brisbane Lions. This

weekend he will play against his county in the Power NI Dr McKenna

Cup. As a 20-year-old athletic six foot six midfielder, already

established at intercounty level, you can see why Niall McKeever court

the eye of the Brisbane Scouts in 2009. In his four years with the

club, he progressed to their senior side are making 22 appearances. I

enjoy myself. You grew up hoping to be a professional footballer and I

was able to do that, and made some good friends. He is back studying at

university and is lining out on the same Jordanstown team as another

player who returned from a spell in the string you. I think people get

too involved in this professional idea. There are people in other

games as conditioned as Australian guys, I know that from playing in

national rules, and it is hard to define professionalism. 24-year-old

Niall McKeever Fields has experience with Brisbane will benefit him back

home and he has rejoined the football panel. Progressed in a

number of ways, kicking wise and in use of ball and breaking it down

tactically and things like that. I can bring that to Gaelic

footballers. And from supporters will hoping Australia's loss will be

Gaelic footballers's game. -- game. It all starts at Ravenhill tonight.

We have a bit more to do. The BBC is celebrating 60 years of TV weather

today. Our Angie is nowhere near that age, but here she is.

We have a cold band of air pushing through today, so were

We have a cold band of air pushing through today, so distinct chill and

about this evening. Some misty patch is already forming and places but it

is dry, which is good news for Ravenhill but they will need the

layers there. It is cold and those temperatures will continue to fall

overnight, generally looking at temperatures around freezing and

some rural spots may be as low as -2 or three, so widespread frost, mist

and fog patches, some showers especially in the north and they

could be wintry on hills. The falling on cool ground, so that

brings an ice risk. Especially for Northern counties, and warning in

place for ice and roads could be slippery tomorrow morning. It is a

dry day tomorrow morning, bright and sunny spells for many, maybe a slow

start with the frost lingering, and any coastal showers will die away so

by the afternoon all part should be dry and it brightens up, with frost

and its returning for a time tomorrow evening. Some dense patches

of fog will go in the left -- second part of the night as the breeze

picks up, that is the next weather system bringing wet and breezy

conditions on Monday.