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calls for UN peacekeepers to be sent in. That's all from the BBC News at | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: the Giro d'Italia is | :00:00. | :00:25. | |
coming up but election posters are coming down. A jury considers its | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
verdict against three Anglo Irish Bank directors over the Republic's | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
most Tories financial scandal. A Belfast solicitor is given a | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
suspended sentence for stealing over ?800,000 from his clients. Why the | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
cost of the Disney on Ice experience at the Odyssey has left some parents | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
cold. His sixth tilt at the Masters produces a top ten finish but the | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
green jacket is as far away as ever for Rory McIlroy. A cold night | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
coming up but a brighter and slightly warmer day for many | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
tomorrow. When one of cycling's most famous | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
events starting next month, the riders and TV cameras will see | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
buildings, people and countryside along the Giro d'Italia route but no | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
election posters, even though we will be in the run-up to the local | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
and European elections at that time. Political parties signed up to a | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
voluntary poster ban and now we have been told legislation is also being | :01:27. | :01:39. | |
changed. The organising team is gearing up | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
for the Giro d'Italia and it seems nothing will get in their way. Even | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
election posters. Although there was general agreement by parties at | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
Stormont not to put up posters along the route, authorities are not | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
taking any chances. The environment minister will introduce an election | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
poster ban, covering every mile of the cyclists cover. It is just | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
during that period so parties may choose to put posters up before that | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
but if they do not have them down, we will bring them down. Bolivia | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
penalty for those who keep posters up? I am hopeful we will not need to | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
sign should anyone and that nobody flouts this law. Reaction to the | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
idea has been generally positive. Yes, why not? The posters are | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
already everywhere else. I think it is the right way to go. I think it | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
is good, keep the place nice and tidy. Keep the place looking good. | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
The countdown has now begun to that big weekend of racing. Although | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
party politics is not being allowed along the route, there is still | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
going to be a party atmosphere. In Belfast, a week-long festival is | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
being planned. We are not asking everybody to take up cycling, we're | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
asking them to come here and have a good time in your city and the | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
majority of it is free. All the businesses have got involved so we | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
are pressing buildings, the Albert clock and the museum will be turned | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
pink. There are still 25 days to go until the race games but it is | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
already clear that Northern Ireland is getting into the mood and more | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
and more people are getting on their bikes. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
The Anglo Irish Bank was at the centre of the Republic's most | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
notorious financial scandal. Today the jury is considering its verdicts | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
against three of its former directors. They are accused of | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
lending money to a so-called golden circle of clients in an illegal | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
attempt to prop up the bank's share price. At the time of the deal in | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
2008, the Fermanagh businessman Sean Quinn secretly controlled 25% of | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
shares. The men on trial are Sean Fitzpatrick, Pat Whelan and Willie | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
McAteer who are all from the Dublin and Wicklow areas. Our economic and | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
business editor John Campbell is that the Central Criminal Court in | :04:20. | :04:29. | |
Dublin. Sean Quinn's activities featured heavily in this case? Yes, | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
in the summer of 2008, the Anglo Irish Bank had a big problem and | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
that was Sean Quinn. He had taken a huge bet on the bank, he controlled | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
a quarter of all the shares but this bet was going badly for him. He lost | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
a lot of money and those losses were increasing. The only thing he could | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
do was to end the bet and to face up to the losses but that raised the | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
prospect of all those shares he controlled appearing on the market | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
and that filled the bankers with horror. Suddenly all these shares | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
appearing at the same time and that would potentially put the bank out | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
of business. What they do in that situation? Initially they went on a | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
tour around the world to find somebody to take the shares but | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
nobody was interested. The solution lay closer to home. They put | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
together a group of ten loyal customers and they said, we will | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
lend you a lot of money and on favourable terms and you will use | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
that money to mop up the Sean Quinn shares and that. The problem. That | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
is exactly what they did. The defence for the prosecution, what | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
arguments did they make about the transaction? The prosecution say it | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
was utterly illegal, they say the law is clear, you cannot lend people | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
money to try and boost or maintain your share price because that gives | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
a false impression of the financial health of the company. The defence | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
is say, the law is more subtle than that. What the bank did looks | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
unusual but it was completely legitimate. Now we are in the | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
position where the jury has to decide who is the story they have to | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
believe. They have been deliberating all day and they will be back in the | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
morning for another day of deliberations. | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
A former Belfast who admitted stealing ?800,000 from clients to | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
protect his family from loyalist threats has been given a three-year | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
suspended sentence. A judge told Damien Murray that his offence was a | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
serious breach of trust between a solicitor and his clients. | :06:44. | :06:56. | |
This is Damian Merry who today walked free from court after a judge | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
suspended his three-year prison sentence for three years. In | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
February, the 51-year-old from Belfast pleaded guilty to the theft | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
of over ?800,000 from his clients between June 1999 and December 2003. | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
The court heard that his business incurred financial problems and that | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
he borrowed ?27,500 from an unnamed source. This debt was subsequently | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
sold to a man. Damien Murray has always claimed he did not benefit | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
from the money which he stole and he had passed it onto third parties he | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
believed loyalist paramilitaries. Belfast Crown Court previously heard | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
that Damien Murray is now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
after paramilitaries threatened to shoot him and his family. The judge | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
described the circumstances as unusual and said it was accepted | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
that Damien Murray was in understandable fear. In handing down | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
the three-year suspended sentence, the judge said he was taking into | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
consideration the extreme pressure the former solicitor was under and | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
the inordinate delay in bringing the prosecution case. The judge accepted | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
that Damien Murray had not personally benefited from his crimes | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
but said it was a case of a serious breach of trust between a solicitor | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
and his clients. The trial has collapsed of a man | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
accused of being a member of the Provisional IRA. 49-year-old Martin | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
Edward Morris from Welbeck Road in London was facing a single charge of | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
professing to be an IRA member between 1997 and 2000. At Belfast | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
Crown Court, a prosecuting lawyer said that the Crown would be | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
offering no evidence against him and the judge recorded a finding of not | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
guilty. Still to come on the programme: 70 | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
years after he was killed in action, the family of an Aghadowey man | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
finally receive his posthumous war medals. | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
Next, the latest on the twists and turns in the row between the GAA and | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
members of the social club in its ground at Casement Park in Belfast. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Work was due to begin on the multi-million pound redevelopment of | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
the stadium this morning but a solicitor's letter at the end of | :09:18. | :09:28. | |
last week caused a few problems. The renovation of Casement Park and | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
the social club which has been there for many years had caused former | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
friends to fall out. After talks, club members got a deal, a temporary | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
premises for the duration of work on the ground. Then on Friday, they got | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
a solicitor 's letter telling them to be out by today when work was due | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
to start. That led to a sit in. We have been in Casement Park for over | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
45 years. It was a place for people to congregate and socialise and all | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
the profits of the club went to the Antrim County board and we have | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
given over ?1 million to them. It now appears an administrative error | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
led to a misunderstanding. The letter was a formality and should | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
not have been issued. This afternoon, club members said after a | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
meeting, things had been sorted out to their satisfaction. | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
The UK City of Culture year brought the people of Londonderry together | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
but now a bid for the Irish title seems to be pushing them further | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
apart. A leading unionist says it makes much more sense to try for the | :10:44. | :10:58. | |
European City of Culture. It was a major success in terms of | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
the huge numbers of visitors who came here. Events like the all | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
Ireland Festival attracted for hundred and 30,000 people. The City | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
Council has now decided to go for another title, garage City of | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
Culture. While Unionist councillors initially gave their support, some | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
senior politicians now appear less than enthusiastic. An Irish title is | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
of lesser importance than the European title. Most people would | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
accept that. Which would you get the greater recognition for? It is bound | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
to be a title that encompasses 300 million people. Sinn Fein have been | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
lobbying for Derry to take part in the competition. It is currently | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
opening open to councils in the Republic. This is nonpolitical. If | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
you look around here and anyone that tells you they have come to the city | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
for the first time, they have found the place totally unrecognisable and | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
it is clear to see how we all achieved that. We did so by a. The | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
Londonderry Chamber of Commerce is does not want to get involved in a | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
political row, says attracting more visitors remains a priority. If | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
Terry were awarded the Irish title, it would be great for the city. | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
Derry penetrated the southern market in a way it has not done for a | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
generation will stop after a year of being the UK's first City of | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
Culture, is there are widespread support for an Irish title? Why not? | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
We would like to see more people coming from the south. It can bring | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
nothing but good and it is great for the future. It is for Irish cities | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
as far as I know and Derry is an Irish city. I thought it was cheeky | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
of the council to go for it. I think it is a great idea. Unionists have | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
always maintained that any Irish cultural bid should not be turned | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
into a political football. Nationalists have insisted it will | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
not become an issue about identity. Rather, putting the interests of the | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
entire city above all else. A motorcyclist has died after | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
crashing into a telegraph pole in Crumlin this morning. He was | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
37-year-old Alan Kelso from Antrim. No other vehicle was involved. | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
The police are investigating a shooting outside a bar in West | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Belfast. Shots were fired after midnight at the Rock Bar on the | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Falls Road. A 44-year-old man is being | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
questioned about a bomb attack on a police Land Rover in West Belfast | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
last month. Detectives say the device which had been left on the | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
grounds of the city cemetery was detonated by a command | :13:54. | :13:54. | |
Coming up on BBC Newsline before seven: find out why the Derry | :13:55. | :14:15. | |
captain will not forget the last 24 hours. The spectacle of Disney on | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
Ice that has thrilled children all over the world got a thumbs up in | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
Belfast over the past few days. But the cost of the whole experience has | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
not impressed many parents who have contacted us here on BBC Newsline, | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
as Louise Cullen reports. A date with Donald and Mickey. This father | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
looked forward to the big day after spending ?70 on the tickets. He | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
hadn't expected the price of the popcorn. Another ?70 could easily | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
have been spent on the day. The gifts and everything were there for | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
them and five-year-old son three-year-old is, it is difficult | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
to tell them no, it put a little damper on it. If you brought two | :15:04. | :15:14. | |
children to the show and then bought the programme and refreshments for | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
all of you you would have spent nearly ?100 on the day out. Taking | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
the Mickey perhaps? It is an ideal day, everyone is having fun so you | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
do not like to tell them no but you are not going to spend 60 or ?70 on | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
a few bits and pieces just to get them happy. You have to do what you | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
have to do. Many of you who contacted us on Facebook agreed but | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
others thought it was only to be expected. There have been no | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
responses to the enquiries but it is understand that prices are set by | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
Disney as part of their overall merchandising. You can add your | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
views to the comments we have already received on our Facebook | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
page. 70 years after he was killed in action, an RAF man from Aghadowey | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
has been posthumously awarded three war medals. Howard McQuigg was 19 | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
when his aircraft was shot down during a bombing raid over Germany. | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
His wartime service was never officially recognised until a few | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
weeks ago when his sister got a package from the Ministry of | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
Defence. Our North-East reporter David Maxwell has the story. New | :16:30. | :16:39. | |
medals for the life lost decades ago. They belong to this man who | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
left his family at home in 1937 to join the boys they are forced. Two | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
years later, with the outbreak of war, he took on one of the most | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
dangerous balls of all at the rear gunner on dangerous era reads. -- | :16:59. | :17:20. | |
air raids. He gave me three crowns. In 1941 he boarded one of these | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
aircraft. The mission was to cripple the NATFHE war machine. In bad | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
weather and an anti-aircraft fire, his plane never reached its target. | :17:34. | :17:45. | |
-- Nazi. All on board were lost. The post man brought the Telegraph. He | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
was missing. We did not here for another six months that he was | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
killed. Medals were not issued automatically after World War II so | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Howard's efforts were not recognised until one month ago. It has been | :18:05. | :18:15. | |
lovely hearing granny tell us the stories about her brother and what | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
she can remember about him. I think it has brought us a bit closer as a | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
family. It has been lovely. For Nancy these medals are a precious | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
reminder of her brother who paid the ultimate price. Family memories and | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
medals to cherish. Golfing fans were glued to the TV over the weekend to | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
watch Rory McIlroy achieve his ever finish around the US Masters course. | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
But the winner's green jacket remains as elusive as ever. Mark | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
Sidebottom is here Over the four days he found sprinkler heads, he | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
found flower beds, and he found form on the final day. But in the end the | :18:56. | :19:07. | |
pre-tournament favourite was tied eighth on level par. Darren Clarke | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
finished 44th overall. From the Augusta masters course, Stephen | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
Watson reports for BBC Newsline. The end of another Masters for Rory | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
McIlroy and another missed opportunity at the major. He had | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
produced a memorable final day to propel himself up leaderboard. But | :19:33. | :19:41. | |
the pre-tournament favourite was never really in contention. | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
Personally, for me, this Masters has been frustrating. I have played well | :19:51. | :20:00. | |
they bought. -- quite a lot. But it is just a matter of parting the | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
better on the greens, playing the par fives better. Being more | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
conservative on the par fives. If I can do that I will hopefully content | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
for a few more of these. Again it was one wee word round in the early | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
stages that did most of the damage. He found the Bush years, the trees | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
and thanks to a bad bounce, is ball was even in the azaleas. But he is | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
determined to learn from the experience and says he will win the | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
Masters one day. I felt it was my best ever chance coming in this week | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
to win a green jacket but things did not really fall my way. If I can | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
come as well prepared in each and every Masters as I did this year I | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
bought by the end of my career I will not have just one but maybe a | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
few of them. So we will have to wait another year for a Northern Ireland | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
winner at the Masters as the search for that green jacket continues. He | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
was probably the daddy yesterday and he's definitely the daddy today - 24 | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
hours ago Mark Lynch captained Derry to the Allianz National football | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
final league final. Four hours ago he and wife Bernie became proud | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
first time parents of a little boy - it's been some 24 hours. Thomas | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
Niblock reports. Despite leading, his ambitions of making the league | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
final seemed over after just 24 minutes. The neo- captain found the | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
net. The Derry midfielder Fergal Doherty was sent off immediately | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
after, the reason was the second card for this challenge. Very high | :21:59. | :22:07. | |
displayed a level of majority this season which surprised many from | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
outside the squad. This goal was set up for Stephen Johnston. Mark Lynch | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
scored an incredible nine points on Sunday and as the game came to a | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
close it was Lynch who provided the score. In front of 30,000 spectators | :22:25. | :22:41. | |
Dublin crushed court yesterday. Just a fortnight to go and its fun and | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
games in the tight run in for the Gibson Cup - mindgames to be | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
precise. Linfield beat Crusaders in a fiesty affair on Saturday. Post | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
match, with the adrenalin still coursing, whispers that Crusaders | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
might take in easy on Cliftonville in the last game of the season where | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
promptly refuted. Nikki Gregg has the story. With only one point | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
celebrating -- separating Lynnfield and Cliftonville this match has the | :23:07. | :23:15. | |
drama. The coming of greater concern to David Jeffrey, how important will | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
Crusaders prove to be? We will not be turning up against them in the | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
last day. That is not some scurrilous allegation. Several | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
players heard that and I am not going to name the players but he | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
seriously said that. I am hoping that it was only in the emotion of | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
the day. Hanley with the goal for the Crusaders! One, he did not hear | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
it, to it did not happen. Every player who plays for me please for | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
that shark and will give up their right legs. Anyone who lies down in | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
that football team will not be here next year. The message is clear, | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
consider Crusaders to be a non-runner. Still no official | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
confirmation on who will be the new Linfield manager. Warren Feeney is | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
hotly tipped. We will tell you when we know for sure. The sunshine today | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
got many of our viewers out to take photos for us today. Angie has a few | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
which are postcards to show others as well as her latest forecast. It | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
has not been a bad start to the week at all. A northerly breeze this | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
morning made it feel fresh in places but we do have high pressure in | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
charge at the moment. That will keep things fairly fine through the next | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
24 hours. Cold nights and the rest of some frost around. That risk will | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
diminish from midweek on words. Rain will threaten for a time on | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
Wednesday. The emphasis is back to mainly dry conditions. We did get | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
some cloud will bring in across the land today but some sunny gaps in | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
between. The best sunshine around coastal fringes. That cloud inland | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
is melting away. For many it is a bright end to the day. For many this | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
evening it will become cold. Temperatures around the costs just | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
three or four degrees but inland dated drop to freezing in the | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
countryside which could give buyers a touch of brass frost or a touch of | :25:50. | :25:59. | |
mist or fog. Temperatures will rise a little tomorrow in many areas and | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
I think we will see more in the way of sunshine. Romm the word got it | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
will be pretty sunny but feeling chilly to begin with. Temperatures | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
will rise. Along the coast it might feel fresh with. Further inland | :26:20. | :26:33. | |
temperatures will rise up. The high 17 degrees. Tomorrow evening will | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
have a nice end to the day with lots of evening sunshine. There will be | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
clear spells tomorrow night as well. Probably not as cold as the night to | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
come. Cloud starting to increase and the weather front moving in for | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
Wednesday. That will bring a spell of rain and quite easy conditions to | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
northern and western areas. Looking drier for Thursday and Friday. Our | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
late summary is at 10:25. You can also keep in contact with us via | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
Facebook and twitter. From BBC Newsline, goodnight. | :27:08. | :27:16. |