07/07/2014 BBC Newsline

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The food giant Moy Park creates more than 600 new jobs

in a major expansion project covering three factories.

Police get more time to question two people about the murder of a

Two fishermen are rescued after their boat sinks off Ardglass

Politicians call for a union flag put in the grounds

A rescue mission is under way to save a pod of whales trapped

As the Garth Brooks concert row rumbles on, we've been finding out

what it?s like to live in the shadow of Croke Park.

Graeme Mcdowell comes from 8 shots back to

Stephanie qualified for the womens British Open.

A few more downpours around has as we head into tomorrow.

More than 600 jobs are being created by the food giant Moy Park.

They'll be across all three of its locations here.

Our business correspondent Julian O'Neill is at Moy Park's Craigavon

It started as a small business on a farm in the 1940s but today Moy Park

is developing into a global brand. Best exemplified by its sponsorship

of the World Cup in Brazil. It is now of course a Brazilian owned

company but these jobs, all 628 of them, will be a major boost for the

economy right here on our doorstep. Moy Park is a growing business, it's

expansion is already underway in Dungannon. The new jobs will be not

just here but also at its existing operations in Craigavon and

Ballymena. The fact that most of the new jobs are in processing means

that taken together, the average salaries will be around ?17,000.

Some jobs will be in finance and at a division of Moy Park, looking at

new product lines. There are about 82 of the 600 jobs which are above

the private sector median. Those are in the innovation Centre, perhaps in

the financial services but most of them are in food processing but the

opportunities that they provide in a company such as this means that you

can start at food move up the chain in the business. No party supplies

chicken to supermarkets across Europe and since 2008, it has been

part of the Brazilian food company, Marfrig. Today's announcement brings

the work voice -- the workforce Job 12,000, have based outside Northern

Ireland. We have people in this organisation full of determination

and commitment, who have a big passion for the business and we want

to continue to grow the organisation and the business to support our

people, our customers and consumers. Last year Moy Park increased its

sales turnover to more than ?1.2 billion. Today that growth has

translated into more jobs for the local economy and they will be

created over the next for years. The timing of this announcement will be

beneficial to the Northern Ireland executive. It announced it to sell

Northern Ireland as an investment location and decouples the economy

which is its number one priority from political difficulties around

parading. Last year Marfrig decided Moy Park in Craigavon would be the

centre of its entire European operations and today's jobs

announcement is reflective of the head office status. We have jobs in

finance, management and in product innovation. Good jobs which can

always be said to be the case when people talk about the agri- food

sector with its reputation for lower pay and a dependence on immigrant

labour. Earlier I spoke to the chief

executive of Moy Park's Brazilian parent company, Marfrig and I asked

him why the company had decided to For a number of reasons. Long

tradition in chicken farming, a very well-known place for its quality

chicken. Secondly, terrific partnership with the local

government. We have been very fortunate in being made welcome in

Northern Ireland. We are grateful for the labour force, being again

very impressed with productivity levels that we have seen in Northern

Ireland. The food sector has a reputation for employing low paid

workers and also foreign nationals in Northern Ireland, how fair is

that criticism? I think that criticism is probably valid to a

certain extent from the industry in the past. We have seen a lot more

skill being applied in marketing, in consumer insight, in the convenience

foods segment that we have developed over the last couple of years.

Nevertheless, we are very proud of being a labour-intensive industry.

A priest says people in Craigavon are angry and disgusted

The victim, 40-year-old Owen Creaney, was described by

His body was found in a household bin on Saturday.

The police have been given more time to question two people.

Fresh flowers at the scene of a weekend murder. It was in this house

that 40-year-old Owen Creaney's body was found on Saturday. He had been

the victim of a vicious attack. He was described by police as frail and

vulnerable. He walked with the aid of a stick. He did not live here

where his body was found, he had an address elsewhere in Lurgan. Police

have said it is too early to speculate on a motive for the murder

and whether or not any weapons were used. They have said that Owen

Creaney was the victim of a serious and sustained assault. He survived

for some time but died later without receiving medical attention. His

body was then put in a bin which was placed in a porch at the back of the

property. Two people, a 27-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, who

were in the house at the time the body was found, were arrested.

People living locally said they were disgusted by the killing in their

midst. Owen Creaney's family did not want to be interviewed but a local

priest spoke of their anguish. It must be an horrendous ordeal for

them, to have to go through this match knowing the awful things that

happened to him. I don't know the details myself but the fact that it

happened and the way it happened is making it an odd experience for them

to have to live with. The police say they want to speak to anyone who saw

Owen Creaney between Wednesday of last week and Saturday, when his

body was discovered in the house in Craigavon. The fact he was allowed

to remain without medical attention and even after death, there was no

respect shown to the body and so I would ask anybody who has

information about this brutal murder, to contact detectives. The

police have been granted more time to question the man and woman

arrested at the scene on Saturday. A police investigation has begun

in England into the death 23-year-old James Steen was

attending Newcastle University. His body was found at a house

in Rugby in Warwickshire His death is being described

by the police as unexplained. Three men were arrested

and released on bail. Still to come: A rescue mission in

County Donegal to save a pod of Two men were rescued after their

motorboat ran aground on rocks near This all happened at around

lunchtime today. Just a short distance from where I am standing at

the moment. A matter of metres from the harbour. Locals have told me the

two men had been out dangling on a small motor boat when it developed

engine trouble and ended up running aground on those rocks you can see

behind me. The two men were able to get onshore and a local fisherman

took his boat out to tour their boat back in. But a very lifeboat had

also been alerted. It came here and took over the towing but by that

stage, the small motor boat had taken on so much water, that it

signed. The good news is that the two men were not injured. The boat

however is now at the bottom of the sea.

A rescue of a different kind is going on in County Donegal where a

It's thought up to four of the 13 Pilot whales washed up on Falcarragh

beach have died while others made their way back into the water.

Local people have been pouring buckets

of water over the remaining whales to try to keep them alive until the

The DUP Mayor of Ballymoney has called

for a union flag in the grounds of a Catholic Church to be removed.

Loyalists have put up the flag at the church in Dervock.

In the village of dark near Ballymoney, many flags have been put

up in the run-up to the 12th of July. One has caused a problem, this

union flag is on top of an electricity pole inside the grounds

of the Catholic Church. Nationalist representatives say local Catholics

are worried. I think anybody with an ounce of common sense realises this

flight has absolutely nothing to do with culture and everything to do

with instilling fear into the congregation that use this church.

It is intimidating the people who would use this church. The Deputy

First Minister has tweeted, if a tricolour was erected in the grounds

of a Protestant church, I would take it down. The union flag should come

down. This DUP Councillor, currently the mayor of the area, says whoever

put the plight of should remove it. There are many other places where

the flag could be put up, and to put one inside any place of worship

without permission is totally wrong. I hope that common sense will

prevail and that they will take it down because there is absolutely no

need whatsoever for it. It does not help any case whatsoever. Catholics

are in a minority in Dover, around 40 or 50 people attended church

here. Unionists and nationalists say committee relations here are not in

a bad state. They hope this issue can be

With the past week's war of words between politicians over

flags and parades, the Stormont Executive's meeting,

planned for tomorrow morning, will bring the parties round the table.

Our Political Editor Mark Devenport joins me.

The Ardoyne Parade, do you expect that to be on the agenda? I think it

is pretty certain that it will be. Set agenda concerns financial

matters to do with the individual Stormont departments, the Ulster

Unionist Minister Danny Kennedy has given formal notice that he wants to

raise that decision by the Parades Commission and any other business.

It is likely to be discussed at the end of the meeting, probably

unionists will be looking for some direct clinical intervention. What

response are nationalists Mr is likely to make? Sinn Fein have said

that unionists can raise whatever they want but is not the job of the

Stormont executive to make rulings on individual parades. They say that

is at the Parades Commission. Any attempt on that score from unionists

is likely to be knocked back. Both Sinn Fein and the STL P had

delegations in Dublin today, meeting the Taoiseach and both parties would

like more engagement from both London and Dublin as they put it to

act as part of an act in favour of the peace process. At Westminster

today Home Secretary announced a wide-ranging review into allegations

involving historical child abuse. A human rights group looking for the

scandal involving the Belfast home, camcorder, to be included in that?

Yes, camcorder, the scandal in the 70s and 80s in which three numbers

of staff at that east Belfast boys whom convicted for abusing

children, there were reports of the time in the press and sense of the

involvement of high-profile figures and military intelligence. Because

of that, Amnesty International says while the local enquiry into

institutional child abuse laws cover this boys home, this one announced

today in London should also have a remit to look into this because it

has wider powers and they say a Hillsborough review may get to the

bottom of some of these allegations.

There's a new development in the row over the Garth Brooks

concert in Dublin where we've been talking to residents living

You could, theoretically, be kept in your house for a number of days and

not be able to get your car in or out.

An Eastern European crime gang has stolen 120 BMW cars

in a sophisticated cross border key cloning racket.

The information was revealed during a court appearance by a Latvian man

The police believe an Eastern European crime gang has been

involved in a sophisticated cross-border car crime racket

involving high end luxury BMW cars like these. It is claimed up to one

and 20 cars were stolen over the last ten months in the greater

Dublin area. They were later moved to garages in Northern Ireland like

this one in Enniskillen which was raided by the police at the end of

May, leading to the arrest of four foreign nationals. Details of the

investigation revealed during a bail application in Belfast today. One of

the men arrested was a 31-year-old with an address in Birmingham and he

had his bail application and adjourned after the judge said there

was no question of him granting bail to a man with an address outside

Northern Ireland. I defence lawyers said the man had lived in the UK for

the past eight years. The police believed he had travelled over from

England to help move one of the stolen BMW cars from Dublin to

Enniskillen. The other three men arrested have already appeared in

court charged in connection with the alleged Keith Downing bracket.

Garth Brooks fans should know in the next few days

if the American country singer will be coming to Croke Park for five

The gigs have been in doubt since last week when Dublin City

Council granted licences for just three of the concerts after

Our reporter Kevin Sharkey has spent the day in Dublin finding out what

it's like to live in the area on the night of a big concert.

In the shadow of Croke Park, family homes on street after street. We

call it the shadow of the Coliseum. Thousands of homes around here and

on concert nights, disruption. This is one of the most famous road in

Ireland. For over a century, tens of thousands of football and hurling

fans coming here to go to matches at Croke Park. In recent years, big

numbers coming here to go to concerts, bringing added disruption

for the people living along this road and on neighbouring side

streets. Some residents are happy to live with the upheaval but for

others, more disruption is too much. You could, theoretically, be kept in

your house for a number of days and not be able to get a car in or out.

You cannot have people come to visit you, you could not have a children's

birthday party or anything like that. If you had five days in a

row, that could school up to 80 days of really bad disruption from

locals. If the current decision stands, some residents will feel

relief, not so sounds like those in Northern Ireland. I got a ticket for

my son 's birthday and my son in law. My friend bought tickets for

his wife for their first wedding anniversary. There is a lot in this

and 12 of us going at the one time to the one place, it is hard to

organise. One common theme of the controversy is blame. Residents

among those at the receiving end. As usual, we have all the green jersey

for Ireland Inc. Once again, the little people are being blamed from

preventing people from making a lot of money. It is like we learned have

nothing from the years in the past. Whatever the outcome, this is

another controversy asking questions about how Ireland does business.

Sport now and Graeme McDowell emulated the likes of Nick Faldo

and Seve Ballesteros when he retained the French Open Title -

but he did it the hard way. Here's Mark Sidebottom.

Stephanie Meadow 's will partake in the Royal British open.

Yes - Graeme McDowell remains the French Open champion, but only after

an amazing final day which saw him claw back an eight shot deficit.

The leader was a wash-out, dropping six shots in his first ten holes.

Graeme McDowell eventually pulled level and was preparing for the

seemingly inevitable play-off when the leader blew it, bullying the

18th hole. There is special, it means a lot of things to me, my

first defence of the title. My first multiple winner of a European tour

event. In those kind of conditions, having the peace of mind to hang in

there and hit the shots. It paid off today and I have to bind those

feelings and take them forward. In Buckinghamshire, Stephanie Meadow 's

shot because record 63 to finish third at the European Masters. It

was just awesome today and I played really well today. A lot of great

chances and great putts. The last two weeks of my life has been

turmoil that it has been a lot of fun. It is what I have dreams of

doing. I love to do it so the bigger, the better! Next up, British

open and cheaper booked a place after qualifying this afternoon.

Jonathan Rea has won a race in the World Superbikes

The Ballyclare rider mastered difficult wet conditions in Portugal

That victory means he lies fourth in the overall standings.

I heard the reign and I just started singing a little bit, I was giddy

getting changed because I knew it was a chance. I much prefer it in

the dry but we will take it. It is 25 points, not just from me, but for

the team. This weekend?s qualifier game

between Tyrone and Armagh will take place on Sunday afternoon in Omagh,

avoiding a clash with Orange parades Armagh go

into the back door system following defeat to Ulster champions Monaghan,

in their semi final replay. This man still has not lost a

championship game and that the first time, Colin manners was his

matchwinner, hitting a goal and seven points. Individually, the

performances were not good enough last week and it was just about

getting a performance and troubling things up. We knew we had to

improve. We worked on a few things in training and frankly, the boys

pulled it out of the bag. It is now a repeat of last year 's provincial

decider between Donegal and it will be the first time since the 1940s

but one hand and made it to back-to-back finals. It is the first

time I have heard of it. It is nice to get back there but Donegal is in

the driving seat. Former all Ireland champions so we will have two put

the head down and get the work done. I'm out will now rekindle one

of the fiercest rivalries against Tyrone. Counties ladies are just an

outstanding display to win their first provincial title in seven

years. They defeated one by nine points. We have had a long, dry

spell. When they got over Tyrone, we knew we had the talent there in the

squad and that was a big confidence boost. Fair play to other girls,

have put the hard work in. We're just delighted to be here. The

summer is over for Antrim's Gaelic footballers as they lost to Limerick

in the qualifiers. All this week, there's top class

sailing taking place in Belfast Lough off the North Down

coast, where the prestigious F18 We have had a marvellous reception

here, everybody at the club has been super super friendly and it has been

a wonderful experience, having never been to Ireland before. I have not

being on the formerly 18 for a a few years now so it is nice to put the

harness back on again and mix it up with these younger guys. No matter

how experienced, it is a challenge for cruise. This would would be one

of the pinnacle catamarans. Top speeds of around 25 knots. Every

decision has to be very fast and you have to be awake and have your mind

very clear, to be aware of the changes in the wind conditions, the

boot and everything and it happens superfast. You have to work a lot

and you win the races and are very tired, but it is fun and so it is

OK. The championship runs until Friday with three races per day

depending on conditions. Success could pave the way for more events

coming to these shores. Not all parts caught the rain today

but there was a mixture and there are more showers to come as we head

three into tomorrow. From the midweek onwards, we should see

things starting to settle down. It will turn a dryer with brighter,

sunny spells as well. This is how many of us started the day today.

Beautiful blue skies but you can see the cloud bubbling up and in places,

they continued to do that. We had showers first of all in the West and

a tracked eastwards throughout the afternoon. There has been thunder

and there are still downpours across the West in the first part of the

evening. We end up with some drier weather this evening but then

another batch of more persistent and organised showery rain coming into

the West later tonight. It is not a cold night, the town is sitting

there at 11 or 12 degrees. For tomorrow, things are going to

improve eventually but not a great start with that rain around. The

rain edges its way eastwards through the morning. The rain is weakening

and will eventually pull away. In behind the rain, there is potential

for a future showers in the early part of the afternoon, particularly

for price of Tyrone and Fermanagh. Sunshine in between and temperatures

reaching 17 or 18 degrees. It could feel fresher on the north coast with

the breeze. Tomorrow evening, the brighter part of the day for many of

us and through tomorrow night, it will always stay dry with similar

temperatures to the coming night. Wednesdi looks like a fine dry and

becoming warmer. Those temperatures continue to eat up a little bit

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