20/04/2016 BBC Newsline


20/04/2016

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A company working at a windfarm which was once part of Sean Quinn's

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business empire has moved off site after receiving threats.

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The firm's managing director has told BBC Newsline he

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was not prepared to put his workers in danger.

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There has been a long series of attacks on businesses

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which were once owned by Mr Quinn in Fermanagh.

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Here's our south west reporter Julian Fowler.

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A convoy of cranes travelling on the road, away from Derrylin after a

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threat than vehicles would be set on fire if they were not removed from

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the wind farm. The company that bought equipment to the site to

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manage maintenance, the managing director told the BBC he was not

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prepared to put his work is in danger. Security was stepped up at

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the wind farm which was one part of the business empire of Sean Quinn,

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following threats to workers. Part of the dispute is about workers

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rights but there's also a dispute with Sean Quinn seeking to take

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control of the business once again. A sign on the road threat and

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executives who now run one part of the former Quinn group. The police

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cold it a deplorable act of into mediation against members of the

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local business community. Police and both sides of the border are

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investigating the incident, part of a long series of sabotage is against

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businesses run by Sean Quinn. The chairman received a written death

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threat on the day his wife died. Sean Quinn said he and his family

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continue to condemn all negative activity in the area, since

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supporting him remain. The latest threats have added to the climate of

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fear that exists. More people are reluctant to speak out. There are

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real concerns about the long-term impact on jobs and investment.

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The Victims Commissioner has said more than 200,000

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people are suffering mental health problems because of the Troubles.

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But only 18000 have come forward to get help.

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Our Political Correspondent Enda McClafferty has been listening

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to two people from Londonderry who are struggling to

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Marie and Sharon are both victims of the troubles as of now become firm

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friends after telling their stories, in a book, beyond the silence. The

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husband of Mary is shot dead by a loyalist gunmen in 1976 as he worked

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in a bar in Eglinton. They have seven children. I remember the night

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he was shot, we were screaming, losing ourselves, I thought, just

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please tell me. Sharon was 11 when her brother was

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murdered by the IRA in 1974, tortured before his body was dumped

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on a road. 40 years on her mother still holds onto the clothes worn by

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her son on that day. My mother still holds onto the

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clothes, she asked everybody to smell them, she asks, can you scared

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of him, because I can? We tell her, we can.

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Sharon says they all have mental health problems and try to move on.

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The past, we are living it, it is a nightmare, I have said it before,

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the person who is shot, murdered, abducted, they are dead. What about

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the living? Because it is living a nightmare.

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Sharon and Marie are by no means alone. The thick as Commissioner

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estimates 500,000 people have been affected by the troubles, 40,000

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injured, 3720th families bereaved. At least 200,000 people are still

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suffering mental trauma, yet only 18,000 of those have sought help. We

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know that young people growing up in those communities, of the families

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most impact, they show the highest levels of suicide, self harm, and

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mental health problems of anywhere in the UK, and other parts of

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Europe. The victims commissioner says time

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is running out for politicians to reach agreement on how to deal with

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the past. It will be back on the agenda after the election. As yet,

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there's no indication as to how our politicians

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there's no indication as to how our deadlock. Until

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find their own way to deal with the past.

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ahead of next month's Assembly election.

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young people raised questions about abortion,the economy

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They and the Good Friday generation. This is the first election in which

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anybody born after the signing of the Belfast agreement will be able

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to vote. Tonight they put assembly candidates in the spotlight.

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Politicians often talk about how difficult it is to engage people in

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the democratic process. But this audience of first time voters was

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engaged and interested, and tonight they had plenty of questions.

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Audience member Eva McBride from Co Armagh was interested in the

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controversial issue of abortion. I think women should have the right

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to decide what to do with their own bodies, and if there's something

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wrong with a child, and they are not and have a good quality of life, why

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put them through that? But Megan Donaldson took a different

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view. They need to look of the fact that

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it is murder. You are killing a child. What is the difference

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between once a child is born and once that is inside of you? There

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are plenty babies who live when they are born at the time when you can

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still get an abortion. Matthew Wilson was keen to know if

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this year's collection is going to be different?

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At each election the votes run along the same orange versus green lines.

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The politicians ever see an end, in the near future, to tribal politics?

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James Milligan the near future, to tribal politics?

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frustrated, he wants to vote, but he is not sure who to vote for -- from

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Lisburn. Is it acceptable that a young person

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like me voting the first time cannot find a party with voting for, that

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makes me want to vote on them? Eight of the parties faced questions

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tonight, the next major televised Eight of the parties faced questions

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bait will be the leaders debate on May three.

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A detective who was in charge of the police investigation

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into the disappearance of Arlene Arkinson has contradicted

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part of a statement about the case by Sir Hugh Annesley.

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The then Chief Constable had said he'd no recollection of a meeting

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when the go ahead was given for a search of the home

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of the Castlederg teenager's sister, Kathleen.

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That was in 1996 two year after her sister

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That was in 1996, two years after her sister

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Eric Anderson was giving evidence for a second day and what would have

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been the 37th birthday of Arlene Arkinson, he said that Sir Hugh

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Annesley given permission to the search on the basis of a tip-off

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from the member of the public. He said he then met the Chief Constable

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at headquarters, something that the court was told Sir Hugh Annesley had

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no memory. He said that he had not taken the decision to search the

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garden and house of Arlene Arkinson himself. The court was told there

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was not a single record of that meeting. Mr Anderson told the

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inquest that he did not strike any mood to do with any cases he was

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involved in. -- did not destroy any notes. He said he kept note and

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sheet of paper and handed them into the incident room. What he did

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destroy, he said, were journals relating to his inquest continues.

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Three people have been injured in a crash this evening in banker just

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before 3pm It's a bit of 3pm an open

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secret that filming instalment in the Star Wars series

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in a county not so far, far away. Film crews are arriving

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in County Donegal and some local people have been asked to sign

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confidentiality agreements. Our reporter Teresa Craig has been

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to the most northerly point of it is one of Hollywood's kiss

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franchises and the rumour mill is an hyperdrive in Donegal, and it is all

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rather hush-hush at the moment. You are not giving much away.

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In the first place I do not know much about it, and what I do know

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they have asked me to keep confidential.

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It is the arrival of trucks and an increase in action at the most

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northerly point of Ireland that could indicate Hollywood has moved

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in. There have been no sightings yet of Luke skywalker, Chewbacca, or

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even the millennium falcon. That we have been told that preparations are

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already under way over the hill, for filming in the next few weeks. Some

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locals are describing it as the worst kept secret in Ireland.

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It is not a maybe, they are here. There are several lorries and trucks

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coming. We are at the start getting ready for Star Wars.

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A number of guest houses and rental homes have already been booked out.

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There are hopes that the Hollywood blockbuster could the area on the

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map. It will make a massive difference to tourism, in the

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north-west. It will be bigger than people can imagine. It has often

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been said that Star Wars is one of the great stories in cinema history.

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There is anticipation that some of the intergalactic action is coming

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here very soon. Maybe the force be with you.

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It is the 90th birthday of the Queen tomorrow and good morning Ulster has

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been to a residential home to get the thoughts of residents on her

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reaching her 90s. It is good to be chilly tonight with

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clear skies. Temperatures falling. Perhaps not quite as low as last

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night. Maybe five Celsius around the coast and towns, still the potential

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to reach freezing in rural areas. A few patches of mist and fog tomorrow

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morning. Essentially another fine and dry day. Spells of sunshine,

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despite the chilly start tomorrow morning. It will be crisp, and the

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sun will still get to work. The Stanforth were clear away to give

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sunny spells. It looks fine across many parts of Britain and Ireland,

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with the exception of parts of Scotland. Some spots of rain during

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the first part of the day. The cloud will begin in the South there will

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be a breeze with rain approaching before Southwest is the day

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progresses. Cloud will move northwards across southern part of

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the country, not quite as one as he faces today, 16th in Wales and the

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north-west of England. Northern Ireland, a fine day. It would be

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hazy cloud moving in at times in the afternoon but not spoiling things.

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Not as warm as today, fresh around the coast, we could see 15 to the

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West. Enjoy it as the highs moved to the north-west and Friday, northerly

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air, turning colder for Friday and the weekend, although still a lot of

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dry weather.

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