:00:00. > :00:09.A priest has assured a grieving family that they don't stand alone
:00:10. > :00:12.against "those who live in the shadows".
:00:13. > :00:18.He was speaking at the funeral of 33-year-old Michael McGibbon,
:00:19. > :00:18.murdered in a paramilitary-style shooting in an alleyway
:00:19. > :00:21.near his home in North Belfast on Friday night.
:00:22. > :00:24.His widow Joanne and their four children led the mourners
:00:25. > :00:27.at the funeral mass at Holy Cross Church in Ardoyne.
:00:28. > :00:44.The words most important in the life and the family
:00:45. > :00:53.of 33-year-old Michael McGibbon - husband, daddy, brother, son.
:00:54. > :00:56.At Holy Cross, joined by more than 800 mourners,
:00:57. > :01:00.Joanne McGibbon stood with her four children - Seana, Shea,
:01:01. > :01:04.Michaela, Cory-Leigh - and helped them begin the process
:01:05. > :01:18.Inside, reassurance that in their grief after the murder,
:01:19. > :01:22.the family of Michael McGibbon do not stand alone.
:01:23. > :01:27.The vast majority of people here in Ardoyne and beyond this parish
:01:28. > :01:32.are with them, standing strong with them
:01:33. > :01:35.against those who live in the shadows and emerge
:01:36. > :01:41.from the shadows to perpetrate foul deeds which deprived
:01:42. > :01:46.a wife of her husband, children of their daddy,
:01:47. > :01:52.a father of his son and siblings of a brother.
:01:53. > :01:55.Children from Holy Cross Boys' School played and sang,
:01:56. > :02:05.schoolfriends of eight-year-old Shea.
:02:06. > :02:13.The death of Michael McGibbon marks another block on the road to
:02:14. > :02:21.Thank God for that peace that we had, but
:02:22. > :02:28.remember it is very fragile and needs to be nurtured.
:02:29. > :02:42.As the family moved on to the committal in Carnmoney,
:02:43. > :02:45.The Queen has been celebrating her 90th birthday today and a number
:02:46. > :02:48.of events have been taking place here to mark the occasion.
:02:49. > :02:51.There was a 21-gun salute at Hillsborough Castle this
:02:52. > :02:54.afternoon, and this evening beacons were lit in various parts
:02:55. > :03:10.A 21 gun salute to mark the Queen's 21 visit to Northern Ireland.
:03:11. > :03:12.More than 900 beacons were lit across the UK,
:03:13. > :03:13.including this one in the grounds of Belfast City Hall.
:03:14. > :03:18.And helping to light it was Albert Moore,
:03:19. > :03:21.who also has good reason to celebrate today.
:03:22. > :03:24.He was born within ten minutes of the Queen and has always
:03:25. > :03:40.Absolutely charming person. If you speak to her, say a word to her, she
:03:41. > :03:42.elaborates on as if she has no new all your life.
:03:43. > :03:44.During the Queen's Diamond Jubilee tour in 2012, she visited
:03:45. > :03:46.St Macartin's Cathedral in Enniskillen before crossing
:03:47. > :03:49.the street to St Michael's Catholic Church.
:03:50. > :03:53.An interdenominational service was held before
:03:54. > :03:57.Meanwhile, another birthday girl, Peggy Bogue,
:03:58. > :04:12.It's an honour to be included in it. I enjoyed it when I was over in
:04:13. > :04:15.Buckingham Palace when I was 18, it was lovely and we had a great time.
:04:16. > :04:17.-- 80. And the celebrations
:04:18. > :04:19.continued in the North West, a spectacular light show rounding
:04:20. > :04:25.off a momentous day. Businessman Sean Quinn has condemned
:04:26. > :04:29.abusive and threatening signs which have appeared at a wind farm
:04:30. > :04:31.which was once part of It comes after a Cork company
:04:32. > :04:36.working at the wind farm moved off In a statement, Mr Quinn said
:04:37. > :04:41.the intimidation of workers was offensive and unacceptable,
:04:42. > :04:43.though he added that more could be done to address the unease
:04:44. > :04:46.and tension in the area. There has been a long series
:04:47. > :04:51.of attacks on businesses which were once owned
:04:52. > :04:56.by Mr Quinn in Fermanagh. Work has started on what will be
:04:57. > :04:59.Northern Ireland's second The ?20 million project
:05:00. > :05:05.is being financed by Belfast Harbour and aims to be ready by the end
:05:06. > :05:08.of the year. Our business correspondent
:05:09. > :05:10.Julian O'Neill reports. Planning permission for the studios
:05:11. > :05:14.was obtained in February Builders are on site, aiming
:05:15. > :05:22.to complete the project by December. The studio complex is off the M2
:05:23. > :05:26.on the fringes of Belfast Docks in a redevelopment area known
:05:27. > :05:30.as Giant's Park. Belfast Harbour is funding
:05:31. > :05:33.the scheme and has consulted with film companies
:05:34. > :05:36.on the building's This project will clearly make
:05:37. > :05:41.Northern Ireland number two in Europe in terms of film location,
:05:42. > :05:45.number two only to the south-east of England, which is dominated
:05:46. > :05:48.by international names Northern Ireland is developing
:05:49. > :05:54.a reputation as a cost-effective venue for major film
:05:55. > :05:57.and TV productions. Demand for specialist space
:05:58. > :06:02.is strong, with the only other major venue in Titanic Quarter usually
:06:03. > :06:08.tied up doing HBO's Game of Thrones. Belfast Harbour is seeking
:06:09. > :06:10.to capitalise on Helped by grants and UK tax breaks,
:06:11. > :06:18.Belfast is on the movie map, supporting jobs
:06:19. > :06:23.and generating millions of pounds' worth of spend by
:06:24. > :06:28.international production companies. Newry firm O'Hare and McGovern has
:06:29. > :06:30.been awarded the construction contract and it says the project
:06:31. > :06:39.will provide work for 200 people. The Liberal Democrat peer
:06:40. > :06:41.who was responsible for liberalising abortion law in Britain says it's
:06:42. > :06:44.ridiculous that Northern Ireland continues to operate under
:06:45. > :06:48.the 1861 legislation. Lord David Steel introduced the 1967
:06:49. > :06:52.Abortion Act to Britain, but that doesn't apply to Northern
:06:53. > :06:54.Ireland. Speaking in an interview
:06:55. > :06:56.for The View tonight, Lord Steel says the legislation
:06:57. > :06:59.is outdated and shouldn't Well, I think we have to face up
:07:00. > :07:05.to the fact that the law in Northern Ireland is simply ridiculous -
:07:06. > :07:10.1861, and it is time they came up at least
:07:11. > :07:15.as far as 1967 if not 2016. You can see all of that,
:07:16. > :07:20.including inside the legislation vault, on The View just
:07:21. > :07:24.after this programme. He was born in Dublin but always
:07:25. > :07:28.regarded himself as an Ulsterman. 100 years ago today,
:07:29. > :07:31.Sir Roger Casement was arrested by British authorities
:07:32. > :07:33.as he returned to Ireland from Germany, where he'd
:07:34. > :07:35.been seeking support He was later hanged for treason
:07:36. > :07:41.at London's Pentonville Prison. His arrest at Banna Strand
:07:42. > :07:43.in County Kerry was marked today with a special ceremony,
:07:44. > :07:48.as Mervyn Jess reports. The Irish President was among those
:07:49. > :07:51.who gathered at Banna Strand near Tralee today to remember
:07:52. > :07:55.Sir Roger Casement, who was arrested shortly after coming ashore
:07:56. > :08:15.from a German U-boat Years later, his remains were
:08:16. > :08:20.returned to Ireland and buried in Dublin with full military honours.
:08:21. > :08:23.The Dublin-born Protestant grew up in County Antrim and was a former
:08:24. > :08:25.British diplomat who sympathised with the Irish nationalists.
:08:26. > :08:27.Throughout his life, Roger Casement always thought
:08:28. > :08:30.When he and a small number of friends, including
:08:31. > :08:36.Erskine Childers, took the initiative of the Kilcoole gun
:08:37. > :08:41.runnings in the summer of 1914, they had in mind the example
:08:42. > :08:45.of the Ulster Volunteers, who had imported guns from Germany
:08:46. > :08:52.This World War I U-boat gun has been sited in Bangor
:08:53. > :08:56.for the best part of a century, given to the town in memory of a
:08:57. > :09:01.local sailor who won the VC, but it has a connection with
:09:02. > :09:06.It is from the German submarine which brought
:09:07. > :09:10.Roger Casement back to Ireland from Germany.
:09:11. > :09:15.It is no coincidence that the U-boat which carried
:09:16. > :09:19.Roger Casement to Ireland, its gun was presented
:09:20. > :09:23.to a town in Ireland, and when I refer to Ireland I refer
:09:24. > :09:28.to it as it was before 1922, went everybody referred
:09:29. > :09:39.Today, Sir Roger Casement was remembered with a wreath-laying near
:09:40. > :09:45.Banna Strand, the place where he was arrested.
:09:46. > :09:48.The curlew was once common here but has been in decline
:09:49. > :09:53.Now a local conservationist is walking 500 miles from Fermanagh
:09:54. > :09:57.to England's east coast to try and help efforts to save it,
:09:58. > :09:59.as our agriculture and environment correspondent
:10:00. > :10:08.In her distinctive curlew-emblazoned jumper, I meet conservationist
:10:09. > :10:14.Mary Colwell at a Fermanagh wetland where the birds are known to nest.
:10:15. > :10:21.This kind of boggy place provides them with food and cover,
:10:22. > :10:25.but drainage schemes to improve farmland have seen habitat diminish
:10:26. > :10:27.and that's hammered numbers of this once-common bird of moor
:10:28. > :10:35.and mountain, with its evocative call.
:10:36. > :10:39.To raise awareness, Mary plans to walk 500 miles from Enniskillen
:10:40. > :10:42.to the east coast of England, through places
:10:43. > :10:50.I love the way they look, the long bill, it makes me laugh, it looks
:10:51. > :10:53.quite comical, and combine that with its call,
:10:54. > :10:56.which is evocative and beautiful, especially this time of year
:10:57. > :11:01.when they are breeding and you have a collection of characteristics
:11:02. > :11:06.This area is managed to help the bird.
:11:07. > :11:24.And with just a couple of hundred breeding pairs left
:11:25. > :11:32.It'll take Mary six weeks to complete her trek.
:11:33. > :11:48.She says she feels she must do something to help a bird
:11:49. > :13:26.Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am during Breakfast here on BBC One.
:13:27. > :13:29.You can also keep updated with News Online.