Europe Intelligence Wire articles from July 2005

Europe Intelligence Wire archives from July 2005

Doctor jailed in child porn case.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) A DOCTOR at BelfastOs Royal Victoria Hospital who was jailed for a year yesterday faces deportation and being struck off for downloading and distributing child porn on the internet. Belfast Crown Court heard how...

Ad campaign launched by LisaOs family.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE family of murdered Co Down woman Lisa Dorrian yesterday launched an advertising campaign in their efforts to recover her body. Loyalist paramilitaries have been accused of killing Lisa, who has not been seen since...

Hope yet for eight stations.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) EIGHT Co Fermanagh police stations earmarked for closure have been given a stay of execution following a narrow vote at the Northern Ireland Policing Board yesterday. A motion, supported by the DUPOs Ian Paisley Jnr,...

CLEARED.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) TWO former BarnardoOs workers who were jailed for sex offences against young people walked free from a Belfast court yesterday. Margaret Hewitt, 70, and George Anderson, 47, had their convictions quashed after one of...

Fisherman survived earlier sea tragedy.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) A PRAWN fisherman rescued yesterday after his boat capsized and sank in the Irish Sea survived another sinking six years ago in which his father died. Brothers Mark and Thomas Hughes were plucked from the sea after a...

Protestors heckle chairman of DPP.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE husband of the Police Ombudsman, Ballymena District Policing Partnership (DPP) chairman Declan OOLoan paid a high price last night for the comments he made in the wake of MondayOs mini-Twelfth parade in the town. ...

Brave and bold meet HRH.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) JUST how does a blind person waterski? That was what the Earl of Wessex wanted to know when he met Northern IrelandOs amazing World Disabled Water Skiing champion, Janet Gray MBE, yesterday. The inspirational...

Republicans interrupt opera night.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) A NIGHT of opera in BelfastOs Botanic Gardens was interrupted last night by republicans protesting at the presence of a Royal Marines band at the free event. Sinn Fein councillor Paul Maskey called for the...

Police stations get stay of execution.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) EIGHT Co Fermanagh police stations earmarked for closure have been given a stay of execution following a narrow vote at the Northern Ireland Policing Board yesterday. No final decisions will be taken on the future of...

Arch going up, vows Order.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE Orange Order last night insisted the annual erection of an Orange arch in a Co Antrim village will go ahead despite a campaign of opposition by republicans. Orange district secretary Jim Tinsley hit back at claims...

SF protest fails to halt meeting of police body.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) A PROTEST by Sinn Fein failed to prevent yesterday afternoonOs public meeting of Ballymoney District Policing Partnership going ahead in Dunloy. Protesters lined the route through the village to St JosephOs Parish...

Orde: police not to blame for tensions.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) CHIEF Constable Sir Hugh Orde yesterday defended the PSNI after DUP claims that police have exacerbated tensions in the build-up to the July marching season. Speaking at the Northern Ireland Policing Board meeting in...

History will be made at Somme event.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) HISTORY will be made in east Belfast tonight when an independent Orange lodge joins the Somme commemoration parade for the first time. The Pride of Ballymacarrett Purple Star ILOL No 6 will join Orangemen from...

Parades Commission members have been Owalking the walkO to change.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) REPRESENTATIVES from the Parades Commission are taking part in a conference aimed at helping young people encourage change. Dr Michael Boyle and Elaine McConnell are at a two-day conference in Dundalk to examine the...

Orangemen out on mini-Twelfth.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) TWO major mini-Twelfth parades will be held in Belfast tonight, along with other July 1 commemorative parades across Northern Ireland. Thousands of Orangemen from 40 lodges will take part in Ballymacarrett DistrictOs...

Elderly women locked in house after robbery.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) POLICE have appealed for information after two elderly women ETH one in her 90s ETH were subjected to a terrifying ordeal when two masked men forced their way into a 77-year-old womanOs house at Glenshane Road near...

Court hears details of McCartney murder.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) MURDER victim Robert McCartney was followed up an alleyway by eight or nine men who all seemed to be carrying weapons, the High Court heard yesterday. A Crown lawyer said a witness had told police that Mr McCartney...

DOE plays down DVLNI move plans.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) CLAIMS that 400 jobs will go as part of plans to move Northern IrelandOs Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency to Wales were last night played down by the Department of the Environment. East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell...

Ulster joins global fight to help poor.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) NORTHERN Ireland is set to be wrapped in white today as the Province makes it own special contribution to the fight against poverty around the globe. Organised by the Make Poverty History campaign, todayOs White Band...

LEADING ARTICLE: Legacy of the Somme still haunts Province.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) EIGHTY nine years ago today thousands of Ulstermen died at the Somme in a battle which will go down in the historical annals as one of the most brutal military engagements in modern times. Indeed, it is recorded that...

Station closures branded Ototally unacceptableO.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE DUP yesterday demanded that the Secretary of State make an immediate statement to Parliament on plans to close 17 police stations in rural parts of the Province. Leader Ian Paisley intervened by raising the...

Unionists feel real anger towards appointments.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) PARLIAMENT has been told that recent appointments to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission have caused Oreal angerO among unionists. DUP MP Peter Robinson told the Northern Ireland Grand Committee meeting at...

Payments to Sinn Fein questioned.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE Government has been challenged to justify the continued payment of salaries to the 24 Sinn Fein MLAs at Stormont. Ulster Unionist MP Lady Sylvia Hermon has called Sinn FeinOs Assembly wage bill into question, in...

Kennedy gets deputy role.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) SIR Reg Empey yesterday made his first official appointment as Ulster Unionist Party chief, announcing MLA Danny Kennedy has become his deputy leader at the Assembly. As first revealed in last weekOs News Letter, the...

Thousands suffer fuel poverty.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE DUPOs Nigel Dodds yesterday informed the House of Commons that tens of thousands of people in Northern Ireland are suffering from fuel poverty. Speaking after raising his concern during Commons Business...

DUP vote no on ID cards.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE DUP has confirmed its MPs voted against the GovernmentOs ID Cards Bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday night. Deputy leader Peter Robinson said that while his party wasnOt opposed to the principle of ID cards,...

Lisa campaign support.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) LADY Sylvia Hermon yesterday urged as many people as possible to back the Blue Ribbon campaign launched by the Dorrian family. Lady Hermon was at the launch of the latest attempt by the family to have the body of...

Maze plans to be considered.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) AMBITIOUS redevelopment plans for the site of the former Maze prison are to be considered by a cross-party group, it was announced yesterday. Among the proposals in the pipeline for the Lisburn site is a pounds 55...

Drop in number of new car registrations.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE number of new cars registered in Northern Ireland dropped substantially in the first quarter of the year, it was revealed yesterday. Between January and March, there was an eight per cent drop in sales, with a...

Elderly couple robbed.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) AN ELDERLY couple were robbed in their south Belfast home on Tuesday afternoon, but details of the incident only emerged yesterday. The woman, who is in her 70s, returned to her Sandymount Street home to find a man...

Super-bug linked deaths increasing.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE number of deaths in Northern Ireland where the super-bug MRSA was recorded as a cause rose to 44 last year, it was revealed yesterday. MRSA was mentioned on the death certificate of each fatality and in eight...

Support for schoolsO campaign balloons.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) A CAMPAIGN to save more than 200 after-school clubs across Northern Ireland got a lift yesterday. Children gathered at Belfast City Hall to release 200 red balloons ETH one for every club facing the axe within the...

Ulster bank poaches rival.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE Ulster Bank announced yesterday that it had poached a senior executive from rival AIB. Robert Gallagher, general manager of AIB Corporate Banking International, is joining as chief executive of Ulster Bank...

Man is cleared of UDA feud murder.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THERE was uproar in a Belfast court yesterday as a former associate of Johnny OMad DogO Adair was cleared of murder. The family of murdered loyalist feud victim Jonathan Stewart banged the glass in the public gallery...

pounds 750k drugs seized in one year.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) POLICE in Ballymena delivered a hammer blow and strong warning to drug dealers last year as officers netted illegal substances worth more than pounds 750,000 on the streets. The annual report from borough police chief...

pounds 5.5 million funding boost for rural areas.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) RURAL community groups, voluntary organisations and those operating in the border areas stand to benefit from pounds 5.5million EU funding under an extension to Peace II measures 1.11. The Northern Ireland Rural...

Campaign seeks the ORight to BeO.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) PEOPLE with learning disabilities from west of the Bann have launched a new campaign to make public authorities sit up and take notice of their concerns and rights. The Right to Be campaign aims to seek improvement in...

Police plan to step-up pedestrian zone laws.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) POLICE in Londonderry are warning that they will be stepping up enforcement of the pedestrian zone regulations in the city centre and they have asked those motorists entitled to take vehicles into the zone to exercise...

Library Charter Mark.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE North Eastern Education BoardOs (NEELB) library service has been awarded the Charter Mark for the third successive time. Charter Mark is the GovernmentOs national standard for excellence in customer service and...

Roads investment.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE Roads Service will be busy over the summer months carrying out a pounds 4.5 million project in the Dungannon district. Work earmarked under the scheme will include the provision of an undertaking facility on the...

Funding declined.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) LISBURN City Council has turned down a request for funding from Lisburn Partnership to help maintain its office in the city. Lagan Valley MPJeffrey Donaldson backed the councilOs decision and said that while he...

Courageous Abigail hasnOt lost her smile.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) SMILING happily as she sits in the summer sunshine, stabbing victim Abigail Witchalls shows publicly, for the first time, signs of the recovery which has given hope to her family and amazed her doctors. Newly-released...

Charles cost us 4p each last year.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE Prince of Wales, his wife Camilla, and sons William and Harry cost each taxpayer four pence last year in Government grants, it was revealed yesterday. Of the 61p which the monarchy cost every taxpayer, the...

Moggy gets very soggy, but survives.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) A KITTEN named Bubbles was recovering yesterday after spending two-and-a-half hours in a washing machine. The nine-week-old kitten was lying in a pile of laundry and was accidentally popped into the machine. His...

university of ulster- jordanstown - Graduates take a bow at Waterfront.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INNOVATION MANAGEMENT Pass With Distinction Victor Beggs Sean Kerlin Patricia McNeill Pass Alison Christine Bell Anne Marie Conlon Helen Madeleine Ewart ...

Tribute paid as board chief steps down.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) JOAN Christie has stepped down from her post as chairman of the North Eastern Education and Library Board (NEELB) after two years in office and a total of 12 years on the board. Tribute to Mrs ChristieOs leadership...

A news splash from the zoo.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) A COUPLE of sea lions are celebrating some flippinO good news with the arrival of their pup. Simon and Ariel, the proud parents, have given the new addition to the family their seal of approval but mystery still...

Escaped criminals jailed for six years.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) TWO Opotentially dangerousO criminals, who initially escaped with still-on-the-run killer David Taggart, were jailed yesterday for six years each. However, Crown Court judge Mr Justice Weatherup told the pair that...

Sentence is labelled joke by mother.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) A MAN who threatened to blow a 12-year-old girlOs brains out during an armed robbery at her Co Tyrone home was yesterday sentenced to seven years behind bars. John McParland, 39, from Irish Street in Armagh, and an...

Lotto millions claimed with 35 minutes left.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) A MYSTERY Lotto ticket holder came forward at the eleventh hour yesterday to claim a pounds 4 million prize, operator Camelot said. The person got in touch at 4.55pm ETH just 35 minutes before the 5.30pm final...

The Master Plan.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) WALTER had worked out a long and quite complicated strategy for winning Margaret back. It involved a lot of surveillance. It meant following her to and from her work. Working out who her friends were. Where she...

A towering reminder of the many sacrifices made.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) This afternoon, in the shadow of the Ulster Tower at Thiepval in France, hundreds will gather to pay tribute to UlsterOs war dead. In the sixth extract from his book, The Irish on the Somme, Steven Moore tells how the...

Hard not to fall in love with Hitch.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) Film: Hitch Cert: 12 Time: 113 mins Rating: HHH COOL, self-assured date doctor Alex OHitchO Hitchens (Will Smith) advises the lonely, single men of New York on perfect strategies to land the girlfriend...

Spielberg: War a wild ride.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) STEVEN Spielberg himself classifies War of the Worlds as OOa wild rideOO. The movie director even enlisted real US troops for some of the filming, in what might be classified as a crash fusion of disaster movie with...

War a close encounter of the very scary kind.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) Film: War of the Worlds Cert: 12A Time: 116 mins Rating: HHHHH I FOUND War of the Worlds totally terrifying, and was absolutely exhausted when I left the cinema. ItOs not good to hold your breath for...

Worlds caused panic in the US.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) IF weOre tracing sci-fi spectaculars, it was Orson Welles who played the prank on the American public the day before HalloweOen, October 30, 1938. Millions of Americans had tuned in to a popular radio programme that...

Hostage captivates for just long enough.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) Film: Hostage Cert: 15 Time: 109 mins Rating: HHH BRILLIANT LAPD negotiator Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) feels responsible for the deaths of a young mother and child during a tense hostage situation. ...

No sundancing for Cassidy as Essex steals the show.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) Once in a Lifetime @ The Odyssey Arena THE best show in town was the crowd. That was what roguish Romany rocker David Essex sang to us in Oh, What A Circus from Evita and so it turned out to be. Essex was the...

Prodigals provoke thought.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) Prodigals @ Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast PRODIGALS is a grim portrait of a dark and dysfunctional family. Writer/director Patrick G Hughes from Dungannon made a brave decision last weekend to bring his play to...

Van Outen is in for This Morning.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE multi-talented Denise Van Outen is to present This Morning for six weeks over the summer with Richard Bacon. The former Big Breakfast star will take over hosting duties in July and August, while Fern Britton,...

Chance to catch a rare bird as Antony flies in.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) ITOS a rare occasion when a band or artist comes along and arrests you with their music. Antony, of Antony and the Johnsons, has a voice that makes you stop whatever it is you happen to be doing and listen. Really...

New wave to hit seaside town.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) NOT that you would be stuck for things to do in Warrenpoint on a Saturday night, but work with me here. Four home-grown bands will be performing in a gig that promises to Oreawaken the sleepy seaside townO as the...

Teen actor set to take world by storm.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE search for a young actor to play Alex Rider, the hero of Anthony HorowitzOs books about a teenage superspy, is over. Movie bosses have unveiled 15-year-old Alex Pettyfer as the star of their pounds 25 million...

Stalker drama sure to get under your skin.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) IT never stopped Leonardo DiCaprio becoming a huge star and now it seems that young actress Stephanie Leonidas has overcome the burden of a complicated looking surname. But unlike Leo, the 21-year-old was never told...

GeorgeOs new album gives it to us Strait.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) COUNTRY megastar George Strait rarely leaves his native Texas ETH he prefers the wide open plains of the Lone Star state and his extensive ranch to the rigours of city life which he experiences occasionally on touring...

Domino effect on KeiraOs movie.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) KEIRA KNIGHTLEY could be leaving the set of her latest movie, the Pirates Of The Caribbean sequel, but only to do some re-shoots on her last movie ETH bounty hunter action thriller Domino. The English beauty with an...

Celtronic climax lights up city walls.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) ITOS festival time yet again. At venues all over this walled city, dance music lovers from home and far afield have been partying the night away as the Celtronic 2005 Festival zooms towards itOs weekend climax. The...

Footsie rallies on telecom advance.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) TELECOMS and drugs stocks helped the FTSE 100 Index edge further beyond the key 5100 barrier yesterday. Progress by the likes of O2 and AstraZeneca contributed to the Footsie ending the session 4.1 points higher at...

ProvinceOs export numbers double.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) MANUFACTURING exports from Northern Ireland have more than doubled in the past decade despite the near disappearance of the textile industry and other manufacturers. Total manufacturing exports in 2003-04 stood at...

Palma among easyJetOs five new routes.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE weekend will get off to a flying start today as five new European air routes take off from Belfast International Airport. The new routes to Rome, Inverness, Geneva, Berlin, and Palma will be operated by low-cost...

Sneak preview of Laganside revamp.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) THE company which built the Belfast Odyssey complex has been selected to develop a nearby site into a pounds 75 million mixed use scheme, which will create 2,500 jobs. The Belfast-based Sheridan Group, which was also...

athletics - Seconds out for Irish runners.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) SEVEN top Northern Ireland Athletes have been chosen to compete in the European Permit Meeting at Namur, Belgium tonight. The selections were based on form up to and including the senior championships at the Mary...

athletics - FRANCIS IN RACE MOVE.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) OLYMPIC sprint relay champion Mark-Lewis Francis has announced he will start competing in the 200metres. The 22-year-old, who held off world champion Maurice Greene on the anchor leg as the Great Britain 4x100m team...

motorsport - Villeneuve fears for future of F1.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) JACQUES Villeneuve believes Formula One may never recover from the damage inflicted by the Indianapolis farce two weeks ago. Villeneuve, who made his name in the United States and won the Indianapolis 500 in 1995,...

rugby - Cynical minds could ruin OODriscollOs career.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) BUT for the events of last weekend, this columnist would be in Wellington at time of writing so apologies if there's a hint of exasperation and bitterness in my musings. Alastair CampbellOs presence on tour and an...

kickboxing - Kickers will do the climbing.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) WORLD Kickboxing champion Gary Hamilton and his coach Billy Murray will have their heads in the clouds today as they race around the nationOs highest peaks. The two men will take part in O4 Peaks (Ireland) Challenge...

hockey - Seven-up Ulster stars for Ireland.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) SEVEN Ulster players have been named in the Ireland womenOs squad for next weekendOs Four Nations tournament in Bremen. ItOs all part of the preparation for the August European Nations Cup tournament in Dublin. ...

cricket - World Cup just a run away.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) NOT making to New Zealand means being around to see IrelandOs cricketers embark on the most important campaign in their history, the World Cup qualification quest which begins this morning. Jason MolinsO men must...

rugby - PRIDE SHOULD SPUR LIONS ON.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) ITOS all very well trotting out the old adage about wounded Lions being dangerous but the clichZs donOt exactly explain how the All Blacks can be beaten in the second Test. These Lions have reached the point of no...

rugby - Tanks power Ulster.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) ULSTER Rugby has unveiled Titan Environmental as a new sponsor with the Titan Tanks logo to feature prominently on the back of both the team and replica jerseys. The sponsorship is part of a re-branding exercise for...

rugby - LetOs bounce back for Brian says Thomas.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) NEW Lions captain Gareth Thomas has vowed that the tourists will avenge the sickening injury inflicted on Brian OODriscoll by bouncing back to win the Test series in New Zealand. OODriscoll has condemned the utterly...

rugby - WARD BUILDS NEW MIGHTY OQUINS.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) IT could have been the summer of discontent at Deramore Park. The exodus of players following the success of Grafton Belfast Harlequins reaching their first All Ireland League Championship final had left a lot of gaps...

racing - OAllstarO is McManusOs OTeamO to follow.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) TEAM Allstar can provide J P McManus with a winner on the concluding session of the Bellewstown Festival. Trainer Niall Madden won the race last year with Ur Sum Man and the selection following success at Ballinrobe...

cycling - CONNOR ON A MISSION.
July 1, 2005... (From Newsletter) RYAN Connor will be out to score in tomorrowOs tough Red Hand Trophy at Broughshane. The DFL professional from Ahoghill rode brilliantly last weekend in the all-Ireland road race championships at Dundrod to finish seventh...