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NI Paper Review: Germany Jailing, Terrorist Snowman

NI paper review: Germany jailing and terrorist snowman By Niall Glynn BBC News NI



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26 October 2017



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The jailing of an IRA man in Germany and racist attacks on Syrian refugees in Belfast and a terrorist snowman all feature in Thursday's papers.



The front pages of the Irish News, Daily Mirror, Belfast Telegraph, and News Letter all feature Declan O'Neill, a Belfast doctor.



Mr. O'Neill is being investigated for the murder of his mother, 51-year-old Anne O'Neill at the weekend.



Mrs O'Neill was shot to death at her parents' Finaghy home in south Belfast.



Three of the papers feature pictures of a smiling Mr O'Neill in a photo with the woman he's accused of murdering.



The headline story in the Irish News is a plea from a family that left war-torn Syria four years ago to call for racist attacks to stop.



Nabeha Arnous and her husband, Feras, who have four daughters, say their home on Iris Street off the Springfield Road has been targeted by stone and bottle throwing teenagers over the past eight months.



At one point, youngsters entered the house to yell insults Mrs Arnous states, and in the latest incident stones were thrown at it on Friday night.
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"I would like to request that you don't hurt anyone." She asks for an immediate halt to the violence.



"Germany can imprison IRA men, so why can't we" is the headline of the front page in the News Letter.



Doug Beattie, Ulster Unionist MLA was reacting to the four-year sentence handed down to James Anthony Oliver Corry for an attack on a mortar in 1996 at a UK military barracks.



Mr. Beattie said that he was "staggered" by the "scandalous sentence" and was "astonished" at its severity. However, he congratulated Germany for having at least persevered in seeking justice through courts.



He also said that it should stand as an example to the British government, who said, he added, must "stop being so weak and take a similar approach".



The speed of the planning process in Belfast is reflected to the Belfast Telegraph.



It reports that an expert from Scotland was hired to fix "Belfast's planning issues".



Jim Mackinnon has "been parachuted into the city to write a high-level review of the city council's work following complaints from developers who appear to be frustrated with how long it takes city hall to review applications", it says.



With winter approaching, Christmas decorations are already popping up in many stores.



However, those displayed in a building used by groups of dissident republicans in Londonderry - and pictured in the Belfast Telegraph - have been called "obscene" by a DUP MP.



A snowman with a rocket launcher and a message "wishing you a roaring Christmas" is in the window of Junior McDaid House in the city, where the Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association is based.



"Most people look on Christmas as a time for family and republicans are equating it with terrorism," the DUP's Gregory Campbell informs the newspaper.



The Irish News and Daily Mirror both report that Hazel Stewart, a double murderer, was ordered by High Court to return insurance money she claimed for after killing her husband.



Following an investigation by the National Crime Agency, the move will see her family's current home being sold.



Rarely a week seems to go by without another auction of Titanic memorabilia. However, very few of them feature the iceberg that was responsible for the tragedy.



However, hundreds upon hundreds of images of the aftermath of the tragedy, some of which show the iceberg, are part an archive that will be sold at the Remarkable Rarities sale in Boston.



The pictures were taken by a socialite Louis M Ogden who was aboard the RMS Carpathia at the time the tragedy unfolded.



The story is also published in the Belfast Telegraph.



For the serious dressers This is a great opportunity.



According to the Belfast Telegraph, some of Northern Ireland's most iconic landmarks are being rebuilt in a new range of silk pocket squares.



It's a joint venture of tailor Christopher Suitor and artist Stephen Whalley.



Images include the Dark Hedges and the Harland and Wolff cranes as well as Portballintrae.



Don't be surprised if your loved one buys you one as a gift for Christmas.


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