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NI Paper Review: Germany Jailing And Terrorist Snowman

NI paper review: Germany's prisoning and terrorist snowman by Niall Glynn BBC News NI



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26 October 2017



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The detention of an IRA man in Germany and racist attacks on Syrian refugees in Belfast and the snowman of a terrorist appear in the papers of Thursday.



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



Mr O'Neill is charged with 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 contain photos of a smiling O'Neill photographed with the woman he is accused of murdering.



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



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



At one point, youngsters came into the house to shout insults, Mrs Arnous says, while in the most recent incident, stones were thrown at it on Friday night.
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"I would like to say, please do not cause harm to anyone." Please stop it," she says.



The headline of the News Letter is "Germany can imprison IRA men so why can't they?"



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



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



He suggested that the British government should follow his example and stop being weak.



Belfast Telegraph reveals the pace of the process of planning.



It reports that a Scottish expert was hired to fix "Belfast's planning issues".



Jim Mackinnon "has been parachuted into writing a high level review of the activities of the city council in response to complaints from developers who appear to be frustrated by how long it takes city hall process applications" the report states.



Christmas decorations are appearing in a variety of shops as winter approaches.



A DUP MP however branded the "obscene" display in a Londonderry building used by a dissident republican groups - as seen in The Belfast Telegraph - as offensive.



A snowman armed with a rocket launcher and the message "wishing you a joyful Christmas" is visible in the windows of Junior McDaid House in the city, where the Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association is headquartered.



Gregory Campbell, DUP's Gregory Campbell tells the newspaper that most people view Christmas as a family holiday and republicans are trying to make it synonymous with terror.



The Irish News and Daily Mirror both report that Hazel Stewart, a double murderer, has been ordered by the High Court to return insurance funds she claimed after she killed her husband.



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



Rarely a week seems to pass without another auction of Titanic memorabilia, however, only a only a few auctions show the iceberg that caused the tragedy.



However, hundreds of images of the aftermath of the tragedy, including some of which show the iceberg part of a collection to be auctioned at the Remarkable Rarities auction in Boston.



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



The Belfast Telegraph also published the story.



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The Belfast Telegraph says that some of Northern Ireland's best-known landmarks are being recreated using a range of new silk pocket squares.



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



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



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


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