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NI Paper Review: Germany Jailing, Terrorist Snowman

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



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26 October 2017



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The papers from Thursday include the German arrest of an IRA member, racist attacks in Belfast on Syrian refugees, and a terrorist snowman.



The News Letter, Irish News, Belfast Telegraph and Daily Mirror all have a photo of Belfast doctor Declan O'Neill on their front pages.



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



Mrs O'Neill was killed at her parents' Finaghy home in south Belfast.



Three of the papers feature pictures of a smiling Mr O'Neill photographed with the woman he is accused of murdering.



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



Nabeha Arnous and Feras, her husband, have four daughters. They claim that their house on Iris Street, off the Springfield Road, has been targeted by stone-throwing youths in the last eight months.



Mrs Arnous says that children were in the house on one occasion to shout insults. On Friday night the house was attacked with stones. the house.



"I would like to request that you not hurt anyone." She requests an immediate end to the violence.



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



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



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



He said 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 an expert from Scotland was hired to fix "Belfast's planning problems".



Jim Mackinnon "has been parachuted into writing an in-depth review of the activities of the city council following complaints from developers who are understood be frustrated by how long it takes city hall process applications" according to the article.



Christmas decorations are popping up in many shops as winter approaches.



However, those on display in a facility used by groups of dissident republicans in Londonderry as well as in the Belfast Telegraph - have been called "obscene" by an DUP MP.



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



Gregory Campbell, DUP's Gregory Campbell says to the paper that most people view Christmas as a holiday for families and republicans are trying to make it synonymous with terrorists.



Both the Irish News and Daily Mirror report that convicted double killer Hazel Stewart has been been ordered by the High Court to hand back insurance money she claimed she earned after murdering her husband.



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



A week doesn't seem to pass without another auction of Titanic memorabilia. However, very few of them feature the iceberg that caused the tragedy.



However, hundreds of images of the aftermath of the tragedy - including those showing the iceberg - are part of a collection that will be sold at the Remarkable Rarities auction in Boston.



Louis M Ogden, a socialite who was aboard the RMS Carpathia when the tragedy unfolded, took the photos.



The Belfast Telegraph also published the story.



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The Belfast Telegraph says that some of Northern Ireland's most well-known landmarks are being recreated with new silk pocket squares.



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



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



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