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Boys and girls from Enniskillen, Monaghan and City of Derry enjoy some early morning mini action Page 36

Round Up: pages 30-31

DERBY DAY WIN SEES BALLYNAHINCH STRIDE OUT IN ALL IRELAND LAGUE

Kukri Qualifying League round-up: Ps 32-33

BANGOR RUN RIOT IN CHARGE UP THE LEAGUE

Worthington steps down as ni boss

nigel Worthington pictured yesterday announcing he would be stepping down as northern ireland manager after tonights final Euro 2012 qualifier against Italy in Pescara. While the timing on the eve of the game was unexpected, Worthingtons decision was not after a qualifying campaign full of early promise but which faded badly with three successive defeats including back-to-back losses against estonia. early favourite to replace the Ballymena man who has been in charge for four and a half years is Jim magilton. See morning View (page 14) and Sport
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THE ONLY REVIEW OF THE SCHOOLS ACTION AROUND

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FUTURE STARS ON SHOW AT ENNISKILLEN

Fury over 75k to IRA member

BY mark raineY
mark.rainey@newsletter.co.uk

SFs cynical inquiry call

ULSTER Unionist MLA Danny Kennedy has expressed scepticism after Sinn Fein councillors in Newry lent their backing to a call for an inquiry into the IRA murders of 10 Protestant workmen at Kingsmills in 1976. He said unionists will view the move with cynicism. See page 7

THERE was mounting anger on both sides of the Irish Sea yesterday over a 75,000 compensation award to an IRA gangs getaway driver. The row reached London, where the defence secretary Liam Fox described the payment to Aidan McKeever as outrageous.

At home, unionist politicians led the chorus of criticism that McKeever, who had been wounded by undercover soldiers following an IRA machine gun attack on Coalisland RUC station in February 1992, should be eligible for damages. He was successful last Friday in his High Court civil action against the MoD for assault and battery through unreasonable force.

Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson said: Mr McKeever may have been unarmed at the time he was shot, but he was not an innocent bystander, he was a member of a terrorist gang. The TUV leader Jim Allister, who is also a QC, said that civil law should be brought into line with criminal law under which a substantial payment would not have been possible in the

circumstances. Mr Fox said: Instinctively, I find it quite outrageous that the government is being ordered to pay compensation to the getaway driver for terrorists who had just used a heavy machine gun and rifles to attack a police station. It is not yet known if the MoD will launch an appeal against the award. See pages 4 & 5

Warning on church split

THE first Church of Ireland bishop has spoken publicly about the controversy over a clerics civil partnership. The Rt Rev Patrick Rooke, who is bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry, warned that the divisions in the church were not just in Northern Ireland. See page 11

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