A roundup of today's other home news in brief
Global arrest warrant over Dubliner’s death
A Spanish judge has issued an international arrest warrant for an English man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of Dubliner John O’Neill in the early hours of Wednesday morning on the Costa del Sol.
Mr O’Neill, who was in Spain with his partner to attend a friend’s wedding, was gunned down during a row over the use of a lavatory in Coco’s Bar in the popular tourist resort of Benalmadena, near Torremolinos.
Police said they had found bloodstained clothing matching the descriptions given by witnesses in the Benalmadena home of the main suspect, who sources close to the investigation say is also wanted in Britain in connection with a kidnapping.
He fled the resort with his wife immediately after the shooting and both are now being sought in a nationwide hunt. The man, believed to be from Liverpool, is wanted for the murder of father-of-two Mr O’Neill and the attempted murder of other customers in the bar, who had to dive for cover when he emptied a full ammunition clip of his handgun into the crowd.
Otis Lift strike comes to an end
A strike at the lift company Otis, which has been under way for the last month, has ended.
The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) said yesterday that its members had voted to end the strike at Otis Lifts.
The dispute centred on plans by the firm to introduce compulsory redundancy for a number of staff.
The union said that the staff involved in the strike had voted narrowly to accept settlement terms which reduced the number of compulsory redundancies from six to one and increased the number of voluntary redundancies available to employees from five to 11.
The settlement terms emerged following talks at the Labour Relations Commission.
The union carried out a consultation process with members on the proposals.
TEEU assistant general secretary Arthur Hall said: “The system is at crisis point and our members will facilitate an orderly return to work.”
PSNI releases riot photographs
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) yesterday released images of 14 people they would like to speak to in connection with the rioting which took place in north Belfast earlier this month.
One of those pictured, a 13-year-old boy, handed himself in for arrest to a north Belfast police station yesterday afternoon.
Over the Twelfth period, police came under sustained attack in several nationalist areas from people throwing bricks, blast bombs and petrol bombs.
More than 80 police officers were injured over two nights and the cost of the operation ran into millions of pounds.
Some 43 arrests have now been made in connection with the disturbances.
However, Det Chief Insp Alan Little said he was hopeful that the assistance of the public in identifying the people would result in a significant number of further arrests.
Apprentice Boys statue vandalised
A statue in memory of one of the most prominent figures from the 1688-1689 siege of Derry has been badly damaged by vandals just two weeks after Derry was awarded the UK City of Culture accolade.
The statue in memory of the Rev George Walker was erected in a memorial garden beside the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall in Society Street in 1992, 20 years after the original was destroyed in an IRA bomb attack.
The annual Relief of Derry celebrations take place today week when Apprentice Boys commemorate the ending of the siege with a parade.
Billy Moore, general secretary of the Apprentice Boys, said the statue was damaged beyond repair but his members were determined to replace it.