State task force considers redesigning, moving MLK monument This statue of Martin Luther King Jr. is across the street from the state Capitol in Springfield. Secretary of State Jesse White testified before a statue review committee Wednesday that he would like to see a new statue of King in a more prominent position on Capitol grounds. Jerry Nowicki/Capitol News Illinois
Updated 6/9/2021 5:18 PM
SPRINGFIELD Members of the state s task force on statues and monuments discussed ways to relocate the statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and improve the statue s image in the context of his legacy in Illinois.
Down man admits to making a blast bomb Ross Hardy and Rebecca Gregory 25 May, 2021 14:33
A Co Down man has admitted making a blast bomb.
While 22-year-old Ross Hardy entered a guilty plea to making an explosive device between November 2018 and 1 December 2019, both he and his partner Rebecca Gregory, also 22, denied a further count of possessing an explosive substance under suspicious circumstances on 30 November 2019.
Following the brief arraignment at Newry Crown Court, prosecuting counsel Geraldine McCullough said she thought the case would need a two day trial.
The charges arise after a viable, improvised blast bomb device which had to be made safe by bomb disposal experts, was uncovered in a kitchen cupboard at Gregory’s home.
Man jailed for burglary on parochial house 29 April, 2021 13:28
A man who broke into a parochial house and stole a priest s laptop has been sentenced to 16 months.
Appearing at Newry Crown Court, John Richard McDonagh (49) was ordered to spend half his sentence in jail and half on licence.
Describing the burglary as “mean,” the Judge Gordon Kerr QC said McDonagh had stolen goods “which were undoubtedly of great use to the priest in carrying out his duties in behalf of the community.”
McDonagh, of no fixed abode, appeared at court by videolink from prison and entered a guilty plea to a single count of burglary of the parochial house on the Chapel Road in Meigh on May 5, 2015.
A 27-year-old Co Armagh man who was to have gone on trial earlier this month for the murder of a father of two, failed in his bid to be released on bail today.
Daniel Martin James Carroll of Edward Street in Portadown, denies murdering 33-year-old Brian Phelan, who died after being stabbed on the Carrivekeeney Road on the outskirts of Newry on July 26, 2018.
Refusing the application before Newry Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, Mr Justice O’Hara said given Mr Carroll’s previous violent record and the charge of murder it would be “quite impossible” to grant bail.
No details surrounding the stabbing were given during the hearing save that while the murder of Mr Phelan was not disputed, Mr Carroll claims he was killed not by him, but by “persons unknown”.
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