Opening of victims pension scheme delayed over medical guidance Justice Minister Naomi Long said preparatory work is under way to open the scheme for applications as planned Rebecca Black, PA 01 March, 2021 17:40
The opening of a payment scheme for those seriously injured in the Troubles is to be delayed by a number of weeks, the Assembly heard.
Justice Minister Naomi Long said preparatory work is under way to open the scheme for applications as planned.
However she said there may be a delay of a number of weeks to allow for guidance around medical assessments to be provided to applicants.
Ms Long was asked about progress during Justice Minister questions by Independent MLA Trevor Lunn.
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The sister of missing woman Lisa Dorrian has called on her killer to come forward and do the right thing on the 16th anniversary of her disappearance in Co Down today.
Hairdresser Lisa (25) from Bangor, Co Down, vanished after a party on a caravan site 20 miles away in the coastal village of Ballyhalbert on the Ards peninsula on February 28, 2005.
Police and her family believe she was murdered.
Despite a series of arrests, the identification of around 4,000 potential witnesses and more than 400 searches, no one has been brought to justice.
The chief suspect in the case is closely related to senior members of the loyalist paramilitary group, the UVF. He still lives in Northern Ireland.
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By Alan Rodgers
IT’S exactly 50 years ago this week since five people died on a local mountain in what has been described as ‘one of the forgotten atrocities of the Troubles.’
On February 9, 1971, a bomb exploded on Brougher Mountain near Trillick killing five men, two BBC technicians and three civilians working with a contracting firm.
No-one ever claimed responsibility but the bomb was believed to have been planted by the IRA as a British Army mobile patrol was the intended target.
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Under the heading of ‘Cruel and bloody deed on mountain,’ the UlsterHerald reported that, ‘Horror and revulsion were the instinctive reactions of the community to the horrifying news that five men were killed instantly when a booby-trap heavily charged with explosives blew up a landrover in which they travelled on a track at Brougher Mountain near Trillick’.