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Cup tie marred by firework incidents SPORT

Victim slams IRA payout
AN ex-UDR soldier shot by the IRA in Co Tyrone has described the 75,000 compensation payment to a wounded terrorist as a sick joke. Sergeant Tommy Gates received only 5,000 for multiple gunshot wounds received outside his Donaghmore home in 1982. Disabled for months as a result of his serious injuries, Mr Gates said he was totally gutted when he heard of last weeks award to Aidan McKeever. McKeever, an IRA getaway driver, was struck by bullets fired by soldiers who killed four IRA men in Co Tyrone on their way back from a 1992 gun attack on an RUC station. See page 5

Darren honoured by home town

Ulster golf legend and Open champion Darren Clarke was yesterday awarded the freedom of his home town of Dungannon in a special ceremony held in recognition of his achievements. Darren was presented with a scroll at the councils headquarters by Dungannon mayor Kenneth Reid, left. Also pictured is chief executive Alan Burke SEE PAGE 7
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Review best way forward

NORTHERN Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson yesterday defended the governments decision to hold a review into the Pat Finucane murder. Even though he apologised again for state collusion in the 1989 killing, he said the decision to call in a top lawyer was the best way forward. Mr Finucanes family have campaigned for a full public inquiry since loyalists shot the lawyer in front of his children as he was eating dinner. See page 4

DUP cant push SF too far: Robinson

By SAm mcBRIDE Political Correspondent
sam.mcbride@newsletter.co.uk

Schoolgirls Black ordeal

A SCHOOLGIRL terrifying S recollection of the moment she was snatched from the roadside by serial killer Robert Black has been heard at his latest murder trial. The six-year-old was rescued from the clutches of the notorious Scottish paedophile, but not before she had been sexually assaulted, bound, gagged, hooded and tied up in a sleeping bag. Medics believed she was minutes from death. See page 6

PETER Robinson last night said that the DUP has realised it cannot push Sinn Fein too far in negotiations or it may create future problems.

Setting out his version of the DUPs strategy over the last decade in more detail than ever before, Mr Robinson said that both parties had now reached a better understanding of the needs in each others constituency. He told an audience at the University of Liverpools Institute of Irish Studies that over recent

years the two parties had come to realise that it was vital to resolve the other sides problems as well or they would end up being your problem. He also said that after interparty talks broke down in December 2004 following the Leeds Castle summit that it was clear to us that Sinn Fein

had been stretched further than they could sell to their support base. Looking back, it was almost certainly too early for a lasting deal to be done an apparent reference to Ian Paisleys demand that month for sackcloth and ashes from the IRA. Turn to page 10

Rodgers rules himself out of NI running

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