Other NI News In Brief

Taser On Shankill

Police have used a Taser during early morning trouble in Belfast's Shankill Road area. The stun gun was used on a 19-year-old man who is understood to have been examined in hospital and then returned to police custody. Officers were called to the scene of a disturbance in the Manor Street area shortly after 3amon Saturday. Police said as they tried to separate gangs an attempt was made to attack officers and a warning was given that a stun gun would be used.

Paramilitary Shooting In Lurgan

A teenager has been injured in a paramilitary-style shooting in Lurgan. It happened in the Meadowbrook area of the County Armagh town on Saturday night. The 18-year-old male returned home to find an gang of unknown men waiting for him. They beat him with hurley sticks and shot him in the right leg.

Spain Shooting Victim Was Irish

The victim of a fatal weekend shooting in Spain's Costa del Sol has been identified as a 30-year-old Irish man. He was shot in the street several times on the main costal road as it leaves the popular tourist area of Benalmádena Costa, a few miles from the city of Málaga. It happened in the Avenida del Sol at 11.30pm on Saturday night, and the national police has opened a full investigation. A passer-by saw the body on the ground, by the supermarket close to the busy Torrequebrada casino, which overlooks the sea. The victim, named as Richard Keogh, was shot by an individual who arrived in a car, carried out the shooting and then drove off in the same vehicle, according to a taxi driver witness. See: Costa Murder Was Rival Gang Attack

Good News For Derry Engineering Firm

Maydown Precision Engineering in Londonderry is to supply components for two major Airbus programmes with help from Invest Northern Ireland. The contracts are for the successful Airbus 330 series commercial jet and for the new Airbus 400M heavy-lift transport aircraft and are the first the Northern Ireland company has secured for the aircraft manufacturer. Maydown will provide the precision engineered components to established Airbus partners in Finland, Spain and the UK. The company, which is part-owned by Bombardier-Shorts in Belfast, supplies components to most Bombardier aircraft programmes. It has been assisted to develop contacts with Airbus suppliers through our involvement in Invest NI's aerospace trade development initiative, our participation in a number of air shows, and by Invest NI's Trade team based in Düsseldorf.

Cigs Taken

Anyone who witnessed the robbery of a large quantity of cigarettes in south Belfast at the weekend has been asked to contact the police. The cigarettes were stolen in an armed robbery in the Stranmillis area. It happened after two males threatened a delivery driver with a wheel brace outside a convenience store shortly before 11.30am on Saturday. They then made off in a dark blue coloured car into nearby Chlorine Gardens and then in the direction of the Lisburn Road.

Cookstown Goes High-Tech

A £29,000 contract has been agreed to establish a broadband access network in Cookstown, the Communications Minister has confirmed. The work will be undertaken by Co Londonderry firm North West Electronics using the latest fibre-optic technology. Minister Arlene Foster said the scheme would ensure high-speed wireless broadband for Kilcronagh Business Park.

(BMcC/JM)