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Price: 82p (IR 1.30 EURO) Saturday, May 28, 2011 The pride of Northern Ireland www.newsletter.co.uk

Bomb alerts Pony recovering

bring misery after fire attack
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Still taking
a shine to NI finish
DeLorean rock
30 years on bottom
SEE SPORT
A DeLorean owner
polishes his car in
Belfast’s Titanic
Quarter during the
celebration of the
30th anniversary of
the first DeLorean
rolling off the
production line.
Eighty of the cars
travelled to Northern
Ireland from around
the globe, with
some 228 delegates
from 21 countries
attending the four-
day festival
PICTURE: Paul Faith/PA

IRA killers take

top council jobs
BY REBECCA BLACK
r.black@newsletter.co.uk
Two former IRA terrorists have
been elected to preside over
councils.
Sean McGlinchey and Ian
Milne both served at the Maze for
bombing and killing respectively
but now are chiefs of Limavady
and Magherfelt councils.
McGlinchey – brother of
the infamous Dominic – was
convicted of a 1973 blast in
Coleraine that killed six people.
Their accession to these top
jobs comes less than a week after mayors elected since the local
Packed
it emerged that the killer of Mary
Travers had been appointed
government elections earlier this
month. full of
as Culture Minister Caral Ni
Chuilin’s special adviser.
The News Letter has compiled
The DUP took the most of the
positions with 10, Sinn Fein were
next with eight of the top jobs
the local
a two-page feature on Northern
Ireland’s 26 new chairmen and
including capital city Belfast.
See pages 8, 9, 10, 11 agri news