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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline: Fears for hundreds of | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
jobs as one of our biggest construction firms faces money | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
problems. Another investigation into the Fire | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
Rescue Service - this time a link to Orange halls. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
How the parents of this child were left to discover the harrowing | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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details of his illness themselves. In those initial five weeks before | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
the official diagnosis, all our information came from the internet. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
Football success for Derry City - we have the story of their FAI Cup | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
triumph in Dublin. Will it be another hot water bottle | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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night? Join me for the forecast. There are fears that hundreds of | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
jobs could be in jeopardy at one of Northern Ireland's oldest | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
construction companies. The Patton Group is well known for some major | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
projects in Ireland, Britain and on the continent. It says it is facing | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
cash pressures and is working with its bank to navigate a way through | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
what it is describing as a very difficult period. Our business | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
correspondent is with me now. How has the group been performing? | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
is one of our leading construction companies and it is a family-run | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
company added his 100 years old, this is its centenary year. It has | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
been involved in many prestigious developments both here and | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
elsewhere in the UK. It has got good performing well though but has | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
been contracting because of the problems within the construction | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
sector. It currently has 320 employees between fit out and | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
construction and housebuilding divisions. Last year it began to | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
feel the squeeze and made a loss of �7 million and let 40 staff go and | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
because of what it says were the unprecedented challenges of in that | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
sector. It has issued a statement? Yes, in response to queries about | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
the firm and the financial situation. It says the company is | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
having financial problems. It said the company was facing cash | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
pressures as a result of the recent downturn in the construction sector. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
It also said the group has been working with its bank in recent | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
months to navigate our way through what has been and continues to be a | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
very difficult period. But this in context, how bad is it for such a | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
big company in Northern Ireland? The it is clearly having financial | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
problems, by its own admission, and the cash pressures it talks about a, | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
these bring trading problems as well. Given the fragility of the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
construction sector, I think there will be a lot of concern over the | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
jobs and over the job security of those 320 people who are employed | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
by the group. A new investigation into the Northern Ireland Fire and | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
Rescue Service is focusing on the alleged use of fire service | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
property in Orange halls. The location of several vehicles and | :03:22. | :03:32. | |
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their logbooks are also being examined. | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
These latest allegations involve would being taken from the training | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
centre in Belfast and transported to several Orange halls. The BBC | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
understands they are in the Antrim area. The materials were originally | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
bought to trier crash like train firefighters but investigators are | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
focusing on whether those materials were used to lay flowers in Orange | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
halls and provide heating. Logbooks for service vehicles are also being | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
sought along with mileage sheets and fuel expenses. This latest | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
investigation by the Department of Health has triggered after | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
allegations of potential fraud, theft and other irregularities were | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
brought to the health minister last week. In a statement, Edwin Poots | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
said where wrongdoing has occurred, it must be addressed. This is the | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
second investigation the Shea into the fire service. The first into | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
allegations made by whistleblowers was scathing and in response, the | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
minister said change must be addressed. Despite the criticism, | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
no one so far has been held to account. This information regarding | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Orange halls is just the latest development in what is turning out | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
to be an embarrassing time for them. Earlier we revealed that a senior | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
member of the service was allowed to run a private business, selling | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
uniforms and other equipment at the same time as he was in charge of | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
the organisation's stores and picture of it. That man has since | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
died. We revealed that he had secured contracts with leading | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
local and national companies. The investigation concluded that there | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
was a weakness in managing conflicts of interest will stop a | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
senior Unionist has described these latest allegations as potentially | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
harmful to the Orange Order, saying they could tarnish the | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
organisation's reputation. Others feel at the Department of Health's | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
internal inquiry should be replaced by a more rigorous and independent | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
investigation. It's understood the Deputy First | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
Minister Martin McGuinness has been told the family of the murdered | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
prison officer David black do not want him to attend the funeral | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
tomorrow. Earlier today the First Minister told the assembly that Mr | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
Black's murderers are hate-filled deviants and psychopaths. Peter | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Robinson led tributes in the chamber. Mr Black was shot dead as | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
he drove to work along the M1 last Thursday. The First Minister said | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
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the murder was utterly futile. A murder will not bring any changes | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
to the present regime at Maghaberry and every sane person in the land | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
believes that those who carried out the killing our audience, hate- | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
filled deviants and psychopaths who should be locked up for life. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
A one-day work stoppage in support of Sean Quinn has been held at some | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
of his former factories in Fermanagh and Cavan. The one-time | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
billionaire was jailed on Friday for contempt of court and his | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
family's dispute with the former Anglo Irish Bank. Our Fermanagh | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
District journalist Julian Fowler spoke to protesters who fear for | :06:39. | :06:48. | |
the future of their community. The demonstration that stretched | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
across the border from the glass works in Derrylin to the cement | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
factory in Ballyconnell. The protesters described the dispute | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
between the Bank and the Quinn family as senseless and damaging. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
They say it is a local community who are suffering. I believe it is | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
scandalous. That man who did so much the best part of the country | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
should be treated like a common criminal. A man of such talent | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
should not be languishing in a prison cell, he should be out | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
trying to get this country going again. The bank has taken over the | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
place and they don't care about us along the borders. In five years' | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
time, these places will be closed. They are calling for Sean Quinn to | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
be released from prison and for mediation between the Bank and the | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
family. People here are not only angry at the jailing of Sean Quinn, | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
there are also worried about the future of their jobs. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
A large number of Sinn Fein supporters have held a protest at | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
police headquarters over the arrest and detention of the party activist | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
Padraic Wilson. He has been charged with offences connected to the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
murder of Robert McCartney in Belfast seven years ago. Padraic | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Wilson was an IRA leader in the Maze jail and is currently the | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
party's Director of International Affairs. He denies the charges of | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
IRA membership and addressing a meeting to encourage support for | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
the IRA following the killing in 2005. | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
At 21 year-old woman has died following a car crash in Portadown | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
at the weekend. She was Catherine Kelly from the Portadown area. She | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
was involved in the one vehicle crash on the Armagh Road on it on | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Saturday morning. And 19 year-old woman and 18 year-old man who were | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
also in the car are still being treated in hospital. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
Still to come on programme: We'll find out how school doesn't get | :08:46. | :08:56. | |
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much better than this. Families of people with Muscular | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Dystrophy say a new regional centre is needed where patients can be | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
treated. Around 2000 people here have the life limiting condition. A | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
report published earlier this summer was critical of the care | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
provided in Northern Ireland. This each year-old has a form of | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
muscular dystrophy and needs regular treatment for his condition. | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
He was diagnosed aged three when his family noticed he was not | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
walking properly. Their experience of the system did not start well. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
After initial diagnosis, they were sent home with leaflets about the | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
condition and told to come back in six weeks' time. There was a family | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
care support worker who should have been in the post. As far as I | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
remember at that stage, they were ill. There was no other support | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
network in place that we were made aware of. In those initial weeks | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
before the formal diagnosis, all our information came from the | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
internet. A report published in the summer by an all-party Assembly | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
group identified major problems in the system. Parents giving | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
diagnoses over the phone, long waiting times for appointments and | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
inadequate investment. It was debated in the chamber this | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
afternoon. The health minister said some of the recommendations could | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
be adopted immediately, others were not feasible for a variety of | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
reasons. That is unlikely to please parents like Angela and Davy who | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
want to see new staff and a regional centre of expertise. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
want to see it at the next stage where things are actually changing, | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
where there is a care centre in Northern Ireland where people can | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
go to and get specialised care and advice, information, but they are | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
not having to run, like we do at the minute, to four or five | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
different hospitals and regurgitate every time you go with what has | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
been happening with your child. There is no shared information. | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
Edwin Poots has said he will respond to recommendations in a | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
report in detail and he hopes to have done that by Christmas. | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
More than 1000 farms are to undergo spot checks to try to reduce the | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
number of accidents. Last week, Dungannon sawthe most recent death | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
of a farmer. That, along with the Spence family tragedy, is why two | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
rugby player brothers, Simon and Rory Best, have decided to | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
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highlight the dangers on their family's farm. | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
Former Irish international rugby player Simon Best watches on as a | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
dummy is used to demonstrate just how easy it is to be injured on the | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
farm. He is behind the scheme were Health and Safety Executive's will | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
come and check farms to try and stop accidents. This last week we | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
have seen another tragedy and it is important not to make one tragedy | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
any less important or more important than the next. Is not | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
just the victim who is affected, it is the family. I think it is one | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
thing that recent events have brought to light. No one person | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
throughout the province filled sheltered from that. In the past | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
five years, 42 people have been killed in farm accidents. Most of | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
them men, most aged 50 and over. Many more have ended up ill or who | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
have left seriously injured. The main causes involved slurry with | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
15%. 27% of debts were caused either by animals or false or | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
equipment. Keeping see it is at the bases of this campaign which is | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
backed by the Department of Agriculture. Getting away from the | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
mentality of treading the Health and Safety visit, this is trying to | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
work with the health and safety and encourage farmers to take up that | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
advice or stop that has the potential of saving your life. | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
Safety information packs will be handed out by the age a sea. The is | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
not something to worry about, farmers quite often say, that | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
wasn't as bad as I expected. It is about trying to get good advice and | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
to the farming community and to remind him of the dangers they face. | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
Sometimes a fresh pair of eyes can bring to attention something they | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
had not realised was a danger. visits will take place until the | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
end of March. Still to come on the programme: | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
Helping us to live a longer and more fulfilling life, we visit one | :13:38. | :13:48. | |
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county that is looking to the future. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
You say you are developing a new device for older people, you can | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
put it into this environment and interact with it like it is a real | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
object before you ever design or build it. | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
No one could claim that mobile classrooms on a hilltop and a leaky | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
roof was a suitable school for children with serious physical | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
disabilities and learning difficulties. Now after more than | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
10 years, that has been put right and today pupils of Torbank special | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
school in Dundonald moved into the 21st century. Our education | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
correspondent has been following the efforts and has seen the | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
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transformation. Since 1996 Torbank has been | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
lobbying to get out of this old building on a main road with mobile | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
classrooms and poor facilities for any child, let alone one in a | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
wheelchair. Despite a promise in 2002, a series of problems delayed | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
building. Now the one hand and 60 children looked delighted with | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
everything from the bubble blowing to the ultimate disability aids, | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
state-of-the-art machines that can transport more disabled children | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
from classroom to changing mat, toilet or shower. We have done our | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
best with that old building with very little flexibility in it. It | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
was deteriorating rapidly and there was no repair work being done | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
because we knew we were getting a new school. That was 10 years ago | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
and it continued on over that period. Because of pupils' special | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
needs, the changeover was well planned. We have been preparing | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
them for the past 18 months for their big day today. It seems like | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
a long time for lots of people but it has taken our children 18 months | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
to grow into her new school so that they are ready to move in today. | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
really like the playground because the old school, we didn't have a | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
playground. Every time it rains, there were always big puddles and | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
now a look at this! Is the best playground you have ever seen. | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
the new school, this is not just a bathroom, but a learning experience. | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
This is where people cope with bathrooms when they are out in the | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
outside world. This one, you push it and this one you have to turn it | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
at the big attraction for a lot of the young people is this hand dryer. | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
It is great and I like the bathrooms, I like the hand dryer. | :16:30. | :16:39. | |
Now that they are in, the ten-year wait can be forgotten. | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
I listened to the Derry City match on the radio, it was so exciting. | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
And nail-biting finish. It was a thriller. This club is | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
back where it belongs. The words of manager Declan Devine after Derry | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
City won the FAI Cup by beating St Patrick's Athletic 3-2 in an extra | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
thriller at the Aviva Stadium. There were many heroes on the day | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
including City goalkeeper Ger Doherty who attended his | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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grandfather's funeral only hours before the final. | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
Fans were in buoyant mood ahead of the Cup final in Dublin. We're here | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
for a laugh. We were in court and we have come to Dublin just to | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
support the Candystripes. Acts look at this, I have the champagne with | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
me, that's for celebrating later. After a scoreless first half, the | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
game a burst into life after the break when St Pat's took the lead. | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Then the Candystripes came back into it. Derry made it 2-1 Crewe | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
the substitute. The former Linfield and Coleraine a striker coolly | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
slotted home a penalty. Derry were an agonising three minutes from | :18:12. | :18:21. | |
victory when cent pass forced them into extra-time. In a frantic and | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
exciting extra-time period, Rory Patterson yet again underlined his | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
class and sealed the victory with an incredible finish. It sent the | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
Derry City fans delirious. I took a quick look at the keeper and it | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
couldn't have fallen any better for me. Hard to put into words. It is a | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
great feeling to win the Cup final. The fans were there and they showed | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
tremendous spread, as we do go on the pitch. We're all equal here. | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
We're absolutely delighted. club has been on edge these three | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
years ago, we were through at of the league and a group of local men | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
regrouped and we are back today. is now the 5th time they have | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
lifted the FA I Cup and a day to remember for the fans. | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
The quarter-finals of local football's Irn Bru Cup takes place | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
tonight. Liam Boyce will be hoping to continue his red hot goalscoring | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
streak to help Cliftonville into the semi-finals. On Saturday Boyce | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
netted his 13th goal of the season to earn a draw against Glentoran | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
and keep Cliftonville top of the league table. The referee in that | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
game accidentally collided with a Cliftonville player. Arnold Hunter | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
stretchered off and taken to hospital but the two best goals of | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
the weekend were consolation efforts. First this from Andy | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
McGrory as Glenavon lost 5 - 1 to Crusaders. And Josh Cahoon's effort | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
for Dungannon against Ballymena. Northern Ireland manager Michael | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
O'Neill welcomes back the experienced Chris Brunt and Gareth | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
McAuley into his squad for next week's World Cup qualifier against | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
Azerbaijan. But with seven players in action for their clubs just | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
three days before the game, he is sweating on everyone turning up fit. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
You have less rights for the players than what we were normally | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
have and the fact that we have players playing on Sunday is a | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
little bit of a concern but hopefully they come through the | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
game unscathed and arrive in one piece and we will have a couple of | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
days' preparation. Errigal Ciaran gaelic football club | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
won their Ulster Club Championship match yesterday without their | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
manager. Ronan McGuckin didn't want to take charge of the team against | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
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his home club of Ballinderry but he will be back for the next round. | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
Assistant manager took charge of Errigal Ciaran but is understood | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Ronan McGuckin watched from the stands. His loyalties were divided | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
between Ballinderry, the side he grew up playing for, and Errigal | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
Ciaran, the Tyrone club he managed to the County Championship. In a | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
predictably tight game, his adopted team prevailed by one point. He is | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
a real catch 22 and that was part of his decision to step down. He is | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
a man that gives 100% and he couldn't have given 100% to the | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
question is, was he better away completely. But we managed to come | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
out on top. From our point of view, all is well that ends well. Errigal | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
will now play the winners of Crossmaglen and Donegal. This goal | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
gave them a dramatic victory in the county decider. The First Minister | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
Peter Robinson joined over 18,500 fans who watched Ulster to feed all | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
Ireland champions Donegal in a special football match at Casement | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Park. The game was part of a celebration for the life of | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
Michaele and Maghery. Stephen Ferris will remain with the | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Ireland rugby squad despite being rolled out of the autumn | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
internationals against South Africa and Fiji. He will continue to | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
receive treatment in Dublin in the hope of recovering in time for the | :22:18. | :22:28. | |
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Argentina game on 24th November. Across the world, populations are | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
getting older. The question is, how our society is going to deal with | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
this change? In County Louth, they may just have found the answer - as | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
we live longer, we will also have to live smarter. Our reporter | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
Gordon Adair has been finding out how Dundalk could just be one of | :22:48. | :22:58. | |
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the best places in the world in which to grow old. | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
Science has already helped us live longer and now it is trying to help | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
us live better. Say you are developing a new device for older | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
people, you have 3 D rendering of it and you can put it into this | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
environment and interact with it. How best to cope with an ageing | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
population is a puzzle for nations everywhere. Few are doing as much | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
to solve a puzzle as they are right here in this old cigarette works | :23:27. | :23:36. | |
turned ideas factory. We really have to start thinking about it as | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
improvements in health and education. We are living longer and | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
it is a huge opportunity to build on that as opposed to be thinking | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
it as a problem. From theory to reality and the unique housing | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
project. In here we have different technologies again. Bed sensors | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
that will automatically turn on lights. These apartments were | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
designed in the virtual reality world we saw earlier and now in the | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
real world, their home to 20 older people light shone and Paddy, big | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
fans of the eye pads given that all the residents. We have skied and e- | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
mail and everything, we haven't got a minute! It is all about | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
progressing got, as somebody gets older, there is more technology and | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
we're able to live at home without having to go into a home or | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
hospital. It is a wonderful idea, yes. In total, these apartments | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
have some 2500 sensors, gathering all sorts of data which is later | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
assessed in cave. As part of our infrastructure, residents are part | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
of that so they are co-designer us in this development of new | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
technologies that we can introduce into homes so the idea would be to | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
take these technologies being developed here and there them into | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
existing older people's homes. County Louth may be leading the way | :25:12. | :25:21. | |
but are ageing demographic mean similar challenges have been here | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
to check out the technology that may help us all lead smarter. A | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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It has turned noticeably colder in the last few days. Frosty days and | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
frosty mornings. Some ice reported as well. This was the scene as the | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
sun came up this morning. I don't think of frost will be so much of | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
an issue as becoming nights. It is turning a little bit louder. -- | :25:59. | :26:07. | |
milder. We don't have too much praise for most of us today but | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
what we did have was coming from a north-westerly breeze. A fair | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
amount of sunshine but there was some rain around, too. For many of | :26:17. | :26:27. | |
us, this evening is largely dry. Temperatures dropping to three or | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
four degrees but then it starts to change because cloud increases from | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
the last and it will threaten some patchy rain across parts of the | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
north and west. The temperatures rise as that cloud rolls in. A lot | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
of the drizzly rain will move away tomorrow leaving many of us with a | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
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dry day. Not the same amount of sunshine, so a cloudy start | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
tomorrow but a frost-free one. The breeze will pick up tomorrow | :26:59. | :27:08. | |
morning as well. Generally, we try for Fermanagh, Tyrone and a | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
Londonderry. Hopefully that breeze will help to lift and break up the | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
Clyde a little bit in the afternoon so we may get the odd glimmer of | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
sunshine. Temperatures better than today at 10 or 11 degrees but we | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
will also have the wind as well. Tomorrow night, we hold on to the | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
cloud and breeze, so a mild night. Patchy rain edges in and some will | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
drift across into Wednesday morning. Other than that, mainly dry for | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
most of the week. Target summary is at 10:25pm here | :27:43. | :27:46. |