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it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we join the BBC's

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Good evening and welcome to BBC Newsline. The main story... A major

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incident at our biggest hospital. We hear the people caught up in it. I

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think at one point there were 130 people waiting to be seen. Every

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inch of the corridors were lined with people in wheelchairs and beds.

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Also on the programme this evening... New recruits to the

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Prison Service are to get special annual danger money.

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A new centre dedicated to the Irish language centre at in an improbable

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place. Ulster roll out the big guns for

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tomorrow's crunch European rugby game at Ravenhill.

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And a perfect evening for stargazing but it's not looking so pleasant for

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tomorrow. A major incident was declared at our

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biggest hospital last night. It wasn't because of an accident or an

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outbreak of illness but the sheer volume of people waiting to be

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treated or admitted. It's highlighted the pressure on the

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Emergency Department at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Our Health

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Correspondent Marie Louise Connolly is there. Good evening. The Accident

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and Emergency department at the Royal Victoria Hospital is just a

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few hundred metres behind me. Last night staff and patients described

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the scene as horrendous. Management said they reacted by declaring a

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major incident in order to get more staff into work. They say that

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worked. Members of the public along with the Royal College of Nursing

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said the conditions in which patients were treated were totally

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unacceptable. Mervyn Jess has been speaking to some people caught up in

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this last night. It look like a natural disaster. It was seven hours

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of help. It was like something you see in it hurt world country. Some

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of the voices from people affected by the events last night. The

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unusual spike in admissions picked last night when according to some

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staff the Accident and Emergency department was close to breaking

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point. The problem began building on Tuesday and by yesterday evening,

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the hospital administrators were forced to declare a major incident.

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We believed that last night the best way to deal with the pressures was

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to trigger that major incident protocol and it worked because we

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got 24 nurses in and eight or nine of our senior consultants who came

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in and it meant that we were able to deal with the situation within three

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hours. We called it a major incident at 845 PM and it start at 11:45pm.

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It was like a third world country. There were hundreds of people not

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being attended to. Elderly people were left in trolleys. To be quite

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honest, some of the staff begged people to contact the media on their

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behalf. It was a disgrace. The hospital said an abnormally high

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number of very sick bill arrived at Casualty and hospital admissions

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were nearly double that that they would normally be at this time.

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Patients were left waiting on trolleys and some were backed up

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into the x-ray areas and some placed in a day procedure unit, a fracture

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unit and a recovery area. This woman has a neurological condition and is

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a regular visitor to the hospital. She arrived here yesterday morning.

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It was terrible. I think at one point there was 130 people waiting

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to be seen, 50 people waiting for beds. Every inch of the corridor was

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lined with people in wheelchairs and beds. It looked like a scene out of

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a natural disaster. Ambulances were diverted to the Ulster Hospital in

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Dundonald for several hours as stab at the Royal Victoria Hospital

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struggle to get to grips with the situation. It was a volcano and it

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erupted. It was embarrassing to watch doctors and nurses in tears

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because they were struggling. One man his mother suffers from dementia

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says it is disgraceful she was moved to Musgrave Park Hospital in the

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middle of the night to free up a bed of the Royal Victoria Hospital. It

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has happened in the past and now I know what it is like. I do not know

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what is going to be next. It is very upsetting for myself and the family.

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If people have had a bad experience I would apologise for that. We do

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not want that and that is one of the reasons we triggered the major

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incident protocol. That is to ensure we continue to provide safe services

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and people have a good experience. How have we reached this point where

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I major incident has to be declared in order to deal with the sheer

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volume of people coming through the doors and what has been the reaction

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of some of those charged with running the local health service? I

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have been monitoring reaction. Less than 30 miles away and it was all

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smiles and Ballymena as the Health Minister opened a new children's

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facility. He described the incident last night at the Royal Victoria

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Hospital as a one off and praised staff who had remained beyond the

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call of duty. The minister had this to say about the health service. We

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have a bus service now than we had two years ago. -- a Sabre service.

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If you have a heart attack in Northern Ireland you have a better

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chance of living, and you do if you have a stroke there are major

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trauma. You have people with massive expertise to deal with the

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situation. But tell that to these workers who gathered at the Royal

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Victoria Hospital to voice their frustrations. Health care workers

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expressed discontent with the Health Minister. Start starting up and stop

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proposals to take more beds out of the service. Start talking and

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cooperating to each other. This is supposed to be a collective health

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service, not one that competes. So what has led us to this point? Since

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the closure of Belfast City Hospital A apartment in November 2011,

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other casualty departments have experienced added measures on

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services. In March 2012 and elderly man was found dead on a trolley at

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the Royal Victoria Hospital fight he was waiting to be transferred to

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another hospital. There have been excessive waiting times at the Royal

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Victoria Hospital and in November last year, the College of Emergency

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Medical Facilities, said services were unsustainable. Closures at the

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down and Lagan Valley Hospital have added to the strain and last night

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came the unusual move of the major incident being declared to deal with

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intake in Casualty. It is clear that last night's problem has been

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simmering. On Monday, ambulances in Craigavon area hospital were

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diverted to Daisy Hill Hospital but with no snow, flu epidemic or major

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trauma, there are those people who insist that last night's incident

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could have been avoided. The pressures have been building for

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some time and have been an assistant for a number of years. The emergency

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department is the default position then other parts of the service are

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not running properly. Whether that is community services, GP services

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or older people services. According to the road map for change, Northern

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Ireland will have between five and seven emergency department at to

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facilitate that major change, there must be effective minor injury

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facilities, Edgar Bowers and GP services. Unfortunately, people

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become unwell unexpectedly. There needs to be flexibility in the

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services so people can get to their GP first thing in the morning or at

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the end of the day if they feel unexpectedly unwell. There is a

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challenge to the system in terms of Haitians being seen at the

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appropriate time in the appropriate place and we are all faced with that

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challenge. We need to make sure that practices are able to do that as

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well as A Local GP there. Last night's

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incident has been described as one of but it is a stark reminder of the

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pressures being faced by a emergency staff here in Northern Ireland.

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A short time ago I spoke to the Chief Executive of the Health and

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Social Care Board John Compton and he agreed with what staff have been

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telling us in that if there had been a major trauma such as a road

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accident or a fire last night, staff at the hospital might not have been

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able to cope. The health trust called a major incident at around

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eight o'clock last night but stood down at midnight. The reason was

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that we could bring staff in and we could alert the rest of the Northern

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Ireland system to provide support which happened in the system. Major

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incidents have come normal? Not at all. Staff tell us they are

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continually under pressure, continually stretched, they have to

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work extra avarice to fill the rotor. Using they are wrong? I think

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you need to clarify a few things. I major incident is only called for

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them there are exceptional circumstances and others different

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to being busy. I recognise casualty departments are busy. That was a

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major incident. For many people it was the tipping point and being

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under pressure is just part of the normal job. Many staff had said to

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us that they fear for patient safety. Politicians said today that

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major incident indicates that patients lives are now being put at

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risk, that the system of A is not working and you need to readdress

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it. There are a couple of things I would say. Look at the total number

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of people attending the emergency departments this year compared to

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the number last year. There is not a material difference. Look at some of

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the performance information, for example, the length of time people

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wait, we have fewer people waiting 12 hours this year than we did last

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year. I do not think you cant to a conclusion that on the basis of one

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event and one particular set of circumstances to say that the total

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system is broken. It is clearly pressured and we are making changes

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to that and we have signalled those changes and it will take a period of

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five years to get us through that and our journey. Do you not see that

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there is a crisis within casualty departments, across Northern

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Ireland. There is a shortage of doctors, of medical staff and in

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doing so well and having that shortage, there is pressure on staff

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already there. Of course there is. That has a knock-on effect? Yes, but

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you must discriminate by patient safety and risk. All I can say is

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that we have a robust system and I am not aware of the material changes

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in the number of adverse incidents being applied in our emergency

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departments. You could reassure viewers that it could happen tonight

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staff and resources could go? I could reassure viewers and if you

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look at what happened last night if we call a serious incident like we

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did last night, we got staff in and within a relatively short space of

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time, the system reacted well to the circumstances and I think that would

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happen tonight if than incident was declared. At what point, staff tell

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us they are at breaking point, but at what point is it broken? If you

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compare what happened for example in other parts of the UK in terms of

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emergency departments, none of that has happened in Northern Ireland.

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The system is functioning, it is very pressured but we are making

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changes and fixing that. Emergency departments all work seven days a

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week but senior doctors and staff are now available and we are making

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a transition. I believe we will do it successfully. There is more on

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that on our Facebook page where you can share your experiences.

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Still to come... I am live at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum

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where we are hoping to see something special in the skies. By and

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outfought later. -- find out what. More than 1000 Prison Service staff

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are to receive special annual danger money payments because of the threat

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they face from dissident republicans. An independent pay

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review body has recommended that they should each be paid more than

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?1300 a year on top of their normal salary, for as long as the security

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threat remains. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney

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reports. The names of 31 members of the Prison Service killed for doing

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their jobs. The most recent was David Black, shot dead 15 months ago

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as he drove along the M1to work in a prison. Even before he was killed,

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prison staff had been lobbying for extra payments to reflect the threat

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they face. The Justice Minister David Ford referred the issue to pay

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body and it has now said what it refers to a supplementary risk

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allowance should be paid. The decision applies to staff who joined

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the Prison Service since 2002 including wood than 350 employed

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during the past 18 months. The majority in between 18 and ?21,000.

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It has been recommended that each receives an additional ?200 every

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year. That does not apply to main grade prison officers recruited

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before 2002 who earn more than ?38,000 every year. A special

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allowances already built into their salary. The Justice Committee

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chairman Paul Givan says the payments are justified. These

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officers are being advised that they need to alternate the roots when

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they are coming to work and going home. There are areas they are not

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allowed to socialise and so there is a clear impact on their lifestyle

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and the environment they operate in and that has a financial cost. The

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extra payments will cost more than ?1.5 million every year. In a letter

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to the Justice Committee David Wood said the recommendations represent a

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significant cost to his department and no additional resources would be

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made available. It is understood the extra money needed to be found from

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within the existing budget for the Prison Service. The association that

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represents prison officers has not welcomed the recommendation that the

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allowance should be paid but says the man on offer is not enough. --

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the amount on offer. A DUP Special Adviser has told MLAs

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that there was "nothing shady or nothing dodgy" regarding a meeting

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with a double glazing firm or the way that meeting was recorded by

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officials. Stephen Brimstone who advises the Housing Minister Nelson

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McCausland was giving evidence to a Stormont committee. The committee is

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investigating allegations broadcast by the BBC's Spotlight programme

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about political interference in the running of the Housing Executive.

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Here's Stephen Walker. It was after the busy Spotlight programme last

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summer that an investigation was set up. Much of the inquiry has centred

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on an inquiry with the glazing firm. The committee was told that had

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supported the DUP in the past that election time. Stephen Brimstone who

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advises Nelson McCausland initially met members of the firm who wanted a

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meeting with the minister. He thought they wanted to have

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discussions as discussions as members of the Glass and glazing

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Federation. I genuinely felt there was an impression that a letter was

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going to be sent to the Minister on behalf of this the direction. And

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then them letter arrived it was a request from the Turkington is and

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not the Federation. After the meeting, it was initially recorded

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in departmental records as a meeting with Turkington but it was

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subsequently changed to a meeting with the Federation. Today Barbara

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McConnachie civil servant was asked why the details of the meeting were

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changed. Your evidence to us is that you do not make changes to the diary

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or beheading of your own volition. Is that right? I made the changes. I

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am not quibbling that. I am asking you did you do it up your own

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volition in either or both cases or did someone tell you to do that. I

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would have done it under instruction. Stephen Brimstone

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insists he had no role in changing departmental records. I do not see

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how anyone could interpret that as being an attempt to write something

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out. There was nothing shady or dodgy or in any way that would be

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inappropriate. He was also asked if he knew that Turkington had in the

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past supported the DUP. I am not aware of who the DUP is financed by

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or supported by or anything else. During the session, the DUP said

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Barbara McConnachie had been badgered by some MLS and they

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objected to the manner of some of the questions. The committee will

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reconvene in two weeks time. Irish classes have become so popular

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among Protestants in East Belfast that an Irish language centre is

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opening there. It's being run by the sister-in-law of the loyalist leader

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David Ervine. Chris Page has more. The Lord in North Road is often

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described as a loyalist heartland but amidst the union flags and

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murals and Irish language centre five and is taking place. -- the

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Lower Newtownards Road. Dozens of people here have in taking classes

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like this one filmed for a BBC documentary. So many people are

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interested that and Irish language centre is opening here. It is being

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run by Linda Ervine whose brother-in-law was the late loyalist

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leader David Irvine. I think they are claiming something that is part

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of their heritage and has been lost to them in recent years. To help

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explain what she means, there are some interesting historical

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documents on display. This is the senses of 1911. There are records

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for a family called Irvine which included David Ervine is

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grandparents who lived of the Lower Newtownards Road. It was a family of

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eight and all of them could speak Irish and the records show that a

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number of other Protestant families in this area could as well. The new

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centre harks back to that time and features this wall painting by Mark

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Irvine, showing the 1911 Map And St names in Irish. It also includes a

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library, classroom and teaching aids and has enthused keen learners of

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Irish like this man. It is not an easy language to learn. The grammar

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is different. But with perseverance I should manage to be fluent by

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2015! He is one of the new generation of Protestant Gaelic

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speakers. 20 more are expected to sign up for classes after the centre

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officially opens this evening! Ulster Rugby have announced tonight

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that Stephen Ferris has signed a contract extension. The flanker told

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this programme in November he was determined to battle back from

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injury. And with this short-term extension, he can continue his

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rehabilitation from the injury he sustained against Edinburgh 14

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months ago. He's now making good progress although no date has yet

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been set for his return to play. Meanwhile prop Declan Fitzpatrick

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has signed a new two-year deal. And some of Ulster's key internationals

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return to the line up for the visit of French side Montpellier in the

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Heineken Cup tomorrow. Hooker Rory Best has made an earlier than

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expected recovery after breaking his arm in Ireland's agonising defeat by

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New Zealand in November. Nick Williams replaces Roger Wilson at

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number eight on a night when winger Andrew Trimble will make a record

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58th appearance for Ulster in Europe. Captain Johann Muller has

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overcome a calf injury and starts in the second row. Was always great to

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get world-class and international players back from injury. -- it is

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always. It is hoped they bring on the field and off the field and

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their leadership is spectacular. I am delighted to have them back. Has

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been a great atmosphere in training already.

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After today's first round of the Volvo Champions event in Durban,

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Darren Clarke lies in second place at three under par. Clarke has

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emerged from winter training three stones lighter and he showed good

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form with a round of 69, to lie just two shots off the early lead.

:22:28.:22:35.

The Belfast-born hockey player Iain Lewers is spending the next six

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weeks playing in India, where he will compete in the new professional

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Hockey League there. But first, as part of the Great Britain set-up, he

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qualifies to play for England in the World Hockey League tournament which

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starts in Delhi this week and he's keen to make up for disappointment

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at the Olympics. Nigel Ringland reports. It is one of the places you

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want to experience playing hockey. It is an experience for a lot of the

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guys on the team and we are looking forward to it and hopefully we come

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back on the right side of a result. We will keep you updated with his

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progress. All this week we've been asked to

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look beyond this world to universes near and far in the BBC's Stargazing

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Live series. One of the UK's biggest public events is happening tonight

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at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra and our reporter

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Julie McCullough is there. The conditions are ideal for a night of

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stargazing. The skies are clear and as you can see, the telescopes are

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out. I am joined by a special guest and he is hoping to see something

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special. We have a great chance of seeing the Northern lights because

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the sun has been very active recently. Yesterday it sent out a

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big cloud of electrified gas. If it reaches us and interacts with the's

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magnetic fields and that is what causes the Northern Lights. The

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night is young. You can see it anywhere? Anywhere you have a good

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view to the northern horizon, you can see it. They could be any colour

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but the bubbly orange,. What about the people who have come here

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tonight. What is an opera? We have fantastic use of the Moon and

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Jupiter with some of its moons. People are amazed when they see it.

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The million is spectacular and then everyone looks set that we will see

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the Orion nebula. Lots of other things. Whatever people want to see,

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you can see it. This event at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum

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goes on until 10pm this evening. BBC Radio Ulster is going live from here

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from 7pm until 9pm. Let's find out if the sky will be

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clear at that big BBC Stargazing Live event in County Down and for

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the rest of us. The weather forecast is next with Angie.

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clear at that big BBC Stargazing Live event in County We do have more

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wet weather on the way that today we have been through some weather

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systems. For this evening, apart from a few coastal showers it is

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mainly dry and clear. It is the BBC Stargazing Live event. Here in

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Northern Ireland it is at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum at Cultra

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until 10pm. Conditions are ideal. It looks as though we will see the

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showers in the North Brazil out. The first part of the night is try and

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clear. It is also cold. -- try and clear. Initially to note that could

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be mist and fog patches but as the breeze picks up the mist and fog

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will left. Tomorrow will be wet and windy. The rain will reach the West

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but early in the morning and it will extend eastwards. It is not

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particularly heavy burden will be persistent. -- but it will be. The

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rain will linger towards the afternoon but drier conditions will

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follow. With that drier weather comes colder air. Temperatures are

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around seven degrees initially but they start to plummet as the clear

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air comes in and they will continue to vote tomorrow night. A few

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showers in the north and West will turn wintry. Many places will be dry

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and clear and tomorrow night we are looking at a widespread frost. On

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Saturday there is the risk of someone true showers towards the

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north. Most places are dry and bright but it will be cold with

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another widespread frost on Saturday night. The next batch of wet and

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windy weather comes on Sunday. Starry night tonight. That's all

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