10/02/2014 BBC Newsline

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Good evening. A highly critical report into the emergency department

at the Royal Victoria Hospital has found that at times there aren't

enough doctors and nurses available to treat patients properly. The

review was ordered by the Health Minister after a major incident last

month. Will Leitch reports. Bare lay week into the new year the night a

major incident was declared at the royal Victoria Hospital over a

backlog of patients. Many described conditions as horrendous. I detected

there were issues and engaged in conversation with staff and then

initiated this report. I welcome the opportunity for the trust to be able

to respond to the findings and make things better for the staff and the

people who use the service. The review he ordered was carried out by

a Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority. Around a half staff

raised concerns about staffing levels when interviewed. The

hospital can operate under huge pressures and those pressures are

significant. Staff sometimes can feel that they are overburdened by

the pressure and therefore we want to respond to that and ensure that

the working environment that our staff are delivering care in is the

best possible environment and that will ensure there is a better

service to the public. The minister denied he had ordered the review

because of a BBC programme on accident and emergency services due

to be broadcast tomorrow. The RQIA will report in June on a wider

review of A across Northern Ireland. The first woman to give

evidence to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry has

described how she was beaten black and blue by a nun in a home in

Londonderry. She said she realised the nun enjoyed it when she cried so

she stopped crying when she was beaten. The woman who's now 58 lived

in the home from the age of two for 12 years. BBC Newsline's Tara Mills

reports. Nazareth House, home for hundreds of young boys and girls,

one who is now 58 says she was a bright child with good grades, but a

life of beatings and chores destroyed her future. She said she

was beaten until she was black and blue by one nun in particular. She

said the nun would punch and hit her with anything he should lay her

hands on. She said, I realised she enjoyed it when I cried. So

eventually I stopped crying. She said:

Central to her evidence was a tale of separation. It was only when her

old irsister was about to leave Nazareth House that she found she

even had a sister. She spent the last 45 years trying to track her

down with no success. Today, the youngest witness to give evidence so

far said children at the home were routinely given scalding or freezing

showers and locked in cupboards as punishment. The 46-year-old focussed

on the first nun that welcomed him saying she put the fear of God into

him and she told him his mother had died.

When asked if there was anything good about his time at the home, he

said the op positive thing was getting back to my mother's house

no, matter how dysfunctional it was he too had sporadic contact with his

brothers and sisters. This has become a common theme with more

witnesses coming to give evidence tomorrow. A man who's been charged

with causing grievous bodily harm to his baby daughter, who died last

week, has been released from Maghaberry prison on bail.

23-year-old Christopher O'Neill of Glasvey Park in Twinbrook was

granted bail on Friday, but only released today after his solicitor

handed in his passport to the police. His daughter, Cara Walsh,

died on Friday. She'd been taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital earlier

in the week. A post mortem examination is due to be carried out

in the next few days. The Fermanagh businessman Sean Quinn has finished

giving evidence in Dublin today against three former executives of

the Anglo-Irish Bank. The three deny charges of lending money to 16

people, including members of the Quinn family, to buy bank shares. Mr

Quinn claimed the bank knew it was in trouble well before it loaned

hundreds of millions of euro to his family to buy Anglo shares. He said

he was and is still furious that having invested billions in Anglo

shares, they were "dumped" with other people. During

cross-examination, he said he lost 3.2 billion euro on Anglo and he

blamed the bank for it. The Garda say they now know who murdered

Londonderry man Andrew Allen and they're building a case against

those involved. Mr Allen was shot dead two years ago at a house near

Buncrana by gunmen from Republican Action Against Drugs. His partner

was in the house at the time. His family have always denied claims the

24-year-old was a drug dealer. Political parties are being urged to

take down their election posters during the Giro d'Italia cycle race

later this year. The race, which starts in Belfast for the first

time, coincides with the European and local council election campaigns

in May. Mark Simpson reports. This promotional film for the Giro

d'Italia shows how keen the organisers are to show off Northern

Ireland. But the race in May clashes with the local and European election

campaigns. So a very different type of is scenery could be on show. The

Ulster unionist Party says all the race routes should be kept clear of

election posters until the race ends. We don't want the posters in

the background putting the blight on the perfect scenery. We want to show

Northern Ireland in the best light. Should people not be allowed to see

the beautiful facings of our -- faces of our politicians. Well they

can see them any time. So they have enough time to see enough beautiful

Ulster unionist faces. If there a poster-free route there must be

cross party aa agreement. There is no point in some parties not putting

up posters and the rest spoiling the show. If there is a deal there would

be 200 miles of roads and thousands of lamp posts without any election

posters. Day one of the race is from Belfast to Stormont and back. Day

two covers the largest area from Belfast to the cause way coast and

back. Day three is from Armagh to Dublin. The colour of Giro is pink.

Cycling fans want to keep it that way and avoid any poster battles

between orange and green. Now with the weather forecast here's Cecilia

Daly. A lot going on in the weather in the next 24 hours. It will get

wet and windy before the night is out. Heavy rain, with snow over the

hills. The rain will clear by morning and with temperatures

falling below freezing, it could be very icy on roads and pavements

tomorrow morning. A lot of the grit that is pit down - put down may have

been washed off. Tuesday will be cold with snow falling in places.

There will be some lying snow over the high ground. A cold start to

Tuesday. Temperatures only a degree or so above freezing at 9 o'clock.

Icy with wintry showers. The rain that moves through us tonight is

sitting over many parts of Britain with heavy rain in southern England,

adding to the flooding risk and snow in Scotland, northern England and

the Republic of Ireland. Up to 10 centimetres in Scotland. Some

sunshine in between. But it will feel very cold. With a biting, icy

wind from the west. Tomorrow night will be icy again with wintry

showers easing. On Wednesday the next area of low pressure swings in.

So we have more wet and windy weather to come on Wednesday. Maybe

some flooding in places and some snow over the higher ground. Once

that moves away, things are looking drier and dry etcer - quieter for

the rest of week. Tomorrow good morning Ulster will report on how

some of our MPs voted on bang smoking on -- banning smoking in

cars with children. That's it for now. Stormont Today gets underway

over on BBC2 at 11.20. You can keep up to date with News Online and

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goodnight.