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That is all from us. Don't forget, first look at | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
Good evening. The Sinn Fein President says he has asked his | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
solicitor to contact the police to check if they want to interview him | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
about the murder of Jean McConville. Who Gerry Adams has again declared | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
he was not involved in the disappearance of the West Belfast | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
mother-of-ten in 1972. At the weekend, the veteran republican Ivor | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Bell was charged in connection with her abduction and murder. Mark | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
Simpson has more. For Gerry Adams, the questions won't go away. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Questions about being in the IRA, about being involved in the murder | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
of Jean McConville, the mother who was abducted and killed by the IRA | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
in 1972. In a statement, Gerry Adams attempted to set the record | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
straight. He said what happened to Jean McConville? Last week, the | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
police arrested his one-time associate, Ivor Bell, who was | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
charged with aiding and abetting the murder of Jean McConville. He denies | :01:02. | :01:20. | |
the charge. In the 1970s and 1980s Ivor Bell was a senior republican, | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
seen here after the collapse of a trial. The RUC see the recent gains | :01:24. | :01:38. | |
by Sinn Fein as a major threat. The evidence against him in relation to | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
the killing of Jean McConville involves an interview he allegedly | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
did for the Boston College tapes. The history project began 20 years | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
ago and was led by the former journalist Ed Moloney. IRA and UVF | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
members gave interviews on the basis that their words would only be made | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
public after their death. One interview was given by former IRA | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
commander Brendan Hughes, who alleged that Gerry Adams was linked | :02:01. | :02:12. | |
to the Jean McConville murder. I had no control over the squad. Gerry had | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
control over the squad. Gerry Adams has always said that's not true. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
That's just recycling of the same story. You can repeat it ad nauseam | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
but it's not true. Police went to court in America to try to gain | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
access to some of the tapes and succeeded. The legal wrangle and the | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
controversy has had repercussions, not least in the academic world. | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Historians are now thinking twice about similar projects. One | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
unfortunate consequence will to be make it less likely for people to | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
get first-hand research on conflict and that's unfortunate because if | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
we're going to understand violent conflicts, we need to understand the | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
perspectives around those who were in them. The investigation into Jean | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
McConville stretches back for decades. For eight months, police | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
have been studying information from the Boston College tapes but we do | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
not know whether the Ivor Bell court case is a one-off or whether there | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
will be more. Ten patients who had been on trolleys at the Emergency | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Department at the Royal Victoria Hospital are tonight being | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
transferred to the City Hospital. The Belfast Trust says it has been a | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
very busy day in the unit. As of 9pm this evening, 27 patients were on | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
trolleys and 90 people were waiting to be dealt with at the hospital. | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
The funeral has taken place of David Warnock, one of the two men from a | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Portadown angling club who died in an accident in County Westmeath last | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
week. A search of Lough Ree for the body of the second victim, Darryl | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Burke, continued today. Gordon Adair reports from County Armagh. Their | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
faces set against the driving rain, members of the Portadown angling | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
club perform one final sad task for their chairman and friend, David | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
Warner. Inside Saint John's Church near | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
Markethill, clubmates and hundreds of other mourners heard a reading | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
from the book of Matthew in which Jesus saves Peter from drowning. The | :04:23. | :04:31. | |
presence of Jesus lifted Peter and brought him to safety. I believe | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
that same presence of Jesus was with David when he was in the water on | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
that cold and restless lake in County Westmeath. I believe he made | :04:44. | :04:53. | |
his peace with God. I know Jesus heard his cries for help and was | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
with him. Jesus reached out his hand to him to and lifted him up. | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
Mourners heard of the family's gratitude to all those who risked | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
their own lives in an effort to save David. We thank the members of the | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
RNLI in Athlone and all those who went out on the lake to help. David | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
is survived by his partner Sharon and his four-year-old son, described | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
in church today as a miracle baby, having being born prematurely. David | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Warnock's family expressed their gratitude that John Trumbull had | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
survived and urged people to pray for those searching for Darryl | :05:38. | :05:49. | |
Burke. And in that search for Darryl Burke, divers says the visibility is | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
down to two metres at most. Julian Fowler has spent the day at Lough | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
Ree. Heading out into stormy waters. For a fifth day, Lough Ree lifeboat | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
set out to try and find Darryl Burke. The weather today has made | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
the task even more difficult. But they've been helped by the surviving | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
fisherman, John Trimble. He's now recovering in hospital and has told | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
the police where they were when their boat sank. That information | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
has been vital because at least it confirms our own calculations based | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
on where we found the first person and that is dictating how we are | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
designing the search. Dive teams also returned to the water. Over the | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
weekend, more than 30 volunteers from local sub-aqua clubs joined | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
police divers on the search. The conditions aren't great under the | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
water. We have very bad visibility, a metre or two metres, so it is not | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
easy searching. We were hoping we would be able to find more people or | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
find the boat. We are searching two main areas here, two peninsulas, one | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
team have searched on the side of the peninsula and then another team | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
were dispatched to this barrier up here, which is very difficult. One | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
team will search north and the other south. Electronic survey equipment | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
was also being used today to try and find the boat, but so far to no | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
avail. The divers spent about two hours out on the lough this morning. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
They have now returned to shore and are waiting for conditions to | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
improve before resuming the search. The lifeboat and volunteer divers | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
were stood down this afternoon. But they are determined to continue, to | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
end the agonising wait for Darryl Burke's family. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
The funeral has taken place in Newry of Lord Ballyedmond, the | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
multi-millionaire who died in a helicopter crash in England earlier | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
this month. Also known as Edward Haughey, the businessman developed | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
Norbrook Pharmaceutical Laboratories to become one of Northern Ireland's | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
richest people. The First Minister, Peter Robinson, and Deputy First | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Minister, Martin McGuinness, were among the mourners A look ahead to | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
tomorrow's BBC Newsline at 6.30pm, online and on radio on Good Morning | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
Ulster. Now look to tomorrow's Newsline. We have uncovered what is | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
described as a crisis in the world of archaeology. Hundreds of | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
thousands of ancient exhibits are lying, often without being properly | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
examined are classified. It is estimated the equivalent of 24 fully | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
loaded containers of material is being stored outside the museum | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
sector and, in some cases, outside Northern Ireland. And this is just | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
some of it. That will also be online and on radio on Good Morning Ulster. | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
Now the weather forecast with Angie Philips. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
It was a pretty miserable day but it looks like it will be the wettest | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
part of the week once this moves along. There will be showers but | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
some dry spells also and given variable amounts of cloud, we should | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
have sunny spells. But clear spells at night leads to the risk of patchy | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
frost. That will not be a problem tonight, mostly frost free with rows | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
of three and five degrees. It will be wet throughout and the wind will | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
ease. We will have lighter wind tomorrow, still a lot of cloud and | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
some showers around, the bulk of those during tomorrow morning, the | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
remnants of the overnight rain. The odd heavy burst in the North and | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
West. Brighter generally and dryer across Republic of Ireland, into | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Wales and the south-west of England. The East also mainly dry but | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
sandwiched in between, it is likely to remain cloudy up into Scotland | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
with spells of rain. Coming back to Northern Ireland for the afternoon, | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
there will still be showers around, mostly towards the north and West | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
but they will be easing and elsewhere it looks like a drier | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
afternoon of perhaps brighter spells coming through. Temperatures up to | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
maybe 11 degrees. Through the rest of the week, one or two showers | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
around, particularly on Thursday but generally, more dry than wet | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
weather. That's it for now. You can keep up-to-date online and follow | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
this programme on Facebook and Twitter. Goodnight. | :10:19. | :10:21. |