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Hello and welcome to BBC Newsline. The PSNI say they're to | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
reinvestigate gun-running from Florida by the Provisional IRA. It | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
follows last night's BBC Spotlight programme, which claimed a senior | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
member of Sinn Fein was involved in buying and smuggling weapons from | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
the United States. Sean Murray denies the allegations. The police | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
tonight said the reinvestigation will include existing evidence | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
together with any potential new evidence. Gareth Gordon reports. The | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
man on the right is Sean Murray. Months ago he had a ringside seat as | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
a Sinn Fein negotiator. On last night's programme he was named as | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
the brains behind a Florida gun-running operation in which this | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
man, Mike Logan, admitted posting around 200 weapons to the | :00:52. | :01:03. | |
organisation between 1995 and 1999. One of these weapons, it is alleged, | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
was used to murder two police community officers in 1997, five | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
weeks before the second IRA cease-fire. It was also alleged that | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
authorities on both sides sought to distance the IRA and Sean Murray | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
from the operation in order to protect the peace process. They knew | :01:21. | :01:34. | |
that it was run by Sean Murray and was sanctioned at the highest levels | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
by the IRA. I did not talk to them until 2003. The question is how much | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
of this matters. According to unionists, it does quite a lot and | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
they want to see if anything can be done. I don't think it's surprising | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
that a member of Sinn Fein would be involved in criminality such as this | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
and what we now have is someone coming forward, telling us in quite | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
minute detail what was going on. So we want to know, what are the | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
authorities going to do about that? After the On the Runs, we said, if | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
there is more, get it out in the open now. It is a shame we had to | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
hear it from the BBC but if there is more, and I've no reason to doubt | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
there isn't, let's get it out. We have to move on and we have to deal | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
with these issues. Sean Murray says he has never been arrested, detained | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
or interviewed about the allegations, adding that the PSNI | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
would have acted had there been any evidence. A Newry businessman has | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
walked free from court, despite pleading guilty to a multi-million | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
pound money-laundering operation. Rory Trainer, who ran a Bureau de | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
Change on the old Dublin Road in Newry, admitted converting the | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
proceeds of crime for several criminal gangs, primarily drug | :02:52. | :03:03. | |
dealers. Gordon Adair has more. Bundle after bundle after bundle of | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
?20 notes. In two raids on the Hoban Euroleague, Revenue and Customs | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
officers recovered ?150,000 in cash and about half was on this floor | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
safe and the other in this beer cooler and this, they believe, is | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
just the tip of the iceberg. This unassuming office housed his Bureau | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
De Change business. Perched on the side of the old road between he runs | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
nearly and Dublin. It barely warranted a glance from passing | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
motorists. Yet in 2.5 years, Rory Trainer managed to squeeze ?63 | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
million into this business. Much of that the proceeds of crime. It is | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
representative of the amount of money that exists in the black and | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
grey economy in Northern Ireland and it is indicative of the amount of | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
money to be made from drugs and of course the facility that he ran was | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
in anonymity in transferring money. Look at this man waiting in a West | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
Belfast curb Ashton Agar car park. This is Kieran Parker. In 2009 he | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
was caught near Belfast's IKEA store with cannabis worth ?700,000 and | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
?5,000 in cash hidden under the spare wheel of his car. Here he is | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
waiting for Rory Trainer, who eventually arrives and handsome a | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
bag of cash. Transactions like this were commonplace and happened in car | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
parks across the country. Rory Trainer was made the subject of a | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
serious crime prevention order and in an unusual move, the judge | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
decided to be first sentencing for a full year to see if he would comply | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
with the conditions contained within that order. The leading prosecution | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
authority is Revenue and Customs and from then there has been no | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
response. It seems clear that anyone close to this investigation, which | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
has been long, difficult and expensive, will be disappointed | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
there was no immediate custodial sentence. Police investigating the | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
death of a baby last month in Belfast have started a murder | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
inquiry. The baby was critically injured in an incident at a house in | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
the east of the city. It's understood the child's mother was | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
arrested at the time under the Mental Health Act. The Irish | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
President, Michael D Higgins, has finished the second day of | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
engagements on his State visit to Britain. Today, the focus was on the | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
contribution of Irish people to life in the UK, as Chris Page reports. | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
The sumptuous splendour of the State visit continued this evening. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
President Higgins was guest of honour at a banquet in Guildhall - | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
the ceremonial centre of the City of London. The President also had his | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
lunch in a famous setting - Downing Street. This was the first formal | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
meeting between an Irish head of state and a British Prime Minister | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
on English soil. An extremely warm welcome to the President. Welcome to | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
Downing Street. It is remarkable how Anglo Irish relations have not only | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
been transformed but I see them on an ever increasing gradient. But the | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
main purpose of today was highlighting how people from Ireland | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
contribute to everyday British life. At University College Hospital, | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
President Higgins met Irish doctors and nurses. Some took the chance to | :06:35. | :06:43. | |
have a conversation in Irish. And at the Royal Society, the President | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
chatted to young scientists. He said it was important that academics from | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
the UK and Ireland worked together. It would be so valuable and it is | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
valuable to see these national dialogue is expanding and maturing | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
alongside the strengthening of scientific cooperation between our | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
countries and people. Tomorrow, the main events will be a Northern | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
Ireland-themed reception with the Queen at Windsor Castle and a | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
cultural evening at the Royal Albert Hall. HBO, the makers of hit | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
television series Game of Thrones, has announced it has commissioned a | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
fifth and sixth series to be filmed mainly in Northern Ireland. The | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
First Minister, Peter Robinson, says it'll be worth more than ?20 million | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
to the local economy. Rory McIlroy has warmed up today for the start of | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
golf's US Masters by playing in the traditional Par three competition at | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
Augusta. His fiancee, tennis star Caroline Wozniacki, donned the | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
famous white overalls to caddy and before they teed off they reflected | :07:42. | :07:52. | |
on their recent engagement. Rory did very well! How could I say no? Can | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
we get a closer look? Sure. Big surprise? It was, yes! I need to | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
play well at the end of the year! Yes! How are the wedding plans? Yes, | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
we are working on it. Here's Angie Philips with the weather. | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
After a decent evening things will change overnight and we have a | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
weather system approaching from the north-west so that will bring | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
thickening cloud and eventually it will bring spells of rain, | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
particularly across northern and western areas. Not particularly | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
heavy but it could be persistent and the breeze eases and it is another | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
fairly mild night with temperatures no law than six degrees. Tomorrow, | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
things will cheer up but it will be a very slow start with lots of | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
cloud, dampen places, particularly across central areas and that rain | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
sliding across the south and east. It could be late morning before it | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
finally clears out of the way and we get something brighter. In the | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
meantime, that band of rain is increasingly patchy and moves into | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
the Republic of Ireland and parts of northern England. Aside from that, | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
it is mainly dry and we will get brightness coming through and it | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
will feel quite warm. To the north of that, it also brightens up with | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
sunshine for the second half of the day. Still some sharp showers over | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Scotland and some might be quite thundery. It is a bright afternoon | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
for all of us in Northern Ireland, if you showers around but not all | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
parts will catch them and many places staying dry for the | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
afternoon. Temperatures at around 11 degrees the wind is very light. Into | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
Friday, it starts chilly but a fine day with sunshine, damp to begin | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
with and Saturday but the rest of the weekend looks dry. That's it for | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
now. You can keep up-to-date online and follow this programme on | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
Facebook and Twitter. Goodnight. | :09:59. | :10:00. |