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Good evening. Two men have been jailed in connection with the death | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
of Lee Smyth, who died after being assaulted in Armagh four years ago. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Mr Smyth fell into a coma after the attack and died two years later. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Michael Wilson, aged 23 and from Marlacoo Road in Tandragee and | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Gareth McKinney, who's 24 and from Charles Park in Portadown, were | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
sentenced to seven years and six years respectively. Both were | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
originally charged with murder, but changed their pleas to manslaughter. | :00:29. | :00:50. | |
Victims and families of those who died in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
bombings are to sue the British government for damages. They claim | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
the attacks were carried by loyalists with government collusion | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
and that there was a cover up. The Public Prosecution Service says | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
it will not oppose an appeal by one of the so-called Colombia Three | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
against a weapons conviction. Nearly 300 people were injured in the | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
attack, including this man, who says those taking action against the | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
British government just want the truth. I do think anyone wants to go | :01:24. | :01:40. | |
down this road, especially as we are friendly with the British monarchy | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
now. But the victims and families of those who died say they feel they | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
have no alternative, as their solicitor explains. The families | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
have one out of options. They have tried to get access to the | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
information that will give them closure. They have tried the High | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
Court, the Supreme Court, everything. They have no choice but | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
to litigate now. The action is being taken against the Ministry of | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Defence, the PSNI and the Northern Ireland's ministry. -- Northern | :02:19. | :02:31. | |
Ireland ministry. An east Belfast grammar school has | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
been fined thousands of pounds for a series of health and safety breaches | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
over asbestos. As our education correspondent Maggie Taggart | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
reports, the affected building had been used by the prep school and a | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
kindergarden. The prep department at this school was in a separate | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
building from the main school and when it closed, a childcare company | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
moved in. An asbestos survey in 2004 did not include that building, that | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
during checks in 2012, asbestos was found in the building. It was later | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
removed. The Belfast Crown Court has now find the school 7500 pounds, | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
plus costs. The school pleaded guilty of failing to protect | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
employees and non-employees. There was concern that young children were | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
being exposed to asbestos. A man's been charged with possession | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
of firearms and ammunition with intent to endanger life. The | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
43-year-old was arrested as part of a police investigation into recent | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
hate crimes. He'll appear in court tomorrow. | :03:29. | :03:41. | |
The Public Prosecution Service says it will not oppose an appeal by one | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
of the so-called Colombia Three against a weapons conviction. Martin | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
McCauley was seriously wounded and a teenager was killed when police | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
opened fire on a hayshed in County Armagh in 1982. It has since emerged | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
that a secret MI5 recording of the incident wasn't made available to | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
his trial. The police claimed that Martin McCauley confronted them with | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
a rifle at his hay shed over 30 years ago. He was seriously injured | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
and his friend was killed when RUC officers opened fire. Martin | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
McCauley insisted he and his friend were not armed and that police | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
opened fire without warning. The police told the court that was not | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
true. Years after his conviction, it was revealed that MI5 had a | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
listening device hidden in the hay shed at the time of the shooting | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
that recorded what happened. That recording would have established | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
whether or not the police shouted any warnings. The existence of the | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
recording was not made known to be caught at the time of his trial and | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
the tape was later destroyed. Last year his case was referred to be | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
Court of Appeal on the basis that significant material have been | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
withheld from the judge. In a dramatic development today, the | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
judge said he had been instructed to read a statement. It said that | :05:11. | :05:20. | |
information had been withheld from the Director of Public Prosecutions | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
and the defence lawyers. Martin McCauley was not in court to hear | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
the prosecution statement today as he faces extradition to South | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
America if he returns to Northern Ireland. He was one of three men | :05:42. | :05:51. | |
arrested in Colombia and was accused of being part of the IRA. He was | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
convicted and sentenced to 17 years, but fled to the Republic to | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
avoid prison. A tenth man has pleaded guilty to a | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
lesser charge in connection with the death of a Catholic community | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
worker. John McGrath of Knock Road in Ballymoney had been charged with | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
the manslaughter and attempted murder of Kevin McDaid. Mr McDaid | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
died after he was attacked near his home in Coleraine five years ago. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
Two defendants still face the more serious charges. | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
The firm that runs the power station where hundreds of thousands of | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
juvenile eels died over easter has said there was an unprecedented run | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
of the elvers. The endangered fish died in traps that were meant to | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
help them get past a hydro-electric dam in County Donegal and into Lough | :06:34. | :06:46. | |
Erne. The dam at Catherine falls stands in | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
the way of the eels reaching Lough Erne. They should be collected in | :06:53. | :07:02. | |
this tank and then distributed around the water. The eels start | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
their journey many miles away. When they drift across the ocean and | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
breach island, they transform into eels. Around 3000 of them died in | :07:18. | :07:30. | |
the trap here last month. We estimated 150 kilograms of elvers, | :07:31. | :07:40. | |
which represents 90% of the entire 12 run. These were not detected | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
until the next morning. Because overs run at night, the traps should | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
be checked at night. ESP said it has successfully transported elvers | :07:58. | :08:10. | |
already. An investigation will continue. Time now for the weather. | :08:11. | :08:29. | |
Good evening. Things are looking settled over the next couple of | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
days, but it does not look as if it will hold throughout the weekend. | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
Some drizzly showers, but generally dry and milder. There will be a | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
warmer feel to be air over the next couple of days with dry weather to | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
come. To begin with, it will be great in places, but the sunshine | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
will develop throughout the morning. A quiet which are generally across | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Britain and Ireland. The only real wind is across the north of | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
Scotland. Maybe some dampness across the Scottish Borders and North East | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
England. The cloud will break up and temperatures will respond nicely. We | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
should hit temperatures of 18 or 19 degrees tomorrow, maybe even 20. On | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
Friday there is a lot of fine weather to come. Temperatures will | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
be the same. Slightly more breeze on Friday. This weather front will | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
start poking into Donegal and it will head south on Saturday. On | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
Saturday in the north-west there will be some damp weather, but dry | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
spells in the afternoon, so not a complete wash-out. That is it for | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
now, good night. | :09:59. | :10:03. |