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look at the papers on the BBC News channel. Now it's time | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening. Counting is over in the European | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
elections and the DUP's Diane Dodds and Jim Nicholson of the Ulster | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Unionists will be returning to Brussels with Sinn Fein's Martina | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Anderson, who topped the poll yesterday. The two Unionists reached | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
the quota today with the help of transfers from other parties. Our | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
political reporter Stephen Walker reports on the day's events. | :00:27. | :00:36. | |
For political activists, watching media and counting staff, it has | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
been two long days at Belfast's Kings Hall. Diane Dodds became the | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
second to reach the quota after the seventh stage of counting and she | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
was delighted. I am glad people are coalescing around a strong Unionist | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
party. I hope in the next five years to give that strong voice for | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Northern Ireland in Europe. She joined Sinn Fein's Martina Anderson | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
who was elected when she the poll. I was blown away by the fact that | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
almost 160,000 people voted for Sinn Fein and for myself. I do believe a | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
part of that was my own work ethic and contribution that I have made in | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
the last few years, particularly in the European Parliament. Just before | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
6pm tonight, after two days of counting, Jim Nicholson reached the | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
quota and became Northern Ireland's final MEP. Having been elected I am | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
going into my sixth term as an MEP, the longest of anyone ever elected | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
in Northern Ireland or indeed in the South of Ireland. I do not know | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
whether that is in the Guinness book of records or whatever, but now I am | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
the longest serving MEP. Jim Nicholson took the third spot and | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
after transfers was 43,000 votes ahead of the SDLP's Alex Attwood, | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
who missed out. It confirmed what we always said, that when we were in | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
the race for the last seat and if my own vote and other voters had come | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
out in greater numbers than the result might have been different. | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Jim Allister came fifth. He recorded a first preference vote of 75,000, | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
9000 votes more than the last election. He claims his vote would | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
put pressure on the DUP. Those who are tempted to do another sordid | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
deal, keep looking over your shoulder because the Unionist group | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
behind you is growing by tens of thousands. Mr Robinson, we're on | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
your case. The Alliance's Anna Lo was in sixth place, securing the | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
party's best every Euro vote followed by Henry Reilly of UKIP, | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Ross Brown of the Queen's, Tina McKenzie of NI21 at Mark Brotherston | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
of the Conservatives, who was 20. -- Ross Brown of the greens. Now we | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
know who are three MEPs are. It is the length of time this card has | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
taken that has wanted another debate. Politicians from across the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
party say next time it has to be very different. -- this count has | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
taken. As we've just heard, there's been | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
criticism of the time the count has taken. Some politicians say the | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
process has been understaffed, but the Chief Electoral Officer says | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
technology is the best way to speed up the counting. Conor Macauley | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
reports. They had set aside one day for the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
kind but by mid-evening it was clear it was going to stretch into a | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
second one. The long hours took their toll on everyone waiting the | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
declarations, especially the candidates. There has been criticism | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
of the delay in declaration of both the local government and European | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
results. The DUP say it was simply an issue of staffing. In my view | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
what is wrong, they do not have enough people to count the votes and | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
they need to put more people in and get more professional about it and | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
organise it more effectively. There is no magic about it. I think that | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
is what is the problem. The chief electoral officer rejected that | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
saying he had enough people for the job. He contrasted herewith the | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Irish Republic, which is still doing the last of its seats after three | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
days of counting. He suggested technology would speed things up. | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
You have to look at the fact, we are using a system in the 21st century | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
that is not fit for purpose. If we are going to progress and become | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
more efficient we will have to move to a different type of counting. All | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
the bar codes will -- all the papers will have a bar code and be scammed | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
by computer and it will happen in hours. -- be scammed. He has made | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
this case were some time. After 2011 he raised a display of electronic | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
counting using software by a Derry -based company that not many | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
politicians turned up to see it. The same company ran Scottish government | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
elections in 2012 which went smoothly. More than 2100 seats were | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
filled and the last of the results was invited time on day one of the | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
count. That said, it electronic counting has not been without | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
difficulties in the past and any new system would need extensive stress | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
testing before introduction. And Sinn Fein have this evening | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
clinched their third European seat south of the border. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
Lynne Boylan has been joined by Matt Carthy in Midlands North West. | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
And there's more analysis of the European election on Stormont Today | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
on BBC Two at 11.20. And it will be on radio Ulster in the morning from | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
6:30am. A Belfast-based company is to more | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
than double its workforce by creating 107 jobs in the financial | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
services sector. Spence provides pensions advice to a range | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
of client companies and has developed new software for the | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
industry. The posts will pay average salaries of ?32,000 and the company | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
says it finds no shortage of graduates to recruit. | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
We did find an opportunity to recruit graduates from some of the | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
larger employers -- because some larger employers had reduced their | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
graduate intake. We are seen as a competitive and attractive place to | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
work, so I would feel that we are well placed to continue to recruit | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
people locally. Three men are due in court in Dublin | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
in the morning in connection with a bomb found in a car in County Louth | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
on Sunday night. The device was discovered when gardai investigating | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
dissident republican activity stopped a vehicle at Kilcurry near | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
Dundalk. The men, aged 37, 38 and 44 will appear at a special criminal | :07:10. | :07:10. | |
Court. A priest in County Donegal has | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
warned young people to stay away from drugs following the death of a | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
young man in the village of St Johnston. Oisin Crawford, who was | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
22, died after going to a house party in Main Street in the early | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
hours of yesterday morning. Other people at the party became ill and | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
one man is in a critical condition in hospital. The gardai are | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
investigating a drugs link to the death. The local priest has been | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
speaking to the young man's family who are trying to deal with what's | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
happened. They are absolutely devastated. They | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
are a close-knit family anyway. They are a jolly and outgoing type of | :07:52. | :08:02. | |
family. Oisin was the oldest boy in a family of three and had been | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
working with his father in his business for a number of years. | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
Father and son were like brothers. And now for a look ahead at what the | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
weather has in store, here's Barra Best. | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
We have had fine weather, and the sunshine. Tomorrow, things are | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
looking cloudy. Some shoppers this evening which will die away. For | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
most of us it will be dry with temperatures about eight or nine | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
degrees. Dry into tomorrow morning at a bright start but through the | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
day it will go downhill. The best of them bright weather will be across | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
the West. It will not take long before the cloud rolls and across | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
the East bringing with it patchy light rain and drizzle. That will | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
eventually push its way eastwards through the course of the day. | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
Further south and west, it is a better picture through much of | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Ireland with good spells of sunshine. Elsewhere across Britain, | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
for southern Scotland into Wales, we have rain for central and northern | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
areas of England. We have weather warnings on the east coast of | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
injured for heavy downpours and there could be localised flooding as | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
a result. For the south coast a drier picture with temperatures of | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
17 or 18 degrees. For Northern Ireland into the afternoon, it will | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
feel cool, especially along the Antrim coast. Temperatures below | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
average for the time of year. We get the best of the bride the weather, | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
temperatures will reach 16 or 17 degrees. -- bright and sunny | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
weather. Temperatures cooler for many of us tomorrow as they are | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
below average at 12 or 13 degrees. In Friday and Saturday, it looks as | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
though things will steadily improved. | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
Our next local news and weather update is at 6:25am during Breakfast | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
on BBC One. We are on Facebook and Twitter. Good night. | :09:59. | :10:00. |