05/07/2014 BBC Newsline

Good evening and welcome to the programme. The Grand Master of the

Orange -- Orange order is to hold an emergency meeting with the district

Grand Master is to decide on any potential protest action. It follows

the parade commission's decision to bar an Orange order parade from

passing the Ardoyne shop fronts. Grand Master Edward Stephenson was

speaking at the annual parade in Donegal.

The Orange order in Donegal expected up to 12,000 people for the day's

events, including around 50 lodges and Orangemen from Dublin and

elsewhere. In keeping with Commissioner -- tradition, many also

made the journey across the border. Among them the Grand Master and

senior colleagues. He reflected on events back home.

Are you considering bringing people onto the streets? Not at the present

time but there will be protests in various forms. Will it be dangerous

to bring people onto the streets? All protests should be free from

violence and peaceful and lawful. If the Orange institution and other

civic societies do not provide an outlet for people to vent their

anger in a peaceful way about what is happened, if it is uncontrolled,

there is a greater risk of violence. is happened, if it is uncontrolled,

-- what has happened. Several bands accompanied the Orange

when -- Orangemen as the demonstration made its way

when -- Orangemen as the narrow road towards the seaside

village. After the parade it was time to take advantage of the

stunning location. Several thousand people took to the

streets of Belfast city centre today to show their opposition to any

changes in abortion law. A small pro-choice counterdemonstration was

held at the City Hall. People of all ages and creeds

marched through the city centre to register their opposition to

abortion under any circumstances. Thousands paraded from Customs house

Square to the City Hall. Pro-choice demonstrators had already gathered

at Belfast City Hall. They said they wanted to highlight the fact that

anti-abortion views do not represent the sum total of public

anti-abortion views do not represent When the opposing groups did meet,

one tried to drown out the other's message. The main rally was

one tried to drown out the other's organised to protest a consultation

process over whether the law here should be changed to allow abortion

cases of fatal abnormality. These people want to protect life at all

its stages and no outside force should force members of a sovereign

nation to bring in laws the people are not in agreement with. The

pro-choice groups said they held a counterdemonstration to show their

view. I believe that a woman who has an unplanned pregnancy in Northern

Ireland should have the same opportunities as anyone in United

Kingdom. The promoters of the planned Bath

Brooks concert at Croke Park in Dublin say talks are under way to

try to get the go-ahead for all of the concerts. -- Garth Brooks.

From some residents around Croke Park there were objections and

Dublin City Council granted licences for just three of the five concerts,

getting a response from Garth Brooks, all or nothing.

We are moving into Croke Park next Sunday to start the process. We need

to make a decision, this can't drag on. Garth Brooks has been to Croke

Park before but he will not be returning for just three concerts.

They said, Peter, we always spoke about five shows, we spoke about all

the other things we were going to do, after the shows, during the

shows. He does not want to reverse that process now.

All eyes on the promoter over the next few days and what decision be

500 fans with tickets await the news. The singer Katie Melua has

received an honorary degree from Belfast University. She was honoured

for her services to music. It has not been a bad day across

Northern Ireland, some sharp showers but few and far between. Tomorrow is

another day of sunshine and showers. This evening any showers that remain

will become fewer and further between, it is mainly a dry and mild

night, temperatures in many places staying in double figures. A bit

cooler for Fermanagh and the West. Sunday is a story of the showers

starting to work their way in from the West as we go through the day.

Starting from a mild start the temperatures rise to 15, 16 degrees.

We have a mild breeze helping to push showers through a bit more

quickly than we saw today. The story of sunshine and showers is

replicated across the UK and Ireland. It really is a setup that

continues into next week as well. One, two, three, four,

here they come.