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humbling of its hosts. That's all from

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Funding to help pay for free travel on buses and trains for the over-60s

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is under threat, according to the Transport Minister.

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The concessionary travel scheme costs millions of pounds

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Now that cash may not be forthcoming as a result of

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Here's our business correspondent Julian O'Neill.

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Public transport is free to everyone over 60. The policy has been in

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place since 2008 and funding comes from Stormont but now there appears

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to be a risk that money could be lost. The minister responsible for

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public transport says he faces a fight to get ?9 million which the

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scheme needs this year. I think the fundamental challenge to the

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Executive is, will it maintain a concessionary fares scheme, paid for

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in full by the Executive, as we move forward? The backdrop to this is

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tough financial forward? The backdrop to this is

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Stormont. Budgets for each department are being haggled over by

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the Executive. There is no agreement yet but Danny Kennedy is suggesting

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his department looks like losing out. On the streets, free travel for

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the elderly is a hugely popular thing. We love it. It's really very

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good. We couldn't be without it. It's one of the most beneficial

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things that was ever given to us as pensioners. This is Danny Kennedy

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firing a warning shot in public. Even if the money is lost, it may

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not necessarily mean an end to free public transport - it may just pose

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a headache to the minister and the transport company to find another

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The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, is making efforts to have the Garth Brooks

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concerts staged in Croke Park. Earlier this evening, the singer

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issued an appeal to see if a last-minute deal can be reached to

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save his five shows. As Francis Gorman reports, the cancellations

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have dealt a huge blow to the local economy.

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Counting the cost. This bed-and-breakfast run by a Newry man

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is about ten minutes from Croke Park. All 12 of his rooms were

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booked for all five nights of the Garth Brooks concerts but now he

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faces a huge loss. The cancellations, he believes, will

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devastate the hospitality industry. Some believe anything up to 50

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million euros could be lost to the city. I would be very fearful for

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the reputation of Dublin at the minute. Quite a large majority of

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the people that were staying with me were from the North of Ireland. They

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originally thought they might come to Dublin for the weekend but I

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think a lot of them are a little upset, if not sick and annoyed, with

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what's happening, and I think they'll be annoying Dublin for the

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foreseeable future. -- avoiding Dublin. Last week Garth Brooks

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issued an ultimatum - all five concerts or none that I go after

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Dublin City Council gave the go-ahead for only three. In a letter

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Easter Day to the promoter Peter Aiken, the singer says: -- released

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today. The GAA and Aiken Promotions had

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been accused by some residents who live near Croke Park of corporate

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greed. The association says it regrets that the concerts aren't

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going ahead but was unable to provide an interviewee. Peter Aiken

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was also unavailable. The concert saga, variously described as a

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shambles and a fiasco, will be debated by a parliamentary committee

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tomorrow with all the main players in Ireland invited to attend. The

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Consulate issue was again race today in the Dail. I'm very disappointed

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that it hasn't happened and that it won't happen but it's a bitter

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economic lesson to have learned. With the controversy so far having

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generated more thunderous noise than light, Garth Brooks is expected to

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give his side of the story tomorrow when he talks to the media in

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The Orange Order has said it wants to meet with the Prime Minister to

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discuss the Parades Commission's decision to prevent Orangemen

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returning past the Ardoyne shops in North Belfast on the 12th of July.

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More than a hundred members of the Order, including the

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Grand Master and Grand Lodge Officer bearers, met at Tamnamore

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Orange Lodge in County Tyrone this evening to discuss the issue.

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We want the Prime Minister to be aware of the problem and to indicate

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that he has a will to try to resolve the problem and, effectively, that

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means getting rid of the Parade sky-macro commission and introducing

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Sarah legislation. Campaigners for the truth

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about the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings say they are keeping

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their options open about who was The IRA has never admitted carrying

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out the bombings in The Justice For The 21 group gave

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evidence to MPs today as part of an inquiry into letters sent to

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on-the-run paramilitaries. Political editor Mark Devenport

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reports. 21 people died and more than 180

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were injured when bombs exploded at two pubs in the centre of Birmingham

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40 years ago. Six men were sentenced to life for the bombings but 60

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years later, their convictions were quashed after their confessions were

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deemed unreliable. Today the brother and sister of Maxine Hambleton, one

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of the Birmingham victims, gave evidence to a Westminster committee,

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where they expressed their anger about the scheme supplying letters

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to on the run paramilitaries and raised questions about why the IRA

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had never admitted carrying out the Birmingham bombings. In the 1970s,

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you will of we know that the British government was trying to discredit

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the IRA in every way that they could. The Hambleton family were

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highly critical of the police and others in authority who, they

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claimed, treated them like lepers. The cauldron inquiry into the

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Birmingham bombings and an investigation aimed at bringing

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those responsible to justice. Four families of the eight IRA men

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shot by the SAS at Loughgall in 1987 are to seek a judicial

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review of the Secretary of State's decision to intervene in the case

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for an inquest into the killings. Theresa Villiers says

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the decision is in the interests of national security,

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but the Attorney General says her The van which the IRA were using a

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spaced started a gun and bomb attack on a police station, while the SAS

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opened fire. An inquest was held in 1995 but six years later, the

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European Court of Human Rights declared that the investigation into

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the killings hadn't been sufficient. The case has been with the attorney

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general for Northern Ireland, John Larkin, the two years and he was to

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make a decision on whether a new inquest chip proceeds stop now the

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Secretary of State has intervened, certifying that the case involves

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national security. Theresa Yeo Villas' intervention means the case

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now goes to Dominic Grieve in his capacity as attorney general for

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Northern Ireland, chief adviser to Whitehall on Northern Irish law. My

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decision is to apply the law and there are national security

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considerations at stake and this is a matter for the advocate general to

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make a decision on whether an inquest is appropriate. John

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Larkin's office has issued a letter saying he believes the secretary of

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State's division to be profoundly wrong in principle. The letter goes

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on to say that Mr Larkin is reflecting on an appropriate

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response. The sun returned today and now we'll

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find out if it will be back tomorrow.

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It was too good to last and after a splendid day, things are going

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downhill again with cloud rolling in through the course of the night. The

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cloud will thicken up and bring spells of rain eventually. Moderate

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bursts towards the north but generally speaking, most of the ring

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will be fairly light and it will be a mild and muggy night with

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temperatures generally holding in double figures. It sets us up for a

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very different day tomorrow. There will be a lot more cloud around and

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it looks like it will be a pretty damp start and almost anywhere could

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get patches of rain and result in the morning rush-hour. It could be

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mist and hill fog. Similar across the Republic. We start off with

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drizzle and rain which should start to fade away. Pretty cloudy for

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eastern Scotland and eastern England with quite a keen northerly breeze

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in the south-east. The cloud will be bringing spells of rain which will

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be quite slow moving so there will be an increasing risk of localised

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flooding. In between these two cloudy bands we will see sunshine

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from the West of Scotland towards Wales, central and southern England,

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and it is warm in the sunshine. For Northern Ireland in the afternoon,

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drizzle easing away so more dry weather than wet. There may be

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dryness towards the north and east but it can't be guaranteed. I think

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there will be more cloud than sunshine. Feeling quite muggy as a

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result with temperature is of 18 or 19. A similar day on Friday with a

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weather front moving in Friday night into Saturday brings showery rain.

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That's it for now. Good night.

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