16/09/2014 BBC Newsline

A 13-year-old girl is to be removed from her mother and given urgent

help at a children's centre in Dublin under a High Court order.

A judge in Belfast said the teenager had been cut off from the outside

He said her mother also needed urgent intense intervention.

The court heard that last December neighbours contacted the police when

The court was told that the teenage girl had never been to

She is now 13 years old and has been living near Belfast with her

The court heard their lives have been lived "in effective

Although she is from Northern Ireland,

she previously lived in the United States, and

the court was told she had liked California's free spiritual life.

She decided to tutor her daughter at home rather than send her to

The home where they lived was not a normal home.

It had no overhead lighting upstairs.

The girl slept on a small, thin mattress on the floor.

Very small for her age, she needed a booster seat to sit

The court heard that she had a "spartan existence without

The judge, Mr Justice O'Hara, ruled that immediate action needed

He said the girl had been damaged by a life enmeshed with her mother

and would be damaged even more by staying with her mother.

Instead, she needs urgent, intense intervention, he said.

And because the specialised services she requires are not currently

available in Northern Ireland, she is being sent to a centre

In summing up, the judge expressed surprise that

the authorities had not discovered the ordeal that the young girl was

A woman in her 50s has died after a house fire in Coalisland.

The blaze broke out at Mayollan Terrace last night.

A man who was also in the house has been treated for minor injuries.

The police are investigating how the fire started.

Sinn Fein have pledged to support the new Deputy Chief Constable,

despite walking out of the process to appoint him.

Drew Harris was named as the second in command

The Policing Board member Caitriona Ruane claimed

the appointment process had been compromised, and she called

Her comments have been strongly criticised by other parties.

Here's our home affairs correspondent, Vincent Kearney.

This is a new Deputy Chief Constable of the PN -esque Bashley PSNI. To

Harris is responsible for conducting all investigations into serious and

organised crime including the activities of dissident republicans

and loyalist paramilitaries. He has 30 years police experienced and

suffered personal loss during the Troubles, losing his father, and RUC

superintendent killed by a car bomb in 1979. He has now been appointed

the second most senior officer in the PSNI. But the move does not have

the backing of Sinn Fein. The party's representative on the

interview panel walked out of the process. Caitr?ona Ruane said that

she believed the process might have been compromised. She said that in

the light of having total transparency, the best option would

be to have a completely new recent -- recruitment process. That angered

others. Sinn Fein have a lot of questions to answer. They need to

justify what they have claimed. I totally reject their allegations.

The process was robust, there were independent advisers who played a

part on the panel and gave advice to the panel. And we are prepared to

stand over the process from beginning to end. A number of other

board members have accused Sinn Fein of political policing, claiming the

arrest of Gerry Adams earlier this year is the real reason that jet --

the party left the process. I think there is a message from Sinn Fein,

that if you are a police officer and use sign an arrest warrant for any

member of Sinn Fein, as Drew Harris did, then your prospects for

promotion are considerably limited. I think this is belligerent and

bigoted and this is something that ultimately further questions are

going to be asked about, over the fitness of Sinn Fein to even be part

of the policing board. Caitr?ona Ruane issued a second statement

saying that her concerns are over the process and do not reflect on

the officers involved. PSNI sources say that they believe this is very

personal. Their view is that Sinn Fein simply does not like Drew

Harris and did not want to have any part in appointing him. That has

been rejected by the leader of the Sinn Fein group on the policing

board. That is complete nonsense. That is not the issue. If the

process is wrong and the is compromise, then there is a duty to

raise at that and I stand by Caitr?ona Ruane absolutely. Does

Drew Harris have Sinn Fein's full support? Anyone who hold that

position, and if it is to Harris, he will. To Harris is affected to take

up office in a matter of weeks. Four men have appeared at the

High Court in Glasgow charged with attempting

to murder two former leaders The men, who all have addresses in

Scotland, deny plotting to murder They are also accused of planning

the murder of Derek McGill, a former They were all remanded

in custody and are expected to stand The Director of the Pro Life

organisation Precious Life has described allegations of harassment

against her as ridiculous. Bernie Smyth was giving evidence

at Belfast Magistrates court, in a case based on complaints

by Dawn Purvis - seen here in yellow - the director of

the Marie Stopes pro-choice clinic. It's alleged incidents happened

outside its clinic in Belfast. The court was told

about claims that during one incident, the two women "cackled"

and "growled" at each other. Judgement in the case is due

on Friday. A High Court judge in Dublin has

ordered Rory McIlroy and his former management company to

hold peace talks. The world number one golfer is suing

Horizon Sports Management, Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell

have shared many successes, not least this stunning comeback win

in the Ryder Cup two years ago. And both will play for Europe

once again in the same competition They used to share

the same management company, But last year,

Rory McIlroy left the company. He is now suing Horizon,

claiming that the representation he got was not as good as that of

Graeme McDowell, despite promises Mr McIlroy's lawyer stressed to

the court that the two golfers have The judge, Mr Justice McGovern,

told lawyers for both sides that Those talks are expected to take

place over the next four weeks. If there is no agreement,

the case itself is due to be heard Let's find out if the weather will

stay fine. Good evening.

It ended up a decent day. If you spots getting above the 20 degrees

mark. Not to call tonight either. And it will stay dry. There will be

low-lying patches of fog. Another dry day to come, another fine one

eventually with bright and sunny spells. It will start out quite

great first thing. But they will start to lift. A grey start across

many parts of the Republic, central and eastern parts of Scotland and

England. Most of that will burn away but in the east, it is likely to

stay quite gloomy. Maybe a few showers along the north-east coast.

The best sunshine further west across the Republic of Ireland,

western England and the south and south-west of England. It will be

pretty warm. Not quite as warm as that for Northern Ireland, but it

will be a pleasant afternoon. That cloud will melt and thin away. Some

decent bright and sunny spells in the afternoon. Very pleasant with a

little bit shelter. As we head into Thursday, the cloud comes back. It

stays towards the weekend. There will be some bright spells. There

will be shadows on Saturday, other than that, mainly dry.

That's BBC Newsline. Take care. Good night.