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another awe-male leadership team from being located. Here on BBC One,

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Health managers have urged the public to only visit hospital

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There's been a big rise in the number of patients at E and D

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departments - up 25% at the Ulster, 17% at Antrim

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Every year more people go through the doors

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It looks like 2016 will be no exception.

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At the weekend a surge in numbers prompted the Health

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and Social Care Board to issue a public plea.

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It said all emergency departments were under a "high level

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of pressure" and people shouldn't attend unless their "symptoms

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Here at the Ulster Hospital, the situation was described

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as extreme, with 25% more attendances

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But those working on the front line say the situation was exacerbated

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That absolutely puts pressure, especially on nursing staff,

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but patients who are waiting for prolonged periods of time

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That detracts from nursing staff and medical staff

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for front line care for patients presenting and will ultimately

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eat up the number of cubicles available to see patients.

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This evening around 17 patients are waiting in the Ulster's

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emergency department for a bed on a ward.

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The problem is some of those beds can't be freed up until nursing

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Discharge delays are an issue across Northern Ireland.

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It's been highlighted in figures obtained by an MLA which show

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the numbers waiting over eight weeks for a care package.

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Across the North, 229 people waiting to get back home with care packages

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across the North. That did shock me.

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On occasion the delay can be that there

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is simply no nursing home or residential home bed available

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for the patient, on other occasions it can be

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because it is not possible to secure a domiciliary care package

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that is appropriate for the patient's need and

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The winter pressures experienced here and at other emergency

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But with no cold snap so far this winter, it's possible

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more pressure could come to bear in the weeks ahead.

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The challenge for those in charge is meeting that need.

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And there'll be an interview with the Health Minister,

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Simon Hamilton, on Good Morning Ulster tomorrow morning.

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A 75-year-old woman has died following a crash involving two cars

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on the A2 between Bangor and Holywood.

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A man driving the second car was also taken to hospital.

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His injuries aren't life-threatening.

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The road was closed for several hours while the police investigated

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the crash, which happened at Carney Hill

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There were long tailbacks and traffic diversions.

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The Met Office has issued a warning of more heavy rain tonight,

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for eastern and southern parts of Northern Ireland.

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The wet weather has affected traffic and travel over the last couple

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of days, with heavy flooding in some rural areas.

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Parts of the Republic have again been very badly hit,

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Taking the plunge after four weeks of flooding.

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This is near Lisnaskea in County Fermanagh.

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The woman driving the car has three children and says she's no choice

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In recent days she's been forced to buy a new car - and a dinghy -

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Although you cannot see it in the video, alongside that laying there

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is a deep drain and if you go off the road or if the Jeep is pushed

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off the road, that is it. You can see it is nearly floating. It

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worries me but at the end of the day the bills are still coming in and

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have to be paid. Over the weekend dozens of roads

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were closed and some train Today, however, almost everything

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was operating as normal. We are aware a number of roads have

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been flooded in western Fermanagh. We have staff on stand-by 24 hours a

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day to deal with flooding incidents and have been doing that the last

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number of days. The situation off the roads, though,

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is proving difficult for some. This was just outside

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Lisburn this afternoon - heavy farming vehicles struggling

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in the soaking fields. This cemetery in East Belfast

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was forced to close early The heavy rainfall is causing

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problems here but it's nothing In recent days more than 260

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homes have been flooded, Today the Irish president visited

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some of the worst affected areas. More rain is forecast this week and

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services on both sides of the border will remain on stand-by over the

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coming days. Belfast City Council votes tomorrow

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night on whether to invite the Republic of Ireland football

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team to a reception marking qualification to the Euro

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finals this summer. It would be a joint event

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with the Northern Ireland team. But some councillors

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are against the Republic's inclusion as BBC Newsline's

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Mark Simpson reports. Two teams in green

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and one big question - should Northern Ireland

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and the Republic both be invited to Belfast City Hall

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for a fond farewell The reality of this

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city is that people have an allegiance to Ireland

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in its entirety, other people don't and that's fair enough so this

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is an acknowledgement of The double reception was proposed

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at the council by the SDLP Belfast is supposed to be open

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for everybody and that's what we're The final vote on the double invite

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will take base at a council meeting tomorrow night and Unionists say

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they'll be voting no. Belfast City Council has already

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held a successful reception for the Northern Ireland

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team in November and this was well attended

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by the entire squad, coaches and management,

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so to now hold another civic reception takes away

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from that original event, Regardless of what happens over

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the civic reception tomorrow night, will councillors be cheering

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for both teams this summer? Unless they're playing

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Northern Ireland I will certainly support all teams

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from the British Isles I will support the

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Republic of Ireland and hope they do well

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in the tournament. Will you be supporting

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Northern Ireland in the Euros? I'll be wishing them

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well, I wish them I support Ireland, that's my team,

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but that's fair enough. I would like to see anybody

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with a green shirt do well. In football terms, that

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sounds like a score draw. Almost 12,000 retired police

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officers and police widows in Northern Ireland did not

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receive their pension today because of a failure

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in processing payments. The police said there

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was a technical error It's hoped that payments should be

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in the pensioners' 2016 is a year of centenaries,

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anniversaries of two significant events in history -

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the Easter Rising To set the scene we have reports

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this week from Mark Simpson in Dublin and Mervyn Jess

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in northern France. 100 years on from the 1916 Easter

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rising, what is being done to mark the centenary? I've been finding

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out. 100 years after the Battle of the Somme, our report from the

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trenches of the 32nd Ulster division here in France.

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And that's from tomorrow here on BBC Newsline.

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What's the weather going to do to us over the next couple of days?

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We have more wet weather to get through tonight. We still have a

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weather warning across many areas, especially the east and south-east,

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until midnight. We then lose the warning but will continue to see wet

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weather through the night and temperatures will dip to five or

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six, so not especially Chile. Tomorrow stays unsettled, we can

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expect more wet weather of the RSC, especially for parts of Antrim,

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County Down and admire, drier conditions further west. It will be

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quite unsettled, no weather warnings across Ireland but some for

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Scotland, England, the south-west and south-east with spells of

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sunshine in between. Quite windy in places, gusts coming in from the

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east. Scattered showers will continue along eastern counties

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tomorrow afternoon and evening, drier further west where we may get

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sunshine, but in the evening most wet weather will give weight to

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drier conditions overnight into Wednesday. It will be Chile with

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temperatures falling below freezing in places, so a chilly but dry start

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to weapon states but by the end of the day the rain returns from the

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south, some of it heavy and persistent through Wednesday night.

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Cooler conditions Thursday and Friday with sunshine but also some

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scattered showers. Good night. But from me, good night.

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during Breakfast here on BBC One. You'd better come in

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