08/02/2016 BBC Newsline

Gardai believe the murder was in retaliation for the attack

at a city hotel on Friday when one man died and two

A second killing in just four days, a man shot dead in a house in the

north of the city. He was in his 50s. It comes just days after this

shooting. Mask the men storming a hotel during a boxing tournament

weigh-in. David Byrne was the man killed at the hotel on Friday. A man

claiming to speak on behalf of the leadership of the continuity IRA

told the BBC it members were responsible. He said the killing was

in retaliation for involvement in the killing of another man, a

dissident republican, four years ago. Police have been on high alert,

expecting reprisals. We are conscious about speculation that

people are maybe talking about retaliation. There have been

numerous patrols, and patrols, out in Dublin city last night, and they

will continue out in the coming days.

But denied fears have been confirmed. It is understood that

tonight's murder was the latest attack in this ongoing feud.

Our Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison joins me now.

As we heard, it was feared there could be another shooting after

Friday. What is known about this latest attack?

From the very first moment police were working on the assumption that

what happened was the result of an ongoing criminal gang feud. One of

the gangs is now based in Spain but his links to the south inner city

area, the other is a link to the north inner city area where the

murder tonight took place. Before Friday the most recent killing in

this feud was in Spain, late last year, a man called Gary Hutch, and

the murder victim tonight would have been well-known to Gary Hutch. The

killing has been condemned by Frances Fitzgerald and other

politicians, including Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams.

We have heard claim and counterclaim about the shooting on Friday. What

can you tell us? The BBC today received a claim from

the continuity IRA that it had carried out the killing, alleging

that it was in response the murder of the real IRA leader, Alan Ryan,

years ago. Police are keeping an open mind about that claim I have to

say it was treated with a real degree of scepticism because it

would be unprecedented for one paramilitary dissident group to

carry out a killing in revenge for the leader of another, and also

because police had no intelligence linking David Byrne to the killing

of Alan Ryan four years ago. RTE and other Irish media outlets have

received a statement purporting to come from the continuity IRA denying

any involvement and saying they are not linked to any criminal gang

feuds. The murder tonight would seem to suggest that the working

assumption of detectives about the killing on Friday being the result

of an ongoing communal gang feud was the right one.

Assembly Members are being asked to put their politics to the side

That's already happened in Greater Manchester

where politicians have signed up to a plan that includes reducing

the number of emergency departments from 10 to four.

They estimate up to 300 lives could be saved by concentrating

From Manchester our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly

Manchester also has its health troubles. Just like Northern Ireland

they have soaring waiting list, more older people with chronic

conditions, and services duplicated across hospital sites. But in

greater Manchester this diagnosis triggered health authorities to come

together and politicians to put differences aside.

Health care here is not great, the population of greater Manchester

have significant issues, you cannot become a politician and lead without

making decisions, and at every level, the leaders in that room took

leadership and said, it will happen. Normally from opposing sides,

according to these councils, little harmony was crucial.

With our resolve been tested over the next few years, of course it

will, but is there a resolve that says, we must do something

differently, pragmatically? Then, yes, we will. How did they get

here. A memorandum of understanding was signed setting out the pins.

Health and social care, including politicians working together for the

greater good. A strategic partnership was created consisting

of the temperature Manchester local authorities and 12 clinical

commission groups. To get the public involved a mayor will be elected to

help lead change, and all political and health officials will have a

vote when a contentious issue comes up. It is not all been smooth. There

has been a judicial review of attempts to juice the number

emergency departments, set to be cut from ten tonne to four.

The alternative was worse. It politicians and others to be brave

enough to take a step and say, we will do something differently, take

the risk of doing the right thing for the population rather than just

doing what we have always done. For those working at the coalface

there this warning. The real problem comes in about

cost-cutting. When cost-cutting comes in, so many things you want to

reduce, the big elephant in the room, the private sector, it is

sitting ready to cherry pick. We must be careful that in the process

the cherry picking is not taken over by the private sector.

Clearly Manchester is only at the start of a long and potentially

difficult journey but by already having a signed deal in the bag they

are off to a good start. A homeless man died in Belfast

at the weekend and according to a charity for homeless people

he was the fourth person to die while sleeping rough

in the city in the past year. The name of man who it's believed

was in his thirties isn't This is where he died. A city centre

doorway. The man was known amongst friends and those who helped him as

Jimmy, his full name is not being released. A charity who helped him

leave you could still be alive if he was not sleeping rough. He would

have survived if he had written a normal home instead of a doorway.

Those who knew Jimmy say he was a likeable character but he was not

here every night last week, he was at hospital, and when volunteers

called him to see him after being discharged he told them he had been

treated for seizures. Days later he was dead. The exact cause is not yet

known but today, a call for more help for people living on the

street. We need to reach out, and find out

what each individual person sleeping on the streets, what their specific

needs are, and address them. People with these underlying issues

will be on the streets of Belfast again tonight, sleeping rough.

New figures for local manufacturing show it's continuing to struggle,

with month after month of jobs losses and falling orders.

At the weekend the actor Liam Neeson added his voice to calls for action

Here's our business correspondent Julian O'Neill.

Local manufacturing is having a tough. Few places have been left

reeling like this, where local businesses will close by 2018. A

local rally had their message endorsed by the most high celebrity

from the town. In the face of thousands of well

paid jobs vanishing, giving up a manufacturing is simply not an

option. It is so sad to be at this point,

there is no future for the likes of me on my friend.

You data from the Ulster bank highlight the current woes of

manufacturing. Authors are flat or falling. -- workers. Unions label it

a crisis and want ligament strategy to attract placement jobs which pay

well. It cannot just be built on service

jobs, or call centres. It can't be built on the sort of jobs that are

not even paying proper wages. We want a bright future, and a proud

future. There has been better luck with

overseas investment in other sectors like competing. Take this American

firm, today announcing a few new jobs for Belfast. The Finance

Minister was here, he was in Ballymena, and insists that invest

Northern Ireland has not given up a manufacturing.

They have not thrown in the towel. They have to respond to what our

global circumstances and a global situation and I think they are still

best placed to do that and that is why I have confidence that invest

and continue to do what is best for Northern Ireland.

Concerns about the global economy will only add to the Manufacturing

challenge. And things could remain downbeat in this sector for longer

yet. A man has received a suspended

sentence for claiming benefits Dungannon Court was also told that

47 year old Clive Millar from Coleshill Crescent

in Enniskillen, had almost ?300,000 The former soldier admitted four

charges of failing to declare information to the

Social Security Agency. He was sentenced to 12 months

in jail, suspended for two years. On BBC Newsline tomorrow evening

we look at electricity prices. As the largest provider, Power NI,

is about make an announcement we find out if switching electricity

companies can make a difference Because there are more players in

the market is having a downward pressure on prices. Hopefully with

more consumers making the choice to move it makes companies work harder

to give them better offers. But it still remains for the consumer to

make the choice and the mood. Sometimes they are reluctant to do

so. More on that on tomorrow's BBC

Newsline here on BBC 1. It is quite wet across many places

tonight. There may be some flooding and treacherous driving conditions.

As a result, a weather warning. It will stay in place until 10am

tomorrow. Over high ground tonight we will see a mixture of sleet and

snow as temperatures approached freezing, most other areas will stay

with just rain. A damp start tomorrow, cloudy, with the cloud

bringing in some scattered showers. But the picture improves later in

the day. To begin with it will be very wet, treacherous driving

conditions for rush hour to keep in mind. Scattered showers across

Ireland, England, and the northern Scotland, many other areas get off

to a dry and sunny start but westerly winds will bring in showers

here and there. For Northern Ireland, it will stay quite windy,

quite chilly. Especially toward the north coast, factoring in westerly

wind. The sunshine will develop and move south, giving us all a glimmer

before nightfall. Temperatures, at best, seven Celsius, feeling cold

the wind-chill. Wednesday is not so bad, it is shaping up to be largely

dry with sunshine to begin with, perhaps showers skirting across the

coast. Overall a largely dry picture. The end of the week, a low

pressure system is our way, turning wet and windy and again.