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The headlines this Thursday evening: workers for

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The Irish President pulls out of a Belfast civic dinner to mark

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There are calls for an inquiry into why this doctor continued

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working in Belfast in the 1970s, after a conviction for child abuse.

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Fans of the pop band Little Mix are left heartbroken.

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It cancels two Belfast shows at the last minute.

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I'm a huge fan and I'm just devastated.

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All five of our health trusts here have failed to meet target

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times for suspected cancer referrals.

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It might be the school holidays, but some pupils have been hitting

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Rory returns for Ulster rugby, to try and save their season.

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If sunshine and showers have been the story of the week so far,

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Wet and windy for the next couple of days.

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The Irish President Michael D Higgins has pulled out of attending

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a dinner at Belfast City Hall to mark the centenary of

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He said he did not want to become "embroiled

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This is a copy of the invitation that's been sent out for the event.

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It from the Lord Mayor and City Council, with the president of

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Ireland as the guest of honour. The DUP has been accused

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of scuppering the event by refusing to attend, but the party say

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they have no objection to the event going ahead, they simply

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will not be there. Michael D Higgins was at the centre

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of Easter Rising commemorations in Dublin at the weekend. Next week,

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the Irish president was due to come to Belfast as guest of honour at a

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City Hall dinner to mark the Rising. Unionists didn't oppose the idea of

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the dinner, it was included in a cross-party agreement which allowed

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events like the Ulster covenant and battle of the Somme centenary is to

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go ahead also. But the DUP recently announced they would not be

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attending next week's Easter Rising dinner and today Michael D Higgins

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pulled out. The SDLP and the Alliance party accused the DUP of

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breaking the agreement. Support meant that people would attend, for

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none of them to is disrespectful to a significant proportion of the

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population of Belfast. So this is a breach of the deal? The spirit of

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the deal, if not the technicality. Think it's very dispiriting and I

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think politics in the upcoming election is playing a part. In a

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statement this afternoon, a spokesperson for Michael D Higgins

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said that the president accepted the invitation on the bases there was

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cross-party support for the invitation. This no longer the case.

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The president has no option other than to withdraw. He doesn't want to

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become embroiled in matters of political controversy. So what do

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the DUPs say? The accusation is that you have gone back on a cross-party

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deal. Did you? No, we did not. There was an absolutely no obligation for

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people to go to an event. You can't force people to go to an event they

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don't want to. Do you blame the DUP for the Irish president Michael D

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Higgins pulling out? No, I think he has to make his own decision but I

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think it's disappointing. This is the room where next week's dinner is

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supposed to take place, and inside of the controversy over who is going

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and who is not going, organisers it will still go ahead.

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Our Dublin correspondent, Shane Harrison, joins me.

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What's been in action in Dublin to all of this? This isn't as big a

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story south of the border as it is in Northern Ireland and that may be

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because the president, like the Queen, is known to be above daily

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politics. Mark Higgins office has given the statement that it was not

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the basis of cross-party obligations. He had no other option

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other than to withdraw. I understand from other sources that the

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president Road to the Lord Mayor of Belfast earlier this week expressing

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his disappointment as it had been his intention to give a talk

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speaking about the Easter Rising and is wider significance, which

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presumably would have included the Ulster volunteer Force is landing of

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guns in opposition to Irish home rule, the mutiny by British officers

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in support of the Ulster Unionist Party and of course the First World

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War, in which tens of thousands of Irish men from north and south died

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fighting. And of course we have these scenery of the Somme in July

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of this year. Many people at presidential level will be involved

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in others ceremonies, how do you think what has happened here in

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Belfast city has affected those? The centenary of the Somme and World War

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I offence will go ahead. It had been the case in the past that those

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Irishmen who had died fighting for the Crown were largely written out

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of history, but that hasn't been the case for several decades and I

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wouldn't expect there to be any change to the programme because of

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what has happened in Belfast. There are calls for a national

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inquiry into child sexual abuse to consider the case of a Belfast

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doctor who continued to practise, despite convictions

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for abusing children. Dr Morris Fraser was the senior

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psychiatric registrar at the Royal Victoria

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Hospital in the 1970s. He continued to practice despite

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convictions for abusing children. A new study said that failures by the

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authority should be investigated by the Gothard inquiry, which is

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looking at sex abuse cases in England and Wales. This report by

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David Maxwell begins by a recording of the Doctor in 1973.

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I think one must look at the way these children have fallen to grown

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up, been socialised into different ideologies.

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Doctor Morris Fraser was an expert in his field,

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a senior psychiatrist at the Royal Victoria Hospital.

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He published works on the impact of the

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One of his victims now lives in Texas.

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Doctor Morris Fraser was an expert in his field,

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a senior psychiatrist at the Royal Victoria Hospital.

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of abusing a 13-year-old boy from Belfast and London.

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He was barred from working with children but his

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conviction was not reported to his employees in Belfast.

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In 1973, he was arrested in New York and later

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pleaded guilty to sexually abusing several children in the US.

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Case made headlines this time and he was suspended from his Belfast post.

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The new study, published today, calls into question why it took so

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long for the authorities to act. Doctor Morris Fraser was left in his

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post for a whole year after he was convicted of child abuse. They did

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not inform the hospital he worked out that he was a child abuser.

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Reality did children to a number of different institutions. This man was

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a serial paedophile and this was well known to the authorities.

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Fraser was also involved in sending boys to a home where abuse took

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place. Today, a law firm says they plan to use the information in a

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study into the notorious East Belfast institution. The General

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medical Council investigated Fraser between 1973 and 1975. Despite the

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publicity around his conviction, had allowed him to continue practising

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with no stated restrictions. Today they said 40 years ago at the GMC

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was a very different organisation. It is inconceivable that today we

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would conclude such a case with no action. The key question in all of

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this is why was he allowed to continue practising, even though he

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had been convicted of child abuse. Was he being protected by the

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authorities there some reason. This new study suggest that the case

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requires further examination. If they call backed by others. Even at

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this stage, we would appeal for victims of sexual abuse to come

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forward. They will have suffered for many years in silence but we would

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urge them to come forward. Fraser continued to practice medicine for

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several decades. In 1994, he featured in a BBC documentary about

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abuse. I am saying absolutely nothing more with the past behind

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me. In 1982, she was convicted of having child pornography. He was

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last believed to be living in Europe. The BBC hasn't been able to

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contact him today. Still to come on the

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programme before 7:00... We visit the school where some of

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the pupils are still studying harder during the Easter holidays.

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Thousands of fans of Little Mix were left disappointed today when there

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are concerts in Belfast were cancelled today. Organisers say that

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one of the band were to unwell to perform.

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The girl band were due to play a matinee and evening show

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The cancellation was announced just minutes after the doors opened

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When news broke, it spread quickly. Some had travelled quite a distance

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to see the girl band. The children are all devastated. We paid by the

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bus and hotel and tickets so... How much are you out of pocket? Probably

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a couple of hundred pounds. They were crying all day. What has

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management said to you about this? We got a text ad to 15 PM to say it

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was cancelled. It was too late to cancel their hotel. And what was

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there a reason to cancel? Jesse was sick and they had to cancel and we

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all had to go home. Were you angry? Yes, I was upset because it was my

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first concert. This is what they are missing and here is Jesse.

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I couldn't stop crying earlier on, I was devastated. It's your 16th

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birthday. What are you planning on doing this evening? Our plan was to

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come and see Little Mix and then stay in a hotel and that was meant

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to be for my birthday, so basically it's not going to happen. Because

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Jessie is sick. I think they could have announced earlier then 1:20pm

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at the concert was going to go ahead. There are thousands of other

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fans standing outside that Odyssey today and every single one were

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devastated and they were very angry parents. They must be something in

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the water. It's not the first time a band has cancelled at the last

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minute. Who could forget the scenes when one direction pulled the plug

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when the try one of them are fooled Dee pulled -- fell ill.

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The First Minister Arlene Foster says it is right that politicians

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ask questions about policing, but that there is no two-tier

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The DUP leader's comments follow criticism by the Police Federation

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of some politicians for what it called "inflammatory remarks"

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around a CS spray incident at a Junior Orange parade on Monday.

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The First Minister was in touch with the Chief Constable at a Tuesday

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evening's CS spray incident. Since then, other Unionist politicians

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have question and criticise the police actions during the junior

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Orange parade. I think the boys have a very difficult job to do, but I do

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think it is right that as politicians and is we ask questions.

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If we weren't able to ask questions, they answer those questions in

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return and they are monitored. I don't think there was a two tier

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policing system but I think there are concerns out there. Therefore,

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for the police and myself we need to get the bottom of those issues.

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Meanwhile, the Police Federation have condemned those who posted

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photographs and personal details of one of the policemen on the parade

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on a loyalist social media site. They also voiced concern about some

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of the political reaction to the incident. It has been blown

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completely out of proportion. I'm not demeaning barriers people

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affected by the CS spray. A lot of opinion needs to be put out there

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and politicians need to combat these issues, but I think they need to be

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very careful with their tone. The police are also compiling reports

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about suspected breach of parade, the Deputy First Minister says that

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these types of commemorative displays should be confined to the

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pasta. I think these circumstances where people are coming onto the

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streets with full uniform and masks, that's obviously an attempt to send

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a statement, alongside the threatening statements that some of

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them did make during the course of the contributions that their

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spokespeople made out of those parades. Remy, that is unacceptable.

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Meanwhile, the lease investigation into what happened at the junior

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Orange parade is continuing. 40 people are set to lose their jobs

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in Antrim. The company Fujitsu are closing their doors. They employ 800

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people in Northern Ireland and they say their work in Antrim will be

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transferred to Belfast. They will offer reader pointed opportunities

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to the workers. -- redeployment opportunities.

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Northern Ireland has failed to meet its target times

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for treating patients urgently referred for suspected cancer.

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The target is for 95% of patients to be seen within 62 days.

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But Department of Health figures for the final quarter of last year

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show just over 70% of patients started treatment

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No-one from the Department or the Health and Social Care Board

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was available for interview on BBC Newsline.

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Joining me is Margaret Carr from the charity Cancer Research UK.

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What is your reaction to these figures?

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Well, there very disappointing. All of the target times were missed.

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There were three and all three were missed in the report today. Very

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unfortunate, because it means that the people that have already

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received the diagnosis of cancer, which is devastating at any time, it

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means that they didn't start their treatment quickly enough and that

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can only make their disappointment and their nervousness worse over

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that period of time. You speak to patients

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and their families as they go In general, Northern Ireland's

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cancer system is actually pretty good, but there are glitches in the

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system and the waiting times have been really not meeting target for

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some time. The specific target that you would virtue, the 62 day target,

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has not been met since March 2009, which means that people who receive

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a diagnosis or receive an urgent referral from their GP, its 62 days

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or more than two months, before they begin their treatment. You can well

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imagine how difficult that is for people. They all say that they just

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want to get on with it when they had a diagnosis.

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The board sent us a statement on breast cancer stats only.

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The increase in waiting times can be linked to an increase in referrals

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with more awareness and has put in measures to reduce the wait.

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What needs to be done to address these waiting times?

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We believe the Cancer Research UK, believes that Northern Ireland

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requires a composite Cancer plan. We are the only part of the United

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Kingdom that doesn't have one or isn't planning to release one in the

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next 60 days. Our last one was from 2008, so it's quite outdated. We

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believe that a comprehensive Cancer plan would allow the Department and

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the board etc to define the specifics that they want to tackle,

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identify how to go about doing that, but money against that and have all

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of that laid out clearly over a five-year period, rather than just

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reacting to things when there is a problem. Thank you for your time.

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Many school pupils and teachers are enjoying two weeks off

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Our Education Correspondent Robbie Meredith has been finding out why

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250 young people in Belfast, and some of their teachers,

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are spending their Easter break in the classroom.

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In school during the holidays with the sun shining outside. But this

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could be make or break for these pupils with their GCSEs looming.

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They are getting extra help with English and maths. Education is

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important and I want to pass and I want to get a good job when I'm

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older. In maths I was doing trigonometry and Pythagoras. I

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didn't understand before but now I do. The Easter school is held and

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local schools stand pupils at risk of Beale in believing that they can

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make a real difference. Ultimately, the purpose of the Easter school is

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that the people who attend achieve at least a grade C in maths and

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English. This year we have 250 pupils coming from the local schools

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from the west of the city. We also have pupils from Shankill Road and

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Donegal Road, also newcomers to Belfast. Last year, 86% of pupils

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who attended got grades from a star to see in maths and 70% in English.

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That is above the average in Northern Ireland. A lot of teachers

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also work for the week. While the focus is mainly on those important

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GCSE English and maths exams coming in a few weeks, but many of the 250

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young people here, it'll be the first time they have set that inside

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a university building. The school aims to ensure it won't be the last.

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It aims to raise the aspirations of young people, in terms of furthering

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their education and looking towards a good job in the future. It also

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helps the students to attain the qualifications that they need to

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realise those ambitions. And it seems to be rubbing off. I'm hoping

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to become a music teacher and come back to Saint Mary 's and I need at

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least a grade C in English and maths to come back. So ambitions are

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rising in West Belfast this Easter. Stephen Watson has

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the sport this evening. Today, the chairman and vice

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chairman of Sport NI stood down Chairman Brian Henning resigned

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after just over three The Sports Minister Caral Ni Chuilin

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today appointed their interim replacements, Brian Delaney

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and Dr Catherine O'Mullan. The move comes after an internal

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investigation of Sport NI after concerns were

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raised by its employees. A third of staff said they had

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to been subjected to bullying, Last year, nine members of the board

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resigned, and the Chief Executive Antoinette McKeown remains

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suspended. Ulster Rugby have named their three

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returning Irish Internationals in the starting line-up

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for tomorrow's crucial Pro12 Captain Rory Best, Jared Payne

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and Andrew Trimble are named If Ulster are to qualify

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for the play off's, they must beat this season's surprise

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league leaders. It was once a time in the topside of

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Irish rugby came from three teams. Connacht were very much the poorer

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relation, not any more though. At the weekend they defeated Leicester.

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Not only are they the best team in Ireland, but best in Wales and

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Scotland and England. They are confident of a win tomorrow night.

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They haven't won a match in Belfast since November 19 16. We've got

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Connacht on Friday who are off the back of a really good win against

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Leinster. We are after a really tough loss against Glasgow. We have

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a bit of a point to prove after the weekend and we need to look forward

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to the challenge of Connacht. They have had a fantastic season and they

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are the top of the league for a reason. It'll be a huge match. It

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would be really positive to get a good outcome towards the end of the

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season. A lot of the top teams need to play each other, so I don't think

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it's all doom and gloom. It be tough weekend against Connacht and they

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are full of confidence at the minute but we always enjoy playing against

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a home crowd and hopefully we will have a good performance. A good

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performance and a good result, Ulster's season simply depends on

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it. The first Major of the year

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in women's golf started this Leona Maguire tees off just before

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nine o'clock tonight, but Stephanie Meadow

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started her round just before five She now lives in the United States

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and hopes to take part in real big games later this summer. She is now

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level par, seven shots off the lead. Derry City travel to Dundalk to take

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on the champions tomorrow night Kenny Shiels is up against a former

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brandy well. The club's top scorer with four and

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five games says they are ready to face the champions. Is the biggest

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match of the week, a fantastic squad, most of the best players in

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the country and the team. They have a good manager there as well and are

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busy that's where you wanted to be out. Former Derry City boss has

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certainly not the good times back to Dundalk. He has brought back in the

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best, including Patrick Mickel Lenny. He has done a marvellous job,

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earned the right to have a big budget and he deserves credit for

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that. It's a pity he wasn't just at the start of that and was building

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towards that big budget, but he has done remarkably to get into that

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position and he deserves nothing but credit. They travel to Dundalk for a

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fascinating tussle. Conor McGregor will

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headline UFC 200 in July. The Dublin fighter is the current

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bantamweight champion, but lost to Nate Diaz at a higher

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weight earlier this year. McGregor will fight the American

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in a rematch in Las Vegas on July It was a really chilly night last

:25:22.:25:53.

night and this viewer was out early capturing the sunshine, with the

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mist on the lake and a little bit of sunshine on the grass also. Tomorrow

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will not be like that at all because we have a little change happening

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overnight tonight. A weather front will move in, all been driven by

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this area of low pressure are spreading some rain into Ireland for

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the day, much of Friday and into Saturday also. Let's put a little

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bit of detail into that forecast. Overnight tonight we will see the

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sky is clouding over, the winds will pick up and gradually the rain will

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move in from the west overnight tonight. The last few days have been

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pretty perfect for a spot in rainbows. I think tomorrow will be

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altogether duller affair. That band of rain is really going to sit over

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us through much of the daylight hours. It's going to be wet, windy.

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Top temperatures as we go through the day, maybe 9 degrees or so, so

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feeling very different to the rather lovely weather we have enjoyed from

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much of the Easter week. That rain is eventually going to clear out of

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the way, but it is not at the overnight period that the skies will

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begin to clear. The respite bill is only going to be temporary because

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while we start Saturday on a dry note, it won't take long to that

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rain to return, because that front is good to push north. It's going to

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gradually advance as we go through the day, moving first into County

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Down and then Antrim. I think the west is going to stay dry is the

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longest as we go through the day and much of the day will stay dry to the

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north and the west. I'm afraid that the first half of the weekend at

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least is looking pretty soggy. It does improve by the time again to

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Sunday and the start of next week will be drier and just a little bit

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warmer. Something to look forward to.

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