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The Alliance Party has yet to decide whether it will follow | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
the Ulster Unionist Party and SDLP into opposition at Stormont. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Earlier today the party was offered the Justice Ministry, | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Tonight the Alliance leadership met with the party's council | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Our Political Editor Mark Devenport joins me now live from East Belfast | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
Mark, have there been any developments in the Alliance | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Well, what has happened to note is that the 120 members of the Alliance | :00:34. | :00:49. | |
ruling council discussed the situation with the justice portfolio | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
for just over two hours or so in East Belfast. They, so far as we | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
could tell as we weren't allowed to speak to the ordinary members, have | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
fairly fully endorsed the leadership position that they shouldn't take | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
the job at this stage is because both the DUP and Sinn Fein rejected | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
their demands to change at Stormont including the so-called petition of | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
concern system which allows measures to be vetoed on the Assembly floor. | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Tonight they First Minister Arlene Foster has described some of the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
developments as that of a small parties searching for relevant. I | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
put that to David Ford and he said both the DUP and Sinn Fein had | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
recognised the Alliance relevance by coming to them and offering them the | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
Justice Ministry. I think it is slightly ironic given that Arlene | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
Foster and Martin McGuinness Alastair Lyons to give them are just | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
as Muslim. That suggests that they know -- Justice Ministry. We had | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
decisions in the last Executive on the basis of entitlement and a cross | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
community boat. It seems they are not prepared to give fundamental | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
reforms to make Northern Ireland better and get away from the | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
problems which we saw in the last Assembly and it was there | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
unwillingness to move in any way which have contributed to the | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
decision of the Alliance Party tonight. Tonight's alliance ruling | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
council meeting followed a dramatic day at Stormont with the SDLP | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
following the Ulster Unionists into opposition. My colleague Ende | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
MacLaverty has been following the twists and turns of the day. | :02:34. | :02:34. | |
It has been a day of high drama at Stormont. | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
The SDLP is announcing that we will go into opposition | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
to conform a constructive opposition to the Executive. | :02:42. | :02:42. | |
The SDLP's decision to quit the Executive came after a day | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
It had been clear over the last number of days | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
that the party was getting ready to turn its back on government. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
That decision was rubber-stamped after a meeting with the First | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
Minister and the Deputy First Minister. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
We are very disappointed with the approach that has been adopted. | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
We have tried time and again and have met as many | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
departments and departmental officials as we possibly can. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
But that wasn't the only surprise as the first | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
and Deputy First Minister tried to find a new Justice Minister. | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
And the first candidate through the door was the Green Party | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
We were invited to put forward our views on what we would like to see | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
in a future programme if we were to consider taking up | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Next up was the Independent Unionist MLA Claire Sugden. | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
She stepped out without giving too much away. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Then it was the turn of the Alliance delegation, | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
led by former Justice Minister David Ford. | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
But they were in and out in less than ten minutes. | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
But there was no sign of panic among those they left behind in the room. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
We are in control, we know exactly what we are doing, | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
and we are very confident that come next Wednesday, | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Ministers will be appointed and the Executive will meet on Thursday. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
We are very clear that we both campaigned to be in government, | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
and others didn't campaign in such a clear way and we are seeing | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
the fallout over that over the past few days. | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
We are clear that we are going to be in government, there will be | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
an Executive in place by the end of next Wednesday and we are also | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
very clear that it will meet next Thursday. | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness may be clear on what they expect | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
to happen next, but they may have to plan for an Executive | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
Elderly residents at a Londonderry care home have called | :04:41. | :04:55. | |
on the Presbyterian Church not to shut it down. | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
The church wants to close it along with another home in Portrush. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
They say both places were built in the 19th century and can't be | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
updated, so they want to move almost 40 residents to a refurbished | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
More than 60 staff are affected by the proposal. | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Here's our North West reporter Keiron Tourish. | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Ard Cluan on Limavady Road has been operating since 1971 and, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
over that time, residents say it has been like a home from home. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
But the 13 elderly people who live there may be forced to move | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
to a different home almost 30 miles away. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
The Presbyterian Church has proposed to close this facility | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
and another home in Portrush, which has 26 residents, | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
and transfer everyone to a refurbished 50-bedroom care | :05:38. | :05:38. | |
And I know the surroundings, like, you know? | :05:39. | :05:54. | |
And I would be sorry if I was pushed away somewhere else. | :05:55. | :06:06. | |
The Presbyterian Church has insisted the well-being of its residents | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
Though the Church acknowledges the reaction of residence | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
We do not want to come to the stage where we are forced | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
We are providing a better class of care and an easier regime | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
Politicians and the trade unions have called for urgent meetings | :06:31. | :06:43. | |
with the Presbyterian Church to try and get this decision reversed. | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
They say any possible closure and relocation would cause massive | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
A church in County Down says its congregation will have | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
to meet elsewhere after an arson attack on its building. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Tyres were set on fire against Rathfriland Baptist Church | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
The church's pastor says the attack has stunned the local community | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
and it will be weeks before they will be able to hold services | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
The clear-up work at this church will take weeks, | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
but it could have been much worse, had a passer-by not noticed this | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
fire last night and alerted the emergency services. | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
These tyres were already in the church grounds and shortly | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
after 11 o'clock last night, they were moved against the side | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
The church says the damage caused means the building won't be able | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
The pastor says there is good community relations here and there | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
has been very little anti-social behaviour in the past. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
It is a very peaceful community here, a lovely place to live, | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
a great town and, like I say, it is not something | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
It is totally out of character and out of keeping in the area. | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
It is an attack on the Lord and an attack on the Gospel. | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
We are just here to preach the Gospel and we will continue | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
It has taken the whole community by surprise, we are all shocked, | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
but the community will rally around the church, I popped in to see | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
the pastor to show solidarity and I think that will happen | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
Despite the quick response from the Fire Service, | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
church leaders say significant damage has been caused | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
A meeting due to take place here today was held | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
in a neighbouring church and Sunday services are likely to be held | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
at the local high school until the repair work is completed. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
Meanwhile, this morning, it was reported to police that | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
windows and an internal door have been damaged in an attack | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Police are appealing for information about both incidents. | :08:44. | :08:53. | |
The West Belfast-based printing and packaging firm Delta Print has | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
been sold in an ?80 million deal to a Finnish company. | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
The business was founded in 1981 by Terry Cross and its major | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
Mr Cross will be staying on as an adviser to the new buyers, | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Huhtamaki, which already has a factory in Lurgan. | :09:11. | :09:19. | |
This is a good day for West Belfast in particular. There was a dearth of | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
employment and manufacturing employment and it's pretty | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
indicative of the cut in corporation tax rates which are helping | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
investment and the potential for Abe better future for investing in | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
Northern Ireland. The professional services firm | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Deloitte says it will create 300 more jobs in Belfast | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
than originally planned. It had aimed to employ 700 people | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
in the city by 2019. That will make Belfast the firm's | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
largest UK base outside London. On to golf now, and Rory McIlroy has | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
made an excellent start He's in second place, two shots | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
behind the leader Danny Willett. Rory McIlroy has struggled at the | :10:01. | :10:16. | |
Irish Open in recent times. He missed the cut at Royal County Down | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
last year and before that in Dublin and Cork. But today the tournament | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
host produced one of his best Irish Open displays. He found his touch on | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
the K Club Greens as well. And brilliant shots like this helped | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
McIlroy to three birdies in the opening nine holes. And more | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
followed in the back nine. This part of the 13th gave him a share of the | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
lead. And alongside him at that point of the top of the leaderboard, | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
the Masters champion Danny Willett from England. Graham Mick Doerr | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
struggled early on dropping shots to go to overpower soon bounced back | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
with a birdie at the seventh and an eagle at the 10th to move himself up | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
the leaderboard. -- Graeme McDowell. Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke had | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
three front line birdies at a course that holds fond memories for him. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Shane Lowry who won this tournament as an amateur seven years ago | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
started with a round of 100 par. While Paul Don also impressed | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
playing in his first Irish Open as a professional. | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
Now here's Cecilia Daly with a look at the weather | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
the thunderstorms we had earlier on. quite heavy, although not | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
By the end of the night many of them will have eased away. | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
One or two of them still lingering in the West. | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
We are expecting things to continue to dry up tomorrow. | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
The drier half of the day will be in the morning. | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
I'm afraid after a promising start it will end up rather | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
One or two showers and initially, but they'll fizzle out. | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
There will be a decent chunk of dry weather | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
It will start to warm up quite nicely. | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
Down to the South West, you can see where the | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
It edges in across the Republic of Ireland and it will land | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
across Northern Ireland tomorrow afternoon. | :12:20. | :12:20. | |
Also some rain eventually for parts of Wales and south-west England, | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
but bar the odd shower many parts of Britain will have | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
Tomorrow afternoon is looking pretty wet just about everywhere. | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
Persistent rain, heavy rain at times. | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
Temperatures not getting much higher than around 15 Celsius. | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
Maybe 16 towards the North Coast before the rain arrives. | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
It will start to ease away again tomorrow evening, | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
but if you're at the Ulster match down in Dublin tomorrow night | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
there could still be some rain around through the game. | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
As we look ahead to the rest of the weekend, there will still be | :12:47. | :12:56. | |
some unsettled weather at the Irish Open. | :12:57. | :12:57. | |
Some sharp showers around this weekend. | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
Northern Ireland will have some showers this weekend too. | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
There will be some sunshine at times. | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
At the moment it looks like we will probably have | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
fewer showers and lighter showers on Sunday. | :13:08. | :13:08. | |
So, that is maybe the drier of the two days. | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
You can hear from the Alliance Party's Naomi Long on the view which | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
follows this programme. Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am | :13:24. | :13:24. | |
in the morning during Breakfast From all of us here | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
on the programme, goodnight. Soak up the atmosphere at the most | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
famous flower show in the world. from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
2016. | :13:40. | :13:43. |