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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me.

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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline:

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The Education Minister praises teachers at the Lisburn school

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where a father and his two children were badly injured when they were

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The Kingsmills inquest into the killing of ten Protestant

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workmen 40 years ago is adjourned until later this month so the police

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Almost 5,000 low-rent social homes are to be built here

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after the European Investment Bank provides a huge loan.

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Also on the programme, the creepy crawly invasion

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Who are these mysterious green furry creatures?

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Kyle Lafferty tweets a "thumbs up" after today's scan on a groin

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injury, but will he be fit for Northern Irelands Euro 2016

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BBC Newsline has an in-depth interview with Republic manager

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And we have another warm day to come tomorrow but there'll be a very

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different feel to the weather by the end of the week.

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The father and his children injured in a lightning strike in Lisburn

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George Allen, who's 37, and his five-year-old son remain

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His seven-year-old daughter's condition is described as stable.

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Today, the Education Minister, Peter Weir, visited

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Killowen Primary School and praised the efforts of teachers.

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As Will Leitch reports, it's now emerged that both

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the principal and vice principal worked with the injured family

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George Allen was doing what any father would have done, collecting

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his children from school on a wet afternoon. The lightning strike left

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all three of them seriously ill in hospital and closed the school of

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450 pupils for the time being. This school, the classrooms, the

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playgrounds should have been buzzing today. It was to be sports day.

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Instead, the school is closed. The teachers are working with an

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independent counselling team to assess the questions the children

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are likely to ask in the coming days. I found it very sad driving up

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the driveway. Usually there is a buzz. Just to see the ending is and

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to feel the emptiness. Driving up, you think back to what happened

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yesterday and the tragedy. Some children witnessed the incident and

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sought senior teachers administering emergency first aid. The Education

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Minister has praised their actions. I think the intervention from the

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senior members of staff hopefully saved lives. I really want to

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commend them for their swift action. Local people have started

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fundraising for the family and at lunchtime pupils brought food for

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their teachers, worried about their welfare. Everyone at Killowen

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Primary School is pulling together. An inquest into the Kingsmill

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massacre has been adjourned It's looking into the murders

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of ten Protestant workmen in the County Armagh

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village in 1976. The coroner said police should be

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given time to pursue a new lead Before hearing the day's evidence,

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the coroner talked about last week's development and the incident found

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on a vehicle at the time of the incident was re-examined and for the

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first time linked directly to the suspect. He said that he understood

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how the families of those killed felt they no longer knew who to

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believe all what to believe, given the circumstances and particularly

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the timing of this development. However, he said this could

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potentially be one of the most crucial pieces of evidence to emerge

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and that the police had to be given the opportunity to pursue that lead

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and any leads that come from it. He said, however, this would not be an

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open-ended process and there would be putting in place a provisional

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timetable of leaving the families informed throughout.

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Housing in Northern Ireland has received a major boost thanks

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It's to provide ?280 million of loans towards building

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Here's our business correspondent Julian O'Neill.

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The money will bankroll a future pipeline of projects in all 4700

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homes in the social housing sector. Schemes not unlike this one. Two

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housing bodies will also get top funds from Stormont in an ongoing

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drive to cut waiting lists for low rent housing. There is a huge need

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for housing in Northern Ireland. The waiting list has over 40,000 people

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on it. This investment and the thousands of new homes, affordable

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homes that will be built as a result, will make a start in

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bringing that number down. The European investment bank is based in

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Luxembourg and makes low interest long-term loan deals. It has been

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involved in many road projects in Northern Ireland as well as

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providing ?150 million worth of capital towards the University of

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Ulster's new Belfast campus. Run by the EU, the bank is a nonprofit and

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the outcome of the referendum will not affect this deal. It has no

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bearing on existing loans, loans we have already agreed. They may well

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be locations for the future. It is difficult to say what those will be.

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The construction sector will join in the celebrations, such is the scale

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of this announcement. Spread over five years, it will deliver on sites

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across Northern Ireland. Still to come on the programme, some

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of the war stories behind the faces in an old box of the grass found in

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an old Belfast College. The mass exodus of football

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fans from here to France At the same time, French security

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forces are carrying out final anti-terrorism measures ahead

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of Friday's start of the tournament. As BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson

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reports, one of the cities they're focusing on is Lyon, where

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Northern Ireland play next week. It is only a training exercise. But

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it does show just how seriously the French authorities are taking the

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threat of an attack at the Euros. This is the fan zone in the centre

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of Lyon, where Northern Ireland play Ukraine next week. A mock suicide

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bomb and gun attack was carried out to teach the police and emergency

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services how to cope. It made for chilling viewing, especially as this

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square is due to have 32,000 fans in the league. But the message to

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supporters is to come and they will protect you. TRANSLATION: Are we

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prepared? I think we are showing in Lyon as in other French cities we

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are prepared and because we are prepared, we are calm, and because

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we are calm, the event will go well. That is the message every football

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fan wants to hear and the tournament begins in just two days' time. And

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And we want to hear from the fans on your Euro 2016 adventures.

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Stephen Watson will join us live from France later in the programme.

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The Police Ombudsman will tomorrow publish the findings

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of an investigation into allegations of collusion between police officers

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and a UVF gang that killed six Catholics in Loughinisland

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Our home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney reports.

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The horrific aftermath of an attack that left six men dead and five

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others wounded. They had been watching a World Cup game in a bar

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when UVF gunman struck. No one has ever been convicted in connection

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with the attack. Families of the victims have claimed that is because

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the police were protecting informers. Five years ago, the

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previous police ombudsman upheld their complaint that the police had

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not properly investigated the killings, but he said there was no

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evidence of police collusion. The families took legal action and that

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report was quashed. The current police ombudsman reopened the

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investigation. The families are hoping for a very different outcome.

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It is quite simple, they seek an independent, impartial, robust

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analysis of the facts on where there are failings that may be highlighted

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as failings and we're there requires to be accountability that the

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appropriate censure is made. The ombudsman's findings will be

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published tomorrow morning. The report will contain thousands of

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words but for the families of those killed her 22 years ago, the focus

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will be on whether he uses one word, collusion.

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We continue now with our series of reports on how you view future

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We've been to the Tyrone-Donegal border, where some worry

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about a re-introduction of controls which might affect trade.

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As we already know, those in the Remain camp have been

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Here's our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish.

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The border between these towns has changed dramatically in a

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generation. Gone are the heavily fortified checkpoints and in its

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place an impressive piece of art reflecting all cultures. But there

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is no consensus on Europe. I am very confused by the whole thing. I have

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read the booklet and I am none the wiser. I think we should stay. There

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is too much to lose. This family business has been trading since 1979

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in good times and bad. They don't want to return to border controls. I

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remember before and basically you had to work around when the

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customers were on duty to deliver your goods. This farmer closely

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follows the EU debate. He wants out as he believes the UK will be better

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off. It would be foolish for the European Union to ostracise the UK

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as we import more from Europe than we export. They would be the losers.

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This restaurant is right on the border. Its owners says the EU is

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too big and bureaucratic and rejects any notion of a return to major

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border controls. It is anti-democratic. We are a business

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-- for a big business, big banks, politicians, and for small to

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medium-sized businesses, it has been stifled by overregulation. Like some

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of his staff, this supermarket manager lives in Donegal but works

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nearby, where he also represents the chamber of commerce. We think it

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would be a disaster for Northern Ireland to leave Europe at this

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stage because the border control will be on at some level. The

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freedom of movement for my staff as well as my customers, coming from

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southern island, we don't know where that is going to end up. With so

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much controversy over the EU, it remains unlikely.

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Now, if you're at your tea, it might be time to push the plate away.

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And if you've a morbid hatred of creepy crawlies then our next

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Our agriculture and environment correspondent Conor Macauley has

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been out to investigate reports of an infestation of caterpillars

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attacking ash trees in south Belfast.

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It is the stuff of nightmares. A plague of green buds munching their

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way through these trees in south Belfast. They have stripped them

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almost bare in just over a week. It is enough to make you itch a lot. If

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you listen really closely, you can actually hear the larvae eating the

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leaves in the tree above me. The problem with that is that you are so

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close they are constantly falling on your head. It is a bit

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disconcerting. We have posted videos on social media and our friends are

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enjoying this much more than we are. The Ulster wildlife moth man comes

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an explanation. As they are flies, not months, he is a little

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disappointed. You have got boom and bust. You will get these plagues and

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infestations so it is uncommon but always spooky when you see it.

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Experts are to be sent out for a look but local say this happened

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last year as well and the trees did not suffer.

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As the anniversary of the Somme centenary draws closer,

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we're featuring a series of reports on the impact that First World War

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battle had and still has on life in Ireland.

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This evening, Mervyn Jess looks at the affect the war had on one

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particular seat of learning at College Square in Belfast city

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centre and how a recent discovery shed some new light on that.

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The old Belfast Tech building before work started converting it into city

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centre student accommodation. Just before the developers moved in, a

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box of old photographs was discovered and handed over to the

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college historian. You are staring into the faces of people who either

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died or fought in that war, and I think those photographs were they so

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that relatives could come into the college as a memorial and look at

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them. In the early part of the 20th century, this old college was a

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microcosm of life in Belfast. And in the years running up to the outbreak

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of the Great War, all strands of society were to be found within its

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walls. The impact of the carnage in Europe felt her was felt in cities

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towns and villages right across the country. You have offices, you have

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people who won honours and medals, and you have got the ordinary boys

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who lost their lives as an officer on a ship. You have got the strange

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Case of somebody who ended up in the Italian army and somebody ended up

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in the Australian court. Among the young men who joined up, this man

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from Belfast. The first soldier to die at the Somme on the morning of

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the 1st of July. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for valour. David

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Brown is a Somme history research and enthusiasts. His job was to

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distribute bronze -- bombs. He secured the ropes and when the

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ropes broke off, the bombs came out of the box, the pins came out of the

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bombs, they dropped to the floor. There were only 600 men in the

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trench at the time. He had four seconds of his life and that is all

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that was left that he could do was to throw himself on top of him and

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was blown to smithereens. These people volunteered. He would have

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probably held meetings in this hall, encouraging boys in those heady days

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of 1914 to go off and fight for King and country. Remember, there was a

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heightened tension here with the home rule Bill and people felt they

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were fighting for King and country that would actually stop home rule.

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In a way, it is part very much of the history not just of the war but

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also what was happening here politically in 1912-14. While the

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building has taken on a new life, for those from it who fought at the

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Somme and elsewhere, their memory now rests with their families and

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the historians for generations to come.

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The countdown continues to the start of Euro 2016.

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Let's join Stephen Watson live outside the team hotel in France.

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The news emerging from the Northern Ireland camp today

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is that Kyle Lafferty says he's had the results of a scan on his injured

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groin and will be fit to play against Poland on Sunday.

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The pictures today perhaps tell a different story.

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Lafferty didn't train and simply spent 15 minutes on an exercise

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bike as his team mates prepared for the game.

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Lafferty was all smiles for the cameras but was still

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walking very gingerly and it remains to be seen whether he will win his

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race to be fit in time for the game in Nice.

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There are four sets of brothers playing in the Euro 2016.

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One set will line up for Northern Ireland.

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Joel Taggart has been talking to Jonny and Corey Evans,

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and started by asking Corey about his first memories

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Just out in the street, kicking a ball about. He was a bit older and

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he was playing with a few kids and I would be standing around watching.

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Once I got a bit older I was allowed to to join in. I always welcomed

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him. Corey was a fast centre forward at that stage. He always scored the

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goals. Even playing street football. Was he a good big Brother? He was

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all right. Just all right? Could have been better? No, he's good. The

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first ever brothers to appear for Northern Ireland in major finals.

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How nice will it be to be able to share it with Corey? It will be

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great. We always share rooms when we come away. We enjoy all the

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experiences together. Even now, we live close together. It would be

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great to go into the tournament, which is something we are both very

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proud of, representing our country. The only thing that would top all of

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this would be two of you on the pitch at the same time celebrating a

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goal. It would be better if he set me up. That would top it all off. A

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very talented duo indeed. The Republic of Ireland arrived

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in France today ahead of Monday night's opening

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fixture against Sweden. Martin O'Neill has based his squad

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in Versailles and our reporter The players and management have just

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checked into the team hotel here. They will take part in an open

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public training session nearby tomorrow morning. But I am sure that

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even Roy Keane will be happy with all that Versailles has to offer. In

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a special interview, Martin O'Neill has been telling me about his

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expectations for the tournament and reflecting on how his unlikely

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partnership with Roy Keane has guided the Republic to France. I

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suppose I can speak from a position of strength because we have

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qualified. If we had not qualified, people would say it did not work. It

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has worked out pretty well. We meet each other occasionally outside but

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we don't socialise. We don't socialise together. From that

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viewpoint, when we go into the camp, we are there to work. We enjoy it,

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don't get me wrong, things are great. He is a motivational

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character himself. He has been splendid for the group of players

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here and these players will have grown up with him being there he

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wrote. So we have got all of those things. But in terms of our own mix,

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I can only turn around and say it is fine. I can say it has worked

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because we have qualified. If we had not qualified, I would have said it

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was the biggest disaster of all time. Looking ahead to the first

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game against Sweden, because potentially three points will be

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enough, how important is momentum in international football? You do need

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to get off to a decent start. First of all, it breeds a bit of

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confidence, it is nice to get one point on the board rather than none,

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it is nice to get free rather than one, and you feel that if you could

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win the first game, you are giving yourself a heck of a chance to make

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it through to the next stages. Everyone will look to let Jonathan

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Walters, Shane Long for the goals, big performances from the big

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players in the squad, but what else do you like about this squad? The

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only thing I will say about this squad is I think they have shown a

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desire to pull themselves around. You can make a lot of late goals but

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if you do it often enough, they must be something in it. A never say die

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spirit. You talk about 1982, I could draw a lot of things but the one

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thing the 1982 team had, we had a great desire and a great spirit.

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Catholics and Protestants playing in the side, we were really strong, and

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those are the things. And we had a wee bit of talent. We had a young

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centre forward coming in called Norman Whiteside, who was only 17

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years of age but was a proper man. Armstrong played the tournament of

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his life. And the rest of us fit in with our ability somewhere along the

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way. We had some really strong characters. That is what I like to

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think we have here. An interesting insight from the

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former Northern Ireland captain. That is it life from France. We will

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be back with more tonight and we will be reporting in the Euro 2016

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preview programme tonight on BBC One.

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Let's get a look at the weather now. It turned out nice again today. Part

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of the coastline did hold onto some mist and low cloud. But can see that

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on the satellite picture. Some fog of the north coast. That is going to

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roll back inland and particularly after dark. It may well start off

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like this tomorrow morning, as indeed it did this morning, along

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parts of the East Antrim coast. It will be a lovely evening. Another

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warm one tonight, perhaps uncomfortably so for some. And once

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we lose that mist and low cloud, we are in for another warm afternoon

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tomorrow with similar temperatures to today. But to begin with they

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will be areas of sea floor, especially along the County Down

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coast. The ferry may be delayed. It should burn off a little bit more

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quickly compared to today. Once it goes, temperatures will rise quite

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nicely into the low 20s. There is a possibility of one or two showers

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tomorrow, particularly in the North West. That may just be enough to set

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them off. Tomorrow evening is the first gig at this venue and it will

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be a level evening as well. But then the weather starts to come in from

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the Atlantic so cloud and rain pushing in from the Atlantic. It

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will feel cooler. It is also the start of fresher, more unsettled

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weather this weekend. If the heat has been too much for you, you may

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well come a little bit of rain. There will still be some dry weather

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at times this weekend, but Italy on Saturday. If you are waiting for

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Sunday evening and the first match, hopefully the showers will have

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moved on. For those travelling to France, it is much nicer, warm and

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sunny. Our late summary is that 10:30pm.

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From everyone on the team, enjoy what is left of that sunshine and

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have a good night. Goodbye.

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