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The father and his children injured in a lightning strike in Lisburn | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
George Allen, who's 37, remains in a critical condition. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
His five-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter's | :00:23. | :00:23. | |
condition have tonight been described as stable. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Today, the Education Minister, Peter Weir, visited | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Killowen Primary School and praised the efforts of the teachers. | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
As Will Leitch reports, it's now emerged that both | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
the principal and vice-principal worked with the injured family | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
George Allen was doing what any father would have done, | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
collecting his children from school on a wet afternoon. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
The lightning strike left all three of them seriously ill in hospital | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
and closed the school of 450 pupils for the time being. | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
This school, the classrooms, the playgrounds, the sports | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
areas, really should have been buzzing today. | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
Instead, the school is closed, the corridors silent, | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
save for the teachers working with an independent counselling team | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
to assess the questions the children are likely to ask | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
I found it very sad driving up the driveway. | :01:09. | :01:23. | |
Usually, as you say, there is the buzz and the hubbub | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
of the school situation, obviously some children in class, | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
Just to see the emptiness and to feel the emptiness. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Driving up, you think back to what happened yesterday | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
Some children witnessed the incident and saw senior teachers | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
The Education Minister has praised their actions. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
On the day itself, I think the school behaved in an exemplary | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
fashion and I think the intervention from senior members of staff | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
I really want to commend them for their swift action. | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Local people have started fundraising for the Allen family | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
and, at lunchtime, pupils brought food for their teachers, | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
Just now, everyone at Killowen Primary School | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
An inquest into the Kingsmills Massacre has been adjourned | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
It's looking into the murders of ten Protestant workmen by the IRA | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
in the County Armagh village in 1976. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
The coroner said police should be given time to pursue a new lead | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Gordon Adair reports from the inquest. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Before hearing the day's evidence, the coroner talked about last week's | :02:26. | :02:38. | |
development when a partial palm print found on a vehicle at the time | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
of the killings was re-examined and apparently for the first time | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
He said that he understood how the families of those killed felt | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
that they no longer knew who to believe all what to believe | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
-- that they no longer knew who to believe or what to believe, | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
given the circumstances and particularly | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
However, he said this could potentially be one of the most | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
crucial pieces of evidence ever to emerge and that as such | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
the police had to be given the opportunity to pursue that lead | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
He said, however, this would not be an open-ended process and he said | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
they would be putting in place a provisional timetable and keeping | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
It's 22 years since six Catholics were killed | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
Tomorrow, the Police Ombudsman will publish a report | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
into allegations of collusion between police officers | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney reports. | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
The horrific aftermath of an attack that left six men dead | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
They had been watching a World Cup game in The Heights | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
bar in Loughinisland when UVF gunman struck. | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
No one has ever been convicted in connection with the attack. | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
Families of the victims have claimed that is because the police | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Five years ago, the previous Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
upheld their complaint that the police had not properly | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
investigated the killings, but he said there was no evidence | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
The families took legal action and that report was quashed. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
The current Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire reopened the investigation. | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
The families are hoping for a very different outcome. | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
It is quite simple, they seek an independent, impartial, | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
robust analysis of the facts and where there are failings | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
that they be highlighted as failings and where there requires to be | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
accountability that the appropriate censure is made. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
The ombudsman's findings will be published tomorrow morning. | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
Michael Maguire's report will contain thousands of words | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
but for the families of those killed here 22 years ago, | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
the focus will be on whether he uses one word - collusion. | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
Public housing here has received a major boost, | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
following a big loan from the European Investment Bank. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
It is providing ?280 million towards the cost of building | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
Here's our business correspondent Julian O'Neill. | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
The money will bankroll a future pipeline of projects. | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
In all, 4,700 homes in the social housing sector. | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
Two housing bodies, Choice and Apex, will also get top funds | :05:24. | :05:33. | |
from Stormont in an ongoing drive to cut waiting lists | :05:34. | :05:45. | |
-- Two housing bodies, Choice and Apex, will also get top | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
up funds from Stormont in an ongoing drive to cut waiting lists | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
There is a huge need for housing in Northern Ireland. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
The waiting list has over 40,000 people on it, | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
I think this investment and the thousands of new homes, | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
affordable homes that will be built as a result, will make a start | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
The European Investment Bank is based in Luxembourg and makes low | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
It has been involved in many roads projects in Northern Ireland | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
as well as providing ?150 million worth of capital | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
towards the University of Ulster's new Belfast campus. | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
Run by the EU, the bank is a nonprofit and the outcome | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
of the referendum will not affect this deal. | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
It has no bearing on existing loans, loans we have already agreed, | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
where obviously a contract is a contract. | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
There may well be implications for the future. | :06:28. | :06:28. | |
It is difficult to say at this stage what those will be. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
The construction sector will join in the celebrations, | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
such is the scale of this announcement. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
Spread over five years, it will deliver on sites | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
The electoral registration problems for the vote on whether to stay | :06:41. | :06:57. | |
in or out of the EU which have affected other parts of the UK | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
That means, according to the Electoral Office Northern Ireland, | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
that the deadline to register will not be extended | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
Now, if you are feeling a bit squeamish, this might be | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Because if you've a morbid hatred of creepy crawlies then our next | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Our Agriculture and Environment Correspondent Conor Macauley has | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
been out to investigate reports of an infestation of | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
caterpillars attacking ash trees in south Belfast. | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
A plague of green bugs munching their way through these | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
They have stripped them almost bare in just over a week. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
It is enough to make you itch...a lot. | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
If you listen really closely, you can actually hear | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
the larvae eating the leaves in the tree above me. | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
The problem with that is that you are then so close | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
they are constantly falling on your head. | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
It is a bit disconcerting, certainly. | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
We have posted videos on social media and our friends are enjoying | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
The Ulster Wildlife's Moth Man comes up with one. | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
-- As they are flies, not moths, well, he is a little disappointed. | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
Everything in the insect world goes in cycles. | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
The heat we've been having in the last couple of weeks, | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
you will get these plagues and infestations so it is uncommon | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
Experts are to be sent out for a look but locals say this | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
happened last year, too, and the trees did not suffer. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
Now for news from the Northern Ireland camp at the European | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
The news emerging from the Northern Ireland camp today | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
is that Kyle Lafferty says he's had the results of a scan on his injured | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
groin and will be fit to play against Poland on Sunday. | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
The pictures today perhaps tell a different story. | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
Lafferty didn't train and simply spent 15 minutes on an exercise | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
bike as his team mates prepared for the game. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
Lafferty was all smiles for the cameras but was still | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
walking very gingerly and it remains to be seen whether he will win his | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
race to be fit in time for the game in Nice. | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
There are four sets of brothers playing in the Euro 2016. | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
One set will line up for Northern Ireland. | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
Joel Taggart has been talking to Jonny and Corey Evans, | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
and started by asking Corey about his first memories | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
Just out in the street, kicking a ball about. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
He was a bit older and he was playing with a few kids and I would | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
Once I got a bit older I was allowed to to join in. | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Corey was a fast centre forward at that stage. | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
He always scored the goals, and I would have a position at the back, | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
The first ever brothers to appear for Northern Ireland | :09:55. | :10:10. | |
How nice will it be to be able to share it with Corey? | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
Usually when we come away, we always share rooms. | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
We enjoy all the experiences together. | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
It would be great to go into the tournament, | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
something we are both very proud of, representing our country. | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
The only thing that would top all of this would be two | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
of you on the pitch at the same time celebrating a goal at | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
You set me up, I'll have a wee tap in. | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
That'd be brilliant, that'd would top it all off. | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
The Republic of Ireland squad arrived in France today ahead | :10:56. | :11:09. | |
of Monday night's opening fixture against Sweden. | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Earlier, the team had an official photo call at Dublin Airport before | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
Martin O'Neill's side play Sweden on Monday in their Group E opener. | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
Another lovely day today, but will it stay for tomorrow? | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
Here's Cecilia Daly with the weather forecast. | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
It is more tonight but also miss Steve. Some fog around as well. Also | :11:27. | :11:38. | |
some low cloud on the north coast. A little uncomfortable at times. It | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
will be a warm day eventually tomorrow with sunshine but there | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
will be mist and low cloud probably brightening up more quickly towards | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
the north coast but the mist and fog will linger on the County Down coast | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
longer. Mist and low cloud affecting North Sea coast,. Otherwise it is a | :12:00. | :12:13. | |
lovely day eventually for many parts of the UK and Ireland. Temperatures | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
in Northern Ireland putting into the low 20s. A couple of showers | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
breaking out mainly across the Northwest. After our warm weather | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
tomorrow it will feel cooler and it will be wet at times on Friday. | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
Quite a change is our weather starts to come in from the Atlantic and it | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
is the start of more unsettled weather which will linger through | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
the weekend and probably into next week. That will not be raining all | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
the time this weekend. It looks like Saturday will be the driver one of | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
the two days. Most of the showers will have moved on before Northern | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
Ireland kicks off with their first match in the Euro 2016 competition. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
The forecast for Sunday in Nice is warmer and sunny. | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 6.25 in the morning | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
You can also keep updated with News Online. | :13:00. | :13:04. |