20/06/2016 BBC Newsline

Good evening. to go to Jo Cox's aid, has been

A man who faced three trials, accused of

A challenge in the High Court to a ruling

I am in the Match Of The Day macro studio in Paris with all the latest

on the football and the fans in Paris. I am at the Parc des Princes,

where tomorrow night Northern Ireland take on Germany.

Also on the programme... If you can't beat them, join them -

the moment the French police got in tune with the Irish fans.

And we hit 21 degrees today - will there be more

After three trials, a 23-year-old man has been acquitted of what's

called the "one punch" killing of another young man.

Today as a fourth trial was due to get under way the prosecution

said it would be offering no evidence against Mark Donnelly

from Greencastle in County Tyrone, who had pleaded not

Jason McGovern from County Monaghan died after being attacked in 2012.

Our south-west reporter, Julian Fowler, was in the court.

19-year-old Jason McGovern was found bed in his friend's home following a

night out in Omagh macro. Earlier he had been attacked in a car park. A

postmortem revealed he had a fractured skull and died of bleeding

on the brain. Mark Donnelly had faced two trials, he had maintained

he was innocent but was identified as a witness as being the man who

threw the fatal punch. Each time the jury was unable to reach a verdict

on the charge of manslaughter but he was found guilty of affray for a

fight on the same night. Another trial had to be aborted for legal

reasons. Today a prosecution lawyer said they were offering no evidence

on the manslaughter charge and a jury was directed to find him not

guilty. He will be sentenced for affray in September.

A ruling that abortion law in Northern Ireland is incompatible

with human-rights law is being challenged in the High Court.

An appeal has been taken by the Department of Justice

Our health correspondent, Marie-Louise Connolly, reports.

Basically the Department of Justice and the Attorney General are trying

to overturn last year's ruling by Justice Horner, who found that the

Northern Irish law on abortion is incompatible with human rights. The

Department of Justice believes the ruling could eventually lead to a

widening of abortion law in Northern Ireland. In one of ten opening

submissions John Larkin said... The Human Rights Commission is

calling for women to be allowed to choose access in the termination of

a pregnancy, especially in circumstances of serious

malformation of the foetus, including fatal faecal abnormality,

rape or incest and without synchronised the doing so. The

appeal is expected to last for three days, with a judgment to be made by

the end of the year. Football, and this time tomorrow

the Northern Ireland team will be battling it out against the current

world champions, BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson is in

Paris ahead of the game. Move over, Gary Lineker, I am in his

seat. I am here for one night only, this time tomorrow night Gary and

his panel will be here analysing that crucial make or break match

between world champions Germany and Northern Ireland. It is expected

around 120,000 people will be in the fan zone behind me watching the

game, then there are the lucky ones, around 10,000 Northern Ireland fans

at the park to prance tomorrow night. Stephen Watson is there

already. Over to you. Thanks very much. This is the

fabulous venue for tomorrow night's big aim, what an occasion. The

Northern Ireland team have just left, completed their final

preparations and training for the game and they look very relaxed. The

team will be keeping a close eye on the England and Wales results

because if those games go Northern Ireland's way then it could be

possible that Northern Ireland can lose to Germany and still go through

to the knockout stages. They will of course want their own positive

result to make it through to the last 16.

The Germans will pin us back regardless, they did it to Poland

and Ukraine, I saw them recently and they were 3-0 up after 60 minutes,

which gives you an indication of the quality in their squad but we have

to set up our team to be difficult to beat and carry on the attacking

threat as well. We can only approach the game as a one-off and try to get

as much as we can out of it and hopefully that will be enough to get

through to the next phase. You are in touching distance of the knockout

stage stages, how big an occasion is this? Massive, it is why we are

here. We have enjoyed it but it was never our goal just to enjoy it and

go out. We have given ourselves a chance to go into the round of 16, a

massive success for a country of our size with the player resource we

have, but we have some good players and a real strength and togetherness

and we want to stay in the tournament as long as we can.

It was a real roller-coaster of emotions last time for Martin

O'Neill. This man is making sure the pitch is in pristine condition

tonight, he is from Ballymena. How proud are you to welcome Northern

Ireland here? It was a surprise for me to end up in Paris working for

PSG. I knew the Euros would be in France but never in my wildest

dreams did I mention that Northern Ireland would end up playing on my

pitch. When they turn up tonight -- when they turned up it started to

sink in. It is the wettest June in Paris since 1932, how has that made

your job hard? Typical, but we are really looking forward to it. This

time last year we were sweltering in 40 degrees heat, we were worried

about how hot it would be this summer but it has been the opposite,

hard work. Can Northern Ireland do the business on your pitch tomorrow

night and make it through to the knockout stages? Of course, we have

to be optimistic and if they play the way they did last time anything

can happen and I will do my part to try to produce the best pitch but of

course we are all up for it and let's go for it. Palomino man as the

groundsman and also as the captain. -- Ballymena.

Rugby fans might be familiar with the venue because the Ireland team

played here. The Irish football team will be hoping for better fortune,

because the rugby team never won here.

In the early 1980s Ireland beat Germany not once but twice. --

Northern Ireland. The only time Germany have been defeated home and

away in qualifying for a major tournament. Playing in the teams was

Jamie Nicholls and now he is in the team's backroom squad. You always

felt as an underdog and as long as you go into games like that,

feeling, just don't get beat, and you need everybody in the park to be

on your side. Also on the staff is somebody with plenty of German

experience, goalkeeping coach Mike Taylor. My mum is German and my

brother lives in Germany and I made my debut there, so huge fixture but

obviously we know what is at stake and we know it will be extremely

difficult but on any given day we have roofed in the past that we can

come up with the goods and we will certainly be ready. Michael Hughes,

no support at the minute. Northern Ireland have scored some memorable

goals against Germany. They managed to draw with the then European

champions 20 years ago. The class of 2016 would be content with a similar

result tomorrow night. The only time Northern Ireland and

Germany have met at the major finals was the World Cup in 1958, they drew

and both made it through to the knockout stages, so let's hope that

is an omen for tomorrow night. We have third about the football but

what about the fans? About 10,000 are in Paris and I have been

speaking to some. The fans are arriving in their

thousands. The welcome in Paris has been warm but wet, very wet. But the

supporters are still loving the city. It is massive. In Belfast you

think it is a great place to be barred you could fit Belfast in that

we corner over there. You stayed in a hotel? We are staying in a tree

house. It is excellent. It is different but it is brilliant.

Many fans are staying on international campsites just outside

Paris and they are all mixing well. What you think of the Northern

Ireland fans? Best fans. Will you still be saying that if they beat

Germany tomorrow night? No. We are now at the other end of the

campsite, how has it been for you? When two o'clock in the morning when

Will Grigg is on fire, I had to wear my it plugs last night!

These fans from Ballymena have spent the last two weeks camping in tense

but they gave up last night. It was coming down in buckets so we decided

we would get ourselves a caravan. We travelled all day, we were grumpy,

our pitch was beside the River Seine where it has been -- had been

flooding so we made this decision. The good news for all fans is that

the weather forecast for the rest of the week is sunshine.

Many of the Northern Ireland fans have made the big journey from the

niece macro -- from NICE to Lyon, how do those locations compare? It

has been a different experience for the travelling fans in the capital

city, one reason is the weather compare to the sunshine in Nice.

Also the geography, in the nicest possible way the green and white

army took over the centre of Nice, and Lyon but you can't do that in

Paris. It has an overall population including suburbs of around 10

million people and the Northern Ireland fans are blending into the

city centre rather than the other cities where you couldn't go around

the corner without running into one of them. Some of them are running

out of energy and money as well but they are in good spirits, they

believe there will be a good result against Germany tomorrow night and

one other thing is the weather, it makes them feel at home. Thank you,

Mark, and later in the programme, how the Republic of Ireland's team

is looking forward after the disappointment of defeat to Belgium.

And if you haven't seen it already on the internet,

a BBC Newsline cameraman captures the musical talents employed

You're watching BBC Newsline - still ahead, the plans for 5000 more

jobs, thanks to an expansion in tech businesses here.

The Remain and Leave campaigns in the EU referendum recommenced

today, having been suspended following the murder of the Labour

Assembly Members started their proceedings at Stormont this

Last week on BBC Newsline we focused on attitudes

towards the European Union among nationalists.

This evening, how the referendum campaign has divided the two

Mark Devenport begins his report with an historic confrontation

on the floor of the European Parliament.

Permit me to say how much... Judas! October 1988 and Ian Paisley

disrupts a special session at the European Parliament, calling Pope

John Paul II and Antichrist. The DUP leader also held the European

Community in disdain, describing it as the greatest Catholic superstate

of the world has known. This house is already in disrepute. His son and

namesake is a leading light of the campaign to end the UK membership of

the EU. These days his arguments are political and economic rather than

religious. The EU is broken, it doesn't work, it charges too much

money, it spends its money on our competitors better than on

ourselves, and apart from sovereignty and immigration, which

seems to affect England more closely than us, it isn't doing enough for

people here. In 1975 when voters last got a chance to take part in a

European referendum the Ulster Unionists were firmly in the out cab

but times have changed. In the 1970s South Down MP Enoch -- Enoch

Powell's Eurosceptic opinions was a staunch opponent -- influence on the

Ulster Unionists but now their leader thinks the UK is better off

staying in. One of his concerns is the threat to the stability of the

UK if a vote to leave Trevor Shoreham Community Memorial Trust

triggers a new independence referendum in Scotland. -- vote to

leave triggers. I know that Nicola Sturgeon will go for independence

with whatever means she can but I don't want my finger on that button.

Tom Elliott says he will be voting to leave. Lady Sylvia Hermon is

firmly in the remaining camp. The DUP MPs mostly -- most committed to

Brexit insists the Ulster Unionists leadership has misjudged the mood of

the grassroots. When the results are announced constituency by

constituency we should have some facts to back up the opinions.

The Northern Ireland Science Park is planning a major expansion,

developing around one million square feet of office space

The not-for profit organisation, which is changing its name

to Catalyst Inc, is also aiming to support 5000 additional jobs.

With the details, our economics and business editor, John Campbell.

PathXL is a typical Science Park business.

It uses groundbreaking digital technology to improve

The company started small but is growing fast.

It aims to double its workforce over the next couple of years.

Like all the firms based here it pays a rent to the Science Park,

which then reinvests by providing support schemes.

The boss of PathXL says that environment is important.

Competing internationally is tough and you need all forms of support

and the science Park provides a very supportive environment in terms of

industry -- of infrastructure and people, the people who run Catalyst

Inc and all the other people. The organisation is based in east

Belfast and also has The expansion will

cover both cities. It is about better reflecting what

the organisation does. The name is about, whatever part you deal with,

you will see Catalyst Inc and you understand that it is the whole

thing, the machine. At the heart of the plan is three new buildings, one

in Belfast and two in Derry. Back to the European

football championships, and after their 3-0 defeat

to Belgium at the weekend, the Republic of Ireland will next

take on Italy in their final group There has been heavy rain across a

lot of the country today and there are concerns over the condition of

the playing surface in Lille, so much so that you waiver has asked

Italy and the Republic of Ireland not to hold planned training

sessions inside the stadium. -- Uefa are has asked. There has been time

to reflect on the defeat to Belgium but assistant manager Roy Keane says

the players must become more cynical as they battle to stay in the

tournament. You have to be streetwise in this game. We are not

here to make friends. The fans are doing that but for the players, if

you smell danger, if you hold a play up and you can win the ball,

fantastic, but if you think, we are in trouble here, then yeah, you do

whatever you can to get the right result. If that is fouling, you

foul. It is not a crime. It might get you a yellow card, you may even

get a read, but your team might win. You have to make sacrifices for your

team. What you think I would do? That is what sport is about. It is

like boxing, you see a great boxer get knocked down, you get back up

and hope for the best. A smile from Roy Keane ending

Thomas Kane's report. Right throughout the football

tournament the internet has been bombarded with videos of fans

enjoying themselves in France. But it's a scene captured by our BBC

cameraman following the Republic's Our reporter Ita Dungan

is travelling with him. Right on the Belgian border, this

city is a bit Belgian, a bit Dutch and a bit French. By this time

tomorrow afternoon it will probably be around 80% Irish. The fans are

starting to arrive and their reputation has preceded them. If the

local authorities here contacted their colleagues in Paris all

although, they would probably be told to expect thousands of fans but

no trouble and an awful lot of craic. French TV and newspapers have

heaped praise on Irish fans and there have been videos of their

antics, seen serenading a young woman in Bordeaux, singing lullabies

to a child on a tram in Bordeaux and clearing up after themselves at 2am.

The most popular YouTube video, with almost a million hits already, was

filmed by BBC newsline cameraman Bill Hilditch as we made our way

home after the match in Bordeaux. # Go home for the French police

Go home for the French police... Irish bands will hope that the

players turn up the heat on the pitch to get a result.

More football now, and the draw took place today for the qualifying

Crusaders will play FC Copenhagen next month.

In the Europa League, Linfield have drawn Cork City

in an all-Ireland derby in the first round of qualifiers.

It was a busy weekend for other sports.

Nigel Ringland begins his report with rugby, and Ireland looking

to make history and win their series in South Africa.

Islands produce a superb first half display with this drive from Devin

Toner and 14 points from the boot of Paddy Jackson, giving them a 19-3

school at half-time but the Springboks came storming back after

the interval and this school with five minutes remaining sealed the

win. It tied the series at 1-1 with the decider in Port Elizabeth on

Saturday. Tyrone and Cavan must replay their semifinal, after this

game ended in a drawer. Mickey Harte's side have the opportunity to

make the Ulster final but this attempted 45 drifted wide and the

two sides will battle it out again on July the 3rd. Defending champion

Jonathan Ray completed a double success to extend his lead in the

Superbike championship to 66 points. He saw off the challenge of his

Kawasaki team-mate Tom Sykes on making its 16 podiums from as many

starts this season. 2012 singles sculls bronze medallist Adam

Campbell returned to the podium for the first time in a year when he

finished third at the World Cup regatta in Poznan. There was a

bronze medal for Peter Chambers in the men's lightweight four.

It's a significant day in the calendar, and if it doesn't

cloud over tonight we're in for a treat in the sky -

This was sunrise on the north coast. Thank you for sending your

photographs in. It is the longest day of the year today and it is a

leap year which coincides with a Strawberry Moon. It comes together

once every 70 years and it will not be a red Moon, it was named after

native -- by Native Americans to mark the start of strawberry season.

It will happen at about 25 to 12. If you get any snaps sends them our

way. Temperatures of 11 or 12 degrees, not too cold or too muggy.

Mainly dry tomorrow with sunny spells but the cloud will thicken at

times, given of isolated showers. Temperatures will get up into the

high teens. Today we hit 21 in County Down, tomorrow we could see

19 or 20 in 12 spots, although across the West slightly cooler at

about 16 or 17. -- in one or two spots. A fine day tomorrow with

plenty of dry weather, climbing into the low 20s in places. Across the

East it will be a sunnier end to the day, across the West scattered

showers, one or two drifting east into the evening. Wednesday, very

little will change,. Mild air, a few showers but plenty of dry weather as

well. Temperatures into the high teens. Looking ahead for the rest of

the week, very little will change, the risk of one or two scattered

showers but some heat in the sunshine as well.

Our late summary is at half past ten.

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