20/06/2016 BBC Newsline

This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor.

The police have made what's believed to be a substantial explosives find

at a block of flats in north Belfast.

They say they discovered 1.5kg of suspected

Semtex, at Maeve House in the New Lodge area.

Searches were started following a tip-off

It's thought there was enough explosive to make three

After three trials, a 23-year-old man has been acquitted of the

"one-punch" killing of another young man.

Today as a fourth trial was due to get underway,

the prosecution said it would be offering no evidence

against Mark Donnelly from Greencastle in County Tyrone.

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

Here's our South-West reporter Julian Fowler.

19-year-old Jason McGovern was found dead in his friend's home

Hours earlier, he had been attacked in the car park.

A postmortem revealed he had a fractured skull and died

as a result of bleeding on the brain.

Mark Donnelly had faced two trials in Dungannon.

He had maintained that he was innocent and was wrongly identified

by a witness as being the man who threw the permission which led

-- punch which led to Mr McGovern's death.

Each time, the jury was unable to reach a verdict on the charge

on manslaughter, but he was found guilty of affray for

Another trial had to be aborted for legal reasons.

Today, a prosecution lawyer said they were offering no evidence

on the manslaughter charge and the jury was directed

He will be sentenced for affray in September.

A man in his 70s has died after a crash in

He was driving a car which was in collision with a lorry

A ruling that abortion law in Northern Ireland is incompatible

with human rights law is being challenged

The 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

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,

The appeal is expected to last for three days,

with a judgment to be made by the end of the year.

Football, and the Northern Ireland Manager says his team can as he put

it "hurt" the world champions Germany in their final

is more than 10,000 Northern Ireland fans are already here, and there

will be more tomorrow. There is some excitement, some nervousness, and

also expectation. Can Northern Ireland deliver? We have a lead very

latest from the Northern Ireland team camp. This time tomorrow night

we will know in Northern Ireland have made it through to the knockout

stages of Euro 2016. And joined by the captain. Stephen, how confident

is the team that you can make it through? We're in a great position,

looking forward to the game. For so long in my career and felt that we

would never get to play at this stage. We are cherishing being here

and do not want the fairy tale to end. If beating Ukraine was the

proudest moment of your career, is this the biggest challenge? It will

be a huge test. We are under no illusions. But it is a game to look

forward to. If we go out and give our all, come off the page and get a

result, there will be unbelievable pride and satisfaction. But there is

a lot of work to do before that happens. Is the team ready?

Definitely. We have been looking forward to the game since the final

whistle the other night. We will have to be at our very best if not

better to get a result that we were against Ukraine. But we're really

enjoying being here and we want that to continue. What would it mean to

you and your team mates to make it through, and everybody in Northern

Ireland? It would mean everything. We get to see the reaction back

home, the reaction of the fans, the atmosphere in the stadium the other

night was unbelievable. Everybody is enjoying the moment and proud of the

country. It is great to see. Stephen, thank you very much. And

the game tomorrow night is live on BBC One. For many fans this visit to

Paris marks the very end of a very long journey. From Nice to the

French capital. They say it has been worth it. The fans arriving in their

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

the supporters are still loving the city. It's massive. You come here,

you could fit Belfast in that we corner over there. I stay in a

hotel? We are staying in a tree house. A tree house in a camper van

site. It is excellent. It is different, but outstanding.

Absolutely brilliant. Many fans are staying on international campsites

just outside Paris. And they are all mixing well. What do you think of

the Northern Ireland fans? Best friends. Best friends here in

France. CHEERING

Will you still say that if Northern Ireland B Germany tomorrow night?

No. We are at the other end of the campsite. How has it been for your?

I am too old for this. At three o'clock in the morning when you're

hearing the singing... I had to go out and buy earplugs last night.

These fans have spent the last two weeks camping intense at Euro 2016,

but they give up last night. It was bucketing down, so we decided we

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

the pitch was beside the seven where it happen flooding, without we would

get ourselves some luxury. The good news for the fans is that the

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

tonight the fans are mixing well. The German and Northern Ireland fans

are even in some of the same bars, sharing a singsong. Whatever the

result of tomorrow night's match, it does promise to be quite an

occasion. The Republic need to beat Italy

in their final group game in Lille on Wednesday if they want to have

any chance of staying in the Euros. 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 There hasn't been much 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. 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 It might get you a yellow card,

you may even get a red, You have to make sacrifices

for your team. It is like boxing, you see a great

boxer get knocked down, you get back up and hope

for the best. As for the fans ? well,

they have left their own Our reporter Ita Dungan has been

travelling with them Right on the Belgian border,

this city is a bit Belgian, By this time tomorrow afternoon it

will probably be around 80% Irish. The fans are starting to arrive

and their reputation If the local authorities

here contacted their colleagues in Paris, 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 # Go home for the French police

Go home for the French police... Irish fans will hope

that the players turn up the heat And that video from our cameraman

of the singing police officer has now had more

than a million hits online. It has not been too bad today, the

longest day of the year. It is a day early this year because it is a leap

year. And it also coincides with the Strawberry Moon, and those two only

meet once every 70 years. It happened just after 11:30 p.m.. A

bit of cloud around, temperatures will fall to around 11 degrees. As

for tomorrow, it will be like today, mainly dry, at cloud but the sun

will come out. Not a bad picture if you are travelling tomorrow. Across

Britain and Ireland it is largely dry with good amounts of sunshine.

There will be scattered showers popping up later. Across western

Scotland and making their way inland. Some grey skies along the

West Coast of Ireland and they will give us some scattered showers.

Further east it will stay mainly dry. For us where we get the best of

the sunshine temperatures could reach 20 Celsius. Watch out for the

showers later on mainly in the West. Wednesday is similar, the odd

isolated shower, but the emphasis is on dry weather. Temperatures perhaps

reaching 17-18. For the rest of the week, with low pressure in is always

the risk of showers are plenty of dry weather and some sunshine. A few

showers could be heavy come Friday. Our next BBC Newsline

is at 6.25 in the morning