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Good evening. This is BBC newsline. The headlines. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
A proposed deal to end an Orange Order stand-off | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Reverberations from the EU referendum result. The Prime | :00:28. | :00:39. | |
Minister rules out a border poll. We set this out clearly in the Good | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Friday agreement and I don't believe it has been triggered. I man for | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
Irish passports after the Brexit vote. Some post offices have run out | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
of application forms. Thousands gather at the fanzone | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
in Belfast to welcome the Northern Ireland team | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
home from the Euros. The Queen arrives for a two-day | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
visit to Mark a 90th birthday. It has tried up nicely, but will it | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
stay that way? Find out later in the programme -- it has dried out | :01:14. | :01:14. | |
nicely. A proposed deal between | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
the Orange Order and a nationalist residents' | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
group in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast to end a long | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
running dispute has stalled. The agreement would have meant | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
an Orange parade prevented from returning to Ligoniel | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
on the 12th of July three years ago would be completed early on Friday | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
morning, which marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
of the Somme. A loyalist protest camp | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
at Twaddell Avenue The agreement was due to be | :01:37. | :01:37. | |
announced this afternoon, but a planned press | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
conference was cancelled. Our Home Affairs Correspondent | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
Vincent Kearney reports. Violence erupted moments after an | :01:46. | :01:59. | |
Orange Order told the parade was stopped in North fast in July 2000 | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
13. The Parades Commission ruled it could not pass the Ardoyne shop | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
fronts on the common road. Three days of violence followed with | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
dozens of police officers in Jude and dozens of rioters arrested. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Since then there has been a loyalist protest camp at Twaddell Avenue. The | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
policing operation has cost more than ?20 million. An agreement to | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
end the dispute was due to be announced today. The remit would | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
have allowed the Orange Order to complete the parade back to Ligoniel | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
but was stopped nearly three years ago. When that happened, the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Twaddell Avenue protest camp was to be dismantled. Agreement had been | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
reached on future Orange Order parades the area. But not everyone | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
involved in the dispute agreed. The agreement was the result of talks | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
involving the Crumlin and Ardoyne residents Association and the Orange | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
Order. Another residents Association in Ardoyne said it would not support | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
the deal. And members of one of three Orange Order bash my Orange | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
Order watchers said they would not back the agreement and would not | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
take part in the parade. A public meeting organised by the residents | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
group involved in the talks has been held in this hall and Ardoyne | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
tonight. It would say whether the group continues to support the | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
agreement, despite opposition from one of the Orange lodges. Else will, | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
other measures aimed at saving the deal are also taking place. -- | :03:40. | :03:40. | |
Next, the continuing fall out elsewhere. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
from the UK's decision to leave the European Union. | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
The First Minister revealed she wants to explore | :03:57. | :03:57. | |
with the Treasury if the move could cut the cost of | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
The Deputy First Minister remains concerned about what he describes | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
as the "bombshell" Stormont has to deal with. | :04:05. | :04:05. | |
Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon. | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
First item on the order paper is a motion on the United Kingdom | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
withdrawal from the European Union. The first Stormont post Brexit. Well | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
now, and who blame? I do not want my fingerprints on the button that | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Nicola Sturgeon would press to secure a second referendum and my | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
fingerprints are not on that button but the fingerprints of the leader | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
of the DUP I won that button and she is going to press it. It wasn't the | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
only button being pressed with emotions running high. The question | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
was not the you want Northern Ireland to stay and the only upon | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
answer is the answer that came from the entirety of the people of the | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
United Kingdom. Is he going to accept that or not? Know, is the | :04:50. | :04:59. | |
ads, because I stand by people on this island. -- nor is the answer. I | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
stand by people on this island, in this country, who don't want to | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
leave the European Union. The First Minister, whose party back leaving | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
the EU, try to calm fears. I know there are a lot of people in | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
Northern Ireland is appointed, lots of people angry, lots of people who | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
had made all sorts of terrible prophecies of doom. If others want | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
to engage in navel-gazing that is fine. My focus is on what is doing | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
what is right for all the people of Northern Ireland in terms of the | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
negotiations that will be coming up very soon. She and her it's a good | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
partners were on different sides over the referendum but have decided | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
to put those differences behind them. It is obviously a bombshell, | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
but we have to try and make sense of it. And whenever we look around, we | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
have a responsibility to deal with all of that. And we look to London | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
and what do we see? We see total turmoil. And we can't afford | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
turmoil. As for claims that Stormont could overturn the result and Sinn | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
Fein 's calls for a border poll, those were addressed by the outgoing | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
Prime Minister. On the issue of a border poll, rules for that are set | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
out in the Good Friday agreement and I don't believe they have been | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
triggered and in terms of the decision to leave the EU, and how we | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
do it, that is principally a matter for this Westminster United Kingdom | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
Parliament. Brexit is a first test of the DUP and Sinn Fein 's new | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
working relationship was so far, it is holding. Now, they have got to | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
come up with a plan. Our Political and Economics | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Editors are with me. It's early days, but what's been | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
the mood in the corridors It fairly reflects what the sauna | :06:53. | :07:02. | |
chamber. There is great concern on the part of nationalists and those | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
who lobbied to stay within the EU that something this important might | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
be lost. There is a mixture of disbelief, actually, on the side of | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
the Leave campaign because they thought that ultimately, the Remain | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
campaign is going to win so they did not expect to be in this position. | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Between their very differing views of the outcome, it is hard to get a | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
concerted position. How much pressure will this result put on | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
that working relationship between Sinn Fein and the DUP? It caused the | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
honeymoon period into a bit of question. They did put on a fairly | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
good show today in the chamber, with the harshest but this is coming from | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
the SDLP, and Sinn Fein, whilst they don't like this they were avoiding | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
direct assaults on their DUP counterparts. They can probably | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
agree on things like mine to make sure that any funding year is | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
replaced by London if it is lost from Brussels, but enter is of | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
whether Northern Ireland should have some special status within the EU, | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
nationalists might like that and pro-EU politicians might like that, | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
but the DUP might end up vetoing it. There was more turmoil | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
on financial markets today. We saw the parent company of Ulster | :08:19. | :08:30. | |
Bank, RBS, with its share price down 15%. What is more important is | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
happening the currency and we saw the pound beginning against the | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
dollar Rabiu wrote. That is bad news if you're getting holiday money, you | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
get less bang for your buck, but if you are company exporting to the US, | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
it is good news. You suddenly have a massive competition boost. It means | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
your products are cheaper to buy abroad and you can gain market | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
share. The flip side is, imports will become more expensive if the | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
pound stays low. We had Lord Wilson the boss of the clothing chain, | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
Next, saying that we could see highest click prices rising by next | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
year. Arlene Foster was keen to reassure people that Northern | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Ireland is still an investment location. | :09:16. | :09:16. | |
One of the big issues for business is uncertainty, in trading | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
relationships. They don't want to make investment that will not pay | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
off for three or five years, might wait to see how things shake down | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
before committing money. The First Minister was trying to make | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
reassurances around foreign investment. They were saying listen, | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
market access to the EU is not the reason companies invest here. There | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
are other reasons, we are well and pretty cheap to employ. So they said | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
they are still chasing Forest -- foreign investment. Alistair | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Hamilton said he is excited by the possibilities of Brexit. He said | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
that the state aid rules would give another kind of thing in his | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
armoury. And we had an announcement about investment. Yes, one of our | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
biggest home-grown manufacturing success stories STC trailers has | :10:14. | :10:23. | |
been sold to a Chinese company. That is another sign that life goes on. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
Businesses continue to trade. And with this deal, the buyers did not | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
see Brexit as any barrier to coming here and spending a large sum of | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
money. The Republic's government has urged | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
people not to be panicked There has been heavy demand | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
since the Brexit vote to leave the European Union | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
and some post offices have run out | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
of passport forms. The prospect of Northern Ireland | :10:47. | :10:56. | |
know being part of the EU has made some travel is worried that journeys | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
abroad could be more difficult in future. The solution for some is to | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
get a passport from a country remaining in the U. Such as the | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
Republic of Ireland. The Irish government says there has been a | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
spike in interest but is trying to calm the fears of Northern Ireland | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
residents. Some of the rules have changed recently, but in basic | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
terms, those entitled to an Irish passport have to have been born on | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
the island of Ireland before 2005 or alternatively, have a parent or | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
grandparent born in Ireland. I have been into this south Belfast Post | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Office to see if they had any Irish passport forms and they had them at | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
the ready. Staff said they have been inundated with requests for them | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
since Friday and today there had been 30 passport forms handed out, | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
but they say that the demand is so high they met have to say to people | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
you can only have one form at the time. At this east Belfast Post | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
Office I have come away empty-handed because they don't actually stopped | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Irish passport forms. That does not mean they have not been asked for | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
them constantly over the" even a prominent DUP politician has | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
encouraged people to apply for an Irish passport. In fact, this is a | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
mainly loyalist area has not dampened the man. I asked if they | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
had any Irish passport forms and they said they didn't have any. We | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
are just telling them where to get them. They didn't say why they | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
wanted them what for. How many could you have given out? I would say 100 | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
or 200 by now. The apology sign was up at this east Belfast Post Office | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
by mid-morning. We have gone through 1200 since last Thursday. Just the | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
fact that they are afraid of, when this comes about, that they can | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
travel within Europe under an Irish passport and have no hassles, | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
basically. And Sinn Fein politician has asked for an Irish passport | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
office in Belfast but the Irish Minister for foreign affairs says | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
that most people here applied through their post offices. He said | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
that an unnecessary surge put pressure on the service and lead to | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
delays for those who urgently need a passport. | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
How 40 students found out their school trip was cancelled when they | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
arrived at the airport. Thousands of Northern Ireland | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
football supporters have gathered at the big fan zone in Belfast | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
to welcome home the players The team reached the last sixteen | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
but were knocked out on Saturday. Louise, what's happening | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
at the minute? Thousands might have made it to | :13:37. | :13:46. | |
France, but thousands have come to the fan zone during the tournament | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
turning up for every match. They turned out again and there are | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
thousands tonight, in fine voice and every player has a musically name | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
checked while we waited for them to take to the stage. Tonight was all | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
about letting the team thank the fans for that incredible | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
performance. It is also a chance for the fans to thank the team for | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
keeping the dream alive and making those memories. Stephen Watson has | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
been speaking to one of the men responsible, some say he's a | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
distorted billion have ever had, Michael McGovern. Can you put it | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
into words, the experience you had at Euro 2016? The experience has | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
been well beyond anything I expected beforehand. It has been an | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
unbelievable time. We thank everyone for their support. In my opinion | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
they have been the best supporters in the tournament. | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
CHEERING What did you make of this reception | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
tonight? It is unbelievable. This is something else. It just | :14:50. | :15:09. | |
shows you how good the fans are. And a half of the players I would like | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
to thank you very much. -- behalf of. Finally, this week, the fans in | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
Belfast have done a great job in the fan zone. What was it like for those | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
thousands of supporters who watched all the games in France? How big a | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
difference did they make? Brilliant. You know that if you go out and give | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
it your best shot, good or bad, the fans will back you, no matter what, | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
and that makes it so easy for the boys. Thank you, the goalkeeper, | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
ladies and gentlemen. That dream may have ended on Saturday afternoon, | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
but the flags and heads are still being held high. For the team that | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
did dare to dream, and the Green and white army that marched behind them. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
For the supporters who made their way to France | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
for the tournament it's been a long, costly journey. | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson is still there in Paris. | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
You're missing the party here, Mark. | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
I certainly am. In fairness, I have witnessed my fair share parties | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
overhearing France in the past couple of weeks. Today I been doing | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
some number crunching. It is estimated more than 40,000 Northern | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
Ireland fans have been in France this month across the four matches. | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
There were 11 arrests. The average spend per hour fan is more than | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
?1000 on travel, tickets, accommodation, food and drink. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
Making a grand total, wait for it, and I watering ?40 million has been | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
spent by Northern Ireland fans. Everyone you speak to in Paris says | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
exactly the same thing. It was worth it. Going, going, gone. And among | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
the last elite Paris today were these fans from Cookstown. They | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
included Ian Hughes, brother Robbie Northern Ireland defender, Aaron | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
Hughes. Looking forward to going home and see my wife, but I will | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
miss France, it has been a good trip. What was the highlight? | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
Probably the Ukraine game. The night afterwards was incredible. It was an | :17:21. | :17:32. | |
incredible night. That was probably the highlight that night. He had to | :17:33. | :17:45. | |
fly home and missed it. I got to see 31-0 defeat is, unfortunately, so I | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
don't think the lads will invite me to the game again. CROWD CHANT: Will | :17:49. | :18:04. | |
Grigg's On Fire. It has become the unofficial anthem of the whole | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
tournament. Have the fans got tired singing it? You would have thought | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
so, we have done it all so many times but people will come up to you | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
and sing it to you when you are wearing the Northern Ireland top, so | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
it would be rude not to. The other night we were coming back from the | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
hotel and we were outside the hotel singing Will Grigg's On Fire. We | :18:30. | :18:38. | |
were Will Grigging it. It has even become a verb now! They certainly | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
made their mark. Now after three weeks in France, it is time to wave | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
goodbye. Not quite all the fans are disappointed on the way home. One | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
fan this afternoon said he was absolutely delighted. He looking | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
forward to seeing his family and sleeping in own bed and, best of | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
all, he's going to be able to watch all of the football now on the TV. I | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
like his style! He will be home soon with a big bag of washing, I am | :19:11. | :19:11. | |
sure! The Republic of Ireland | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
team also arrived They too made it to the knockout | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
stages of the tournament but lost out to the host nation, | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
beaten 2-1, yesterday. Thomas Kane has been with the squad | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
throughout the and has sent us this Martin O'Neill said he would give | :19:26. | :19:36. | |
any of these veteran players the time to decide themselves whether or | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
not they wish to call it quits at international level after the | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
Republic of Ireland exit. He praised the influence of Shay Given, John | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
O'Shea and Glenn Whelan during their time at the Euros. As for the | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
manager 's future, he expects formal ratification of his contract | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
extension and also Roy Keane 's very soon, as he looks to build on the | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
positives from the performances in France. In many ways, this | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
tournament represented the passing of the baton from the old to the | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
new. Will we see in that jersey again? We will wait and see. I will | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
talk to the manager going forward. Just enjoy this moment because these | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
are special moments, when you see the few minutes that we had with our | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
families, but also with the fans in the corner. That was a very special | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
moment of appreciation for the amazing support that we have been | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
given. Young players impressed the challenge of taking on the best in | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
Europe on the big stage. In it comes now, Brady 's header! The Republic | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
of Ireland have scored and the place is going mad! We thought that so | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
many players would be hearing in the next phase, and if we can take the | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
atmosphere and the emotions into the next tournament, then that will only | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
stand for us. A quite hard-working Donegal man emerged as a leader as | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
an -- and an inspirational captain. We took a lot of belief from the | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
game. We did well and we realised, we thought it was there for us | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
today. The fans have been unbelievable. We would love to go a | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
bit further for them. We hope that we make people proud, because the | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
fans were amazing. Everyone back home was amazing. We were | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
disappointed we couldn't see it out. Thomas Kane reporting from France. | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
The Queen has arrived in Hillsborough Castle for a visit | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
Accompanied by the Duke of Edinbugh, | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
most of her engagements will be tomorrow. | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
Our reporter David Maxwell is in Hillsborough for us. | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
What a lovely evening at Hillsborough. The Queen arrived just | :21:50. | :22:01. | |
before half past five this evening. Some people are out honestly see | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
what matter. At the Cassell itself, it was the head of the council who | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
welcomed the, the Secretary of State not here as would normally be the | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
case. We are told that she was rather otherwise engaged in London | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
at the moment. This is the Queen 's 25th visit to Northern Ireland. She | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
had two official engagements this evening, a private audience with | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Arlene Foster, the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister, Mark | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
McGinest, and we had an opportunity to speak to both of them when they | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
came out of those private meetings which lasted 15-20 minutes. Neither | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
of them giving anything away. Martin McGuinness said it was not protocol | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
to reveal the contents of those assertions but he said they had the | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
opportunity to thank the Queen for her contribution to peace. And so to | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
tomorrow, David. What is planned? A much busier day. This visit is for | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
her 90th birthday, but it has a focus on tourism. What do the more | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
iconic in terms of Northern Ireland tourism Giant's Causeway, and that | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
is ruddy visit will start. But Mac that is where the visit. Then they | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
will visit additional is well able unveil a statue of Robert Quigg, and | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
what a week to do that, almost exactly 100 years says he | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
demonstrated his bravery in the battle on, for which he won the | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
Victoria Cross. Then the royal couple will have one chap Portrush | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
Golf Club and their last engagement of the day will be the opening of a | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
new station. A busy day for the 90-year-old monarch tomorrow. We'll | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
have the weather for the Royal couple shortly. | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
A group of Ballymena school children have missed out on a trip to Poland | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
after airline Easyjet cancelled their flights. | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
More than 40 history pupils from Slemish College | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
had been planning the trip for over a year. | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
But when they arrived at the airport on Sunday morning, | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
they found their flight was cancelled. | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
Our North East reporter Sara Girvin has more. | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
These history pupils are reading about survivors of the Holocaust. | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
But they should be in Poland meeting one. Yesterday, 43 students from | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
Slemish College had their flight cancelled by easyJet because there | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
was no crew. No other suitable flights could be found, leading to | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
much disappointment and the cancellation of the entire trip. | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
This was my only foreign holiday this year. Portrush, that is about | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
the height of it now. But days away with my friends and that, it would | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
have been brilliant, but unfortunately now it is not going to | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
be. Features at Slemish College said the students have been let down by | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
easyJet. At this moment in time we were supposed to be meeting a | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
Holocaust survivor. Tomorrow we were due to go to Auschwitz. These are | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
experiences that these students have now missed that they will not have | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
again. The airline told the BBC air-traffic control restrictions and | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
weather conditions led to delays. EasyJet said they apologised, adding | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
that the Slemish College group would get their fair money back plus 250 | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
euros. Whilst easyJet has offered refunds and compensation to those | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
affected, people at Slemish College say that they have missed out on an | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
experience that money simply can't buy. | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
The weather forecast is next with Barra. It has improved as the day | :25:30. | :25:41. | |
has gone on. Many enjoying some fine evening sunshine. It will stay dry | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
through the night for most. On the chilly side temperatures into the | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
single figures under clearing skies. For tomorrow, if you're up very | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
early, you will get some sunshine and dry weather but it will not stay | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
that way for long. We have this next batch of rain coming our way. It | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
will be widespread during the first half of the day, giving us some wet | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
weather. It will linger on the north coast for a while. Elsewhere, it | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
will gradually clear from the West. Not much in the way of sunshine with | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
some grey skies, drizzle and showers coming in behind. It will be an | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
improving picture for some parts of Ireland tomorrow with some glimmers | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
of sunshine, as that rain band pushes across the Irish Sea, | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
affecting many areas of Britain. It will hold off in the south-east of | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
inland but eventually it will get wet here, too. A cooler day for many | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
temperatures roundabout the mid-teens. 14, 15 degrees at best. | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
Showers will linger for a while, but by tomorrow evening there should be | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
some sunshine through County Derry, Tyrone and Fermanagh. Tomorrow | :26:50. | :26:58. | |
night, if you're heading to the Belsonic concert there will be some | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
scattered showers. For everyone else, some lingering showers | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
overnight but generally dry and cool with temperatures dipping down to | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
six, 7 degrees. Wednesday, we do it all again. It will be a wet first | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
half of the day with widespread rain moving in. Like tomorrow, it will | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
improve, with more in the way of sunshine and temperatures around 15 | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
Celsius. That low pressure remains in control through to the weekend. | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
There will always be scattered showers in the forecast. So you | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
might want to keep your umbrella is handy. We don't need to water the | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
garden is, anyway. BBC newsline is on Facebook and also on Twitter. | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
From Barra and me, goodbye. | :27:47. | :27:47. |