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Tributes to the 13-year-old boy who died after being injured

He is a lovely kid. He is very funny. He was quiet but he always

had a smart word to say at times. The First Minister adds her voice

to calls for the Finance Minister to step aside during

the Nama coaching inquiry. The head of the Prison Service

is to stand down after The end of an era as BHS prepares to

close its doors for the last time and there is more bad news on the

jobs front elsewhere. The recently discovered 17th century

castle that's been hiding in plain With the Ryder Cup fast approaching,

Rory McIlroy finds form And it's not a completely rain-free

forecast this weekend, but there will be plenty

of dry weather about. I'll be back with a full forecast

later. First to that death of a young

teenager in a motorbike accident. The 13-year-old was seriously

injured at a motocross track in Magilligan yesterday afternoon

and died later after being airlifted Our Kevin Sharkey reports

from the north coast. The scene of the tragedy from a

distance. The track where the accident happened along the banks.

Daniel Sheridan suffered serious injuries and he was airlifted to

hospital at lunchtime yesterday. Less than 24 hours later he had

died. The exact circumstances of what happened at the end of this

very narrow lane way is still unclear. The police are only saying

that they are investigating on behalf of the coroner. What is known

is that this is a very popular place for motocross practice. It is a

brief facility for all ages. It is just unfortunate. That this crash

has happened. The young lad Daniel who has unfortunately passed away

has been there loads of times. Myself, his brother and him have

always done laps. Alongside the sadness, happy memories. A schoolboy

who loved his hobby. He is a loving kid. He is very funny. He was quiet

but he always had a smart word to say. He was just loving life. He

always liked to be involved doing training. He liked to be in the

thick of things. The teenager was a pupil at Tallaght in Dublin. Today

the parents Association extended their sympathy to the family and

friends. There will be prayers at the school tomorrow in memory of the

schoolboy and in support of his family.

The death of a man on a farm is being investigated by the Health

He was in his 70s, but his name hasn't been made public.

The incident was in Silverbridge, County Armagh yesterday afternoon.

Investigators are trying to work out the circumstances

surrounding his death, and to establish if farm

The First Minister Arlene Foster has made her first public comment

on the affair which led to the resignation of

the Sinn Fein Assembly member Daithi McKay and calls

for the Finance Minister Mairtin O Muilleoir to step aside.

The DUP leader says Mr O Muilleoir should have temporarily stood down

when it was announced there'd be an investigation into the coaching

He was on the Finance Committee at the time when it heard evidence

from the witness - the loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson.

Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon.

Arlene Foster's first reaction to a story which broke

when she was on holiday was the same as most other people's.

This Sinn Fein chair of a Stormont committee really had helped to coach

the loyalist Jamie Bryson on how to give evidence -

a move the First Minister claimed was designed to

destabilise her party and the administration generally.

And does she agree with those who say the now

Sinn Fein Finance Minister should step aside?

Mairtin O Muilleoir took a very high-profile role on that committee

and a very particular line of questioning as well, so I have said

he should think about stepping aside even if he is stepping aside

temporarily. But it is a matter for him and his party as to whether he

does that. I can't force him to do that. It is a matter for him as to

whether he takes that course of action.

But Mr O Muilleoir says he's done nothing wrong and his party

Arlene Foster is the first public comment on this messy affair won't

have widened the rift between her party and Sinn Fein. The issue is

far from over but unless something else emerges it doesn't look quite

threatening the uneasy compromise at Stormont.

And that has led this party leader to question

First of all it is clear she'd is not even going to try and lift a

finger against Mairtin O Muilleoir and it gives the lie to the promise

that the manifesto they had fixed everything at St Andrews and there

would be no more solo runs by Minister and no more party interests

about the good of the Executive. That is clearly what Mairtin O

Muilleoir is doing. He has a choice. He can do what is like with the

institutions, the party, or they can do what is right for himself. He is

choosing the me, me, me option. Sinn Fein haven't commented

on Arlene Foster's call, believing nothing more needs

to be said. Some news just coming into us.

Police say they are investigating reports of a suspect device in South

Armagh. They are asking people to avoid the whole road area will stop

-- Hol. Pat Hickey's family say they're

concerned about the Olympic official's health as he remains

in jail in Brazil. Up to 100 jobs are at risk with

the closure of four restaurants - part of a UK-wide chain,

which includes Frankie Benny's. The news comes as a bigger casualty

prepares to leave the high street. The last BHS department

store in Northern Ireland Earlier from outside

the store in Belfast, our Economics and Business Editor

told me first about This is a big nationwide chain

called the Restaurant Group that owns more than 500 themed

restaurants across the UK. It has been having a tough time and it is

going to be closing more than 30 restaurants across the UK. Four in

Northern Ireland. Those are the branches of Mikey and Benny 's in

Ballymena, Coleraine and Derry and Chiquito is, the Mexican restaurant

in Victoria Square. They haven't said how many jobs are under threat

but I would say it is about 100 jobs. This door behind you are known

for many years as British Home Stores, a landmark shop in the

centre of Belfast. What will be the impact of the closure? The most

immediate impact will be on the 60 people that work here. They will

join others who work for BHS branches in Northern Ireland and

thousands of people who worked for this country -- company. There will

be a retail unit in the centre of Belfast lying idle. This unit has

not had lot of money spent on it. It'll take a significant investment

to make it attractive. Remind us why we are seeing the demise of the UK

retail BHS. A panel of MPs investigated the closure of BHS and

they have laid the Green Bay -- very firmly on the fault of Sir Philip

Greene and Dominic Chappel. They say Sir Philip Greene took hundreds of

millions of pounds out of the business over the years, failed to

reinvest and underfunded pension scheme. Then when things got bad he

couldn't off-load it, couldn't find anyone, and sold to ?1 to Dominic

Chappell. They said Dominic Chappel was unsuited to running a business

like this. He didn't have very much money. This shop survived the

troubles, numerous bombings, it always bunched bikes. It has not

survived the impact of Sir Philip green and Dominic Chappel. We have

just heard that around 80 jobs are at risk at a food manufacturer and

distributor in Enniskillen. It took over a group last year and it has

gone into administration. It makes savages and snack foods for

convenience stores and retail outlets. Staff were sent home after

being informed of the news today. Administrators are examining the

options for the future of the business. If

The If Director General of the Northern Ireland Prison

Sue McAllister will leave her post at the end of October.

The 55-year-old said she wanted to lead transformational reform,

but during her tenure inspectors described Maghaberry as the most

Four years ago, Sue McAllister knew she was taking on a difficult job.

Before her appointment, she was part of a review team that

produced a highly critical report on the Northern Ireland Prison

Service following the suicide of inmate Colin Bell in 2008.

She promised reform, but more damning reports followed.

In November last year, inspectors described Maghaberry Prison

With high levels of staff sickness - and a rising number of assaults

There was, in the words of the inspectors,

But speaking to BBC Newsline, Ms McAllister maintained

she was the right person to achieve change.

if I didn't think I was the right person to lead the service I

wouldn't be here, Maghaberry is a very complex present. You wouldn't

expect me to reform this service overnight. I am here to finish the

job I started. That decision follows another

inspection of Maghaberry, which was better but far

from a clean bill of health. With violence, mental health

provision and access to illegal Alliance leader David Ford

appointed Sue McAllister I think during her time we have seen

significant progress in the part of the prison service. The group that

they chaired has seen all the work done that was needed for the prison

report. A lot more work needs to be done but the reform has been

embedded. But her record divides opinion. The prison service has been

left in a much worse shape over the course of the last four years and --

than Sue McAllister foundered. The drugs problem in the prison behind

us is absolutely right. The assaults on prisoners and prison staff, has

went up. This has not been a tenure which can be looked at in any going

way. Sue McAllister said,

with the conclusion of a reform programme in March, her role has

come to a natural end. She also paid tribute

to two prison officers David Black and Adrian Ismay,

murdered during her tenure. The former Irish Foreign

Minister Peter Barry has Mr Barry was central to

the negotiations and implementation of the Anglo-Irish Agreement

in 1985, which gave the Republic a consultative role in

Northern Ireland's internal affairs. As a result, he was often the focus

of sustained unionist anger. A man who admitted posting intimate

photographs of his former girlfriend on the internet last year has been

given a suspended jail sentence Aaron Connor, who's 38

and from Cromore Gardens in Londonderry, was also ordered

to inform the probation service of any future personal relationships

he has with women. The Assembly has decided not

to recover more than ?6,000 in expenses paid to MLAs,

even though it believes those The move follows a row over Stormont

research costs between the independent panel in charge

of MLAs' expenses and the commission Here's our Political

Editor Mark Devenport. I am looking for the research

company. Research services. Questions over expenses paid to MLAs

for external researchers were raised by a high profile BBC Spotlight

investigation two years ago. The independent panel which set

the rules on expenses banned such However in February the panel

chair complained that, despite that ban, some allowances

were still being paid That is contrary to the

determination and commission, if it thinks these were OK, it is quite

wrong. Now details have emerged

of a review conducted by former Stormont Chief Executive

Trevor Reaney. The review acknowledges

the regularity of more than ?65,000 paid to MLAs between January 2013

and March 2015 was in doubt. It put this down to a discrepancy

between the handbook telling MLAs what expenses they can claim

and the rules laid down Because the money was claimed

in good faith by the politicians, the Assembly has decided there's no

reasonable grounds The Assembly says its decision not

to recover the irregular payments It hopes that improved liaison

between officials and the expenses panel will avoid a similar

dispute happening again. However right now there isn't

a panel at all - the old team stepped down last month

and they haven't been replaced whilst the politicians debate

whether a different kind of expenses watchdog should be appointed

in the future. The police in Brazil have finished

interviewing two officials from the Olympic Council of Ireland

in connection with an investigation into the alleged mis-selling

of Games tickets. Kevin Kilty and Stephen Martin,

who's from Bangor, were allowed to leave police headquarters

in Rio yesterday evening. The family of Pat Hickey,

the arrested president of the Irish Council,

say they are gravely concerned The Irish Foreign Minister has

agreed to meet the family There's some flash photography

in Ita Dungan's report. Free to go, four hours after walking

into Rio police headquarters, Kevin Kilty and Stephen Martin walked back

out again. Last weekend the police seized their passports as part of a

probe into the mis-selling of Olympic tickets. According to the

police they were always only witnesses rather than suspects.

Adding that the two had fully cooperated with all their enquiries.

A judge will now make the final decision of the return of the men's

passports. Following their questioning the police say their

testimony integrated Olympic committee president Patrick Hickey

was in charge of the ticketing. He along with another Irish official

Kevin Mallon were arrested in connection with the mis-selling of

tickets. They are now both sharing a cell at the maximum security prison

in Rio. Today Pat Hickey's family say they are very concerned about

his welfare. They called on the Irish government to intervene,

saying they were gravely concerned about the effect this degrading and

humiliating ordeal was having on his help. They have described his arrest

as entirely inappropriate and unacceptable for a 71-year-old Irish

citizen and are requesting an urgent meeting with the Irish Minister for

foreign affairs and the Irish sports minister to discuss the manner of

his arrest and detention. Pat Hickey's lawyers are currently

seeking a second bail application and have gone to court in an attempt

to speed up the process. A 17th century castle "lost"

for more than 250 years has been rediscovered in the border

town of Clones. An archaeological excavation

had failed to uncover the remains of the castle,

but it was there. Our south west reporter

Julian Fowler has been to see Hiding in plain sight. But there are

a few clues as to what lies hidden here. Just of this in Clones is

Castle Street and Castle house. When two historians recently explored

behind these buildings, crossing over barbed wire and through

brambles, they made a discovery which now seems obvious. They found

a castle. How long has it been missing for? Since the 1760s I would

say. It has been missing since the new Street was built in front. I

think there is a bit of folklore. Kids may be played here when they

were young and pretended it was a castle and they were right, it is a

castle. Recently used as a place to dump rubbish, until now experts have

dismissed it as an old agricultural outbuilding. They always dismissed

it as of no great importance. I know I was certainly present with some of

them and they don't think they even came inside the building, just gave

it a cursory glance and dismissed it. When a nearby excavation field

to find evidence of the building, it was assumed to be castle, built in

the 16 hundredths, no longer existed. Now it can reclaim its

place in history. Clones has a lot of historical depth to it, early

Christian sites, are Abbey. This is the next piece of the jigsaw. We

have what we believe to be a remnant of the plantation castle, it means

that Clones really has got little bits of every period of Irish

history of standing in the town. Having cleared the undergrowth, the

defence of features have been revealed, including the musket slips

to ward off attackers. There is local folklore of tunnels hidden

beneath the town, so there could yet be more discoveries lurking within

these walls. Having rediscovered their castle, the plan is known to

carry out some archaeology to find out what else could be hidden here.

Now sport, and with the Ryder Cup fast approaching, it's a good time

Yes - Rory McIlroy has been showing some better form on day two

of the Barclays tournament in New York.

He has just shot a second round of 69, that's two under par,

to make a little headway up the leaderboard.

Rory McIlroy started the day five shots off the lead

COMMENTATOR: Land sits just below the hole. A little hop and stop for

Rory McIlroy. Three birdies in the opening seven

holes from the world number five saw him up to as high as second

place on the leaderboard. Back-to-back bogeys on the 15th

and 16th would take the shine off his day, but he remains

in contention going into A return to form no doubt welcomed

by Europe's Ryder cup Playing in Denmark today,

Clarke received this tremendous show They've got it from the players and

they are getting it from the spectators as well. This is a great

site. -- site. There are still five weeks

until the Ryder Cup in Hazeltine, but the anticipation among these

European supporters is clear to see. There are three games tonight

in the Danske Bank Premiership. Newly promoted Ards are the league

leaders and travel to Mourneview Park to take

on a Glenavon side who lost heavily Their manager is expecting

a response tonight. It would be happening again, that is

for sure. We weren't happy. -- won't. The players have to realise

there are loads waiting in the wings coming back from injury and will be

back in the next three or four weeks. If I had the opportunity

there would be five or six changes, but we don't have that

unfortunately, so we have to go with what we go with. Hopefully this time

the boys will take the opportunity and get back in the swing of things.

I would say we will get Gwen Aven on top form. We will enjoy it. It is a

beautiful club and stadium. Derry City will look to step

up their title challenge tomorrow The Candystripes lie

second in the table, Kenny Shiels' side are also

challenging for silverware on another front -

they're through to the Another impressive

display from Derry City - this time in the cup

against Bohemians last week. Harry Monaghan put them

ahead in the first half. The Candystripes scored a second

after the break League form's been eye catching too

- Derry are currently second and have only lost four times

in 23 matches. I think team spirit is a big thing

from me. Player development. If you put those two together, they are

quite a bit of the way down the road with your squad. There is in such

thing as an expert or someone who knows it all. You just want to do it

in association with the culture of the club and try and married those

two together and do what you think is right for this particular club.

Things are working quite well for us at the moment. It is important we do

everything we can do to sustain that.

Kenny Shiels has given youth a chance and those

players have delivered - four of his brightest young

talents are being given new or extended contracts.

There's a new found confidence in the dressing room.

Kenny has been brilliant since he came. A lot more professional,

coming back from jobs in Scotland, on and off the pitch, we have been

getting out and around the community, so it has been good for

us, him coming home. Kenny Shiels says the club has two difficult

assignments over the coming days and he says it is important to maintain

momentum and keep up the challenge for that coveted European spot.

There's a double-header of rugby at the Kingspan Stadium tonight.

Ulster's A side are currently playing Canada A.

They lead 43-38 with a few minutes remaining.

At 7:30pm, the first team will take on Northampton Saints.

It's the second weekend in a row that Les Kiss' team have had

a warm-up match against an English side, following their 25-19 defeat

They will be similar to Exeter, physical. A big pack. We are looking

forward to the physical encounter. We are hoping that we can have the

right things in place that make us know that what we have done last

season is working for us. In order lose, it is about what we see in

terms of attitude, physicality, certain methodologies. If some of

those things come through, we have got a week to prepare for the big

one at the Kingspan Stadium. Rower Joel Cassells will defend his

world championship title in the men's lightweight pair final

tomorrow in Rotterdam. Cassells and partner Sam Scrimegour,

seen here winning last year, qualified fastest for the final

and the Coleraine man, who missed out on a place

in the Team GB Olympic squad, has a good chance of securing gold

once more Meanwhile, Enniskillen's Holly Nixon

will also be looking to get amongst the medals -

she is in the crew for GB Nixon's final is around midday

tomorrow - with Joel Cassells in action in his final

an hour later. It's the Bank Holiday weekend

and the end of the school holidays for many -

let's see what weather's We have had some pretty good dry

weather over the last few days. Some farmers have been making the most of

it. Last night some of our weather watchers captured dramatic skies, as

thunderstorms rolled up towards the north coast with some lightening.

Some fierce looking lightning. There will be a few showers around this

weekend. It is not going to be dry everywhere all the time but there

will be a lot of dry weather. Saturday night may bring a few heavy

showers but otherwise during the day, showers should be localised.

Temperatures will still be pretty reasonable. Largely dried this

evening. It will get quite cool in the countryside. Could drop as low

as seven or eight Celsius. That could lead to a bit of mist and fog

for a short time on Saturday morning. Otherwise a lot of dry and

bright weather during the day. A few showers here and there. Probably

likely across the West in the afternoon. Some high cloud

developing but still quite dry and bright. Light winds. Southeast

breeze. It will clearly -- feel warmer in the north coast.

Temperatures could get up to 20 Celsius in parts of mid-Ulster. One

to showers may be in the afternoon but if you are heading to Belsonic

tomorrow it looks like it should be largely dry. However a Saturday

night goes on during the early hours in particular, there will be some

showers. A few in the West and one were too heavy or thundery showers

near to the east coast during the early hours. They will move away

quite quickly on Sunday morning. The breeze moves back into the North so

a bit cooler there was that temperatures probably across parts

of County Down. On Sunday afternoon it looks like it should be mostly

fine. Small chance of a shower. The Jazz festival looking pretty good

for a picnic. Eyeing holiday Monday, it stays dry which is great news. --

Bank Holiday. That was BBC Newsline. Thank you for watching. Have a great

weekend.