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Figures show one of Northern Ireland's newest tourist attractions | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
has been closed for virtually half of its first year in business. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
The Gobbins, a ?7.5 million coastal walk | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
in East Antrim, is currently missing out at peak season because | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Here's our business correspondent, Julian O'Neill. | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
The Gobbins cliff path is breathtaking, but bare | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
It's currently enduring its second shutdown. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
This one began in June because of rock falls. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
The discovery centre at its Islandmagee base is open, | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
but the main attraction is off-limits as the first anniversary | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Today's the 160th day of lost business this year. | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
Financial projections have been ripped up. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
On top of thousands of unsold tickets, there are the unspecified | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
This closure, and one caused by storm damage earlier this year, | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
have put a big dent in visitor numbers. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
The goal is to draw 70,000 people annually. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
But year one will fall short at just under 24,000. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
I would expect no one expected this at the outset. | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
I think the important thing is we deal with the issues at hand | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
The number of visitors that have gone through on the days | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
we have been open have been quite impressive. | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
The scale of the problem is unclear, but there has been no quick fix | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
and no end to tourists turning up to be turned away. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
We didn't know that it was closed, and we were very disappointed, | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Before coming, we prepared our travel, and we wanted | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
Mid and East Antrim Council operates the Gobbins, but one | :02:01. | :02:10. | |
of the area's MLAs wonders whether it's up to the job. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Is this project too big for the council to run? | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Should we be looking outside of the box here to give it | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
to somebody who can really run it, promote it and expand it? | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
Initially the council said this current closure | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
But it now spans three months, with each lost day | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
A pipe bomb has been made safe after a security | :02:37. | :02:47. | |
Army technical experts were called to examine what police | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
described as a viable device, which was found in | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
A number of families had to be moved from their homes during the alert, | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
which began at around seven o'clock this morning. | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
The bomb has been taken away for forensic examination. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
A 42-year-old man is still being questioned | :03:07. | :03:17. | |
A 42-year-old man who was being questioned | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
about the murder of a prominent member of the UDA in north Belfast | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
on Sunday night has been released unconditionally. | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
John Boreland, a 46-year-old father of three, | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
died after being shot close to his home in Sunningdale Gardens | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
Detectives say tensions among loyalist paramilitaries | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
and criminality are among their lines of inquiry. | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
The chief executive of Sport NI, Antoinette McKeown, says she's | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
still waiting for a formal explanation for her | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
It's almost a year and a half since she was suspended. | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
She spoke to our reporter Mark Sidebottom. | :03:49. | :03:49. | |
Earlier, he told Mark Carruthers what she'd been saying. | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
Sport NI is the body responsible for the development of sport here. In | :03:57. | :04:05. | |
early 2013, Antoinette McKeown became its chief Executive, | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
incidentally the first women to lead the organisation. In 2015 she was | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
suspended for, we believe, a series of grievances lodged both by her and | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
against her. Why has she decided to speak out now? NSX, she is saying | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
she has nothing to hide. She is saying to Sport NI, put up or shut | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
up. She preferred not to record a broadcast interview, but she was | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
very candid and on the record when she spoke to me. Here is the bones | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
of what she said. She said she respects the process and the bus | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
majority of Sport NI staff and looks forward to working with them again. | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
She adds, I was brought in to do a difficult task, to lead change in | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
Sport NI, and that is a task which I began and intend seeing through. Is | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
she so being paid for doing the job? Interesting question. When | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
advertised, the salary bracket was ?75,000 to ?85,000. Sport and I will | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
neither confirm nor deny it Antoinette McKeown is substandard | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
uncle salary, but it is my clear understanding that she is suspended | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
on full pay. -- is suspended on full salary. Sport NI will not comment on | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
specifics. The only thing they will say is that they can confirm that | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
Antoinette McKeown remains impulse. Has the Stormont department | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
responsible for Sport NI had anything to say about this latest | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
development? That is the Department for communities, shored up by Paul | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Gibbon. They issued a brief statement this afternoon which kicks | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
the bowl back here. The key lay in the statement | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
NSX, they are saying, sort of this one out yourselves, and if there is | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
not a solution soon, this could end up in the courts. Rather messy. | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
A new system for making appointments with a GP is being trialled | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
It sees patients being offered an assessment over | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
the phone and then advised whether they actually need to come | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
Our health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly has been | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
to see how it's working for a surgery in Londonderry. | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
Hello, Abby Medical Practice, can I help you? | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
First thing this morning, and the receptionists start fielding | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
calls from patients looking to see a GP. | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
There is no need to give me any symptoms. | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
A name and number is taken and a brief reason why the patient | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
After a telephone assessment, they will decide whether the patient | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
needs to come in, or perhaps advise that a visit to the local | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Another difference is that patients cannot make appointments in advance. | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
It is all about what is happening on the day. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Life before the new system was hectic, very, very busy. | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
a doctor and possibly longer for a named doctor. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Life is busy still, but manageably busy. | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Like many surgeries, Abbey Medical simply | :07:23. | :07:23. | |
does not have enough GPs to meet growing demand. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
According to the British Medical Association, | :07:28. | :07:28. | |
We have asked for the department to implement its own workforce review, | :07:29. | :07:42. | |
which said there should be 111 GPs trained each year. | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
We are training 85 this year. So up to 111. | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
If we trained as many as Scotland we would be training 143. | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
Are they being denied that sometimes crucial face-to-face contact | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
What I need from Abbey Medical I still get. | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
This morning I ran to see if I could get an appointment. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
They talked me through what was wrong. | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
And here I am having had my appointment. | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
Since 2014, hundreds of millions of pounds has been invested | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
in general practice here, but the BMA says it is not enough. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
The introduction of this new appointment system | :08:23. | :08:23. | |
Firstly how a growing number of practices across Northern Ireland | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
But it also shows how the public and the health service can change | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
Something we are probably going to see a lot more of. | :08:37. | :08:46. | |
The Irish boxer Michael O'Reilly, who was provisionally suspended | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
from the Olympics for failing a drugs test, has admitted | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
he unintentionally took a banned substance. | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
For the latest, let's join Stephen Watson live in Rio. | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
The Olympic Council of Ireland has tonight confirmed that boxer Michael | :09:00. | :09:14. | |
O'Reilly will not be contesting that provisional suspension. It was | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
imposed last week because of a violation of anti-doping rules. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Riley was dropped to the before he left for Brazil, but a statement | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
said he unintentionally took a supplement that may have contained a | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
prohibited substance, given by him -- to him by someone unrelated to | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
his team. He apologised to his team-mates and the association, and | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
will now be sent home from the Games. | :09:43. | :09:53. | |
Elsewhere, one of NI's big medal hopes made an early | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
Add to the end of the race, exhaustion and disappointment. Peter | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
Chambers's Olympics was over. His crew were strongly tipped to repeat | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
the success of London 2012. Great Britain have to wake up your, they | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
are in danger of going out. They needed to finish in the top three, | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
but they could only manage fourth, and were knocked out. We did pretty | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
much everything we could. We just not could not hang onto that or | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
third place when the pace was getting too hot. That is what we | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
signed up for. Olympic racing is not easy, and it is obviously hard to | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
take. You can take for granted that you will do well. But there was | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
better fortune for Alan Campbell, who cruised into the last four of | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
the men's single sculls. What I have got to do is put everything out for | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
the semifinal, and I think there will be a lot of people bringing out | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
the big race for the semifinal, just to make sure they get themselves in | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
that race for medals. If I can get into the race by the medals, we will | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
discuss it then. I am ready. Elsewhere, T Marilyn's hockey | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
players were in action against Germany. The work one - | :11:11. | :11:20. | |
-- T Marilyn's hockey players. We have battled against them and prove | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
that we are here to complete. Obviously they are a bit more | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
clinical than us at the minute, but it is something we have to work on | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
for the next games. Ireland have two games left, and they will probably | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
have to win both to reach the quarterfinals. More like from Rio | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
tomorrow. Let's get a look at the weather | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
prospects now with Geoff Maskell. Good evening. After a couple of days | :11:48. | :11:58. | |
of sunshine and showers, it really is all change tonight. A much | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
greater and duller fielder weather over the next few days, and quite a | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
lot of rain over the second-half of this week. This is the picture | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
overnight tonight. Briefly dry before workload and rain moving in | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
from the Atlantic. The upside is it means things will be a bit more | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
miles than other recent nights. Tomorrow a different feeling day. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
Dull, grey, rain setting over us pretty much throughout the day. A | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
bit of a north-westerly breeze as well, and that conveyed with clouds | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
and rain mean temperatures for Wednesday are really not getting | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
much out of 14 or 15 Celsius, so well down on what we would expect | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
for this time of year. You can see what is going on year. Sites are | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
quite dry across eastern half of the UK, but increasingly cloudy and that | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
band of that Green works this way. That is during the day. It clears | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
overnight Wednesday into Thursday, but that brings its own challenges. | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
This area of high-pressure sinks away and you can see how tightly | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
packed the isobars are around it. That means stronger breeze before | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
the next band of rain works its way in on Friday. A few showers on | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
Thursday, but the moves through quite quickly on that breeze. A | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
little bit warmer. Temperatures into the higher teams. Things do improved | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
as we moved through weekend and into the start of the next week. | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am during Breakfast here on BBC One. | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
You can also keep updated with News Online. | :13:29. | :13:31. |