20/08/2016 BBC Newsline

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The board of the Olympic Council of Ireland is to hold a special

meeting in Dublin tomorrow to discuss the arrest and jailing

of its former president, Pat Hickey, in Brazil earlier this week.

Mr Hickey faces allegations that he was linked to the illegal

By this time tomorrow, the man who steered

Ireland's Olympic Council for 27 years will be preparing

for his third night here at the notorious

As his former colleagues return home to Dublin to discuss his arrest

and allegations of his involvement in illegal ticket sales,

71-year-old Pat Hickey will be sharing a cell in a prison more

accustomed to gangland criminals than elderly Olympic officials.

Pat Hickey and Kevin Mallon, another Irish man arrested

on similar charges, both deny any wrongdoing.

The board of the Irish Olympic Council, which includes former

Olympian Sonia O'Sullivan and the FAI chief executive

John Delaney, has said it will co-operate fully

Yesterday, the Irish Sports Minister said a retired judge would head up

that inquiry - an investigation that will attempt to get to the bottom

of what exactly was the connection, if any, between Pat Hickey

The broadcaster Gloria Hunniford has spoken out after falling victim

to fraudsters who stole ?120,000 from her bank account.

A woman posing as the Rip Off Britain presenter went into a branch

of the Santander bank and was able to access

The woman and her accomplice, who pretended to be her daughter,

Santander has since reimbursed the money.

However, speaking on Radio Ulster's On Your Behalf, Ms Hunniford said

The only reason I'm doing this interview is to warn people that

even when you think your money is safe, scammers these days Art Dali

extremely clever for in this case it would be almost laughable if it

wasn't serious, I question, and I am generalising here, bank security.

Santander says that since the incident it

has made improvements to its security procedures.

A 26-year-old man has been attacked at a house in Larne.

Six masked men forced their way into the house on Recreation Road

at around 11:30pm last night and assaulted him.

He's been treated in hospital but his injuries

Two men and a 16-year-old girl have been charged with a number

The Polish community's contribution to life

in Northern Ireland, particularly during

the Second World War, has been celebrated

For Your Freedom and Ours was launched as part of the official

It's been partly funded by the Department of Communities.

Celebrating a shared history through music in a mainly loyalist

Relations between the two have been difficult,

with a number of racially motivated attacks over the years.

But it seems a corner has been turned.

And with it, the hand of friendship offered.

I think the bad stories are always promoted and publicised, at the

moment relationships are really good and this is the example. A few years

ago there were difficulties in East Belfast between both communities, at

the moment with this side-by-side event and opening the community

centre, we are trying to highlight the positive aspect of community

relations. Sharing a stage, a British-born

singer with roots in Poland and Ballymartin is aiming to look at

doing various intercommunity projects into next year and this is

only stage one of what we are trying to do, learning other cultures is an

easy way to engage with people but Katie comes and talks about the

military history of the area, so she is singing but also giving a bit of

historical background. It would seem there's more to unite

the two than divide them. Sport, and Ireland's Aileen Reid has

finished 21st in the women's triathlon at the Olympic Games in

Rio. The Derry athlete finished four

minutes and 58 seconds behind the gold medal winner,

Gwen Jorgensen of the USA. It hasn't been a great

day weather-wise. Let's find out what's in store for

the rest of the weekend. The worst of the wind and rain

passed to the south of us, but still quite showery in places today

especially Southern counties, and we are still likely to see some of

those this evening, one or two could affect Bell sunny but tonight the

westerly breeze clears them away, most places will end up dry through

the night with variable cloud and quite mild. Tomorrow a better day,

we soon see things brightening up, a lot of dry weather during the

morning there are likely to be one or two showers, especially across

Northern counties, and elsewhere across Ireland and Britain are much

better day, winds a lot lighter than today, still a few showers towards

the south-east of England and north-east of Scotland, but other

than that a lot of dry weather and sunshine. Then we get rain pushing

towards the south-west later in the day, probably not reaching Northern

Ireland until the evening so in the afternoon it looks fine and dry with

sunshine and temperatures up to 19 or 20, so not a bad day, there might

be showers in the morning but they should fade away. On Monday after

the rain moves through overnight, it clears away to leave a dry day and

it should brighten up. On Tuesday we have a waving weather front

affecting parts of the country and those waves could push rain towards

us, especially eastern counties, but other than that mainly dry.

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