:00:00. > :00:00.That's it. Starting on BBC Two now, Jeremy Paxman asks the
:00:00. > :00:14.Good evening. A highly critical report into the emergency department
:00:15. > :00:17.at the Royal Victoria Hospital has found that at times there aren't
:00:18. > :00:22.enough doctors and nurses available to treat patients properly. The
:00:23. > :00:29.review was ordered by the Health Minister after a major incident last
:00:30. > :00:37.month. Will Leitch reports. Bare lay week into the new year the night a
:00:38. > :00:42.major incident was declared at the royal Victoria Hospital over a
:00:43. > :00:47.backlog of patients. Many described conditions as horrendous. I detected
:00:48. > :00:52.there were issues and engaged in conversation with staff and then
:00:53. > :00:55.initiated this report. I welcome the opportunity for the trust to be able
:00:56. > :01:00.to respond to the findings and make things better for the staff and the
:01:01. > :01:06.people who use the service. The review he ordered was carried out by
:01:07. > :01:09.a Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority. Around a half staff
:01:10. > :01:18.raised concerns about staffing levels when interviewed. The
:01:19. > :01:23.hospital can operate under huge pressures and those pressures are
:01:24. > :01:28.significant. Staff sometimes can feel that they are overburdened by
:01:29. > :01:31.the pressure and therefore we want to respond to that and ensure that
:01:32. > :01:36.the working environment that our staff are delivering care in is the
:01:37. > :01:40.best possible environment and that will ensure there is a better
:01:41. > :01:45.service to the public. The minister denied he had ordered the review
:01:46. > :01:50.because of a BBC programme on accident and emergency services due
:01:51. > :01:58.to be broadcast tomorrow. The RQIA will report in June on a wider
:01:59. > :02:01.review of A across Northern Ireland. The first woman to give
:02:02. > :02:04.evidence to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry has
:02:05. > :02:08.described how she was beaten black and blue by a nun in a home in
:02:09. > :02:12.Londonderry. She said she realised the nun enjoyed it when she cried so
:02:13. > :02:18.she stopped crying when she was beaten. The woman who's now 58 lived
:02:19. > :02:26.in the home from the age of two for 12 years. BBC Newsline's Tara Mills
:02:27. > :02:31.reports. Nazareth House, home for hundreds of young boys and girls,
:02:32. > :02:36.one who is now 58 says she was a bright child with good grades, but a
:02:37. > :02:41.life of beatings and chores destroyed her future. She said she
:02:42. > :02:46.was beaten until she was black and blue by one nun in particular. She
:02:47. > :02:51.said the nun would punch and hit her with anything he should lay her
:02:52. > :02:56.hands on. She said, I realised she enjoyed it when I cried. So
:02:57. > :03:04.eventually I stopped crying. She said:
:03:05. > :03:10.Central to her evidence was a tale of separation. It was only when her
:03:11. > :03:15.old irsister was about to leave Nazareth House that she found she
:03:16. > :03:20.even had a sister. She spent the last 45 years trying to track her
:03:21. > :03:26.down with no success. Today, the youngest witness to give evidence so
:03:27. > :03:33.far said children at the home were routinely given scalding or freezing
:03:34. > :03:38.showers and locked in cupboards as punishment. The 46-year-old focussed
:03:39. > :03:46.on the first nun that welcomed him saying she put the fear of God into
:03:47. > :03:51.him and she told him his mother had died.
:03:52. > :03:56.When asked if there was anything good about his time at the home, he
:03:57. > :04:02.said the op positive thing was getting back to my mother's house
:04:03. > :04:10.no, matter how dysfunctional it was he too had sporadic contact with his
:04:11. > :04:14.brothers and sisters. This has become a common theme with more
:04:15. > :04:21.witnesses coming to give evidence tomorrow. A man who's been charged
:04:22. > :04:24.with causing grievous bodily harm to his baby daughter, who died last
:04:25. > :04:26.week, has been released from Maghaberry prison on bail.
:04:27. > :04:29.23-year-old Christopher O'Neill of Glasvey Park in Twinbrook was
:04:30. > :04:32.granted bail on Friday, but only released today after his solicitor
:04:33. > :04:37.handed in his passport to the police. His daughter, Cara Walsh,
:04:38. > :04:40.died on Friday. She'd been taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital earlier
:04:41. > :04:49.in the week. A post mortem examination is due to be carried out
:04:50. > :04:52.in the next few days. The Fermanagh businessman Sean Quinn has finished
:04:53. > :04:58.giving evidence in Dublin today against three former executives of
:04:59. > :05:01.the Anglo-Irish Bank. The three deny charges of lending money to 16
:05:02. > :05:05.people, including members of the Quinn family, to buy bank shares. Mr
:05:06. > :05:08.Quinn claimed the bank knew it was in trouble well before it loaned
:05:09. > :05:12.hundreds of millions of euro to his family to buy Anglo shares. He said
:05:13. > :05:15.he was and is still furious that having invested billions in Anglo
:05:16. > :05:17.shares, they were "dumped" with other people. During
:05:18. > :05:32.cross-examination, he said he lost 3.2 billion euro on Anglo and he
:05:33. > :05:35.blamed the bank for it. The Garda say they now know who murdered
:05:36. > :05:41.Londonderry man Andrew Allen and they're building a case against
:05:42. > :05:44.those involved. Mr Allen was shot dead two years ago at a house near
:05:45. > :05:49.Buncrana by gunmen from Republican Action Against Drugs. His partner
:05:50. > :05:55.was in the house at the time. His family have always denied claims the
:05:56. > :05:58.24-year-old was a drug dealer. Political parties are being urged to
:05:59. > :06:01.take down their election posters during the Giro d'Italia cycle race
:06:02. > :06:04.later this year. The race, which starts in Belfast for the first
:06:05. > :06:18.time, coincides with the European and local council election campaigns
:06:19. > :06:24.in May. Mark Simpson reports. This promotional film for the Giro
:06:25. > :06:29.d'Italia shows how keen the organisers are to show off Northern
:06:30. > :06:34.Ireland. But the race in May clashes with the local and European election
:06:35. > :06:40.campaigns. So a very different type of is scenery could be on show. The
:06:41. > :06:47.Ulster unionist Party says all the race routes should be kept clear of
:06:48. > :06:52.election posters until the race ends. We don't want the posters in
:06:53. > :06:56.the background putting the blight on the perfect scenery. We want to show
:06:57. > :07:02.Northern Ireland in the best light. Should people not be allowed to see
:07:03. > :07:06.the beautiful facings of our -- faces of our politicians. Well they
:07:07. > :07:15.can see them any time. So they have enough time to see enough beautiful
:07:16. > :07:19.Ulster unionist faces. If there a poster-free route there must be
:07:20. > :07:25.cross party aa agreement. There is no point in some parties not putting
:07:26. > :07:32.up posters and the rest spoiling the show. If there is a deal there would
:07:33. > :07:37.be 200 miles of roads and thousands of lamp posts without any election
:07:38. > :07:42.posters. Day one of the race is from Belfast to Stormont and back. Day
:07:43. > :07:48.two covers the largest area from Belfast to the cause way coast and
:07:49. > :07:53.back. Day three is from Armagh to Dublin. The colour of Giro is pink.
:07:54. > :08:00.Cycling fans want to keep it that way and avoid any poster battles
:08:01. > :08:07.between orange and green. Now with the weather forecast here's Cecilia
:08:08. > :08:11.Daly. A lot going on in the weather in the next 24 hours. It will get
:08:12. > :08:16.wet and windy before the night is out. Heavy rain, with snow over the
:08:17. > :08:20.hills. The rain will clear by morning and with temperatures
:08:21. > :08:24.falling below freezing, it could be very icy on roads and pavements
:08:25. > :08:31.tomorrow morning. A lot of the grit that is pit down - put down may have
:08:32. > :08:36.been washed off. Tuesday will be cold with snow falling in places.
:08:37. > :08:41.There will be some lying snow over the high ground. A cold start to
:08:42. > :08:47.Tuesday. Temperatures only a degree or so above freezing at 9 o'clock.
:08:48. > :08:51.Icy with wintry showers. The rain that moves through us tonight is
:08:52. > :08:56.sitting over many parts of Britain with heavy rain in southern England,
:08:57. > :09:01.adding to the flooding risk and snow in Scotland, northern England and
:09:02. > :09:07.the Republic of Ireland. Up to 10 centimetres in Scotland. Some
:09:08. > :09:11.sunshine in between. But it will feel very cold. With a biting, icy
:09:12. > :09:17.wind from the west. Tomorrow night will be icy again with wintry
:09:18. > :09:23.showers easing. On Wednesday the next area of low pressure swings in.
:09:24. > :09:28.So we have more wet and windy weather to come on Wednesday. Maybe
:09:29. > :09:33.some flooding in places and some snow over the higher ground. Once
:09:34. > :09:40.that moves away, things are looking drier and dry etcer - quieter for
:09:41. > :09:47.the rest of week. Tomorrow good morning Ulster will report on how
:09:48. > :09:52.some of our MPs voted on bang smoking on -- banning smoking in
:09:53. > :09:56.cars with children. That's it for now. Stormont Today gets underway
:09:57. > :09:59.over on BBC2 at 11.20. You can keep up to date with News Online and
:10:00. > :10:01.follow this programme on Facebook and Twitter. From BBC Newsline,
:10:02. > :10:02.goodnight.