:00:00. > :00:00.in a moment with analysis of that debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel
:00:00. > :00:10.Farage. Good evening. A six-year-old boy is
:00:11. > :00:13.in a critical condition in hospital after being struck by a car in
:00:14. > :00:18.Railway Street in Lisburn this afternoon. Another boy who was also
:00:19. > :00:25.hit by the car is in a stable condition following the incident.
:00:26. > :00:28.Railway Street remains closed. The BBC understands that two
:00:29. > :00:30.patients were waiting on trolleys in the Royal Victoria hospital's
:00:31. > :00:34.emergency department for more than 29 hours from yesterday morning
:00:35. > :00:37.until tonight. One member of staff says the pressure hasn't lifted
:00:38. > :00:47.since the weekend. Our health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly
:00:48. > :00:51.reports. I understand the chairman was
:00:52. > :00:54.included in an e-mail sent earlier today by staff members who described
:00:55. > :01:00.their chaos within the emergency department. The information included
:01:01. > :01:06.that at lunchtime two patients had been waiting on trolleys for over 24
:01:07. > :01:11.hours. By this evening, that time had increased to over 29 hours.
:01:12. > :01:15.Clearly, the chairman had not had time to read that e-mail before
:01:16. > :01:23.leaving to appear before the health committee. The chairman put the team
:01:24. > :01:27.under the spotlight while receiving light texts from inside the
:01:28. > :01:34.emergency department. As we are here, I am being contacted by staff
:01:35. > :01:37.who are indicating that the department has not stopped since
:01:38. > :01:43.Sunday. There are patients who have been waiting for 25 hours for a bed
:01:44. > :01:49.and their patients have actually e-mailed the Minister. I am
:01:50. > :01:55.reflecting on what I've been told and I am putting that to you. Surely
:01:56. > :02:03.that is a crisis and it needs intervention now. And there will be
:02:04. > :02:09.intervention. I don't have the information you have. Other patients
:02:10. > :02:16.have also been waiting for more than 24 hours. That means they have had
:02:17. > :02:23.to sit through for meal breaks, in the middle of a busy emergency
:02:24. > :02:26.department. The former IRA member Ivor Bell has
:02:27. > :02:30.been released from jail after being granted bail on a charge of aiding
:02:31. > :02:33.and abetting the murder of Jean McConville in Belfast in 1972. The
:02:34. > :02:36.High Court hearing was told he gave advice that Mrs McConville should
:02:37. > :02:46.not be spared from being shot because she was a woman. Dan Stanton
:02:47. > :02:49.reports. Ivor Bell leaving prison this
:02:50. > :02:56.afternoon after being granted bail at the High Court. The prosecution
:02:57. > :03:18.opposed bail but the judge granted it after he said to Ivor Bell "If I
:03:19. > :03:21.release you on bail, do you promise me you will keep to your bail
:03:22. > :03:24.conditions?" He replied, via video link from Maghaberry Prison, "You
:03:25. > :03:27.have my word, my Lord". Those conditions are two sureties of
:03:28. > :03:31.?10,000 each. Ivor Bell must also report to a police station three
:03:32. > :03:34.times a week, surrender his passport and give 48 hours' notice of any
:03:35. > :03:36.intention to travel outside Northern Ireland. The prosecution told the
:03:37. > :03:42.High Court that based on evidence it was convinced that Ivor Bell was the
:03:43. > :03:46.man who said about Jean McConville, "Well, she's a tout, and the fact
:03:47. > :03:50.she's a woman shouldn't save her". It also alleged that conversation
:03:51. > :03:53.was had while the mother of ten was still alive and before Jean
:03:54. > :03:58.Mcconville was seized by the IRA from her Divis flats in 1972. Her
:03:59. > :04:01.body was later found buried at a beach in County Louth. Researchers
:04:02. > :04:04.had agreed that transcripts of former paramilitaries were not to be
:04:05. > :04:07.published until after their deaths, but last year a US court ruled that
:04:08. > :04:12.the tapes should be handed over to the PSNI investigating Mrs
:04:13. > :04:16.McConville's killing. There are fears that up to 200 jobs
:04:17. > :04:20.could be lost at the Teletech call centre in north Belfast after the
:04:21. > :04:23.firm lost a major contract. A company memo said the firm, which
:04:24. > :04:26.employs 600 people ,had lost its contract to provide customer support
:04:27. > :04:36.services for the car maker Nissan to the French company B2S. The company
:04:37. > :04:41.is yet to comment. This is a blow to the local community and the workers
:04:42. > :04:49.who are affected and over the next few days the local MP has already
:04:50. > :04:53.met and spoken to them. We will be seeking meetings with them and the
:04:54. > :05:00.management from Teletech to make sure we can do all we can for those
:05:01. > :05:02.who may be affected. 15 female senior prosecutors have
:05:03. > :05:05.successfully sued the Public Prosecution Service for sex
:05:06. > :05:09.discrimination. Their claims of discrimination on basis of age and
:05:10. > :05:13.religious belief were also upheld. Eunan McConville reports.
:05:14. > :05:16.This is the BBC's ground-breaking documentary Barristers, a look
:05:17. > :05:21.behind the scenes of the legal profession. But behind the scenes of
:05:22. > :05:28.the Public Prosecution Service, 15 young lawyers were far from happy.
:05:29. > :05:31.The 15 lawyers are all women, mostly Catholic. All senior public
:05:32. > :05:34.prosecutors. The Fair Employment Tribunal found in their favour,
:05:35. > :05:39.saying that they were getting paid less for doing the same work as male
:05:40. > :05:42.colleagues. That was because of a change in the lawyers' pay structure
:05:43. > :05:47.when policing and justice powers were devolved to the Northern
:05:48. > :05:54.Ireland Assembly in 2010. So they sued the PPS, as well as the
:05:55. > :05:57.Department of Finance and Personnel. The department and the PPS admitted
:05:58. > :06:00.that the change in pay structure did amount to indirect discrimination,
:06:01. > :06:02.but said that there was what's called "objective justification" for
:06:03. > :06:11.that discrimination - effectively, that there was a good reason. The
:06:12. > :06:19.Fair Employment Tribunal disagreed and found in favour of the female
:06:20. > :06:23.prosecutors taking the case. The decision referred to the fact that
:06:24. > :06:31.the reason given for the difference in pay was entirely misinterpreted
:06:32. > :06:44.and, in fact, their claimants in this case had been misrepresented.
:06:45. > :07:12.The tribunal said... It was held that the discrimination
:07:13. > :07:15.went back as far as debris 2006. A spokesperson for the Department of
:07:16. > :07:18.Finance and Personnel said they and the public prosecution process were
:07:19. > :07:26.considering the decision and it would not be appropriate to comment
:07:27. > :07:30.at the moment. The tributes told both sides in the case that they
:07:31. > :07:34.would have to meet to negotiate a deal on the back pay now owed to the
:07:35. > :07:37.15 lawyers. This is to include pension contributions. If they
:07:38. > :07:40.cannot agree, there is to be another legal hearing. Conservatively, it'll
:07:41. > :07:43.cost the PPS more than half a million pounds. Possibly more than a
:07:44. > :07:47.million. That doesn't include any potential damages or legal costs.
:07:48. > :07:51.And the tribunal decision could still cost the PPS even more. The
:07:52. > :07:55.BBC has been told that there are a number of senior prosecutors in the
:07:56. > :08:08.same boat, but who weren't party to these legal proceedings.
:08:09. > :08:10.The Irish Justice Minister has apologised to two whistle-blowers
:08:11. > :08:14.who reported senior police officers for wiping penalty points from the
:08:15. > :08:17.driving licences of well connected people. Alan Shatter told the Dail
:08:18. > :08:20.he had not intended to mislead the house when he said Sergeant Maurice
:08:21. > :08:23.McCabe and retired Garda John Wilson had not co-operated with the
:08:24. > :08:32.O'Mahony Inquiry, which had been set up to look into the penalty points
:08:33. > :08:36.controversy. Antrim Forum played host to many of
:08:37. > :08:38.our sporting stars tonight at an event celebrating some of the
:08:39. > :08:41.outstanding achievements of last year. Among those present was the
:08:42. > :08:45.popular rugby player Tommy Bowe. He's hoping Ulster can add to that
:08:46. > :08:49.sporting success in 2014 as his team chases silverware in the Pro12
:08:50. > :08:56.league and Heineken Cup. After the success of the Irish team in the six
:08:57. > :09:07.Nations I think that rugby is on a high. We have a match against
:09:08. > :09:10.Saracens and the match in Cardiff. Ulster and Ireland rugby star Andrew
:09:11. > :09:13.Trimble will be live on Good Morning Ulster tomorrow morning and there'll
:09:14. > :09:19.be a special interview on BBC Newsline tomorrow night.
:09:20. > :09:26.Glasgow Celtic are champions for the third year in a row. Now the
:09:27. > :09:36.weather. Tonight, a few showers remain but
:09:37. > :09:40.many places are dry. Temperatures getting close to freezing so we
:09:41. > :09:51.expect some frost and maybe some icy patches. In the east, not as cold.
:09:52. > :09:56.There is another weather front moving west tomorrow morning so that
:09:57. > :10:04.will bring more showers and a brisk, chilly easterly breeze. There
:10:05. > :10:12.could be some hail before they start to ease away. Turning quite showery
:10:13. > :10:18.across the East of Scotland and England and those strong easterly
:10:19. > :10:23.winds from the North Sea will drive those showers inland towards Wales
:10:24. > :10:29.by the afternoon. Those showers could have hail and thunder. The
:10:30. > :10:33.best brightness for the north-west of Scotland and in the afternoon
:10:34. > :10:41.Northern Ireland brightens up as well but not particularly warm. It
:10:42. > :10:48.will fuel chilly. Into Friday and it is still quite chilly with the
:10:49. > :10:50.easterly wind. Not quite as cold during the weekend but dismal on
:10:51. > :10:54.Saturday.