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humbling of its hosts. That's all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Funding to help pay for free travel on buses and trains for the over-60s | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
is under threat, according to the Transport Minister. | :00:14. | :00:14. | |
The concessionary travel scheme costs millions of pounds | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
Now that cash may not be forthcoming as a result of | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Here's our business correspondent Julian O'Neill. | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
Public transport is free to everyone over 60. The policy has been in | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
place since 2008 and funding comes from Stormont but now there appears | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
to be a risk that money could be lost. The minister responsible for | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
public transport says he faces a fight to get ?9 million which the | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
scheme needs this year. I think the fundamental challenge to the | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
Executive is, will it maintain a concessionary fares scheme, paid for | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
in full by the Executive, as we move forward? The backdrop to this is | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
tough financial forward? The backdrop to this is | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Stormont. Budgets for each department are being haggled over by | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
the Executive. There is no agreement yet but Danny Kennedy is suggesting | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
his department looks like losing out. On the streets, free travel for | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
the elderly is a hugely popular thing. We love it. It's really very | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
good. We couldn't be without it. It's one of the most beneficial | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
things that was ever given to us as pensioners. This is Danny Kennedy | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
firing a warning shot in public. Even if the money is lost, it may | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
not necessarily mean an end to free public transport - it may just pose | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
a headache to the minister and the transport company to find another | :01:49. | :01:49. | |
The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, is making efforts to have the Garth Brooks | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
concerts staged in Croke Park. Earlier this evening, the singer | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
issued an appeal to see if a last-minute deal can be reached to | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
save his five shows. As Francis Gorman reports, the cancellations | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
have dealt a huge blow to the local economy. | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
Counting the cost. This bed-and-breakfast run by a Newry man | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
is about ten minutes from Croke Park. All 12 of his rooms were | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
booked for all five nights of the Garth Brooks concerts but now he | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
faces a huge loss. The cancellations, he believes, will | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
devastate the hospitality industry. Some believe anything up to 50 | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
million euros could be lost to the city. I would be very fearful for | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
the reputation of Dublin at the minute. Quite a large majority of | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
the people that were staying with me were from the North of Ireland. They | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
originally thought they might come to Dublin for the weekend but I | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
think a lot of them are a little upset, if not sick and annoyed, with | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
what's happening, and I think they'll be annoying Dublin for the | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
foreseeable future. -- avoiding Dublin. Last week Garth Brooks | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
issued an ultimatum - all five concerts or none that I go after | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
Dublin City Council gave the go-ahead for only three. In a letter | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Easter Day to the promoter Peter Aiken, the singer says: -- released | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
today. The GAA and Aiken Promotions had | :03:19. | :03:38. | |
been accused by some residents who live near Croke Park of corporate | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
greed. The association says it regrets that the concerts aren't | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
going ahead but was unable to provide an interviewee. Peter Aiken | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
was also unavailable. The concert saga, variously described as a | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
shambles and a fiasco, will be debated by a parliamentary committee | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
tomorrow with all the main players in Ireland invited to attend. The | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
Consulate issue was again race today in the Dail. I'm very disappointed | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
that it hasn't happened and that it won't happen but it's a bitter | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
economic lesson to have learned. With the controversy so far having | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
generated more thunderous noise than light, Garth Brooks is expected to | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
give his side of the story tomorrow when he talks to the media in | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
The Orange Order has said it wants to meet with the Prime Minister to | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
discuss the Parades Commission's decision to prevent Orangemen | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
returning past the Ardoyne shops in North Belfast on the 12th of July. | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
More than a hundred members of the Order, including the | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Grand Master and Grand Lodge Officer bearers, met at Tamnamore | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
Orange Lodge in County Tyrone this evening to discuss the issue. | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
We want the Prime Minister to be aware of the problem and to indicate | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
that he has a will to try to resolve the problem and, effectively, that | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
means getting rid of the Parade sky-macro commission and introducing | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
Sarah legislation. Campaigners for the truth | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
about the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings say they are keeping | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
their options open about who was The IRA has never admitted carrying | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
out the bombings in The Justice For The 21 group gave | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
evidence to MPs today as part of an inquiry into letters sent to | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
on-the-run paramilitaries. Political editor Mark Devenport | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
reports. 21 people died and more than 180 | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
were injured when bombs exploded at two pubs in the centre of Birmingham | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
40 years ago. Six men were sentenced to life for the bombings but 60 | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
years later, their convictions were quashed after their confessions were | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
deemed unreliable. Today the brother and sister of Maxine Hambleton, one | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
of the Birmingham victims, gave evidence to a Westminster committee, | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
where they expressed their anger about the scheme supplying letters | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
to on the run paramilitaries and raised questions about why the IRA | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
had never admitted carrying out the Birmingham bombings. In the 1970s, | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
you will of we know that the British government was trying to discredit | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
the IRA in every way that they could. The Hambleton family were | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
highly critical of the police and others in authority who, they | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
claimed, treated them like lepers. The cauldron inquiry into the | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Birmingham bombings and an investigation aimed at bringing | :06:37. | :06:37. | |
those responsible to justice. Four families of the eight IRA men | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
shot by the SAS at Loughgall in 1987 are to seek a judicial | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
review of the Secretary of State's decision to intervene in the case | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
for an inquest into the killings. Theresa Villiers says | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
the decision is in the interests of national security, | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
but the Attorney General says her The van which the IRA were using a | :06:52. | :07:08. | |
spaced started a gun and bomb attack on a police station, while the SAS | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
opened fire. An inquest was held in 1995 but six years later, the | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
European Court of Human Rights declared that the investigation into | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
the killings hadn't been sufficient. The case has been with the attorney | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
general for Northern Ireland, John Larkin, the two years and he was to | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
make a decision on whether a new inquest chip proceeds stop now the | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Secretary of State has intervened, certifying that the case involves | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
national security. Theresa Yeo Villas' intervention means the case | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
now goes to Dominic Grieve in his capacity as attorney general for | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Northern Ireland, chief adviser to Whitehall on Northern Irish law. My | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
decision is to apply the law and there are national security | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
considerations at stake and this is a matter for the advocate general to | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
make a decision on whether an inquest is appropriate. John | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Larkin's office has issued a letter saying he believes the secretary of | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
State's division to be profoundly wrong in principle. The letter goes | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
on to say that Mr Larkin is reflecting on an appropriate | :08:17. | :08:17. | |
response. The sun returned today and now we'll | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
find out if it will be back tomorrow. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
It was too good to last and after a splendid day, things are going | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
downhill again with cloud rolling in through the course of the night. The | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
cloud will thicken up and bring spells of rain eventually. Moderate | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
bursts towards the north but generally speaking, most of the ring | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
will be fairly light and it will be a mild and muggy night with | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
temperatures generally holding in double figures. It sets us up for a | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
very different day tomorrow. There will be a lot more cloud around and | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
it looks like it will be a pretty damp start and almost anywhere could | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
get patches of rain and result in the morning rush-hour. It could be | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
mist and hill fog. Similar across the Republic. We start off with | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
drizzle and rain which should start to fade away. Pretty cloudy for | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
eastern Scotland and eastern England with quite a keen northerly breeze | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
in the south-east. The cloud will be bringing spells of rain which will | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
be quite slow moving so there will be an increasing risk of localised | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
flooding. In between these two cloudy bands we will see sunshine | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
from the West of Scotland towards Wales, central and southern England, | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
and it is warm in the sunshine. For Northern Ireland in the afternoon, | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
drizzle easing away so more dry weather than wet. There may be | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
dryness towards the north and east but it can't be guaranteed. I think | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
there will be more cloud than sunshine. Feeling quite muggy as a | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
result with temperature is of 18 or 19. A similar day on Friday with a | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
weather front moving in Friday night into Saturday brings showery rain. | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
That's it for now. Good night. | :10:01. | :10:03. |