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degrees. Thursday, more of the same. Is that is all from us. Now on BBC

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Some of the child migrants tell how they were abused before and after

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Friends and neighbours pay tributes to a 91-year-old man killed

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The family who lost a brother because of mistakes made

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by the police how the Shankill is trying to learn lessons

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The police should have learned from the mistakes they made, my brother

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would still be alive. Join me here live at Solitude for the top of the

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table clash. A witness has told the Inquiry

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into Historical Institutional Abuse that she cried for weeks

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after she was told she was being The inquiry, which is being held

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in Banbridge, has been hearing from witnesses, some of whom were

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part of the migration scheme without Many were already being abused

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at institutions in Northern Ireland This was the first time the enquiry

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heard from witnesses who were shipped off to Australia. 130

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vulnerable children. Those who did not want to appear submitted

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statements. Some -- in person, others by video link from

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Australia. Des McDaid was born in Donegall Street 1953. He was sent to

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Australia, not knowing where he was going. It was never asked if he

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wanted to go. He was only eight years old and he arrived in

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Australia. Giving evidence from Australia, he spoke with confidence.

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He set his memory was very good. He said he remembered being thrown in

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the air and that feeling of helplessness when you know you were

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going to head the ground after being thrown in the air. He said he was

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abused as some of the Christian Brothers, by some older boys and the

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late reacher. A similar picture from other witnesses is emerging. One

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person said he was two years old when he was placed in care after his

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mother died in childbirth. Separated from his siblings, he did not know

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somewhere in the same home until years later. One young girl cried

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for weeks after she was told she was going to Australia. Another told

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about being shipped against families wishes. Des McDaid spoke of reading

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his mother after years of trying to track down. Forgive me, forgive me,

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forgive me his mother said when they met. The enquiry will hear from 50

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witnesses over a three-week period. A 91-year-old man has died after his

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neighbour's oil tank went on fire. The blaze broke out

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at a property off the Hillsborough These pictures taken by neighbours

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show the full force of the fire this morning. Samuel Carson was a

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great-grandfather who lived alone, but maintained an act broke in the

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community. A neighbour of his told me that at one o'clock this morning

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she heard five small explosions coming from the property. Fire

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Service responded to a call of an oil tank having caught fire at a

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nearby house. The fire spread to another oil tank, and that caused

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Samuel Carson's house to go up in flames. I have spoken to one of his

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daughters this morning. She was here during the night. There will come a

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day when he will be taken away from us, but to go in this way, they are

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just processing, that will be the challenging thing. Friends and

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neighbours have been quick to pay tribute to him. He was described as

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a friend to the community. He had lots and lots of friends, people

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calling them every day to see how he was. Lots of friends. Because of the

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fire is under investigation. The police said it leave there were any

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circumstances. -- said they don't believe there were any suspicious

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circumstances. Eight police officers,

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including two Inspectors, three Sergeants and three Constables have

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been disciplined over unacceptable and significant failures

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in their search for a missing man He later died after walking

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in front of a train. Jonathan McGee went missing on a

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Friday and was found dead on the Saturday. The ombudsman's reporting

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to hide the police handled his case was skipping. His family say it will

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ring him back. The police should have learnt from their first

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mistakes that they made, if they did he would still be here. If they had

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done their job is right. The family of the missing mild had contacted

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the police days before his death, stressing their concern for his

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safety because he suffered from depression and had tablets in his

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possession. The ombudsman pointed up a number of missed opportunities and

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failure to pass on information about the missing mild. It was a series of

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incremental failure is. Information was not passed it should've been.

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There was a failure in communication handling from one officer to

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another. Steps were not followed through properly. There was a whole

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series of things that meant the police did not take the act steps

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they could have done. Jonathan McGee's life ended here at this

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bridge on the outskirts of Lisbon. The ombudsman hopes that his

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recommendations will help prevent situations like this arriving again.

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The Police Ombudsman has ended unprecedented legal action

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Michael Maguire had taken the PSNI to court after accusing it

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of obstructing investigations into allegations against police

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But the police have now agreed to give him access to sensitive

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Our Home Affairs correspondent, Vincent Kearney, reports.

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The UDF murders of six Catholics as they watched the World Cup in 20

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years ago is one of the cases that prompted this legal action. The

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killers have never been caught. It has been claimed that the police did

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not conduct a full investigation into the shooting because they were

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protecting an informer, and that there was collusion between some

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officers and the killers. Similar claims were made about the police

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investigation into the murder of officer John Lorimer. He was off

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duty and working in this ice cream shop in the Lisburn Road when

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killers struck in 1988. His son, Gavin, has claimed that no one was

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convicted because at least one IRA informer was involved. The ombudsman

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accused Matt Baggott of making it impossible for his officers to

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investigate those claims and other serious allegations of criminal

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activity and misconduct by police officers. Answering those questions

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requires access to a range of intelligence. I need access to that

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to be able to look at those allegations. The ombudsman's office

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does not investigations by negotiation. When the case went to

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court in June, the judge urged both sides to come to an agreement to

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avoid a full hearing. The dispute has now been resolved. In a

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statement the ombudsman said the police has now accepted that his

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office has a legal right to seek any material it wishes during an

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investigation. It said the information the police had refused

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to give access to has not been made available. The policing board has

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welcomed the end of the dispute. We're live at Solitude ahead

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of a full programme of Getting children interested

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in school can be an uphill struggle for parents and

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teachers alike, but one community has come up with a new plan to raise

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standards and encourage learning. There have been many attempts

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on the Shankill Road in the past, but those behind this scheme hope

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it will change school life Our education correspondent, Maggie

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Taggart, has this exclusive report. This family are making schooling at

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priority for their children and while Clare did a university degree,

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her husband left school with no exams. I could not wait to get out

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of secondary school. We went encouraged to do exams or anything

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then. It was a case that you did your five years and you left. Maybe

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there are other things that are seen to be more important and education

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can get moved to the side. Nobody is in any doubt that the problems of

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the Shankill have been complex and there have been multiple initiatives

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to try to solve them. This is a 20 year plan, trying to right the

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wrongs of 40 years of history. Actors spelt out the problems on the

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Shankill. He does not go to school, he runs around all night long

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drinking. Are you not going to school? I go to school sometimes.

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There have been many action plans in the past. Community workers point to

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22 initiatives in 20 years, but say they were short term and the results

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are short lived. And you children soon will last for 20 years and the

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plan is that all government departments and cumulative groups

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will work together. What it will devise in the context of this zone

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is that it will provide wraparound support for every child on the

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Shankill. A former Shankill boy is now a night of the realm and fully

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backs this zone. We need a framework to pull everything together. One of

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the difficulties it is that it is like a box of firework is. If you

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like all of the same time it will be M My children will be well

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educated. They will be taken to school every morning. The people

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behind this say they are not asking for money, but for people to pull

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out all the stops to support this generation long project.

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The Northern Ireland Audit Office is to investigate what progress has

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been made implementing the health plan 'Transforming Your Care'.

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The news emerged following a meeting between auditors

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and the SDLP's Fearghal McKinney, who has called for greater

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interrogation of how the Department of Health is spending its budget.

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There's been much criticism among the health sector that the changes

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promised under Transforming Your Care have failed to materialise.

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But now that level of scrutiny has stepped up a gear

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with the Audit Office confirming it's to scrutinise what progress has

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been made and what targets, if any, were set to measure performance.

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For too long we have been asking questions are not getting the proper

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answers around Transforming Your Care. We have not been able to see

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targets, implementation plans, no measurement for proper outcomes, yet

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we or three years into the plan which is meant to take five years.

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It is costing lots of money. We believe it is leading to the logjams

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in the health service, which again promotes the health service to spend

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millions patching up these difficulties.

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Pastor James McConnell has announced he is stepping down.

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The cleric, from the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle, caused

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controversy recently when he called Islam 'heathen' and 'satanic'.

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Pastor McConnell told his congregation that, after 57

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years of ministry, he felt the hour had come to hand over the reins.

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The 77-year-old has recently suffered from ill health.

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A doctor has appeared in court accused of sexually

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It's claimed the offences took place at Richhill Health Centre

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Our reporter Claire Savage was at this morning's hearing at

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Dr Tony Chee, who lives in Moira, faces seven charges of touching six

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women in a sexual nature out of Richhill Health Centre over a

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three-year period. Dr Tony Chee, he is 45, appeared in the dock and

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spoke to confirm his year of birth and nodded to his show he understood

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the charges. The investigating officer told the court she believed

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she could connect Dr Tony Chee to the charges. He was granted bail at

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?1000 as long as he did not try to contact any of the women making the

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complaints were treated any female patients. The district judge said Dr

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Tony Chee was free to leave as long as he obeyed the conditions of his

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bail. He will appear in court again in six weeks on 14 V berth. -- on

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the 14th of October. Money for the poorest students

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in Further Education has been cut The Department of Employment

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and Learning, which supplies the money, says

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they've invested in other schemes. But some colleges say they've even

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had to open food banks for students Joining me now from Foyle is

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Willie O'Donnell, from the You actually got extra money this

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year - how does The north-west is a very deprived

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area. We have students who come here from all parts of the North, and the

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site. We have a situation where students are in need. Before the

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cuts, we had a new initiative going, which was a student welfare

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supply system. This happened through the generosity of staff members who

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brought in nonperishable foods that we give to the students who were

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finding things tough. Cuts have happened all over, but we knowledge

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the fact that we have ?75,000 more this year as regard our hardship

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front. How many students are you talking about? The demand last term

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was 25 students who were in need. We have been working on the coal face

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with the students, able to detect that these students were in need. It

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wasn't just food, there were other issues, but when talking to them we

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realised that there was great hardship for them. How do you

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overcome the cynicism that some people have that students appear to

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have money for other things, like socialising? I think it is a myth

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but a lot of people. The college here is a very caring college. The

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staff here are very generous and students are not always puts in the

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front light. Things are obscured a little bit when it comes to

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students. They are in great hardship. The college is a second

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chance for many students and they come here to grab the opportunity

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they have given. With the support, particularly of student services, we

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have a lot of support for the students here. We have put together

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this initiative, long before the cuts, that would help our students

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in little ways to survive while they are here in the city and coming to

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the college. Samuel Beckett is one

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of our best-known writers. He's celebrated with

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an annual two-week festival in Enniskillen, but is his work

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accessible to a younger generation? One woman who thinks it crosses

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the generations is starring in a trilogy of his plays at the MAC

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in Belfast this week. 'Not I, Rockabye' and 'Footfalls' is

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fresh from a run in London's West End and requires its star to undergo

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quite a transformation to get I first opened up this play and I

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expected the kind of people who were big fans of Samuel Beckett. It

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wasn't the case. We were blown away by how young the audiences where,

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people with no relationship with Samuel Beckett.

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There's a full programme of Irish Premiership football tonight

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and Stephen Watson joins us from, arguably, the pick of the games.

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Here at Solitude, the champions, Cliftonville, take on Linfield.

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Cliftonville, the league leaders, are just one point ahead.

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I'm joined by Cliftonville manager Tommy Breslin, whose team has picked

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We have made a very good start. We are hoping to improve our home

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form. It should be a good game, there is a big cloud coming. Your

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star striker has gone to pastures new, but that hasn't affected your

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goal scoring. Ten goals in four games. Players come and go, that is

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just the ball. Liam has gone to pastures new. We are delighted for

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them. The ball goes on. How are you and the players approaching this

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season knowing you can be the first Cliftonville side ever to wind the

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league three times in a row? We are not even thinking about that. We

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will take as many games as we can, C how many we can wind and if we wind

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the league, we will take that. We are just looking forward to

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tonight. What do you make of this Linfield teen? New manager, of

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course. It is strange. David was such an institution but Warren has

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come in and put his mark on it. Lots of different players, young players.

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They can do as well as they like, as long as they don't do it tonight!

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As well as the local football, Northern Ireland start their

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European Championship campaign, Ulster's rugby players kick

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off a new season and there's world championship boxing in Belfast.

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Carl Frampton fights Kiko Martinez for a world title in the

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BBC Sport has been given special access to Frampton in training,

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Working hard to join the boxing greats. The title dream that has

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been Carl Frampton's focus is within his grasp. It is an understatement

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to say I am looking forward to it. It has been a long time coming, not

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just the world title but to get it at home. I just need to showcase my

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talent. I am getting a chance to do it. This fight is going worldwide,

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if is going to be sure and in China, Brazil, America. The mild with the

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belt has lost a Carl Frampton once before, but remains dangerous. You

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always get entertained. He comes at you. He can take a good shot, as

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well. We work done similar things we did last time. The pressure is on

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Carl Frampton because he has at home. Everybody is expecting him to

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knock him out and wind the world title. It is not done yet. If there

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is anybody who can do it, he can. As a manager, as opposed to being a

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fighter, I am sitting on the safe side of the ropes, but it is much

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more nerve wracking. When I was fighting at least they have control

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of things. As a manager, when you are watching, you don't have the

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same level of control. It is more nerve wracking. I believe I am a

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better fighter than when a timber first time. I think he is better as

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well. I have improved leaps and bounds. I will not make the same

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mistakes again. It will not be an easy fight, but I will wind. I have

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that power to take any super-bantamweight in the world

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hides, but also I have the engine to go 12 rounds. All I will predict is

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a wind. Rory McIlroy was unable to find his

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best form in the final round of the Deutschebank Championship near

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Boston. A final round of 70 left him at 11-under par, which meant he

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finished in a tie for fifth place overall, four shots behind the

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winner - Chris Kirk of the United States. McIlroy lies in second place

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in the Fedex Cup standings. The overall winner in a fortnight's time

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will win $10 million. McIlroy and Graeme McDowell both

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automatically qualified for the European Ryder Cup team. Today,

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captain Paul McGinley revealed the three remaining players to make up

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his team to take on the US at Gleneagles. He picked Ian Poulter,

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Lee Westwood and Scotland's Stephen Gallacher. That means no place for

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former world number one Luke Donald. He has been an incredible performer

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over the years. His record in the Ryder Cup is outstanding. He will go

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on to make many more appearances at the Ryder Cup. He said, you know, I

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back you to be the captain, even though you have not picked me, I

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still believe you will be a great them. His last two words were, in go

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Europe! I think that says a lot about him.

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Just a reminder that there is live coverage on Radio Ulster Medium Wave

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We'll have highlights of the action on our later bulletin

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We have a big area of high pressure sitting over us at the moment. This

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evening, it will be cloudy. It will stay dry. Overnight temperatures at

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ten or 11 degrees. One or two pockets of fog or a mist form

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overnight, but they will not last long tomorrow morning. Tomorrow,

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would be much like today. Cloudy with some sunny spells. To begin

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with, there will be a fair amount of cloud, breaking up of times allowing

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some morning sunshine. That will come and go through the afternoon.

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The winds will be like. We get the sunshine, will be warm. In the sun,

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we could see even 22 degrees. Under the cloud, 17 or eight team degrees.

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Over Britain, there will be cloud around in all places, but it will

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break up in some areas, reaching potentially 24 degrees in London.

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Temperatures not bad across the board. The wind will stay light into

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tomorrow evening, and it will stay dry. Not much will change from

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weapons the into Thursday. Another mild night tomorrow. Into Thursday,

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the high-pressure world remain in control. Much the same. It is a bit

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like groundhog day! Cloud, but it will brighten up at times. 21

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degrees will be the hive. Those temperatures are about 5 degrees

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above average for the time of year. For the weekend, the high-pressure

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will stay in control, so it will be settled for the weekend.

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