:00:15. > :00:23.Friends and colleagues of two young Northern Ireland men
:00:24. > :00:33.A community worker beaten with hammers in a playground speaks out.
:00:34. > :00:35.People in this community, no action was taken.
:00:36. > :00:37.Friends and colleagues of two young Northern Ireland men
:00:38. > :00:40.killed while working in Australia pay tribute to them.
:00:41. > :00:42.Four partners from KPMG accountants in Belfast have been
:00:43. > :00:45.arrested in connection with suspected tax evasion.
:00:46. > :00:47.The PSNI launches its annual Christmas drink driving campaign and
:00:48. > :01:03.Also on the programme... Is shared education the way forward for
:01:04. > :01:08.schools? We take a look. And we're
:01:09. > :01:10.in for another chilly shock tomorrow after a mild but blustery and wet
:01:11. > :01:14.start to the day. A community worker attacked with
:01:15. > :01:19.a hammer has blamed police and politicians for not doing enough
:01:20. > :01:21.to combat paramilitaries. Aaron McMann was attacked
:01:22. > :01:30.by a gang of masked men He believes he was specifically
:01:31. > :01:34.targeted for leading a campaign against UDA activity
:01:35. > :01:46.in the Clandeboye area of Bangor. It was just after 4pm yesterday when
:01:47. > :01:52.this door flew open and two masked men came into the workshop where
:01:53. > :01:57.Aaron McMann was working. He had his back to the door. The first thing he
:01:58. > :02:07.knew was being hit on the head by a hammer. My main concern was the
:02:08. > :02:14.children, trying to keep them safe. I kept on screaming. Why do you
:02:15. > :02:20.think this happened? Why were you targeted? Quite a few paramilitary
:02:21. > :02:23.flags were erected. People were fearful and intimidated. There were
:02:24. > :02:29.many complaints, not only about the flags, but about this sort of
:02:30. > :02:32.sinister presence. I received a call very early on from the council,
:02:33. > :02:42.asking me, would I be willing to meet with this group? I questioned
:02:43. > :02:47.why. These are the people, 90% said, the flags made them feel fearful,
:02:48. > :02:56.intimidated and frightened -- frightened. No action was taken.
:02:57. > :03:00.This community and the people in this community, the young people, no
:03:01. > :03:05.action was taken. Has it made to think again? Would you want to still
:03:06. > :03:10.be so public and active in this campaign? They do not like people
:03:11. > :03:16.who stand up and say it as it is. I had no choice but to stand. This
:03:17. > :03:20.community was left high and dry. We do not have political leadership. We
:03:21. > :03:31.talk about the police. You enforce the law. They do not force the law.
:03:32. > :03:33.If I ran for cover, what does that help young people? Accept your lot.
:03:34. > :03:38.This is Northern Ireland in 2015. It has made us more determined. It will
:03:39. > :03:42.not scare us. We will not bow down to the way they want it. We will
:03:43. > :03:49.still go forward on what we need to do, definitely. A couple of weeks
:03:50. > :03:53.ago we had a statement from the joint loyalist paramilitary
:03:54. > :03:58.leadership saying, we are no longer engaged in anti-social behaviour,
:03:59. > :04:04.criminal behaviour. And yet he were beaten up yesterday. This pretty
:04:05. > :04:11.much contradicts the essence of that statement. It is unfortunate that
:04:12. > :04:16.everyone knows what happens but few are willing to stand up and say it.
:04:17. > :04:20.I include our political representatives and I include senior
:04:21. > :04:22.members of the police force. They are happy for communities to fend
:04:23. > :04:33.for themselves in many respects. A 32-year-old man has been arrested
:04:34. > :04:40.in connection with aggravated burglary. Tonight, and rally is
:04:41. > :04:47.taking place in support of our McMann outside his home. Our
:04:48. > :04:51.reporter is there. Yes, you can see just behind me here, the rally in
:04:52. > :05:00.support of our McMann is still very much on going. It started at about
:05:01. > :05:04.six p.m.. -- Aaron McMann. There are 200 people supporting him and
:05:05. > :05:08.standing shoulder to shoulder to show their opposition to the people
:05:09. > :05:14.who attacked him in his workshop. We have heard from representatives from
:05:15. > :05:19.the village residents Association. The spokesperson told the crowd this
:05:20. > :05:25.was a time for the whole community to get together and to oppose those
:05:26. > :05:30.elements that have carried out the attack. Essentially there are
:05:31. > :05:36.politicians here. The Green party MLA spoke to me just before the
:05:37. > :05:39.rally started. He said he was here not just in his capacity as a
:05:40. > :05:47.representative of the community but also as a friend of Aaron. He also
:05:48. > :05:51.responded to the complaints from him that politicians and the PSN I had
:05:52. > :05:58.abandoned the community. Stephen said he really did feel that people
:05:59. > :06:05.here were rising against these elements. As I say, still very much
:06:06. > :06:08.ongoing at the moment. Back to you. Thank you.
:06:09. > :06:09.Construction workers in Perth, Australia have observed
:06:10. > :06:12.a minute's silence for the two young Northern Ireland men fatally crushed
:06:13. > :06:15.by a concrete slab at an apartment complex where they were working.
:06:16. > :06:18.The families of Joseph McDermott from Omagh and Gerard Bradley
:06:19. > :06:20.from near Macosquin in County Londonderry are making arrangements
:06:21. > :06:31.Martin Cassidy reports. The construction site whether to
:06:32. > :06:35.Northern Ireland men lost their lives remained closed today. An
:06:36. > :06:42.investigation has begun into just how a contra -- a concrete slab fell
:06:43. > :06:45.from a crane killing both men. Friends and colleagues have been
:06:46. > :06:49.paying their respects at a place where police say the men were
:06:50. > :06:54.trapped under a large piece of concrete. Back home, two communities
:06:55. > :06:59.are dealing with the death of their brightest lights. If you met Gerry
:07:00. > :07:04.once comic you would always remember. He was always laughing and
:07:05. > :07:10.joking. He is the life and soul of the party. He will be very sadly
:07:11. > :07:13.missed. In a statement, the family of Gerard Bradley will say it is not
:07:14. > :07:18.possible to describe the hurt and lost they are feeling. They
:07:19. > :07:26.described him as a wonderful son, grandson, brother and friend. In
:07:27. > :07:31.Omagh, former colleagues have been paying should be to a young man who
:07:32. > :07:35.until recently worked at this hotel as bar manager. He was the life and
:07:36. > :07:43.soul of the hotel. He always had this infectious smile. You could not
:07:44. > :07:49.help stop smiling when he smiled. When he left for Australia, he left
:07:50. > :07:53.big gap, a big hole. To know that whole will never be filled is just
:07:54. > :07:57.devastating. Absolutely devastating. The families are waiting for the
:07:58. > :08:02.bodies to be flown home. The deaths are still being investigated in
:08:03. > :08:04.Perth by police. The company which runs the site and health and safety
:08:05. > :08:08.authorities. Seven former paratroopers who are
:08:09. > :08:11.facing questioning over the Bloody Sunday shootings want judges
:08:12. > :08:14.to rule that they don't have to be interviewed by the police
:08:15. > :08:16.in Northern Ireland. The ex-soldiers have asked the
:08:17. > :08:18.High Court in London for The court was told they were willing
:08:19. > :08:22.to be interviewed in England Four partners at accountancy firm
:08:23. > :08:27.KPMG in Belfast have been arrested They include one of the lead
:08:28. > :08:33.campaigners for the devolution Our business correspondent
:08:34. > :08:48.Julian O'Neill reports. The arrest took place here at
:08:49. > :08:53.KPMG's this is in Belfast city centre in an operation carried out
:08:54. > :08:57.by Revenue and Customs. But for men were detained yesterday and coming
:08:58. > :09:03.in a short statement, HMRC said they were held in connection with
:09:04. > :09:07.suspected tax evasion. KPMG said it was cooperating with the Revenue and
:09:08. > :09:11.Customs investigation and that pending further information the four
:09:12. > :09:13.partners involved are on administrative leave. In a
:09:14. > :09:30.statement, KPMG added... One of the four men arrested is
:09:31. > :09:38.well-known in the business world. Amen Donna Key had a lead role in
:09:39. > :09:43.lobbying for corporation tax devolution. Here he is in the front
:09:44. > :09:47.row on the right as Theresa Villiers launch the legislation. All four
:09:48. > :09:51.individuals are directors of a property company. This is one of its
:09:52. > :09:55.investments, a housing site in Donegal, and, according to accounts,
:09:56. > :09:59.the business lost millions in the market crashed.
:10:00. > :10:02.The Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt has accused the DUP
:10:03. > :10:04.and Sinn Fein of incompetence after they took money from other
:10:05. > :10:07.departments to pay for tax credits which is not now required.
:10:08. > :10:10.The Executive now has to decide what to do with the ?240 million
:10:11. > :10:20.Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon.
:10:21. > :10:27.Just nine days ago, a fresh start. Money for welfare and a little left
:10:28. > :10:35.over for what was coming from the Chancellor. The Executive will
:10:36. > :10:39.provide ?345 million for welfare top ups and ?240 million for tax credits
:10:40. > :10:47.support over the next four years. It seems like a good idea. That was
:10:48. > :10:50.before George Osborne decided tax credits were not and scrapped the
:10:51. > :10:57.plan altogether. The Executive put by many for a rainy day that never
:10:58. > :11:01.came. What to do with ?240 million? The Ulster Unionist Party do once it
:11:02. > :11:06.is averted in to help instead but claims what will happen if the
:11:07. > :11:12.agreement itself will fall apart. We will now see the unravelling of this
:11:13. > :11:16.so-called fresh start. We have mixed messages coming from Sinn Fein on
:11:17. > :11:20.corporation tax. It will see an argument over what to do with the
:11:21. > :11:26.240 million they now know they do not need to mitigate tax credits.
:11:27. > :11:30.There is nothing to mitigate. No sign of that today. Quite the
:11:31. > :11:35.opposite. The finance minister was taking part in the discussion about
:11:36. > :11:39.possible implications for Northern Ireland leaving the EU. Yesterday it
:11:40. > :11:43.was clear our budget would be cut in real terms by 5% over the next four
:11:44. > :11:48.years. We have to factor that into what we do with the money. There are
:11:49. > :11:53.many ways to help file for people in Northern Ireland. We need to have
:11:54. > :11:58.that wider discussion. That is not far removed from what Sinn Fein were
:11:59. > :12:01.saying at Stormont. It is a considerable amount of money to
:12:02. > :12:07.mitigate against the cuts imposed by London. We have agreed that amount
:12:08. > :12:13.money. What we need to do in light of the British Chancellor's decision
:12:14. > :12:18.is about how we best then the money. The two biggest parties will not be
:12:19. > :12:21.short of advice. Any money that is released that was supposed to go to
:12:22. > :12:28.mitigating the tax credit cuts should now be reverted and devoted
:12:29. > :12:33.entirely to training and skills and apprenticeships. What they will
:12:34. > :12:35.actually do we, or they, still do not know.
:12:36. > :12:39.A senior civil servant is to move to a new role as head of the
:12:40. > :12:41.GAA's Casement Park redevelopment project in west Belfast.
:12:42. > :12:43.Rory Miskelly has already been involved in the project through his
:12:44. > :12:46.job at the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure but will now be
:12:47. > :13:05.From Stormont to Casement. Rory Miss Kelly is going to work for the GAA.
:13:06. > :13:09.He has been involved in other major projects in Belfast, including the
:13:10. > :13:14.multi-million pound titanic visitor centre. And the recent revamp of the
:13:15. > :13:18.rugby stadium at Ravenhill. Now comes Casement Park. He knows all
:13:19. > :13:23.about the troubled project, having worked on it in his current job at
:13:24. > :13:28.the Department of culture, arts and leisure. The brief for the final
:13:29. > :13:32.capacity has not been ascertained. This was six months ago. At the same
:13:33. > :13:43.committee, questions were asked about his move. Is the appointment a
:13:44. > :13:53.permanent position? Has he is a condo to the GAA for a short
:13:54. > :13:59.period? -- has he said condo? Rory now faces a huge challenge. Here is
:14:00. > :14:04.what the GAA is trying to do. In the New Year they want to start a new
:14:05. > :14:08.community consultation. By the summer, submit a new planning
:14:09. > :14:14.application, in the hope that by 2017 building work can finally
:14:15. > :14:20.start. The question remains. Just how big a new stadium are the GAA
:14:21. > :14:26.intending to build? 38,000 remains their preferred option. It is
:14:27. > :14:27.understood they are now prepared to consider a reduced capacity. Not
:14:28. > :14:32.reduced by much. The police have launched their
:14:33. > :14:35.annual anti-drink driving campaign. Our reporter Julie McCullough has
:14:36. > :14:37.been finding out what goes on after someone has
:14:38. > :14:49.a positive breathalyser test. It is that time of the year again
:14:50. > :14:54.when the police go out in force to warn people of the dangers of
:14:55. > :14:58.drinking and driving. What do you imagine happens if you are caught
:14:59. > :15:05.drink-driving? If you thought it was just a matter of blurring into one
:15:06. > :15:10.of these... And then waiting to find out what the consequences are...
:15:11. > :15:16.Think again. This is just the beginning of the process. If you
:15:17. > :15:23.want to follow me up to the Sergeant. You will be introduced to
:15:24. > :15:27.the custody Sergeant. After a journey in the back of a police car,
:15:28. > :15:33.you end up here in a police custody suite. Where are we now and what
:15:34. > :15:35.will happen? We are in the evidential breath testing room
:15:36. > :15:41.within the police station, the custody suite. What I need to do now
:15:42. > :15:48.is obtained to evidential specimens of breath. If I can ask you to step
:15:49. > :15:54.forward and just make a good seal around that bit at the top. Take
:15:55. > :16:01.that breath right away. Take a good deep breath. Keep going, keep going,
:16:02. > :16:07.keep going. That is it. Every person who registers above 35 micrograms of
:16:08. > :16:12.alcohol in 100 millimetres of breath goes through this process. The
:16:13. > :16:19.outcomes can vary. If you provide a breath specimen over 40 micrograms,
:16:20. > :16:25.you will have the opportunity to have that replaced by one of blood.
:16:26. > :16:30.If it is over 50, the process has ended. Ended at this stage but it is
:16:31. > :16:35.far from over. The consequences in terms of penalties to be imposed, it
:16:36. > :16:42.is an automatic 12 month disqualification minimum. Always.
:16:43. > :16:46.Last year, 270 people were caught drink-driving over the Christmas
:16:47. > :16:49.period. One of them was five times over the legal limit.
:16:50. > :16:52.It was one of the headlines in both the Stormont House Agreement
:16:53. > :16:53.and last week's Fresh Start announcement.
:16:54. > :16:56.Around ?500 million to build new shared and integrated schools.
:16:57. > :16:58.Both aim to educate children together,
:16:59. > :17:07.but as Donna's been finding out, there are many differences too.
:17:08. > :17:15.The practice of shared education has been carried out in our schools for
:17:16. > :17:23.many years. Only recently, the MLA has voted to include it in
:17:24. > :17:27.education. Now the Department for Education must facilitate and
:17:28. > :17:32.encourage shared education. What does that mean? How different is it
:17:33. > :17:37.from integrated education? In a moment, here at an integrated
:17:38. > :17:43.college, I will be speaking to representatives from schools. First,
:17:44. > :17:47.our education correspondent looks at the main differences. If Catholics
:17:48. > :17:52.have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we
:17:53. > :17:58.cannot see ourselves in one another... President Obama and our
:17:59. > :18:04.local politicians say our children should be educated together. How?
:18:05. > :18:14.Pupils at integrated schools share one building, one U, one timetable,
:18:15. > :18:19.no matter their background. Dell AI -- I did not think I would mix with
:18:20. > :18:28.Catholics, Muslims and Chinese people. It is mixed. Around 50% here
:18:29. > :18:34.are Protestant, 31% Catholic, and 19% come from other backgrounds. It
:18:35. > :18:38.is important because it exposes our children to the diverse environments
:18:39. > :18:42.that are out there. It prepares them for, I think, a society that has
:18:43. > :18:46.become multicultural. It exposes them to different religious
:18:47. > :18:51.backgrounds and different cultural traditions and identities. Here in
:18:52. > :18:58.one in -- than one in ten children go to a mixed school. Differing
:18:59. > :19:03.schools can come together for specific lessons or activities. That
:19:04. > :19:09.is known as shared education. What we have focused on here today is the
:19:10. > :19:12.battle of the Somme... Pupils at Saint Patrick 's College on
:19:13. > :19:20.Belfast's Antrim Road are Roman Catholic. The shared education
:19:21. > :19:25.programme we work with gives opportunities for the boys in this
:19:26. > :19:29.college to work alongside, in small groups and mixed groups, pupils from
:19:30. > :19:36.different schools across Belfast, across the political and religious
:19:37. > :19:41.divides. It helped us to get a little bit less of a biased view and
:19:42. > :19:45.help us to broaden the way we would think about how it affected the
:19:46. > :19:48.Protestants. Critics of shared education say it still divides
:19:49. > :19:53.children for the most part. This expert says it is a realistic way
:19:54. > :19:56.forward. Surveys tell us consistently that significant
:19:57. > :20:01.numbers of people want to send their children to integrated schools. In
:20:02. > :20:04.reality, they do not do it. Shared education offers the type of
:20:05. > :20:11.sustained contact between children that we know from evidence here and
:20:12. > :20:17.internationally is likely to promote more positive relations. With more
:20:18. > :20:19.money and legislation to back it, it seems shared education is the
:20:20. > :20:31.education minister's favourite approach.
:20:32. > :20:37.Jim, breaking down barriers with regard to shared education, how can
:20:38. > :20:42.it be done on a daily basis when children are not sitting beside
:20:43. > :20:45.others of a different faith? How do we live together? We live in streets
:20:46. > :20:48.with people from different backgrounds. Not all in the same
:20:49. > :20:54.house but they can get on together. Why should it be different with
:20:55. > :20:57.education? The key issue is that young people have opportunities to
:20:58. > :21:07.mix with people from a wide righty of social, religious and ethnic
:21:08. > :21:10.backgrounds. Schools working together can achieve this. It does
:21:11. > :21:12.not have to be through integrated schools, it can be through all
:21:13. > :21:16.schools, collaborating. There is much greater that unity with all
:21:17. > :21:21.schools involved in sharing than some schools. It is down to parental
:21:22. > :21:26.choice at the end of the day. Why do we not have more children going to
:21:27. > :21:31.integrated education? Only about 7% of our system is integrated. It has
:21:32. > :21:35.been difficult for parents to set up integrated schools. Parents who want
:21:36. > :21:38.to make an integrated choice have not had the same opportunities as
:21:39. > :21:42.parents who want other kinds of education of the decade. For
:21:43. > :21:45.example, in an area where there is no integrated provision, parents
:21:46. > :21:56.have had to setup that school themselves. Often external funding.
:21:57. > :21:58.This programme is to break down barriers and those religious
:21:59. > :22:01.barriers. It is going to do your job for you, is it not? It is certainly
:22:02. > :22:04.going to help. We would see integrated education as shared
:22:05. > :22:08.education, probably to the optimum level. Where we had children in
:22:09. > :22:12.classes every day from different backgrounds learning with each other
:22:13. > :22:17.every day. So, for us, shared education is what we do. It is all
:22:18. > :22:22.well and good to say shared education. If you look at the
:22:23. > :22:25.policy, Jim, it looks fully. It is up to the schools themselves to get
:22:26. > :22:29.involved with others of a different religion. You are talking
:22:30. > :22:34.leadership. Have we got the schools that would do that? We are talking
:22:35. > :22:40.leadership and need. Particularly imposed primary. For the framework
:22:41. > :22:45.of range of subjects, to be available within an area, schools
:22:46. > :22:47.need to collaborate. It is in their interests from curricular
:22:48. > :22:52.perspective to engage with each other. That leads to other things
:22:53. > :22:55.like staff working together more effectively, maybe some shared
:22:56. > :22:59.services. The concept of children with different uniforms walking down
:23:00. > :23:02.the same corridor and working and living together in that school at
:23:03. > :23:09.that time is a very strong message. Thank you. Shared education,
:23:10. > :23:13.integrated education, what is the future? What does it do in your life
:23:14. > :23:14.and the life of your children? You can share your opinions on our
:23:15. > :23:17.Facebook page. The last available tickets
:23:18. > :23:20.for Sports Personality of the Year go on sale tomorrow morning at nine
:23:21. > :23:23.via the SSE Arena box office. Tonight we can reveal the winner of
:23:24. > :23:26.the BBC Sport NI Unsung Hero Award. It goes to a football coach
:23:27. > :23:39.from West Belfast. Damian Linsey founded St James' Park
:23:40. > :23:44.Swiss. He wanted to keep young people off the streets and away from
:23:45. > :23:48.anti-social behaviour which has plagued the area. From fundraising
:23:49. > :23:52.to coaching to his new role as chairman. He has worked tirelessly
:23:53. > :23:58.to ensure his vision of a local team became reality against the odds.
:23:59. > :24:03.There are people in our team who have been involved in anti-social
:24:04. > :24:06.behaviour, came away from drugs and drinking at the weekends. People
:24:07. > :24:16.come onto the pitch and shout at the players. We thought, how will this
:24:17. > :24:20.work? Here is not just making a difference through football. He was
:24:21. > :24:23.instrumental in setting up this urban farm, encouraging players to
:24:24. > :24:30.volunteer and also sponsor animals. With produce from the farm gifted to
:24:31. > :24:37.locals. We have not just been filming Saint James Swifts, we have
:24:38. > :24:41.been filming to give you this. You are the 2015 BBC Sport and sung hero
:24:42. > :24:52.for Northern Ireland. Congratulations! How did they keep
:24:53. > :25:02.this from me? Sometimes one person gets picked out. People do work hard
:25:03. > :25:06.to keep the community spirit going. As a regional winner, he will go
:25:07. > :25:10.forward for the overall award which will be announced at the BBC sports
:25:11. > :25:23.personality of the year event on 20th of December. Very generous in
:25:24. > :25:27.victory. Now for the weather. Cold weather is not too far away. It
:25:28. > :25:32.would be a brief cold snap which could be a shock to the system. Up
:25:33. > :25:37.to 14 Celsius at Saint Helen 's Bay today. Not too cheery. A lot of
:25:38. > :25:44.Cloud has come in through the course of the day. Not as damp as it was in
:25:45. > :25:47.places earlier. It is mainly dry. The breeze is picking up and it will
:25:48. > :25:54.continue to strengthen during the course of the night. We are likely
:25:55. > :26:00.to get some drizzly rain coming in. Mild. Temperatures seven, 8 degrees.
:26:01. > :26:05.The patchy rain is a precursor to tomorrow's active weather front.
:26:06. > :26:09.Plenty of isobars packed in. A blustery spell. This weather front
:26:10. > :26:14.is the boundary between the mild air and the cold air that will be
:26:15. > :26:19.tucking in right behind it. It will be turning colder as we go through
:26:20. > :26:23.the day tomorrow. Despite being mild to begin with tomorrow, the winds
:26:24. > :26:27.are ready strong and blustery. It will have a band of rain heading
:26:28. > :26:30.eastwards. Temperatures popped up in right behind it. It will be turning
:26:31. > :26:32.colder as we go through the day tomorrow. Despite being mild to
:26:33. > :26:35.begin with tomorrow, the winds are ready strong and blustery. It will
:26:36. > :26:56.have a band of rain heading eastwards. Temperatures popped up
:26:57. > :26:59.into. As we go through the day and the temptress ball away, it will be
:27:00. > :27:01.turning wintry. That is how we go into the first half of tomorrow
:27:02. > :27:04.night. More wintry showers, maybe some snow settling on the hills.
:27:05. > :27:06.Maybe I see in places. Through the night slightly less cold air
:27:07. > :27:10.starting to come in. Showers at lower levels will turn to rain was
:27:11. > :27:14.that we should lose any icy patches. That takes us into
:27:15. > :27:19.Saturday. Spells of rain and not as Chile. Less cold through the
:27:20. > :27:24.weekend. Spells of rain to come and still pretty blustery. That is all
:27:25. > :27:28.from us this evening. Join us for the late news. Until then you can
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:27:35. > :27:36.The by. -- goodbye.