:00:00. > :00:07.School friends of the teenager who died in a house fire
:00:08. > :00:11.in County Down have attended a service in her memory.
:00:12. > :00:13.As Maggie Taggart reports, pupils at Assumption Grammar have
:00:14. > :00:21.A fire in the flat above her father's butcher's shop
:00:22. > :00:24.in Castlewellan led to the death of 19-year-old Ellen Finnegan.
:00:25. > :00:28.She has been described as a lively, humorous, charismatic
:00:29. > :00:29.person, and her friends at Assumption Grammar
:00:30. > :00:36.in Ballynahinch are shocked at her death.
:00:37. > :00:38.Today around 200 pupils, staff and local people gathered
:00:39. > :00:50.Paramedics had taken Ellen from her smoke-filled
:00:51. > :00:52.bedroom but efforts to revive her failed and she died
:00:53. > :00:56.there in the early hours of Saturday.
:00:57. > :00:59.Today her young friends were offered counselling and many of them wept
:01:00. > :01:14.We're not going to find solutions for why she was taken at such a
:01:15. > :01:20.young age and in such a tragic way, but we can be with one another and
:01:21. > :01:26.we can support one another as we journey through this grief and shock
:01:27. > :01:30.together. We are very close-knit, and everyone has come together and
:01:31. > :01:33.people have been very focal in terms of the heartbreak. Everyone is
:01:34. > :01:34.devastated. Ellen was said to
:01:35. > :01:37.light up every class The school and community has
:01:38. > :01:43.lost a warm, loving, generous
:01:44. > :01:58.young woman who was also She was so bubbly and so friendly to
:01:59. > :02:05.everyone and she will be so missed. She was a great friend to everyone
:02:06. > :02:11.and it even if you only met her once, he felt that you'd on forever.
:02:12. > :02:17.She had repeated a year here, so at 19, she was about to sit her final
:02:18. > :02:18.exams. She had been offered a place at university in Liverpool, so a
:02:19. > :02:22.life of ambition cut short. Two men have been arrested
:02:23. > :02:24.on suspicion of attempted murder after an incident in
:02:25. > :02:26.North Belfast this morning. The police were called to Woodvale
:02:27. > :02:29.Drive around half-past seven. A number of men were taken
:02:30. > :02:31.to hospital with serious injuries, The police say they are trying
:02:32. > :02:38.to establish what happened. The funeral has taken
:02:39. > :02:40.place of James McDonagh, who died after an assault outside
:02:41. > :02:43.a bar near Toomebridge last weekend. Hundreds of mourners gathered
:02:44. > :02:45.at Holy Family Church in Coalisland. One man has appeared in court,
:02:46. > :02:47.charged with murdering Father Paul Byrne told
:02:48. > :02:50.the congregation that Mr McDonagh's
:02:51. > :03:08.life had ended too soon. Today, we gather in complete this
:03:09. > :03:14.may and silence, still in their state of shock and anger that he was
:03:15. > :03:19.taken from us. His young life was cut so short.
:03:20. > :03:22.A murder investigation is underway after the body of a man was found
:03:23. > :03:25.in a holdall in a canal in County Kildare.
:03:26. > :03:27.It was discovered yesterday afternoon, by people out walking
:03:28. > :03:32.Gardai say they believe the body was there for no more than a few
:03:33. > :03:35.days and are appealing for information.
:03:36. > :03:37.The vice-chancellors of Queen's and Ulster University say decisions
:03:38. > :03:40.need to be taken over the future funding of higher education here.
:03:41. > :03:42.The head of Queen's - Professor Patrick Johnston -
:03:43. > :03:45.told the BBC's Inside Business programme that a rise in tuition
:03:46. > :03:46.fees, or a return to public funding
:03:47. > :03:59.was required to bridge a ?100 million gap.
:04:00. > :04:07.We have some very critical decisions as a society to make very quickly,
:04:08. > :04:12.because we are already in trouble. We're bringing corporation tax and
:04:13. > :04:16.2018. We actually today don't have the graduates to fill those jobs. We
:04:17. > :04:20.have to come up with a number of solutions, one of which might be the
:04:21. > :04:25.public purse begins to fund the full investment in higher education that
:04:26. > :04:28.is needed. Either we do it with fees of a get back to public funding.
:04:29. > :04:30.The 2016 Bank of Ireland McKenna Cup final will be between
:04:31. > :04:33.This afternoon Tyrone defeated Fermanagh by seven points to book
:04:34. > :04:37.In the other semifinal, Cavan travelled to Armagh
:04:38. > :04:40.After a strong first half from Damien Barton's side,
:04:41. > :04:42.this Danny Haevron point extended Derry's lead.
:04:43. > :04:43.Despite conceding a goal, Derry finished strongly
:04:44. > :04:46.and eventually won by seven points booking a spot
:04:47. > :05:00.A look ahead now to one of the stories we have coming up
:05:01. > :05:02.this week on BBC Newsline - here's our political correspondent,
:05:03. > :05:13.It's another big year in politics. By three out of the five main party
:05:14. > :05:19.leaders, it'll be the first time that lead their party into Stormont
:05:20. > :05:21.election. Later this week, I'll be assessing the state of play in the
:05:22. > :05:27.unionist and nationalist battle grounds.
:05:28. > :05:30.A look now at the weather for the start of a new week,
:05:31. > :05:46.Ever be wet weather for a while tonight, heavier and more persistent
:05:47. > :05:50.rain edges in from the south-west, the breeze freshening up, but by the
:05:51. > :05:56.end of the night, it will turn more drizzly. Drizzly and damp weather
:05:57. > :06:01.will continue for a while. It would be raining all the time and
:06:02. > :06:06.hopefully, by Wednesday, most of us will have dry weather with some
:06:07. > :06:10.sunshine. More unsettled weather will return towards the end of the
:06:11. > :06:16.week, pushing in from the Atlantic, so it will be my order. This is the
:06:17. > :06:23.weather front bringing tonight's rain. It becomes slow-moving because
:06:24. > :06:29.it is pushing up against this area of high pressure. Several areas of
:06:30. > :06:33.low pressure ganging up in the Atlantic. Tomorrow, we have rain and
:06:34. > :06:38.Isil around to begin with, lots of mist and low cloud, so go before the
:06:39. > :06:45.over high ground. But there would be ice frost and not much lying snow
:06:46. > :06:51.left. There will be snowfall in Scotland and it will be icy in
:06:52. > :06:57.Scotland. Across England and Wales, not as cold, but damp and drizzly in
:06:58. > :07:06.the south-west. Most of the rain edges will edge away tomorrow, so
:07:07. > :07:13.many places drying up at times. Temperatures close to the average
:07:14. > :07:19.for this time of year. On Tuesday, there will be some rain in the east,
:07:20. > :07:20.but it should be dry elsewhere. It will become more unsettled but my
:07:21. > :07:22.daughter wants end of the week. Our next BBC Newsline bulletin
:07:23. > :07:26.is at a quarter past Until then you can keep up to date
:07:27. > :07:29.with local news on BBC Radio Ulster