08/02/2016

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:00:00. > :00:12.Gardai believe the murder was in retaliation for the attack

:00:13. > :00:17.at a city hotel on Friday when one man died and two

:00:18. > :00:32.A second killing in just four days, a man shot dead in a house in the

:00:33. > :00:38.north of the city. He was in his 50s. It comes just days after this

:00:39. > :00:50.shooting. Mask the men storming a hotel during a boxing tournament

:00:51. > :00:58.weigh-in. David Byrne was the man killed at the hotel on Friday. A man

:00:59. > :01:00.claiming to speak on behalf of the leadership of the continuity IRA

:01:01. > :01:08.told the BBC it members were responsible. He said the killing was

:01:09. > :01:10.in retaliation for involvement in the killing of another man, a

:01:11. > :01:16.dissident republican, four years ago. Police have been on high alert,

:01:17. > :01:20.expecting reprisals. We are conscious about speculation that

:01:21. > :01:29.people are maybe talking about retaliation. There have been

:01:30. > :01:32.numerous patrols, and patrols, out in Dublin city last night, and they

:01:33. > :01:35.will continue out in the coming days.

:01:36. > :01:40.But denied fears have been confirmed. It is understood that

:01:41. > :01:42.tonight's murder was the latest attack in this ongoing feud.

:01:43. > :01:48.Our Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison joins me now.

:01:49. > :01:53.As we heard, it was feared there could be another shooting after

:01:54. > :01:57.Friday. What is known about this latest attack?

:01:58. > :02:02.From the very first moment police were working on the assumption that

:02:03. > :02:06.what happened was the result of an ongoing criminal gang feud. One of

:02:07. > :02:11.the gangs is now based in Spain but his links to the south inner city

:02:12. > :02:16.area, the other is a link to the north inner city area where the

:02:17. > :02:20.murder tonight took place. Before Friday the most recent killing in

:02:21. > :02:28.this feud was in Spain, late last year, a man called Gary Hutch, and

:02:29. > :02:32.the murder victim tonight would have been well-known to Gary Hutch. The

:02:33. > :02:35.killing has been condemned by Frances Fitzgerald and other

:02:36. > :02:41.politicians, including Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams.

:02:42. > :02:46.We have heard claim and counterclaim about the shooting on Friday. What

:02:47. > :02:51.can you tell us? The BBC today received a claim from

:02:52. > :02:54.the continuity IRA that it had carried out the killing, alleging

:02:55. > :03:01.that it was in response the murder of the real IRA leader, Alan Ryan,

:03:02. > :03:05.years ago. Police are keeping an open mind about that claim I have to

:03:06. > :03:07.say it was treated with a real degree of scepticism because it

:03:08. > :03:16.would be unprecedented for one paramilitary dissident group to

:03:17. > :03:19.carry out a killing in revenge for the leader of another, and also

:03:20. > :03:24.because police had no intelligence linking David Byrne to the killing

:03:25. > :03:30.of Alan Ryan four years ago. RTE and other Irish media outlets have

:03:31. > :03:34.received a statement purporting to come from the continuity IRA denying

:03:35. > :03:38.any involvement and saying they are not linked to any criminal gang

:03:39. > :03:42.feuds. The murder tonight would seem to suggest that the working

:03:43. > :03:45.assumption of detectives about the killing on Friday being the result

:03:46. > :03:47.of an ongoing communal gang feud was the right one.

:03:48. > :03:50.Assembly Members are being asked to put their politics to the side

:03:51. > :03:53.That's already happened in Greater Manchester

:03:54. > :03:59.where politicians have signed up to a plan that includes reducing

:04:00. > :04:01.the number of emergency departments from 10 to four.

:04:02. > :04:03.They estimate up to 300 lives could be saved by concentrating

:04:04. > :04:06.From Manchester our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly

:04:07. > :04:25.Manchester also has its health troubles. Just like Northern Ireland

:04:26. > :04:29.they have soaring waiting list, more older people with chronic

:04:30. > :04:33.conditions, and services duplicated across hospital sites. But in

:04:34. > :04:38.greater Manchester this diagnosis triggered health authorities to come

:04:39. > :04:41.together and politicians to put differences aside.

:04:42. > :04:47.Health care here is not great, the population of greater Manchester

:04:48. > :04:51.have significant issues, you cannot become a politician and lead without

:04:52. > :04:58.making decisions, and at every level, the leaders in that room took

:04:59. > :05:01.leadership and said, it will happen. Normally from opposing sides,

:05:02. > :05:06.according to these councils, little harmony was crucial.

:05:07. > :05:12.With our resolve been tested over the next few years, of course it

:05:13. > :05:15.will, but is there a resolve that says, we must do something

:05:16. > :05:23.differently, pragmatically? Then, yes, we will. How did they get

:05:24. > :05:27.here. A memorandum of understanding was signed setting out the pins.

:05:28. > :05:32.Health and social care, including politicians working together for the

:05:33. > :05:35.greater good. A strategic partnership was created consisting

:05:36. > :05:40.of the temperature Manchester local authorities and 12 clinical

:05:41. > :05:45.commission groups. To get the public involved a mayor will be elected to

:05:46. > :05:48.help lead change, and all political and health officials will have a

:05:49. > :05:52.vote when a contentious issue comes up. It is not all been smooth. There

:05:53. > :05:56.has been a judicial review of attempts to juice the number

:05:57. > :06:13.emergency departments, set to be cut from ten tonne to four.

:06:14. > :06:16.The alternative was worse. It politicians and others to be brave

:06:17. > :06:19.enough to take a step and say, we will do something differently, take

:06:20. > :06:23.the risk of doing the right thing for the population rather than just

:06:24. > :06:28.doing what we have always done. For those working at the coalface

:06:29. > :06:32.there this warning. The real problem comes in about

:06:33. > :06:37.cost-cutting. When cost-cutting comes in, so many things you want to

:06:38. > :06:42.reduce, the big elephant in the room, the private sector, it is

:06:43. > :06:47.sitting ready to cherry pick. We must be careful that in the process

:06:48. > :06:53.the cherry picking is not taken over by the private sector.

:06:54. > :06:57.Clearly Manchester is only at the start of a long and potentially

:06:58. > :06:59.difficult journey but by already having a signed deal in the bag they

:07:00. > :07:01.are off to a good start. A homeless man died in Belfast

:07:02. > :07:04.at the weekend and according to a charity for homeless people

:07:05. > :07:07.he was the fourth person to die while sleeping rough

:07:08. > :07:15.in the city in the past year. The name of man who it's believed

:07:16. > :07:29.was in his thirties isn't This is where he died. A city centre

:07:30. > :07:33.doorway. The man was known amongst friends and those who helped him as

:07:34. > :07:39.Jimmy, his full name is not being released. A charity who helped him

:07:40. > :07:48.leave you could still be alive if he was not sleeping rough. He would

:07:49. > :07:53.have survived if he had written a normal home instead of a doorway.

:07:54. > :07:57.Those who knew Jimmy say he was a likeable character but he was not

:07:58. > :08:00.here every night last week, he was at hospital, and when volunteers

:08:01. > :08:04.called him to see him after being discharged he told them he had been

:08:05. > :08:09.treated for seizures. Days later he was dead. The exact cause is not yet

:08:10. > :08:11.known but today, a call for more help for people living on the

:08:12. > :08:17.street. We need to reach out, and find out

:08:18. > :08:22.what each individual person sleeping on the streets, what their specific

:08:23. > :08:25.needs are, and address them. People with these underlying issues

:08:26. > :08:28.will be on the streets of Belfast again tonight, sleeping rough.

:08:29. > :08:34.New figures for local manufacturing show it's continuing to struggle,

:08:35. > :08:36.with month after month of jobs losses and falling orders.

:08:37. > :08:39.At the weekend the actor Liam Neeson added his voice to calls for action

:08:40. > :08:48.Here's our business correspondent Julian O'Neill.

:08:49. > :09:00.Local manufacturing is having a tough. Few places have been left

:09:01. > :09:07.reeling like this, where local businesses will close by 2018. A

:09:08. > :09:09.local rally had their message endorsed by the most high celebrity

:09:10. > :09:14.from the town. In the face of thousands of well

:09:15. > :09:17.paid jobs vanishing, giving up a manufacturing is simply not an

:09:18. > :09:21.option. It is so sad to be at this point,

:09:22. > :09:25.there is no future for the likes of me on my friend.

:09:26. > :09:32.You data from the Ulster bank highlight the current woes of

:09:33. > :09:35.manufacturing. Authors are flat or falling. -- workers. Unions label it

:09:36. > :09:39.a crisis and want ligament strategy to attract placement jobs which pay

:09:40. > :09:45.well. It cannot just be built on service

:09:46. > :09:50.jobs, or call centres. It can't be built on the sort of jobs that are

:09:51. > :09:54.not even paying proper wages. We want a bright future, and a proud

:09:55. > :09:57.future. There has been better luck with

:09:58. > :10:01.overseas investment in other sectors like competing. Take this American

:10:02. > :10:06.firm, today announcing a few new jobs for Belfast. The Finance

:10:07. > :10:13.Minister was here, he was in Ballymena, and insists that invest

:10:14. > :10:16.Northern Ireland has not given up a manufacturing.

:10:17. > :10:20.They have not thrown in the towel. They have to respond to what our

:10:21. > :10:23.global circumstances and a global situation and I think they are still

:10:24. > :10:29.best placed to do that and that is why I have confidence that invest

:10:30. > :10:31.and continue to do what is best for Northern Ireland.

:10:32. > :10:35.Concerns about the global economy will only add to the Manufacturing

:10:36. > :10:37.challenge. And things could remain downbeat in this sector for longer

:10:38. > :10:40.yet. A man has received a suspended

:10:41. > :10:42.sentence for claiming benefits Dungannon Court was also told that

:10:43. > :10:49.47 year old Clive Millar from Coleshill Crescent

:10:50. > :10:53.in Enniskillen, had almost ?300,000 The former soldier admitted four

:10:54. > :10:58.charges of failing to declare information to the

:10:59. > :11:01.Social Security Agency. He was sentenced to 12 months

:11:02. > :11:07.in jail, suspended for two years. On BBC Newsline tomorrow evening

:11:08. > :11:09.we look at electricity prices. As the largest provider, Power NI,

:11:10. > :11:15.is about make an announcement we find out if switching electricity

:11:16. > :11:29.companies can make a difference Because there are more players in

:11:30. > :11:32.the market is having a downward pressure on prices. Hopefully with

:11:33. > :11:36.more consumers making the choice to move it makes companies work harder

:11:37. > :11:40.to give them better offers. But it still remains for the consumer to

:11:41. > :11:41.make the choice and the mood. Sometimes they are reluctant to do

:11:42. > :11:43.so. More on that on tomorrow's BBC

:11:44. > :11:57.Newsline here on BBC 1. It is quite wet across many places

:11:58. > :12:01.tonight. There may be some flooding and treacherous driving conditions.

:12:02. > :12:06.As a result, a weather warning. It will stay in place until 10am

:12:07. > :12:10.tomorrow. Over high ground tonight we will see a mixture of sleet and

:12:11. > :12:14.snow as temperatures approached freezing, most other areas will stay

:12:15. > :12:19.with just rain. A damp start tomorrow, cloudy, with the cloud

:12:20. > :12:24.bringing in some scattered showers. But the picture improves later in

:12:25. > :12:27.the day. To begin with it will be very wet, treacherous driving

:12:28. > :12:35.conditions for rush hour to keep in mind. Scattered showers across

:12:36. > :12:38.Ireland, England, and the northern Scotland, many other areas get off

:12:39. > :12:45.to a dry and sunny start but westerly winds will bring in showers

:12:46. > :12:51.here and there. For Northern Ireland, it will stay quite windy,

:12:52. > :12:54.quite chilly. Especially toward the north coast, factoring in westerly

:12:55. > :13:00.wind. The sunshine will develop and move south, giving us all a glimmer

:13:01. > :13:06.before nightfall. Temperatures, at best, seven Celsius, feeling cold

:13:07. > :13:10.the wind-chill. Wednesday is not so bad, it is shaping up to be largely

:13:11. > :13:15.dry with sunshine to begin with, perhaps showers skirting across the

:13:16. > :13:20.coast. Overall a largely dry picture. The end of the week, a low

:13:21. > :13:23.pressure system is our way, turning wet and windy and again.