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Child killer Robert Howard was a police informer,

the inquest into the death of Arlene Arkinson is told.

Accused of the murder of 29 people in the Omagh bombing -

Seamus Daly appears in court in the town.

As tributes are paid to the homeless man who died here in Belfast last

night, I will have the very latest from the city centre.

The women who went on to develop the disease.

If you are sitting at home, you are waiting for a phone call or a letter

and you are worrying, you are watching constantly and wondering

why you have been ignored. Also to come on tonight's

programme... The work going on in a County Antrim

workshop to create an Irish version More shadow boxing in Manchester

were Frampton and Quiqq fallout over a dressing room row,

and in London England coach Eddie Jones pulls no punches

as he declared "We will target We should see some brighter skies

again over the weekend. The serial killer Robert Howard

was a police informer - the inquest into the murder

of Castlederg teenager She disappeared after a night out

in Donegal in 1994. Howard died last year while serving

a life sentence for the murder Patricia Quinn and the Navy

tracksuit top arrives at the inquest into Arlene Arkinson's death with

her daughter Donna, one of the last people to see the schoolgirl alive

she told the coroner everyone knew that police informer Robert Howard

was such. She says she challenged an officer about Howard's alleged

status, and claims he said I hold my hands up. She added, that's why they

put him in my house, to keep an eye on him. Me and my daughter are

scapegoats for CID. Arlene Arkinson was last seen being driven away in

the early hours of the morning by Robert Howard after they had gone to

a disco in bond or run with Donna Quinn and her then boyfriend. Her

body has never been found. Howard often say that the family home with

the quakes, and living at the Quins was one of his bail conditions after

being charged with rape. The days after her disappearance, the kids

and families visited the Quins desperate for information. The

The coroner asked Patricia Quinn: coroner asked Patricia Quinn:

she replied I didn't know what to think. I was that shocked that she

wasn't back that she was mission. -- missing. She says it was one of the

biggest question of her life. Patricia Quinn also denied being in

a relationship with Robert Howard, and said they were just friends.

Even though when he stayed in her house, he would sleep in her bed.

She said he wasn't even interested in her, he was more interested in

young girls in uniforms. The hearing continues next week.

A man accused of murdering 29 people in the Real IRA bomb attack in Omagh

in 1998 has appeared in person for the first time for a court

A district judge is deciding if there is enough evidence

for the case against 45-year-old Seamus Daly from Jonesborough

in County Armagh to proceed to a Crown Court trial.

Seamus Daly who was originally from County Monaghan was arrested in

April 2014, and until now all his magistrate court hearings have been

via a video from prison. He was today brought to the town

courthouse. He is charged with the murders of 29 people in Omagh on the

15th of August 19 98. He also faces charges of causing the explosion,

and expressing -- possessing the bomb. And further charges relating

to another dissident bomb plot in Lisburn in 1998. Some of his

relatives sat just a few feet away from him. During the court

proceedings, the judge will hear from witnesses and decide whether

there is enough evidence for a Crown Court trial. After his arrest,

Seamus Daly gave police a statement, denying any involvement. His lawyers

have argued that the case against him his week, and much of his

evidence -- the evidence is discreditable.

The death of a homeless man in the centre of Belfast last night

- the third to die in three weeks - prompted an urgent meeting

at the City Hall to try to deal with the issue, before

The problem was raised at a meeting of the Executive today

and the Social Development Minister has promised to investigate

BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson is in the city centre

Tara, it's another very cold night here in the city centre. The

temperature can't be much above zero, and it was exactly the same

this time last night, and I was around this time when that homeless

man's body was found in that doorway beside me. This is right in the

heart of the city, Cornmarket there, high Street there, Royal Avenue

there, and I have been trying to find out today why this just keeps

happening in the heart of Belfast city centre. At the scene of the

latest tragedy, a plea for help. They call for action in Belfast, to

try to stop homelessness was that the message is we aren't doing

enough, we can do better than this. There are endless empty buildings

everywhere you look in Belfast, and if you look up you see them, if you

look down you see people sitting on the streets, and we need to pull

together and work together and create a Caecina bull solution. --

sustainable solution. The man dead last night was in his 40s, and found

in a city centre doorway just after seven o'clock. It was a cold and

lonely death will stop but the early indications are that his sudden

death wasn't a direct result of the freezing temperatures will stop the

person that has lost his life, did have accommodation, and we can't

understand why he wasn't in it. Yesterday evening. Furthermore, my

department has in recent years but in some ?35 million for homeless.

The money hasn't yet so what is a conjugated problem. In the past

three weeks three people have died in the city centre. The first, a man

in his 30s on Donegal Place. Less than a week later the body of a

another homeless man was found, this time in the toilet of a fast food

restaurant. Then last night, just a few metres away on Castle Place,

another man died. At Belfast city Hall this afternoon, groups involved

in trying to help the homeless came together. We have identified and

know that there is a population of about 35 individuals with really,

really complex needs in the city centre who have accommodation and

would like the public to know that they have accommodation, but due to

the complex needs they are making decisions often to stay on the

street overnight. This afternoon I spoke to one of them. He didn't want

his station on camera. Why wouldn't you go to a hostel? Because I'd get

stabbed. You got stabbed? Yes, I got stabbed last time. Disturbing, isn't

it? That's a big scar. Three holding my bowel, part of my spleen. That

happened inside a hostel? Now you wonder why we don't go to hospitals,

that is the reason. -- hostels. There is now a renewed effort to

find a solution. For some, it is too late. There is no doubt, and I have

been around the city today, what happened here on the street last

night has caused huge shock, but had it made any difference? Well, I had

to report the night, no. Three or four young men sleeping round the

corner, and just before we came on as a man went into a sleeping bag

beside me. Only metres from where someone else died last night. This

problem is not going to be solved overnight.

A short time ago I spoke to Liam Kinney from the Housing Executive

We have a 24/7 at team. We have two had a half thousand bed spaces in

Belfast. We have a multidisciplinary team of specialist social workers

working with them, and all that support I can advise, I can't talk

about the four cases, was therefore these individuals, and yet they

didn't engage. I suppose the key questions we have got to define the

answer to is why they didn't engage. We are talking about multi-complex

individuals here, entrenched lifestyles, and a very, very

difficult individuals to find housing and support solutions for

but we are committed across the agencies to find solutions, and

ensure that this doesn't happen again was not particularly at this

time of year when the so called, is there nothing that can be done in an

emergency situation to say, look, we aren't going to have anybody

sleeping on the streets in Belfast whether you like it or not,

effectively, because if they are in such a dire situation, where they

can't engage or are unable to, that is when you had hacked is that then?

There is a street outreach that we've funnelled through the welcome

Centre out in the streets of Belfast every day and night. They are

engaging with these individuals. They have tried to move them from

the street and to a place of safety. Unfortunately, for their own

individual reasons some of them prefer to stay on the streets rather

than engage with that, so the support is there. The issue is how

do you get these individuals do engage with that support. I

appreciate that is a very difficult question to answer but we cannot let

people die. Absolutely not, and as I said, we are committed across all

agencies to ensure that doesn't happen will stop we do our utmost,

we are doing an immediate review of all the services we provide across

all the sectors, in housing, in health, with the police, with the

council and others. That is being taken forward as a matter of

urgency. 120 women who had suspected breast

cancer and who weren't seen by a consultant within the 14 day

target were later given The development has been

described by a cancer charity The information emerged in a written

assembly question submitted by the former Health Minister Michael

Mcgimpsey. A survivor of the disease has told

the BBC that targets Our Health Correspondent

Marie-Louise Connolly has the story. Hello? Hello macro running her own

business, this lady's life is often stressful, but she said that is

nothing compared to the stress endured while she was waiting to see

a cancer specialist. You can't think clearly, you lose your appetite.

Eventually I had lost my appetite completely, and a a lot of weight,

and I had to eventually... Opened wait any longer and I went

privately. Breast cancer is back in the headlines, after headlines last

year revealing numbers weren't seen by experts were later diagnosed as

positive. One specialist told me that one late diagnosis is one case

too many. According to the official figures, last year 2759 urgent

referrals with red flags were seen at the clinic. Of those, 93%, the

vast majority, did not have cancer. But 121 women who weren't seen

within the 14 day target were later diagnosed with cancer. It's not good

enough for the Department and the Ministry to be saying demand was too

high and we don't have enough staff. We know where the demand is going to

be, we are able to predict that, and also as far as staff is concerned,

recruit more. That is down to money. They simply won't spend the cash.

Earlier this month, the BBC revealed that cancer rates are expected to

increase by 65% in the next 20 years. A local charity says

decision-makers must start preparing. We really feel there

needs to be a strategic overview, a cancer plan that is properly

measured, and that the whole service has looked at, so that they are

prepared for the future. The Belfast health class says it is to appoint a

further surgeon to cope with the demand.

Executive ministers swapped a castle for a Town Hall today

when they held their first formal meeting outside Stormont.

It's part of a new policy of taking the body around Northern Ireland.

The first destination this morning was Enniskillen.

Our political correspondent Gareth Gordon was there.

Clinton, Obama, Thatcher, and the Queen. Over the years, Enniskillen

has seen them all. But for the First Minister this was a sort of

homecoming. And a little bit of history. The first formal meeting of

the Executive outside Stormont will stop I have said since I've become

First Minister that I wanted to be a listening First Minister, I have

been out and around Northern Ireland since I have been appointed many

many towns, many villages, and I'm listening to what people have to say

to us and that is one of the reasons why I want to come to Ellis Killen

today to say that politics is not just about dormant, it is about

every town and village across Northern Ireland. We have committed

ourselves to speak to people first-hand and see what we can do to

address the issues that have been raised, and so this is a very strong

commitment from us and the fact that we are going to Derry as the next

stop out of Belfast, and we will be under other places, is a very clear

example of our determination to deliver for everybody. The locals

were pleased. Mostly. It's good that they're basically getting out

amongst the people, particularly to the west of the province. I think it

is fabulous. Enniskillen is fabulous. I'm not sure what you're

talking about. The Executive? I don't know. The Executive has often

been accused of being right from the people it governs. Ministers are

hoping that by taking it out and about, that criticism will lesson.

Voting gets underway in the morning in the Republic's general election.

It's expected that no party will come close to getting

Let's go live to our Dublin Correspondent Shane Harrison.

Shane, how would you sum up the campaign? Tara, nearly 3 million

people are entitled to vote tomorrow, between seven o'clock in

the morning and ten o'clock at night to elect 158 TDs in 40

constituencies. Some people of the islands of Donegal, Galway and mail,

have already been casting their ballots today. The campaign itself

has been as short as the Constitution allows for, and

initially it was dominated by Dublin's gangland murders and

funerals. Over the last few days, there has been a real sense that the

public are beginning to engage with the electoral process. Shane, how at

the various leaders done on the hustings? The opinion polls suggest

that left-wing parties and independents will do well. Of the

four main party leaders, they have had their problems. The Taoiseach

Enda Kenny, leader of Fine Gael, initially had its financial figures

questioned by Sinn Fein and then had to do apologise for describing as

whingers are people who questioned whether there was an economic

recovery or not. The Labour Party where the polls with this appears to

suggest that Labour is being published for overpromising in 2011,

the last election, and under delivering. For the Fianna Fail

leader, his party is still dealing with the fallout from the 2011

general election when its support crashed because of the EU IMF

bailouts associated with the economic crash, and the property

bubble. His party will do the better this time round but it will get

nowhere near the 40% that it used to get. Sinn Fein had a good start to

the campaign, but over the course of the last few weeks, its support has

begun to a road. Critics will say that is partly because of Gerry

Adams needy performances in which he appeared to show a lack of detail

about financial figures, not what you would expect from somebody

auditioning to be the GC executive of a state with a nearly 60 billion

euros tax take, and one which is still not balancing its books was up

we will know whether any of this had any impact in a few days' time, when

the results and the ballots are counted. An interesting few days to

come. We will leave it there. The contract to create what's

being called the Irish version of the Orient Express has been won

the County Antrim firm Mivan. It's better known for its work

on cruise liners, and this is its first

project involving a train. Our economics and business editor

John Campbell been to see Two years ago, this factory fell

silent when Mivan went into administration. Now, under new

ownership, it is doing new things and employing more than 100 people.

This was an Irish rail passenger train. It's been bought by the

travel firm Belmont, and is being transformed by Gucci macro's

craftsman. These cavities when complete will be the height of old

school lottery but for paying passengers that won't come cheap

stop a three-day return trip from Dublin to the giant's Causeway will

set you back about two and a half thousand pounds. -- ?2500. This is

one of Belmont's trains. It will give you a flavour of what is to

come. We had a logistical nightmare, thanks to the roads service, the

government, everybody coming together with the rail companies in

actual fact to transport one of these, several of these to our

premises here in Antrim. Work it will be finished in the summer and

the train will begin operating in August. At a time of bad news for

the local manufacturing sector, it is a reminder that there are still

successful companies doing globally competitive work.

The Republic of Ireland manager Martin O'Neill has been

in Londonderry today giving a series of talks on how he's reached

And he gave some revealing insights into his managerial

assistant Roy Keane, who he said was a driving force

behind Manchester United for a decade.

Our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish, caught up with him.

It's a series called getting to the top of your game, and today Martin

O'Neill gave some fascinating insights. As a young man, his mother

always stressed the value of education, as he longs to play for

rail Madrid. He revealed that perms were all the rage although he never

got one. That's a nice touch! Henrik Larsson was the best player he

managed, and he believes messy is better than Maradona will stop but

the biggest question of all, what is Roy Keane really like? Oh, he's not

a pussycat. He's been a great help and inspiration in that sense, but

he is two minutes away from an explosion at any given state was up

his very good fun, and actually very self-effacing as well, he really is.

You would enjoy his company. But he had to be in a good mood. Martin

O'Neill enjoyed European success. Today, he had simple advice for his

audience. The one thing that you have two note, if you have a goal in

mind, and you feel that it is achievable, you have to have

enthusiasm. It's number one. I really enjoyed it, especially

somebody as an experienced as him coming on, and explaining how

success came about. He was really down to earth, he could take a laugh

and all, and really welcoming. Certainly a day that the students

won't forget. The tension has been ratcheted up

in both Manchester London ahead of whats being billed

as Super Saturday. Mark Sidebottom is here

with this evening's sport. We'll get to the rugby in a moment

but first the hype hoopla went in to overdrive ahead

of Carl Farmpton's unification fight prompted Frampton to label his

opponent superstitious. As Thomas Kane reports,

when the delayed press connference eventually got underway

the bickering continued. There was tension between the

fighters as tempers flared both camps refused to back down. There's

a lot of speculation that you are arguing over gesturing rooms. --

dressing rooms. This is a lot of nonsense. I am the lead name of the

show, I should be start changing room, but this kid is so

superstitious, and he has always been in a changing room and wants to

be in it again. The position is a sign of weakness, but we will be

fair, lock the changing room up, we will go to different gender rooms,

but he doesn't want it. He threw his toys out of the pram. He was going

to take my dressing room. If you back yourself so much? What does it

matter? What makes you think and you are coming to my arena and choosing

what dressing room you have? It's not your arena. Will this put the

fight in dressing room? No, I just need to be in the dressing room,

that's it. He's just trying to unsettle us, just trying to think of

some small thing that he can try and get over the fight on me. It won't

happen. It hasn't been easy to get Frampton and quick in the same ring.

It has taken almost four years, and every step along the way there have

been disputes. From venues to Percy 's, ring walks, two dressing rooms.

The fact is, one thing is for certain. On Sunday, one of them is

going to be a double world champion. If you think Frampton-Quigg

is getting feisty, new England coach Eddie Jones weighed in with an upper

cut of his own today as he questioned Jonny Sexton's

fitness, ahead of Saturdays six Jones claiming Sextons parents

will be "worried about his health". Both teams were named today,

with two Ireland debutants, Six foot four, 17 stone Alan

Saturday. This machine will make his debut on Saturday. A daunting task.

Against Johnny Sexton who has suffered from concussion in the past

full stop this afternoon the England coach made his intentions clear. Is

there some sort of special law? There's 15 players out there, and

we're not supposed to run at one where? We will be talking players in

the island side. We want to win, and you win by attacking team's weak

points. They have talked about Sexton having whiplash injuries,

which is not a great thing to talk about. I'm sure his mother and

father will be worried about that. I think there's probably a little bit

of irresponsibility, people making comments outside the environment,

who have no medical background. They have no medical knowledge of how fit

or otherwise Johnny is, and maybe that is part of the dialogue about

settling him. Out of 23 games, Johnny Sexton has finished just

three. For a variety of reasons was that many tactical, but on other

occasions because of injury, and it is that cars in connection with

concussion that frustrate one of world rugby's top players. I don't

want the criticism, I don't want people to talk down on my game, but

for guys in the media to come out and say that I have got concussion

when I've got a groin strain, all I got concussion when I've picked a

neck injury, it is really frustrating, because concussion is a

serious matter and to be labelled with it and to be tarnished with it

is a pretty frustrating thing when it's not true, so that is

frustrating for me. Ireland against England is always a special

occasion. It looks like Saturday will be no different.

More from London and Manchester tomorrow. I can't wait.

A very good evening to you. The cold weather is set to continue the next

few days. You will need to wrap up warm, and there is lots of clouds

drifting in from the Atlantic today. It is a weather front which will

edge in across the Republic of Ireland's tonight, and then move

towards us tomorrow. It will bring a fleck of some showers. Once they

move away, and they aren't for everyone, the dry weather will

return this weekend, and it will stay cold right through the end of

the week. It will all be change next week as wind and rain returns from

the Atlantic. Tonight, barring the odd coastal shower it will be

largely dry, with some cloud around but it is quite thin. We could see

some patchy frost but not as cold as recent lights. Is it will be dry,

and the end of the night may see some showers, edging in particularly

across southern and western counties during the course of Friday. First

thing, a lot of places are still dry, but some of the showers could

be wintry in the west, so a little bit of snow here and there.

Otherwise, temperatures close to freezing but generally just above,

so don't be surprised if it's not frosty but at the same time it could

be a few patches of frosty or ice around. Showers continue to edge

north and these would so there's a little area of low pressure over the

Republic of Ireland is that is where most of the wet weather will be

tomorrow, but there could be some drifting northwards from time to

time. Perhaps drier days are past, but it will be cold and Chile.

Particularly close to the east coast. Tomorrow night we see drier

weather return for the weekend, with some sunny skies, cheerio whether

this weekend. It stays cold, but we don't mind it so much if there's

some sunshine and it is dry, and it is all change next week. The rain

and wind will back. Our late summary

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