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The police say they have prevented several murder attempts

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by dissident republicans in one week.

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This is not and will not be the campaign on the past and it will not

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return to the scale of the past but it will be dangerous.

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A woman tells the Arlene Arkinson inquest that she was assaulted

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A close friend of the late Ulster Unionist leader

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Lord Molyneaux speaks of their relationship.

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There's outrage at the treatment endured by staff and patients in

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He started to roar at her and she said, I am a member of the medical

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profession, please don't talk to me like that.

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Seven schools come together to discuss the Easter Rising

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The end of the road before the journey really began -

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Ireland exit cricket's World Twenty20.

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And we've a mild weekend coming up with plenty of dry weather too.

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The police say they've prevented a number of attempted murders

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by dissident republicans since an attack on a prison officer

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Assistant Chief Constable Will Kerr has said dissident groups have

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several hundred active members and has expressed concern

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He has appealed to members of the public to help

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counter the threat, as our Home Affairs Correspondent

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This day last week, a prison officer escaped an attempt to kill him

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In a statement to the BBC saying it carried out the attack,

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the dissident republican group calling itself the IRA said further

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The police today they said they foiled other planned attacks

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The police won't reveal precise detail but they say they prevented a

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number of attempted murders by dissident triple publicans --

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republicans since last week's attack.

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During the past year, dissident republicans have launched

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attacks using assault rifles, homemade mortars and under-car

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The PSNI officer who leads efforts to combat dissident activity today

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said he's deeply concerned about their increasing capabilities

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Several hundred people who are active dissident republicans who are

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involved in the various groupings whatever they call themselves, they

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are significantly fewer people than that and most of them have terrorist

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experienced who have involvement in running these organisations but

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there are several hundred of these at the moment...

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The police and MI5 devote huge resources to undercover covert

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activities to monitor and gather intelligence about dissident groups.

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The PSNI says that work disrupts three or four planned attacks

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Last week the police issued a stark warning about the intentions

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of dissident republicans in the run up to the centenary

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We have seen an upsurge over the last number of weeks and we

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anticipate that might continue. They are a bit like a playground bully.

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Everyone else in the school has moved on and these people just don't

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understand what is going on around them. The only thing they know is

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violence. That didn't work in the past and it won't work now and it

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won't be the future. The police have appealed to members

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of the public to help them We know communities have more

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information about these groupings, who they are, what they do, what

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their plans are. The best way they can do this is for the communities

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to stop viewing the passing of information to police services as a

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dirty word, informing or touting and seeing it as a civic duty.

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The police rarely talk about intelligence matters

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or discuss the capabilities of dissident republican groups.

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The fact that they've done so today, and that this is the second serious

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warning by a senior officer within a week, clearly underlines

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the level of concern they have about what might happen

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The inquest into the death of Arlene Arkinson has heard

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a chilling account of an assault on a teenager by the child killer

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The victim kept the assault secret for several years, before

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But she did warn the Castlederg teenager Arlene Arkinson not

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It's now clear that when 15-year-old Arlene Arkinson went missing

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in 1994, the main suspect Robert Howard had already carried

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out many assaults on young women and children.

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Now the inquest into Arlene's death has heard of an assault

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The woman can't be named for legal reasons.

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She was just 14 years old around 1993.

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She didn't like Howard - he'd had a habit of staring at her,

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The court heard she sometimes went to Howard's flat with friends.

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But on one occasion she went there with Donna Quinn.

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Many believed her mum was Howard's girlfriend.

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The flat was dark, the curtains drawn, and they began

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The witness described what happened next -

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Howard followed her to a room, assaulted her, and attempted

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"I thought we were playing an innocent game of hide

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"I knew that Bob Howard was going to have sex with me

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"against my will and I was so lucky to get away."

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A shout for help to Donna Quinn hadn't helped -

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but the teenager managed to strike Howard with her knee and escape

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She told the court she was surprised to find Donna there.

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She also explained how she immediately left the flat

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and did her best to avoid contact with Robert Howard

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The next year she heard Arlene refer to meeting Howard and tried

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to warn her off him without saying why.

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The woman explained how for years she hadn't told anyone what had

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happened, until she spoke to detectives about it almost

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"That incident was a living nightmare.

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"When it came into my head, I had to shut it out."

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It was around a year after this incident that Arlene went missing

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after a night out with Howard and others.

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From Tyrone to China, the farmers getting ready to export

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A man who describes himself as the close companion of the late

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Ulster Unionist leader Lord Molyneaux has spoken

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On the anniversary of his death, Christopher Luke, who is openly gay,

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has told BBC Radio Ulster that the men had a very loving

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relationship and that he loved the politician as a brother.

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Our Political Correspondent Chris Page reports.

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An MP for almost 30 years, the leader of unionism for a decade

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and a half - James Molyneaux was one of the most important politicians

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in Northern Ireland's recent history.

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Before going into politics he was in the RAF during World War II.

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This week was the anniversary of his death.

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Christopher Luke says he was Lord Molyneaux's close companion.

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"Your love for me was wonderful - more wonderful than that of women."

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This morning, the Irish News reproduced the memorial notice

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Mr Luke has spoken to BBC Radio Ulster's

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He says he feels the politician's legacy has been forgotten

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His Parliamentary achievement in terms of what he achieved for

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Northern Ireland, they have been airbrushed from history. I am paying

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tribute to him this week, I just hope that his legacy will be

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remembered and revered by everybody as much as me.

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A year on, Mr Luke still finds the loss of Mr Molyneaux very

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I had a very loving relationship with him. They loved him as a

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brother. He will always have a place in my heart. Was it a romantic

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relationship? There was love between us, but there are different forms of

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love. I wish people would stop putting two and two together and

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coming up with five. James Molyneaux was the Ulster

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Unionist leader during some of Northern Ireland's

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most difficult years. What Christopher Luke has said helps

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to shine a light on a man who had a very public role,

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but was a very private person. The Belfast businessman

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Gareth Graham has settled his high profile legal action with Cerberus

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and withdrawn his criticism Cerberus bought Mr Graham's property

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loans as part of a billion pound deal with Nama and put some of his

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companies into administration. Mr Graham has been challenging

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its right to do that. With the details, here's our

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Economics and Business Editor, Gareth Graham has had a bitter

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public dispute with Cerberus. He has challenged the firm in the High

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Court and given evidence at Stormont where he was highly critical of how

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it does business. My experience is that Cerberus's approach in reality

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is that they are ruthless, unjust and unreasonable. Which is at odds

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with the assertion that Cerberus's involvement in Northern Ireland

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would be good for the economy. Now he says the legal proceedings have

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been resolved to the full satisfaction of all parties. That

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follows a mediation process. This will allow him to reclaim control of

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his properties like this Belfast office block and return his focus to

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his business. In an unusual move he has placed an ad in some of today's

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papers which effectively retract his political comments. It says he

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regrets any inadvertent harm which has been caused to the Cerberus

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brand as a result of the litigation. He adds that as certain matters have

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become clear, it is now no longer possible to maintain his allegations

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were complaints about Cerberus and he says he is content Cerberus is

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not and was not involved in any illegal conduct. He is also agreed

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to meet the firm's legal costs which are likely to be substantial. This

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settlement allows Mr Graham to move on with his business and his life.

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It also distances Cerberus from the allegations made around the conduct

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of the now my deal. And in reality this particular case had little to

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do with the central issue of who was due to benefit from that deal and

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why. That issue is still being investigated by the National Crime

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Agency. A woman says she's appalled

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at the outrageous behaviour that staff at Altnagelvin

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hospital have to put up with which she witnessed

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herself this week. A man is said to have verbally

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abused a nurse and urinated in a waiting area while sick people

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including children sat nearby. The Foyle MP Mark Durkan says it's

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simply unacceptable and should Here's our North-West

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Reporter Keiron Tourish. This woman says she will never

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forget the distressing scenes she witnessed at Altnagelvin hospital

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earlier this week. Her daughter with an Accident and Emergency waiting to

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be examined by a doctor. The area was crowded with people including

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several children. It was then around tea-time that a man started abusing

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a member of staff. He was roaring and he was roaring at her. She said,

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I am a member of the medical profession, please don't talk to me

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like that, I don't need to listen to that. He burst out the side door

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which took him back out into casualty and he pulled out his zip

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and started urinating everywhere. Splashing on the cherries and people

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and everybody was aghast -- -- on the chairs. What do you do? Somebody

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inform the police officers and they went and got him and put him down on

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the ground and took him out but it was awful. Mayhem over there at the

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minute, I don't know why. The Foyle MP said it was unacceptable

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especially where staff are providing such high quality of care. It

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demonstrates that we owe them an awful lot. They deal with not just

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all the stresses and issues that people bring to their door but also

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a huge pressures of their own, so it demonstrates that we owe them not

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just the thought and the recognition when something like this happens,

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but much better support in terms of budgets and other measures. The

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police have confirmed that a 26-year-old man was arrested at

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Altnagelvin hospital on suspicion of indecent behaviour and disorderly

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behaviour and with resisting police officers. He is due to appear in

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court later this month. In just a few weeks,

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a number of large-scale events will take place to mark

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the centenary of the 1916 Easter But there's been controversy over

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how it's remembered in schools here. Well today in East Belfast,

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seven schools came together to discuss the Rising and the Somme,

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which both shaped politics and commemorations over the next 100

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years..Lisa McAlister went along. All of the students here were born

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after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement but today they gathered at

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a college in East Belfast to remember and discuss events which

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happened 100 years ago, the focus, and the Easter rising and the Somme.

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Although from various religious and political backgrounds there was

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consensus when it came to respecting different interpretations of

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history. I think it is a good idea that we all come together today and

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there is mutual respect between different sides. Learning about the

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past can help with the future. I think it is critical in Northern

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Ireland wants to step forward, we must look at the past on both sides

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so that we can come together in the present. Local churches in the area

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helped to organise this event and the hope is others will follow the

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example set by the teenagers. There is a comfort in sitting down and

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discussing the difficult issues and different interpretations. They are

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showing a maturity here that we certainly can learn from. Meanwhile

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DUP MLA Nelson McCausland has criticised the 1916 Easter rising is

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being commemorated in some Belfast schools. There are productions being

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put on that I think affirm the ideology of 1916 and the republican

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narrative of 1916. Two young impressionable, vulnerable people,

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asserting, affirming, validating what is really a lethal Legacy...

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One of the plays criticised by Nelson McCausland was 1916 which was

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performed by A-level pupils from an Irish line with school in West

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Belfast. It is very important that they play was accurate. The reason

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for the controversy, I just don't understand it. I don't get it by

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somebody who hasn't even seen the play. The export of local park to

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China was announced with a fanfare back in November. Trade that is said

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to be worth ?10 billion a year but almost four months and there is no

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sign of the deal being closed. That is at a time where pig producers are

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under big pressure. Our Agriculture and Environment

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Correspondent Conor Macauley This man runs a pig farm in County

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Tyrone. For two here's what he has been paid has just about covered the

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cost of producing these animals. Then in October instead of the

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traditional price increase driven by Christmas demand there was a slump.

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It is costing him and others big money. Each pig he sells he is

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losing cash. We would sell 420 finishers a week and that is losing

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?10 per pig. When we expect sales to improve in the happier we have lost

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?80,000. A couple of different trees and influence the price of the pigs,

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one of them is currency exchange rate, which makes imports cheaper

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and depresses the price. Another is foreign policy and events far away

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from this County Tyrone farm. When the Russians went into Ukraine, the

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EU imposed sanctions. The Russians retaliated by banning EU food. That

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meant a club of European pig meat with no real market. More supply and

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less demand that the price. The only potential bright spot for local

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producers was the opportunity to export to China. Provisional

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approval came in November but almost four months on, final approval and

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they start of those exports remains elusive. Our expectations haven't

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been met at all, because we have had too many. Is. Extreme frustration

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within the farming industry above the red tape. Processing plants here

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had some work to finish before final approval. When it was done and the

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evidence sent to the Chinese in January. The fact that that

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coincided with the Chinese New Year probably helped slow things down. We

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have an Executive office in Beijing so we are working with contacts

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there and the consulate in Belfast, Executive level and with colleagues

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in Defra. We are just waiting for the Chinese government to give the

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go-ahead. You hopes the price he gets to pick up in the summer when

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demand picks up, by that time he will be tens of thousand pounds down

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and he will need every penny to make up his losses.

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More misery for Ireland's cricketers at the World Twenty20 series

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Down and out in Dharamsala, Donna - two days ago it was humiliation

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against Oman, today a combination of the weather and Bangladesh saw

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Ireland prematurely dumped out of the World Twenty20.

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That may have been the perfect start for Ireland... In a game already

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reduced to 12 overs Ireland needed to get off to a good start but

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dropped catches and misfield allow the Bangladesh opening pair to

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ponder some poor bowling. Has it got enough legs on it? I would say it

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has. That is another big hit. And even when Ireland had the chance to

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slow them down, they failed to take it, wicketkeeper Nyla Bryant missing

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the easiest of stumpings. Tamim Iqbal was the next wicket to fall,

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with Bangladesh 94-2 off just eight overs. But his dismissal was the

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final act. As the rain came, Ireland were left to watch their World

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Twenty20 hopes get washed away. He's had to defend his selection

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policy, he's admitted Bar a paltry point picked up

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against Wales, it's been a pretty But surely the back-to-back

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Six Nations champions couldn't lose A trawl through the archives brings

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us back to January 19 97. -- 19 97. Today that drew me in's Italy's only

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win on Irish soil. -- that remains. Italy have beaten Ireland by 22

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points to 15. We only have to flick back three seasons to find Ireland

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being overrun in Rome. Maybe that's why the coach has opted for a

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minimal tinkering. There is probably a bit of turmoil. A bit of

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frustration and disappointment. We want to be in the mix, no one had

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ever put three back-to-back full stop this squad we had, we felt we

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had an outside chance. That chance has long since gone and yet, when a

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largely meaningless match, Ireland field a starting 15 with over 600

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caps between them. If the coach can be accused of caution and

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conservatism he can also point to new caps. We are just focusing on

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our performance. We know if we can perform really well, hopefully a

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result and a win but Italy are obviously a really good team. They

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have improved and been improving a lot, we saw against Scotland the

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amount of possession and territory they had, they will be a tough task.

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Although bottom of the table, the Italians have raised into Dublin

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planning an ambush. Don't be fooled by this casual work out. Tomorrow

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will be bruising. Now, with Northern Ireland's Euro

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2016 opener in France just 12 weeks away, here's Mark Simpson

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with a look ahead to some special reports on BBC Newsline

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next Monday and Tuesday. I've been taking a closer look at

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the cities where Northern Ireland are going to play during the Euro is

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this summer, not just Paris... But also leave. Right in the heart of

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France. And finally to niche in the south of France, where Northern

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Ireland play their first match in just three months' time. What will

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it be like for the fans in France this summer? I have been road

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testing the Euros. I sometimes get his mail, if only I could get

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Now let's get a look at the weather forecast.

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It is looking better today. A disappointment today, not just for

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the cricketers but it will dry up this weekend. If you have a couple

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of days off next week the weather is looking pretty nice indeed with some

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lovely stunning skies. Lots of sunshine. Good news with a budding

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photographers out there. Lots of cloud today. The rain is edging away

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at the moment. Some dry weather around just now. As the night goes

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on the cloud will thicken up from time to time bringing some rain and

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drizzle from the West. It will stay mild tonight. No lower than seven or

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eight Celsius. Mist and low cloud around to begin with on Saturday but

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it isn't on the day, it will improve. Early risers, not too nice.

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Rain and drizzle around which will gradually edge away from the

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south-west. Mid to late morning most places drying up. Generally a dry

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picture around midday. Lots of cloud. Temperature is around ten or

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11 Celsius. Lunchtime tomorrow, 1:30pm, the big match down in Dublin

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and it looks like it will be dry and mild. Cloudy but temperatures around

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13 Celsius. If you can't be there you can listen to it on BBC Radio

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Ulster. Up north tomorrow afternoon temperatures around 11 or 12. Most

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places dry. Possibly some practice in the east and any dumped his

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further west. The night is mild and then more chance of sunshine and

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light winds. Temperatures in sunny spots could hit 13 or 14. Maybe one

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or two showers around and the threat of some list and look cloud

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troubling parts of the County Down coast, especially the end of the

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day. High pressure building for next week. Hopefully it will hold for the

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Bank Holiday and Saint Patrick's Day with some lovely sunshine to come. I

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