:00:14. > :00:17.This is BBC Newsline. The headlines this Thursday evening:
:00:18. > :00:22.it's suspected to be the fifth killing involving a feud
:00:23. > :00:27.One man's arrested and a farm searched in connection
:00:28. > :00:32.with the murder of South Armagh man Paul Quinn nine years ago.
:00:33. > :00:44.tells staff the company is better off if the UK stays in the EU.
:00:45. > :00:52.Once again, we're focusing on legal highs. We hear from a mother whose
:00:53. > :00:58.young son ended up in a coma from substance abuse. And I'm here to
:00:59. > :01:01.find out more about the difficulties in out -- outlawing these drugs.
:01:02. > :01:10.A council in England wants to charge people taking part in a Park Run.
:01:11. > :01:12.Could it happen here? A change
:01:13. > :01:13.in our weather tomorrow The good news?
:01:14. > :01:18.It should be a lot brighter! He was hit in the head as up to six
:01:19. > :01:28.shots were fired outside a pub. It's strongly suspected
:01:29. > :01:31.that the attack is the fifth murder linked to a feud
:01:32. > :01:33.between two drugs gangs. But it's believed today's victim
:01:34. > :01:35.was targeted by mistake. Here's our Dublin
:01:36. > :01:47.correspondent Shane Harrison. Once again, murder on the streets of
:01:48. > :01:53.Dublin. The victim, a man believed to be in his 20s, was shot outside a
:01:54. > :02:00.pub in the Sheriff street area. It is strongly suspected at this
:02:01. > :02:03.early stage of the investigation that it was mistaken identity.
:02:04. > :02:10.It is understood that as many as six shots worse -- fired, and that the
:02:11. > :02:17.murdered men died -- man died from bullets to the head. Another man was
:02:18. > :02:20.reported as seen running away towards the financial centre.
:02:21. > :02:28.Dublin has seen a spate of recent gangland killings.
:02:29. > :02:34.Over Gardai say it is too early to say whether today's murder is linked
:02:35. > :02:38.to the ongoing feud, it is known that a member of the hutch gang was
:02:39. > :02:44.regularly seen in the area of today's shooting.
:02:45. > :02:50.A report was received at 1225. The fact that our established on arrival
:02:51. > :02:57.were that this mail had been shot by a lone gunmen who left by bicycle.
:02:58. > :03:01.-- this man. Seconds prior to the shooting the victim was seen to run,
:03:02. > :03:05.but was a very short distance, and the shooting took place and the
:03:06. > :03:12.gunman left the scene. Four other men have so far died in
:03:13. > :03:17.the feud that began with the murder in September last year, and has
:03:18. > :03:20.since claimed the life of David Byrne and Eddie hutch.
:03:21. > :03:25.And no dog in last month. He was a friend of Gerry Hutch, also
:03:26. > :03:30.known as the monk. There has been a more visible police
:03:31. > :03:33.presence in areas associated with criminal gangs, but it seems those
:03:34. > :03:37.with murder on the minds are not deterred.
:03:38. > :03:38.-- on their minds. And Shane joins me now
:03:39. > :03:40.from our Dublin studio. We understand that Gardai are
:03:41. > :03:46.abut this attack? We understand that Gardai are
:03:47. > :03:51.getting closer to identifying the We understand that Gardai are
:03:52. > :03:54.victim, they believe he was a man that was often homeless and who
:03:55. > :04:00.a partner. They are appealing
:04:01. > :04:02.a partner. area at the time to come forward.
:04:03. > :04:06.a partner. They are looking for a man of strong
:04:07. > :04:09.build wearing dark clothes, who was seen cycling away
:04:10. > :04:12.build wearing dark clothes, who was then abandoning his bike. There are
:04:13. > :04:16.also reports, then abandoning his bike. There are
:04:17. > :04:19.Gardai press office, but a gun believed to have been
:04:20. > :04:21.Gardai press office, but a gun shooting may have been found in a
:04:22. > :04:22.wheelie bin in And there have been arrests over
:04:23. > :04:29.an explosives seizure in Dublin? That's right, two men are
:04:30. > :04:34.custody, one in his 30s That's right, two men are
:04:35. > :04:39.his 40s, they were arrested last That's right, two men are
:04:40. > :04:41.night travelling towards the city centre, and inside the car Gardai
:04:42. > :04:48.found commercial explosives. centre, and inside the car Gardai
:04:49. > :04:53.linked to a group calling itself as the IRA but who are known in the
:04:54. > :04:58.media is the new IRA. It was linked to the bomb attack on the prison
:04:59. > :05:02.officer Adrian Ismay in East Belfast last month, and police forces on
:05:03. > :05:03.both sides of the border had been expecting an
:05:04. > :05:08.both sides of the border had been and republican activity because of
:05:09. > :05:11.the anniversary of the Easter 1916 rising.
:05:12. > :05:14.A man in his 50s has been arrested by Gardai investigating the death
:05:15. > :05:19.The 21 year old was beaten to death in a barn near the Monaghan-Armagh
:05:20. > :05:23.The arrest came during a major security operation at a farm near
:05:24. > :05:25.The Quinn family have blamed Provisional IRA
:05:26. > :05:45.Could a vital clue lie buried here? Today, Gardai at Alnmouth -- trying
:05:46. > :05:49.to on earth did. The search is based on this farm
:05:50. > :05:55.which straddles the Monaghan-Armagh border. This afternoon, some kind of
:05:56. > :06:05.buried object, possibly a vehicle, was detected. Paul was beaten to
:06:06. > :06:07.death by a gang in a shared in October 2007. His family blame the
:06:08. > :06:27.IRA. -- shared. Just hope and pray, every day, that
:06:28. > :06:36.justice will be done and done through the courts. Not done like...
:06:37. > :06:40.I wouldn't want any of them taken off and murdered. But I would like
:06:41. > :06:44.to see them behind bars. A man in his early 50s arrested as
:06:45. > :06:50.part of today's operation is still being questioned. For the Queen
:06:51. > :06:56.family, it is another anxious wait, after almost a decade of waiting and
:06:57. > :07:06.hoping for justice for the sun. -- for Paul Quinn's family.
:07:07. > :07:09.One of Northern Ireland's largest companies says it would be better
:07:10. > :07:11.for its business if the UK remains in the EU.
:07:12. > :07:14.A Bombardier boss has circulated a memo to five thousand staff saying
:07:15. > :07:17.he wanted to help inform their decision in June's referendum vote.
:07:18. > :07:23.One third of bombardier products go Julian O'Neill reports.
:07:24. > :07:29.One third of bombardier products go to Europe, so perhaps no major
:07:30. > :07:35.surprise it backs staying in the EU, but now it is in black and white to
:07:36. > :07:55.workers. In it, boss Michael Ryan says...
:07:56. > :08:03.Business body the CBI was today discussing the virtues of EU
:08:04. > :08:06.membership, endorsed as it now is by a major force in local
:08:07. > :08:12.manufacturing. I'm encouraged they have come out, a
:08:13. > :08:15.number of companies are clearly sensitive around this, but
:08:16. > :08:19.ultimately this is about the future of further investment, in this case
:08:20. > :08:23.bombardier. Bombardier has hundreds of suppliers
:08:24. > :08:32.in Europe and has had big research grants from the EQ. The "Leave"
:08:33. > :08:36.campaign says Mr Ryan's memo constitutes inappropriate voting
:08:37. > :08:39.advice. Start selling the C series, that
:08:40. > :08:46.would be a great start rather than telling people how they should vote.
:08:47. > :08:51.Michael Ryan says the firm is nailing its colours to the match
:08:52. > :08:55.because -- more -- mast because its employees have been asking whether
:08:56. > :08:59.companies stands. The answer, from one of Northern Ireland's most
:09:00. > :09:01.important firms, cannot have been made any clearer.
:09:02. > :09:06.Still to come before seven: The Ulster Unionist Party
:09:07. > :09:08.launch their manifesto - we'll take a look at their
:09:09. > :09:18.Yesterday we heard from the mother of a teenager who died
:09:19. > :09:23.a year ago after taking what are called legal highs.
:09:24. > :09:25.Tonight the mother of a boy who was just eleven years
:09:26. > :09:28.old when he started on the drugs describes the night
:09:29. > :09:32.And Donna has been to the County Antrim laboratory
:09:33. > :09:35.which analyses the drugs to hear about the problem in enforcing
:09:36. > :09:46.Here, scientists have been carrying out tests for UK police forces,
:09:47. > :09:49.tests on substances that mimic the effects of cocaine, cannabis and
:09:50. > :09:54.ecstasy. The criminals keep one step ahead of the authorities by
:09:55. > :09:59.constantly changing the formulas. More on that in a moment. But first,
:10:00. > :10:04.we have been speaking to the mother of a 13-year-old boys who ended up
:10:05. > :10:08.in a coma because of substance abuse. Starting with the legal
:10:09. > :10:19.highs. He was crawling around the floor
:10:20. > :10:22.hallucinating. Wanting water, I was constantly clearing yellow from from
:10:23. > :10:26.his mouth. He was on the verge of a heart
:10:27. > :10:33.attack because his heart rate was going sky-high. We were struggling
:10:34. > :10:37.to find a pulse with him, or while he was fighting and kicking, by the
:10:38. > :10:40.time he arrived at hospital he had stopped breathing.
:10:41. > :10:47.Maggie's son started taking legal highs when he was just 11. Soon, he
:10:48. > :10:52.said -- she says, he was taking anything he could get his hands on.
:10:53. > :10:59.We are not identifying his son, and Maggie is not her real name.
:11:00. > :11:04.The doctors didn't think I was going to pull -- he was going to pull
:11:05. > :11:09.through. I have to sit and watch him on a ventilator. I didn't think he
:11:10. > :11:10.would make it. I am shocked that he did.
:11:11. > :11:15.What goes through your mind when you are in the hospital watching your
:11:16. > :11:22.13-year-old son on a ventilator? Desperation. You are sitting looking
:11:23. > :11:28.at him, you get angry. Because he has done it to himself. And there
:11:29. > :11:34.are babies lying on incubators in intensive care and they did not ask
:11:35. > :11:43.to be there. And then he has done it to himself.
:11:44. > :11:46.And panic, because you are watching the ventilator breathing for him.
:11:47. > :11:53.And not knowing whether he is going to live. Despair, I suppose, you go
:11:54. > :11:57.through every emotion until there is no emotion left.
:11:58. > :12:01.Maggie's son has now recovered and is now in a secure unit getting
:12:02. > :12:07.counselling. She hopes the rash Mac that by sharing what her son went
:12:08. > :12:13.through, it could -- she hopes that by sharing her son's story, it could
:12:14. > :12:21.help others. There are people on Facebook who are
:12:22. > :12:25.very sorry, saying it has thankfully not happened to them, but it is
:12:26. > :12:33.knocking on their door. Police are investigating what
:12:34. > :12:39.happened. Here in Crumlin I am with Mark, who
:12:40. > :12:45.heads the team. Legal highs, what is in them?
:12:46. > :12:49.Psychoactive substances are chemicals. They are not drugs, the
:12:50. > :12:54.chemicals have been purchased from the far east and there can be
:12:55. > :12:57.anything in these materials. These are small, clandestine labs which
:12:58. > :13:02.are producing these materials without any form of quality control,
:13:03. > :13:06.we simply don't know what is in these packets. We test for the vast
:13:07. > :13:11.majority of UK police forces now, and we are seeing an increase in the
:13:12. > :13:15.number of legal high findings. We are seeing different types of drugs,
:13:16. > :13:21.stimulants, other drugs that would be very similar to the likes of
:13:22. > :13:25.cannabis, amphetamines and cocaine, and these drugs are coming through
:13:26. > :13:29.in road traffic cases and also in some more serious crimes.
:13:30. > :13:34.It seems that the criminals are duping the authorities, but they
:13:35. > :13:37.keep changing the formula of the substance.
:13:38. > :13:44.How can you counter that? We can do it here by continually developing
:13:45. > :13:48.new tests. In the past 12 months we have developed over 115 tests for
:13:49. > :13:51.new types of psychoactive substances. These drugs are
:13:52. > :13:56.continually being developed and evolving into new types of
:13:57. > :14:01.substances, which previously had fallen outside of legislation.
:14:02. > :14:07.So it is a challenge for us to continue to develop new tests to
:14:08. > :14:11.detect these substances. A new law was due to come into
:14:12. > :14:15.effect last week specifically targeting legal highs. It has now
:14:16. > :14:20.been postponed. But many will be watching carefully to see that when
:14:21. > :14:23.it does come into effect, if it stops the trade of these drugs.
:14:24. > :14:26.A community centre in New Buildings in County Londonderry will no longer
:14:27. > :14:28.be used as a polling station in the Assembly election
:14:29. > :14:31.because of loyalist flags which were put up outside it.
:14:32. > :14:37.Voting will now be at a primary school, as Kevin Magee reports.
:14:38. > :14:49.This is the community centre which was used in last year's election as
:14:50. > :14:54.a polling station for the first time. However, the night before the
:14:55. > :14:58.election loyalist flags were elected in the car park. Following
:14:59. > :15:02.complaints from some voters, the electoral office have decided that
:15:03. > :15:05.the polling station for the forthcoming Assembly election will
:15:06. > :15:10.return to the local primary school. We received a number of complaints
:15:11. > :15:14.from from -- from people. We do not want to see
:15:15. > :15:14.from from -- from people. feeling unable to exercise their
:15:15. > :15:16.from from -- from people. franchise because they feel
:15:17. > :15:19.intimidated, franchise because they feel
:15:20. > :15:22.everything possible to ensure that people can vote in an atmosphere
:15:23. > :15:24.free people can vote in an atmosphere
:15:25. > :15:31.We feel that it is a safer, more neutral venue to
:15:32. > :15:31.We feel that it is a safer, more The electronic list says that before
:15:32. > :15:36.it took The electronic list says that before
:15:37. > :15:39.polling station -- electoral office, it followed all
:15:40. > :15:39.polling station -- electoral office, procedures. It says
:15:40. > :15:48.polling station -- electoral office, out, and there were no objections.
:15:49. > :16:09.Stormont Executive their priority department will be education.
:16:10. > :16:15.The Ulster Unionists seem prepared to join
:16:16. > :16:19.The Ulster Unionists seem prepared coalition, providing its programme
:16:20. > :16:24.for Government is progressive. Their manifesto says education will be the
:16:25. > :16:29.party's pirated apartment. They want a new method for transferring years
:16:30. > :16:33.seven maths is my pupils, arguing it should be based on continual
:16:34. > :16:38.assessment. On health, they pledged to increase
:16:39. > :16:42.the number of full-time GPs by 400 over the next five years, and
:16:43. > :16:47.address what they call the current crippling waiting lists. On the
:16:48. > :16:52.economy, they produced -- promised to implement a strategy to tackle a
:16:53. > :16:56.high level of economic activity. Although Mike Nesbitt quit the
:16:57. > :17:02.Executive order -- in protest over IRA activity, that is not mentioned
:17:03. > :17:07.in the manifesto. That is because the Executive have
:17:08. > :17:12.appointed a panel who are not going to report on how to get rid of
:17:13. > :17:16.polymeric -- paramilitaries until the end of May. We know what we want
:17:17. > :17:20.to hear from that panel, and that is a sanction for those who want to
:17:21. > :17:24.continue to use their energy and commitment to fill the own pockets,
:17:25. > :17:30.to destroy the economy through organised crime, and to exert very
:17:31. > :17:35.evil control over local communities. The Ulster Unionists had a good
:17:36. > :17:40.Westminster election, getting two MPs return. The question is whether
:17:41. > :17:45.Arlene Foster's arrival as DUP leader will blunt the hopes of a
:17:46. > :17:52.storm on comeback. -- storm on comeback. -- storm want.
:17:53. > :17:54.Our economics and business Editor John Campbell is looking
:17:55. > :17:57.at some of the economic promises and aspirations in each of the main
:17:58. > :18:01.John, the next Executive is going to have to make a decision
:18:02. > :18:03.on university tuition fees what are the Ulster Unionists
:18:04. > :18:07.Do we produce enough skilled graduates? At the moment the
:18:08. > :18:10.universities are cutting back the number of student places, they say
:18:11. > :18:16.the only way they can reverse that is if it there is an increase in
:18:17. > :18:20.tuition fees. What the Ulster Unionists say is that they want a
:18:21. > :18:24.fair and sustainable system of student funding. I asked Mike
:18:25. > :18:31.Nesbitt what that means, and he says that while he thinks it would be a
:18:32. > :18:36.retrograde step to put -- -- I still think that leaves the door open for
:18:37. > :18:47.the Steelers to say that fees could go up. -- Ulster Unionists.
:18:48. > :18:53.Today we have figures showing that the local economy grew by about 1.4%
:18:54. > :18:58.last year, it is good by recent standards. But some economists say
:18:59. > :19:01.that kind of measurement doesn't tell us if Government policies
:19:02. > :19:07.actually improve people's well-being. So there are some
:19:08. > :19:11.experimental indexes looking at say, people's happiness levels of
:19:12. > :19:14.anxiety. The Ulster Unionists are proposing that these measures so
:19:15. > :19:24.formed part of the targets for the Executive. -- should form part of.
:19:25. > :19:28.And a warning for all the parties today about what they will be able
:19:29. > :19:33.to do after the election? Yes, this comes from the chief
:19:34. > :19:37.economist of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Northern Ireland, he says what we
:19:38. > :19:40.have to be aware of, whatever the parties are hoping to do, the
:19:41. > :19:45.backdrop is more austerity because the grant we are getting from
:19:46. > :19:48.Westminster is falling, and very low economic growth. So while the
:19:49. > :19:52.parties may want to spend more money on most things, the reality is that
:19:53. > :19:55.they are more likely to be announcing more cuts and more
:19:56. > :19:59.reforms to public services over the next four years.
:20:00. > :20:01.And the political coverage of the election continues tonight
:20:02. > :20:06.with a special edition of The View with Mark Carruthers.
:20:07. > :20:14.Tonight we have come as close as we can to the heart of Northern
:20:15. > :20:18.Ireland, Castle Dawson, for a one hour election special. In this
:20:19. > :20:23.industrial setting we are making the final tweaks to our pop-up studio.
:20:24. > :20:29.Our audience will question senior figures from five largest parties on
:20:30. > :20:30.the economy, health, voter apathy, education and much, much more.
:20:31. > :20:36.That's tonight at 10:45pm. Every weekend, more than three
:20:37. > :20:38.thousand people here take part in Park Run -
:20:39. > :20:41.an organised, free to enter fun They happen all over the world,
:20:42. > :21:00.but now a Council in England wants There are 22 part runs in Northern
:21:01. > :21:05.Ireland, and placing -- including at least one in every council area.
:21:06. > :21:09.They all take place in -- on Saturday mornings and are all free
:21:10. > :21:13.to enter. But a council in England wants to charge runners for the use
:21:14. > :21:16.of the local park, so could it happen here?
:21:17. > :21:21.I can never see it happening here, the relationships we have with the
:21:22. > :21:24.councils is excellent, it is much, much better. Councils are very
:21:25. > :21:29.supportive, they are very keen on what we do and the numbers we bring
:21:30. > :21:35.to the parks. They invest in us, they spend money on us, they trod --
:21:36. > :21:40.don't try to take money from us. The runners are allowed to bring
:21:41. > :21:46.their dog or their baby. Rachael has done almost 50 park runs.
:21:47. > :21:49.Should people not have to pay for monopolising a park on Saturday
:21:50. > :21:55.morning? We don't monopolise the park, with
:21:56. > :21:59.are given a safety briefing at the start, you must give way to other
:22:00. > :22:04.part users. If you have a dog you have to start of the back, the same
:22:05. > :22:09.with a buggy. You see hundreds of people dressed in Lycra, ready to
:22:10. > :22:12.run five kilometres. This one I think wants to go and run five
:22:13. > :22:17.kilometres! She did 31 while I was pregnant with
:22:18. > :22:29.her, I did my last run of 38 weeks and she was born at 39. And she has
:22:30. > :22:32.done many sins. You are either very committed,
:22:33. > :22:33.Ahmad! A bit of both. Part runs are rising in popularity here, but the
:22:34. > :22:47.price is staying the same. There is just a little hint of
:22:48. > :22:52.spring at the moment, it is getting a little bit brighter. We are about
:22:53. > :22:57.to transition to some rather cooler temperatures over the next few days.
:22:58. > :23:01.But before that we have got quite a pleasant evening to enjoy. We have
:23:02. > :23:06.had plenty of cloud over us for the last few days, but in the last hour
:23:07. > :23:10.or two that has started to burn back. A decent evening to enjoy.
:23:11. > :23:18.Overnight, the temperatures will drop away, down to 34 degrees
:23:19. > :23:22.overnight. But it will be a good bit cooler than that by the time we get
:23:23. > :23:29.into the next couple of nights. -- three or 4 degrees. The signal for
:23:30. > :23:34.the cooler there is a band of rain that will work its way south through
:23:35. > :23:39.tomorrow. We start off a reasonably dry node, then that rain comes in,
:23:40. > :23:44.behind it, the air is much cooler. There will be some stronger breezes
:23:45. > :23:48.is that front brings -- come through, but they are temperatures
:23:49. > :23:51.are temperatures are not getting above seven or eight. However, if
:23:52. > :23:57.you can stay out of the breeze in that sunshine there is plenty of
:23:58. > :24:00.warmth in the sun. The clear skies through the day mean it will be
:24:01. > :24:05.another reasonably bright evening. Just the chance of a few showers
:24:06. > :24:09.across the East coast, the remnants of some rather mucky weather over
:24:10. > :24:13.the water tomorrow. For us, the high pressure is in charge, giving us
:24:14. > :24:18.another clear, cold night. The weekend will get off on rather a
:24:19. > :24:23.chilly night. The chance of a bit of frost on Saturday morning, but once
:24:24. > :24:26.the sun gets to work it will be really rather nice. The air
:24:27. > :24:32.temperature is not terribly warm, but in that sunshine it will feel
:24:33. > :24:37.quite present. -- pleasant. Similar sort of set up on Sunday, we start
:24:38. > :24:42.to get our flow of weather coming in from the West, that might introduce
:24:43. > :24:46.a bit more cloud, but do you know what? It always feels much more like
:24:47. > :24:51.spring when there are some blue skies and run, and this weekend with
:24:52. > :24:55.should see some of that. Not bad for park running. Join me at
:24:56. > :24:59.half past ten. Have a good evening.