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