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The man accused of murdering prison officer Adrian Ismay had worked | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
with him as a charity volunteer, the High Court was told today | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Mr Ismay died almost two weeks after a bomb exploded | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
The judge granted bail to the accused saying | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
while there was a natural revulsion to the crime, there was also | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
52-year-old Adrian Ismay was seriously injured in the attack on | :00:29. | :00:41. | |
the 4th of March. He died 11 days later from a heart attack which was | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
triggered by a blood clot. Today the court was told there was a firm link | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
to those injuries and is there. At the time, dissident republicans | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
claimed responsibility. They accuse of his murder, is 45-year-old | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Christopher Alphonsos Robinson, from Aspen Park in Dunmurry but because | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
with those words during the course of an interview that the accused | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
told the police he knew Adrian Ismay. He said they both work as | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
volunteers with the St John's ambulance. They had what was | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
described in court as a good working relationship. Christopher Robinson | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
appearing by video link from Maghaberry prison sat throughout the | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
hearing with his arms folded and speaking only to confirm his name | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
and that he could see and hear the court proceedings. The prosecution | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
outlined its reasons for refusing bail. It claimed there was a risk | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
that the applicant reoffending, and interfering with witnesses. Anyone | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
seeing this target for disappointment republic activity | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
would be at significant risk. To the public, police officers, and prison | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
officers. Do court was told about CCTV footage seeing the device | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
planted at the home. Prices were confirmed of high expose of | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
material. For all sorts of selfish reasons, said the defence, there was | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
no way Christopher Robinson would jeopardise the trial. The barrister | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
says dissidents resign on secrecy and illicit behaviour. The police | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
will be monitoring his movement very carefully put the judge noted the | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
applicant knew the victim, which he said made it more heinous if found | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
guilty. Bail was granted. Northern Ireland's top judge | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
says he's disappointed the Stormont Executive has not yet | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
made a bid for funding for inquests into some of the most controversial | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
killings of the Troubles. Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
responded after BBC Newsline revealed last night that his five | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
year plan to hear the inquests hasn't even been discussed | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
by ministers and is now on hold. Our home affairs correspondent | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Vincent Kearney has more. This is the moment so that in Morgan | :02:41. | :02:52. | |
left the privacy of his court chambers and stepped into the public | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
and political I domain. Three months ago the chief justice met families | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
of those killed during some of the most obvious you -- controversial | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
times of the Troubles. Afterwards he has confidence that the government | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
would give a sympathetic ear to a request for funding. I haven't given | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
to understand that if resources are asked for four four request, the | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
request will be given serious consideration. Those requests were | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
never made and his plan is now on hold. A proposal asked the secretary | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
of state for ?10 million of funding earmarked for dealing with the past, | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
and wasn't even discussed by the Stormont Executive because First | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Minister Arlene Foster blocks its inclusion on the agenda. She | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
explained why during the leaders' debate on BBC One last night. I | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
wanted the opportunity to discuss further with the Lord Chief Justice | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
around the issues of innocent victims and how we could deal with | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
their issues, and I make no apology for that whatsoever. I think the | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
rights of innocent victims are very key in all of this and I will not | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
allow, I will not allow any process to rewrite the past of what happened | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
in Northern Ireland. The Deputy First Minister made it clear that he | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
had a different view cost of I gave my assent to the funding for those | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
cases to be heard under the plan put forward by the Lord Chief Justice. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
The leader of the SDLP said waiting for the inquest to be held it was a | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
let down. The Lord Chief Justice had begun to set about the process, the | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
victims families were happy, and they have been put to melt time and | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
time again. The Minister for Justice whose department sent the Executive | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
the proposal asking for the funding for the secretary last the agreed | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
victims who thought when they had accommodations with senior members | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
of the judiciary thought they were going to get a deal at last. They | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
now seem to be left back in the lurch yet again and I think that is | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
an absolute tragedy. The UUP leader focused on what Martin McGuinness | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
might be revealing about the activities of the IRA are part of | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
any enquiries into the past. These several transcripts saying Martin | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
McGuinness will not discuss certain things under any circumstances. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Well, I mean... And I know that. I am right. As I said earlier, that | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
was then, this is now. The Lord Chief Justice today made it clear | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
that he's is unhappy about the way the issue has been handled and in a | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
statements said Edwin Morgan said he is disappointed the Executive has | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
not yet submitted as request for funding. He also said that after | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
these it elections the incoming executive needs to agree a way | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
forward on these cases and all outstanding issues of the past as a | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
matter of urgency. The DUP's reluctance to request funding for | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
said that in Morgan's Flannan debut claimed by the vast majority of the | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
inquest involves death caused by the state, are linked by police officers | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
and soldiers, and incidences where there are allegations of collusion. | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
Whatever the reason the demand for answers aren't going to go away. | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
After weeks of promises about what will happen in the future, after | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
tomorrow's assembly election, the question of how to deal with the | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
past is likely to be one of the items at the top of the agenda in | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
the months ahead. The body of a baby girl has been | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
found in County Wicklow. The newborn was found at a recycling | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
plant in Bray this morning. Gardai say they're keeping an open | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
mind and are investigating whether it should be treated | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
as a personal tragedy A postmortem examination is expected | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
to take place tomorrow. A 34-year-old man who downloaded | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
thousands of images of children being sexually abused has been given | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
three years probation. Edward Alexander Lee, who's | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
originally from Whitehall Square in Belfast, but now lives | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
in England, pleaded The judge ordered Lee | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
to complete a course on sexual offending, | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
saying it may help him to stop viewing | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
such images, and that that | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
would ultimately provide A County Antrim woman | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
says her 83-year-old mother, who's dying of cancer, | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
spent 15 hours lying on a trolley in the emergency department | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
of Antrim Area Hospital. The woman, who doesn't | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
want to be named, says she's very | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
concerned by what happened. Last night when I arrived at the | :07:37. | :07:48. | |
hospital it was extremely busy, and mum was left on a trolley pushed up | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
against the wall. In fact there were lots of volleys against the wall, | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
and it was really really busy. I phoned this morning, and found out | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
she is still on a trolley, 15 hours later but I'm very concerned, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
because she is a very ill lady, she has cancer stop she is a palliative | :08:07. | :08:07. | |
patient. The Northern Trust said | :08:08. | :08:08. | |
in a statement that it was sorry the patient and her family | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
were disappointed with the care received in | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
the Emergency Department. It added that the department had | :08:14. | :08:14. | |
been extremely busy since last Friday and that all possible | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
measures were being taken to ensure A young woman from south Armagh | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
accused of running a bomb-making factory for dissident republicans | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
has been acquitted of all charges. Her boyfriend was cleared | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
of the majority of the charges. The house in Forkill | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
shared by Orla O'Hanlon, seen here leaving | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
an earlier court hearing, was raided by police | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
in December 2013. Officers found a number of items, | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
including an industrial grinder and fertilizer, that prosecutors | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
claimed could be used McConnan was convicted of two counts | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
of possessing items School principals have been warned | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
that the Education Authority faces difficult | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
decisions because of a ?22 million reduction | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
in its budget this year. They've been voicing their concerns | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
about the impact on their schools. Our education correspondent | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Robbie Meredith has more. The education authority provides and | :09:13. | :09:24. | |
pays for transport, meals and other services for pupils like these at | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Seaview primary School in Belfast. But in his letter to principles, | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
chief executive Gavin Boyd warns that losing ?22 million will lead to | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
very wield pressures for the authority as demand for services | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
continues to increase. Seaview's printable says essential services | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
like education and psychology, and help for children not attending | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
school enough are at risk from stock we have a number of children here | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
coming into school with poor English, we have a number of | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
children coming into school who find it very difficult to cope in a | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
mainstream situation, but because the support isn't there for | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
children, we are having to deal with the out ratings of that, and any | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
teacher in Northern Ireland may see the next few years as very | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
stressful. This is the second part of a double financial blow for | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
schools. Many principals say they will have two loose teachers because | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
of their cuts to their budgets. In the last weeks, some have written to | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
parents pointing at the edge difficulties the loss will cause. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
Including this principle of a 200 pupil school in County Down. Parents | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
need to be aware, especially that there are challenging circumstances, | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
especially after the election on Thursday, that these challenging | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
circumstances will affect their children. The only way we can get | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
the change we need for the education system is to fund it properly. A new | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
assembly and a new educational Minister will need to meet that | :11:03. | :11:03. | |
challenge. A look ahead now to a story | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
we'll have on tomorrow night's BBC Newsline, | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
when we'll be looking at parental leave, and how many dads | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
are taking advantage of a change in the law to stay at home | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
with their little ones. That's tomorrow night | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
on BBC Newsline at 6:30pm. Bethany Firth has won a silver medal | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
in the women's 100m breaststroke at the IPC | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
European Swimming championships. Firth, from Seaforde | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
in County Down, came second It's the first time she has been | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
in international competition as a Team GB swimmer since switching | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
from Team Ireland. Time now for a look | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
at what the weather has in store Hello, good evening. With the | :11:39. | :11:51. | |
exception of Saturday, the next few days are looking quite settled, | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
again, and today's patchy rain clearing away tonight to leave a | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
lots of dry weather, that will bring wet and windy | :11:58. | :12:30. | |
conditions to the north-west. The rest of the country sees a lot of | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
dry weather. Some sunshine in spots, but the best of the sunshine will be | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
to the south across England and Wales, temperatures continuing to | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
rise, getting up to 18 to 20 degrees. For Northern Ireland and | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
the afternoon, by then the winds are coming down, so it should feel a | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
little bit better. There will be some fair weather cloud coming and | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
going but even then it will be bright and sunny spells, and fairly | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
decent averages, getting up into the mid-teens again, 14 or 15 degrees. | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
As for Friday, well, a ridge of high pressure keeps it dry, but this | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
feature runs northward on Saturday likely to bring showery outbreaks. | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
Tight Isa bras so brisk winds. -- isobars. Dry weather on Sunday stop | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
high temperatures. Our next BBC Newsline | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
is at 6:25am in the morning You can also keep updated | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
with News Online. | :13:23. | :13:27. |