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as bomb threats are made to schools across Northern Ireland.

Anybody that can do this to kids I think, in my eyes,

Sinn Fein changing of the guard as new faces are

Another man is murdered in an ongoing gangland feud

A 16-year-old boy's in court charged with the murder of Gerard

A warm welcome for Prince Charles at the birthplace of the Orange Order.

The Euro 2016 countdown continues, with Northern Ireland boosted by a

visit from Wright Conroy. -- mock from Wright Conroy.

And not as warm tomorrow but still a pretty good day.

A series of hoax bomb calls to schools has been described

by the police as very serious and worrying.

Some of the schools closed following the telephoned warnings,

which were similar to calls made in Britain yesterday.

The hoax threats were received at seven schools.

The caller threatened that there was a bomb on the premises and said we

should make a firm called to warn anybody about it. Hundreds of

children were sent home. But we understand that there

was something unusual about how They were automated

recorded messages. The investigation is now UK wide. We

will work with our colleagues in other UK forces because similar

calls were received yesterday in England, 27 calls in total. The

threats have caused widespread disruption to schools across

Northern Ireland. Here at Lingfield primary in Banga, 400 young people

had to be evacuated and nursery classes were also suspended.

Parents, who were unexpectedly called in to collect

Upon collecting my child, I was informed it was a bomb threat

As an open call recorded message saying it's a bomb, it's a bomb.

These kids are just trying to learn an education.

They are very, very young, of primary age, ranging

Anybody that can do this to kids I think, in my eyes,

Among community leaders, shock, but also some relief.

I think people will not get intimidated by this sick behaviour

but it is also important that anyone with any information gives that to

police to make sure whatever individuals behind this are caught

so this will not be in click it on another school.

The schools which closed today will reopen in the morning.

Sinn Fein has revealed who its new ministers will be,

but we still don't know which departments they will take.

From Stormont we are joined now by our Political

What can we learn from them make up of this team announced today? May be

a little surprised that Conor Murphy was not a lot. He has often talked

about as a potential replacement for Martin McGuinness but didn't feature

in this announcement. Megan Fearon at 24 is the youngest MLA and it is

likely she will be a junior minister of though we do not know which

department she will have. Chris Hazzard could be in charge of

education if Sinn Fein hold onto that portfolio, that is what he

specialised in giving the other Assembly. Mairtin O Muilleoir could

be somebody who would fancy and economic brief, he is a this month

in with a background in the media and often visited the US, and

Michelle O'Neill, former Agriculture Minister, supplies a degree of

continuity with the old team. We do not know quite what jobs they will

be doing but Martin McGuinness was strong in talking about their

qualities. They are all of my friends, they are all highly

intelligent, they are all hugely dedicated Irish republicans and they

are back but by all our other colleagues who are just as

intelligent and just as determined. We could have filled these divisions

243 times over. There were still a mystery over the new Justice

Ministry, how would the parties resolve that? That is still unclear.

They have to resort that they cannot appoint other ministers and that

would trigger an election, but Martin McGuinness says that will not

happen and wheels will see an executive form tomorrow. Given that

negotiations have broken down irretrievably with Alliance, it

seems the only options are an independent Unionist MLA, Claire

Sugden, or a DUP minister. Reporters seized on these comment from Martin

McGuinness with a hint that there could be a minister who was neither

from the key or Sinn Fein. The make up of the next administration will

in the main key between the DUP and Sinn Fein. There will be further

discussions about that today, except to say that at the beginning of this

process I outlined that I had five particular departments I was

interested in. I didn't name them, that would not be a good negotiating

strategy. How will tomorrow play out? We expect the Assembly to sit

at noon tomorrow and then we'll get answers as to who the Justice

Minister will be and what portfolios did DUP and Sinn Fein would use.

Martin McGuinness claimed that phrase, in the main, was not part of

a script, he denied it was a step but we still have to hear about the

Justice Minister and whether Claire Sugden will be in the mix.

A 16-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with the murder

of Gerard Quinn in Londonderry at the weekend.

The teenager's relatives said they offered their deepest

Here's our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish.

The 16-year-old boy was accused of the murder of Gerard Quinn

and with attempted grievous bodily harm with intent on a second man,

a brother of the victim, at Milldale Crescent

The court heard police were called to an incident where a man

When they arrived he was lying on the ground and had

Members of the public were trying to revive him.

Gerard Quinn was taken to hospital, where he had surgery.

A postmortem examination revealed that Gerard Quinn died from a stab

It caused immediate bleeding which the victim

A detective confirmed that prior to the incident which gave

rise to the two charges, there was a fight involving

the deceased, his brother and another 16-year-old individual.

She confirmed the accused raised the issue of self defence

A defence barrister said the accused's family wanted

to convey their deepest condolences to the Quinn family over

He pointed out that the 16-year-old was cooperating fully

He also said he hoped there would be no repercussions.

District Judge Barney McElholm conveyed his condolences

to the bereaved family and said this was a tragedy for all.

It's believed a man shot dead in Dublin's north inner city earlier

today was the latest victim of the gangland feud

between the Hutch and Kinahan families and their associates.

Our Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison joins me now.

What more can you tell us about this gun attack? Gardai say the shooting

happened at 10am at Avondale house flats, not far from O'Connell

Street. The victim was named at Gareth Hutch. Gardai sealed off the

murder scene and have appealed for witnesses or anyone with information

to come forward. It's believed this is the seventh murder in the ongoing

gangland feud that has now claimed that lives of three members of the

Hutch family, and although we talk about it as a feud, with one

exception, all the murders have -- that are alleged to have been

carried out work carried out why associates of the Kinahan family.

What do you know about this victim? He was a cousin of Gary Hutch, who

was murdered as part of this feud, and a nephew of Gerry Hutch. He was

known to gardai, a father in his mid-30s, he knew his life was in

danger and yesterday was in touch with a city councillor about moving

flats because he was worried for the safety of his son. Little did he

know that within 24 sees himself with the dead.

The father of a woman sentenced to two and a half years

on an IS terrorism offence says she's been the victim

Lorna Moore from Mountjoy outside Omagh was found guilty of failing

to tell the authorities that her husband intended to join

Mother of three Lorna Moore, originally from County Tyrone,

She was jailed for two and a half years for failing to tell

the authorities her husband was about to join

The court heard her husband Sajid Islam was part

in and around Walsall in the West Midlands,

that had heeded the militants' call and tried to get to Syria in 2014.

Lorna grew up here in Mountjoy, not far from Omagh.

After school she went to university in Manchester,

where she met her future husband, and eventually converted to Islam.

Lorna's father claims his daughter is innocent.

It was a miscarriage of justice, it couldn't have been nothing else.

My daughter didn't know where the man was going.

Somebody being accused of something they didn't do and getting two

and a half years for it, that she did not do.

She didn't know that the man was going to go away.

Passing sentence, the judge described Moore as a very

strong character who had told lie after lie.

He described some of her evidence is nonsense.

The court was told she had been planning to take her three

children to Syria to meet up with her husband,

something her father back home also denies.

Three women say they have "no regrets" telling the police

that they had broken the law by obtaining abortion pills.

Diana King, Colette Devlin and Kitty O'Kane all belong

They went voluntarily into a police station in Londonderry last night,

were questioned and later released pending a report

Three women who've deliberately put themselves at risk of criminal

prosecution say they did so with their eyes wide open.

The three women handed themselves in by appointment there at Strand Road

police station last night. They gave prepared statement to the police and

were questioned separately. A file has now been passed to the Public

Prosecution Service. What they claim they've done

is illegal in Northern Ireland - I was declaring to the PSNI that I

have had delivered, on numerous occasions, packets to my home on

behalf of other people which contain abortion drugs from abroad. Did you

hand them to other people? Yes. They've taken the step

after the recent conviction of a woman who bought such drugs

to induce a miscarriage. We first were wanting to show

solidarity with the woman who have been taken to court and we are so

angry, we are letting the police know there is a lot of woman like us

out here, a lot of women supporting women who have pregnancies that they

feel are crises. It's everybody's legal duty to obey a good law but we

also believe that it's everybody's moral duty to challenge a bad law.

The women weren't arrested but went to police officers,

who knew they were coming, and what they would say.

We have seen before with various women declaring that they have

broken the law and almost commanding to be prosecuted, this is part of a

strategy to change the door by breaking the law.

The next move rests with the Public Prosecution Service.

The GAA says it hopes to start building a new Casement Park stadium

in West Belfast next year, and start playing

A new planning application will be submitted soon.

But as BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson reports, the association insists it

first wants to hear the views of local residents.

The GAA had started gathering feedback about what size and shape

the new Casement Park should be. The last planning application was

overturned, and this time they hope the outcome will be different. The

submission of the application will be in the third quarter of this

year, we hope to start construction next year and the intent is to have

the stadium complete by late 2019. Really? We hope so. Critics said you

were too arrogant last time. I wouldn't accept the charge of being

arrogant but the GAA approached us in good faith the first time around,

lessons have been learned and we want to be good neighbours. We were

in the past good neighbours and I hope in the upcoming process and

when it is complete we can be good neighbours in the future. This was

the original design for the new stadium. A new one is being worked

on. The G8 said it doesn't have to have 38 thousand seats and they

won't demolishing nearby houses to build it. I want to say the G8 has

no intention and never had of knocking people's houses down, are

to sink he pulls homes. The GAA has no authority in relation to

compulsory purchase orders, so we will try to build a stadium with the

land available and can hope the leak do that. It is ambitious to have

this old stadium rebuilt and fully functioning in the next four years,

but the G8 site they are now confident the plan will work -- the

GAA say they are now confident. And tonight's BBC Spotlight

programme investigates the delay That's here on BBC One at 10:45pm

after our late news. The Prince of Wales was drawn by the

Duchess of Cornwall today as he visited County Down and Armagh.

One of the venues was an Orange Order museum at

The Prince was welcome to the cradle of the Orange Order by to lambast

runners and cheering children. He shook hands with Orange officials

and deaths as the band laid God Save The Prince Of Wales. Here it has

another name among marching bands, Derry's Walls. At Portaferry that

Prince took part in a service marketing the installation of a

former church as an arts centre. He was joined by his wife at a sampling

of local produce in Portadown. It was lovely to meet them, my auntie

said we could bring her down and meet royalty. Then it was onto

Ulster carpet, who are currently weaving a carpet Forum Buckingham

Palace. I congratulate you on what you have achieved and I am glad to

discover that carpet destined for Buckingham Palace looks like it will

arrive on time so I'd hope the company goes from strength to

strength. It is a wonderful tribute to the skills and dedication of so

many of you there in this hour of Northern Ireland. But it was his

visit to the Orange Museum in Loch of that would grab the headlines.

The order sees it as the royal seal of approval for the organisation --

in Loughgall. This is the icing on the cake, the royal seal of approval

today. There was a private visit to a garden of remembrance to the 68th

Orangemen who were murdered during the Troubles. The survivor of an

attack spoke of what it meant to him. The memory and the hurt are

still there, those will never go away. As he left locked all, a

schoolboy handed him a birthday card for his mother the Queen.

The new Northern Ireland hospice in Belfast will open its doors

And in a first for Britain and Ireland, it will offer a special

Our health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly

They've managed to merge the old with the new and come up

It's been a labour of love for all concerned, and tomorrow

the doors of the new hospice just off the Antrim Road

While it's eager, brighter and will offer a better range of services,

the ethos behind hospice care will remain the same. According to staff,

while they are thrilled with this new building, it's now time to get

on with the job of looking after terminally ill men and women.

It's all hands on deck to ensure the facilities are ready,

including a new dedicated area for dementia care.

Damian O'Neill is only 47, with a rare genetic

From tomorrow he'll become a day patient.

I have to say, the staff are fantastic. They make it, they really

do. It's the first dementia-friendly

hospice service, not only This programme is about ensuring we

opened the access to hospice care to patients with dementia to make sure

we manage symptoms such as pain, give them access to rehabilitate

and, whether it's something for their enjoyment like music therapy

or creative therapy. While staff are getting familiar

with their new surroundings, it's reassuring that

old qualities will remain. That's what we try and bring to the

hospice, warmth, that's what we have brought from the old Olding Izzard

warmth and our care and love and compassion. I think that's nearly as

important as the drugs and care we go. -- we give.

Now the hard work begins of encouraging the government

to help them meet the ?1.6 million in building costs.

The Northern Ireland football squad have had a special visitor.

The Northern Ireland football team are in County Kildare this week

preparing for Friday's night's friendly against Belarus ahead

And they've had a special visitor to the camp.

Northern Ireland's football stars were left a little starstruck as

Rory McIlroy even a golfing masterclass. They will do something

that no other Northern Irishman have done, play in the Euros, and to

spend a couple of hours and interact with them is a pleasure for me,

following the team the whole way through, fixation and being able to

see them before they go to France, it's a cool experience. Some speed!

No stage fright for some players who wanted to show off their golfing

progress. In front of the world's best -- pro-West. Even the manager

gave it a go. You see how little he's been perfect by Wayne and

success that he's had, but it was nice of him to tell the players what

he felt it meant to the people of Northern Ireland that Northern

Ireland were going to the finals, and when someone like Roy says that

you it has a real impact, and I think it is a day the players will

always remember -- how little he has been affected by fame. Rory McIlroy

will play in the US Open but says he's flying straight to Paris for

Northern Ireland's final group game against Germany, and the squad will

hope his success can rub off on them and he can inspire them to some big

results this summer. Not far from Northern Ireland's base

in Kildare, the Republic of Ireland held an open training session

at the Aviva Stadium. Around 5000 young fans turned out

to watch Martin O'Neill's men go A handful of theirs have yet to join

up with the Republic of Ireland squad but they are involved in the

contest in England this week, while James McCarthy sat out today's

sessions as a precaution, as he has a slight groin strain. This was a

chance for fans to interact with players but after today the focus

will be on two crucial friendlies in the next seven days. A manager has

to chop it down and it will be his decision at the end of the day and

what we have to do is train every day and make sure we catch the eye.

Martin O'Neill is likely to wait until the last minute to name his

final squad for the Euro Championships, that is set to be

announced following the friendly against Ella arose in the few weeks,

but be ordered that a visit from the Netherlands, who will be given some

much needed time after injuries, and another highly rated player could be

given a chance to force their way onto the team.

Boxer Katie Taylor today clinched her place in the Ireland

team heading to this summer's Olympic Games in Rio.

The gold medallist in the lightweight division in London

four years ago, Taylor will now head to Brazil to defend her title.

She confirmed her qualification for the Games with a unanimous

points victory over Victoria Torres of Mexico, to reach the semi-finals

And she'll head to Brazil as the big favourite for gold.

Gold again. Cecilia Daly has a gold winning weather forecast. First lace

for the weather, probably the best day of the week but it will pick up

again at the weekend. Today a number of places in the best had

temperatures up to 19 degrees. It was cooler towards the north coast

due to mist and fog that lingered for a while but it has all gone now

a nice sunny evening, dry and clear tonight so it will get chilly again

in parts of the West and there could be fog first thing tomorrow. Farmers

enjoying the dry sunny weather today and tomorrow will be dry, still some

sunshine but not as much as today and probably the best of it through

the morning and the best through the day will be in the West. Dry to

begin with, still a little fog lingering around Lough Neagh,

temperatures will come up quickly in the morning sunshine so in two

double Euros for most places by the morning, and the morning will

probably have the best sunshine. In the West still some sunshine in the

afternoon, temperatures up to 16 degrees down on today and it will be

cloudy in the East and the end of the day and clearer, but it's dry.

It will stay dry tomorrow night, some spots of rain by the morning,

then Thursday a disappointment, cool and cloudy with patches of light

rain on and off. That weather front will move away on Friday and then

high pressure will hold over the weekend and things start to warm up

with more sunshine. Still quite cloudy on Friday at getting sunnier

through the weekend. Not too bad at all.