:00:16. > :00:21.The police are facing possible legal action after two officers failed
:00:22. > :00:29.to seek medical attention for a woman who later died.
:00:30. > :00:33.We want to ensure that this doesn't happen to another family.
:00:34. > :00:37.Polling has been very brisk so far with just a few hours of voting left
:00:38. > :00:41.The day after the night before - the Republic prepares to meet France
:00:42. > :00:48.And the Belfast fanzone is moved from Titanic to the Boucher Road
:00:49. > :00:54.Rediscovered 100 years on - the love letters sent
:00:55. > :01:00.from the trenches of the Somme back home to East Belfast.
:01:01. > :01:02.And it's an unsettled end to the week tomorrow.
:01:03. > :01:14.The family of a woman who died from a brain injury a day
:01:15. > :01:17.after telling police her head had been banged off a wall during
:01:18. > :01:23.an assault is considering legal action against the PSNI.
:01:24. > :01:27.Two police officers have been disciplined for not seeking medical
:01:28. > :01:29.attention for 36-year-old Mairead McCallion from Omagh,
:01:30. > :01:41.Our home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney reports.
:01:42. > :01:45.Mairead McCallion to bully several times over a number of years that
:01:46. > :01:51.she had been a victim of domestic violence. She said her partner had
:01:52. > :01:56.grabbed her by the hair and banged her head off a wall. The partner was
:01:57. > :01:59.arrested and you was taken to a police station to see a doctor. But
:02:00. > :02:05.the officers she had spoken to did not tell the doctor about the head
:02:06. > :02:09.injury. Hours later, she was sick in the back of a police car while being
:02:10. > :02:13.driven to a friend's house. She was rushed to hospital but died the
:02:14. > :02:16.following day. Her sister says the family is deeply distressed about
:02:17. > :02:21.the way she was treated. She was a very vulnerable young women, and I
:02:22. > :02:25.think at the most vulnerable point in her life, she was not taken
:02:26. > :02:30.seriously, she was failed. When she reported that she had a head injury,
:02:31. > :02:34.she should have got urgent medical attention. As a family we are left
:02:35. > :02:40.wondering and will always wonder now, with that have made a
:02:41. > :02:45.difference? With that of saved a report from the Police Ombudsman
:02:46. > :02:50.says the police officers failed to follow PSNI procedures for dealing
:02:51. > :02:54.with someone with a head injury. The officers said they had assumed that
:02:55. > :02:57.she would tell the police doctor about her injury, but the report
:02:58. > :03:04.said that they had a duty to make the doctor aware of what they have
:03:05. > :03:08.been told. She was in very difficult circumstances, she had been
:03:09. > :03:13.assaulted, and obviously that was impacting on her, so it was the
:03:14. > :03:17.officers' responsibility. The man that I saw the was charged with
:03:18. > :03:21.murder, but the charges were later dropped. -- the man that assaulted
:03:22. > :03:25.her. The family are now considering legal action against the PSNI. We
:03:26. > :03:33.want to ensure this does not happen to another family. We want to ensure
:03:34. > :03:37.that vulnerable people that with the PSNI, that the PSNI them seriously
:03:38. > :03:42.and follow the procedures that are there to protect vulnerable people,
:03:43. > :03:48.and get them the medical attention they need, because at the end of the
:03:49. > :03:54.day, it could have saved my sister 's life. The PSNI has accepted that
:03:55. > :03:58.the recommendation to introduce a new policy for dealing with people
:03:59. > :04:01.who have a head injury. In future officers will be a struggle to take
:04:02. > :04:03.the person directly to a hospital and not to a police station.
:04:04. > :04:05.Polling in the EU referendum in Northern Ireland
:04:06. > :04:09.Voting began at seven o'clock this morning and will end at ten,
:04:10. > :04:16.as our political correspondent Gareth Gordon reports.
:04:17. > :04:23.It is said to be the most important vote in a generation, and the
:04:24. > :04:26.message seems to have got through. The electoral office in Northern
:04:27. > :04:33.Ireland described turnout as a very brisk. The ballot paper asks voters,
:04:34. > :04:35.should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or
:04:36. > :04:41.leave the European Union? To indicate your preference, you should
:04:42. > :04:48.put a cross and I do it the Remain Corel Leave boxes. -- in either of
:04:49. > :04:54.the boxes. And voters have to provide a passport, electrolyte
:04:55. > :05:00.identity card, driving licence or certain smart parties. -- electoral
:05:01. > :05:07.identity card. Arlene Foster's party advocates leaving the EU, while
:05:08. > :05:12.Colum Eastwood's backs remaining. Unlike the recent Assembly election,
:05:13. > :05:15.counting will begin at the town centres are seen as polls close. We
:05:16. > :05:19.should ignore the result by breakfast time. -- we should know
:05:20. > :05:23.the result. There was quite a party in France
:05:24. > :05:26.and at home as the Republic reached the last 16 of the Euros
:05:27. > :05:28.for the first time. Martin O'Neill's side have
:05:29. > :05:30.joined Northern Ireland, England and Wales in the knockout
:05:31. > :05:33.phase, and now will face the hosts France in Lyon on Sunday for a place
:05:34. > :05:43.in the quarterfinals. The squad arrived back here to their
:05:44. > :05:47.team-mates in Versailles in the early hours of this morning after
:05:48. > :05:50.their historic victory over the Italians. It is the first time ever
:05:51. > :05:55.the Republic of Ireland team have qualified for the knockout stages at
:05:56. > :06:01.this competition. It was simply an unforgettable night for the players
:06:02. > :06:05.and manager. It was the effort we put into the game, it was immense,
:06:06. > :06:09.and had we not one, it might have been the usual thing of, great
:06:10. > :06:14.effort by just falling short. But we did not fall short tonight. We
:06:15. > :06:19.deserved to win it. And a greater goal by Brady. I spoke to you before
:06:20. > :06:25.the tournament, and I said, it is not a coincidence that this team
:06:26. > :06:31.scores late goals. Once again Robbie Brady scores an iconic Irish golf.
:06:32. > :06:35.It is an iconic goal, you're right. And we keep going. Whatever you say
:06:36. > :06:41.about this site, they do not like there time determination. -- they
:06:42. > :06:57.have got spirit and determination. Was there any stages it wouldn't
:06:58. > :07:04.happen after all those chances of creating the opportunities? All
:07:05. > :07:10.credit, to any other player that had that chance, many have crumbled, but
:07:11. > :07:14.where's kept getting on the ball, and what a delivery, what a moment
:07:15. > :07:23.for Robbie Brady. There were tears of joy. It was unbelievable. Lost
:07:24. > :07:27.myself a little bit in the moment. You hear about people scoring the
:07:28. > :07:32.schools and it is like an out of body experience. -- these goals. I
:07:33. > :07:38.am just so happy I can create that bit of history for everyone
:07:39. > :07:46.involved. It's unbelievable. What was it like to be such a big part of
:07:47. > :07:55.it? Is just hands down the best night of my football career. You
:07:56. > :08:00.have the fans, grown men crying, showing so much passion for our
:08:01. > :08:06.country. Hopefully now we can go on even more and really make ourselves
:08:07. > :08:11.heroes back home. The players won't have too much wrong work to enjoy
:08:12. > :08:16.this victory, with only three days to go before the last 16 tie with
:08:17. > :08:20.France. -- too much longer. Martin O'Neill said some of the individual
:08:21. > :08:25.talent was mesmerised, but added that if his players showed the same
:08:26. > :08:26.level of belief they showed against the Italians, they could topple the
:08:27. > :08:30.home side. Well, as you can imagine the scenes
:08:31. > :08:33.inside the stadium erupted last night when Robbie Brady
:08:34. > :08:34.scored Ireland's winner. Some fans were left in tears
:08:35. > :08:38.as they realised how much the goal meant - even President
:08:39. > :08:39.Michael D Higgins couldn't And he wasn't the only one getting
:08:40. > :09:05.caught up in the moment, What a night it was. The Mrs, and
:09:06. > :09:09.then the sheer ecstasy. It's unbelievable! I can't put it into
:09:10. > :09:13.words! They deserved it. The were a million times better than Italy. By
:09:14. > :09:25.far the better team. Can't believe it. What happens next? Wherever it
:09:26. > :09:31.is, we are going. That's it. I am delighted! I love Ireland! We are
:09:32. > :09:38.staying here. We have another week's holidays. We are not going home, we
:09:39. > :09:42.are here to stay! Pre-match, and befriending an Italian in France was
:09:43. > :09:48.key to a good night out for these other Dean supporters. They didn't
:09:49. > :09:57.take us to eight this morning. And you are back here again's just for
:09:58. > :10:08.breakfast. What happens now? Getting our train down to Leon, hotels
:10:09. > :10:14.sorted, and then back to Paris. I was supposed to go back to work on
:10:15. > :10:19.Monday, but I am still here. So maybe Wednesday or Thursday. How
:10:20. > :10:25.does that go down with your boss? We will find out later! Back in Derry,
:10:26. > :10:34.this has all the web readying for the next round. Proudest man in the
:10:35. > :10:41.world. And his mother. She was in tears. Just, if James is watching
:10:42. > :10:44.this year, we are proud of you, son. The airlines have put on extra
:10:45. > :10:50.flights, and all the trains so awful. On the move with
:10:51. > :10:52.reinforcements on the way, see you all in Lyon. -- all of the trains
:10:53. > :10:55.are very soul. The Republic's win over Italy means
:10:56. > :10:57.Northern Ireland will play Wales Northern Ireland's record against
:10:58. > :11:02.Wales isn't particularly good. They have won just once
:11:03. > :11:06.in the last 12 years. They have won just once
:11:07. > :11:15.in the last 40 years. But even though they are one place
:11:16. > :11:21.above their opposition in the current rankings, many experts are
:11:22. > :11:23.saying they are the underdogs for Saturday's showdown in Paris.
:11:24. > :11:25.The Northern Ireland team, which resumed training today,
:11:26. > :11:38.We believe whoever wants it the most well what a way with the victory. --
:11:39. > :11:39.whoever wants it the most will walk away with the victory.
:11:40. > :11:42.We have had former professionals slagging us off and it hasn't
:11:43. > :11:45.We are getting together and having a laugh.
:11:46. > :11:47.The more people that write us off, the better.
:11:48. > :11:51.We know how good we can be if we turn up.
:11:52. > :11:59.We are certainly not afraid of Wales.
:12:00. > :12:04.Like we have done in previous games, we will put everything into it. I
:12:05. > :12:09.think when you do that, you get yourself as good a chance as anyone
:12:10. > :12:12.to pull through. There is no reason why every prepare well and do
:12:13. > :12:18.everything right, why wouldn't we have as good a chance as anyone
:12:19. > :12:22.else? So our confidence is high. So Northern Ireland have the belief
:12:23. > :12:26.that they can progress in this tournament. Now it is the job of the
:12:27. > :12:30.captain and manager Michael O'Neill to come up with a game plan to beat
:12:31. > :12:33.Wales and the superstar Gareth Bill. There are lots of places to watch
:12:34. > :12:36.the Northern Ireland and Republic football teams in the next
:12:37. > :12:38.round of the European But it emerged today
:12:39. > :12:42.there was nowhere for a fanzone in Belfast now the Belsonic Festival
:12:43. > :12:45.facilities are no longer available. However, a solution is at hand
:12:46. > :12:49.from Belfast City Council, There you have it, live on BBC
:12:50. > :13:04.Newsline... Northern Ireland go 2-0 up
:13:05. > :13:06.against Ukraine last week. The fanzone really has been
:13:07. > :13:08.the other runaway success of the European Championship,
:13:09. > :13:10.using the facilities already The scene last night
:13:11. > :13:13.when Robbie Brady did The green and white army take
:13:14. > :13:26.on Wales at 5pm this Saturday, and there's a clash -
:13:27. > :13:28.Biffy Clyro are due That's definitely still on,
:13:29. > :13:36.so no Titanic fanzone for Belfast. That's meant a lot of
:13:37. > :13:38.frantic reorganising. Several alternatives
:13:39. > :13:39.were suggested - The hours went by, and no
:13:40. > :13:45.word of an agreement. We have to find a solution
:13:46. > :13:51.because it important for the fans here in
:13:52. > :13:53.Northern Ireland to have somewhere to go so they can enjoy
:13:54. > :13:56.the experience as well. The new fanzone for Saturday
:13:57. > :14:01.and Sunday is at Boucher Playing Fields in South Belfast -
:14:02. > :14:03.seen here being readied The change of venue has
:14:04. > :14:13.had mixed reactions. It's good, but if you're going to
:14:14. > :14:18.keep it going, keep it going. There is no harm in moving the venue. No
:14:19. > :14:20.interest in football whatsoever. You are speaking to the wrong man.
:14:21. > :14:36.His Ulster who murdered her husband and ex-lover's wife has failed in
:14:37. > :14:40.her bid to overturn her murder convictions. -- Hazel Stewart. She
:14:41. > :14:45.was jailed in 2011 for the double murder she helped commit 20 years
:14:46. > :14:49.earlier. The criminal cases review commission which investigates
:14:50. > :14:54.miscarriages of justice claims has refused to refer her case to the
:14:55. > :14:58.Court of Appeal. Meanwhile the Court of Appeal has
:14:59. > :15:01.been urged to step in to protect women who risk criminalisation by
:15:02. > :15:06.trying to access abortions. Lawyers for the Human Rights Commission made
:15:07. > :15:09.her closing arguments in the four-day hearing into Northern
:15:10. > :15:13.Ireland's abortion laws. They claim last year's High Court ruling which
:15:14. > :15:19.stated legislation here is incompatible with the UK's
:15:20. > :15:23.obligations under human rights law does not go far enough. The Attorney
:15:24. > :15:26.General has also challenged the ruling, arguing it could lead to a
:15:27. > :15:29.widening of the abortion law. The centenary of the Battle
:15:30. > :15:33.of the Somme will be marked a week tomorrow with special commemorative
:15:34. > :15:35.events and services both In the last of his special reports
:15:36. > :15:40.on the 100th anniversary, Mervyn Jess reports the recently
:15:41. > :15:42.discovered love letters sent from the trenches of the Somme
:15:43. > :15:56.back home to East Belfast. Scouts night opening ceremony has
:15:57. > :16:02.not changed that much over the decades, and the Belfast routes are
:16:03. > :16:07.keen to preserve their history in this, the centenary year. Many have
:16:08. > :16:15.something special to add their collection. My dear Lily, I was very
:16:16. > :16:20.glad to get your letter the other day... These are love letters from
:16:21. > :16:24.the trenches, written by this young man, who swapped his 10th Belfast
:16:25. > :16:28.Scout uniform for that other soldier in the British Army. Amid the
:16:29. > :16:33.carnage and killing of the Somme, he like many others around him found
:16:34. > :16:39.time to rate to the loved ones the left behind, in his case a young
:16:40. > :16:45.woman called Lelley. Houses were a couple of hundred yards apart. I
:16:46. > :16:49.think you see when you look at the letters that at the start of this
:16:50. > :16:52.correspondence, it is very much friendship. They may have known each
:16:53. > :17:00.other from school. They certainly knew each other from church. And he
:17:01. > :17:03.is quite graphic in terms of what he writes to her. He talks quite
:17:04. > :17:09.explicitly about the dangers of going out into no man's land, living
:17:10. > :17:15.with the filth and the hard work. But he also talks about the
:17:16. > :17:23.friendship, the, chip, the sense of it venture and excitement as well.
:17:24. > :17:27.Clearly that helped the Somme. I was glad to get your letter the other
:17:28. > :17:31.day. It was funny, I had just written the day before. I was able
:17:32. > :17:37.to read after this for a day or so, or perhaps longer. -- I won't be
:17:38. > :17:42.able to write after this. Just one of the many personal letters written
:17:43. > :17:47.to his sweetheart back in Belfast. It would prove to be his last. He
:17:48. > :17:50.won the military medal for rescuing and wounded officer from the
:17:51. > :17:56.battlefield on the first day of the Somme, and about a year later, in
:17:57. > :18:01.Belgium, he went over the top carrying his Italian colours and was
:18:02. > :18:08.among the first to fall. Before we went into action, he came to me
:18:09. > :18:11.ask... His letters have given those who followed him into scouting is a
:18:12. > :18:16.major think about other than patchwork, camping and outdoor
:18:17. > :18:23.adventure training. It is good to see how the relationship develops
:18:24. > :18:27.regulators, and goes from dear Lily to my dear Lily. -- develops over
:18:28. > :18:32.the letters. It is shocking to think that he died. It must be devastating
:18:33. > :18:35.for her to move on from that. She went on to train in medicine at
:18:36. > :18:40.Queens, where she met the man who would become her husband. She seems
:18:41. > :18:44.to have travelled the world with him and lived to the ripe old age of 96.
:18:45. > :18:48.Just when she had asked on and the family were clearing the house that
:18:49. > :18:55.these letters from her first love came to light. So she kept them all
:18:56. > :18:59.that time. Unbeknownst to her family, but it was certainly the
:19:00. > :19:06.wish of the lead's son, himself quite an urgently man, that the
:19:07. > :19:12.letters come to be with his medals. So side-by-side, the letters and
:19:13. > :19:19.those medals, letters from someone who clearly thought so warmly and
:19:20. > :19:22.deeply. With this interior of the Somme almost upon us, old stories
:19:23. > :19:26.like this have never seemed so alive. -- with the centenary of the
:19:27. > :19:27.Somme. For more about the events
:19:28. > :19:29.surrounding the centenary of the Battle of the Somme
:19:30. > :19:32.and its impact, you can check out our dedicated BBC web page -
:19:33. > :19:35.the address is Are you prepared to drop whatever
:19:36. > :19:59.you're doing to respond Well, you could be exactly
:20:00. > :20:03.what the Fire and Rescue Donna visited Warrenpoint
:20:04. > :20:11.to find out more. In 1916 the alarm was raised someone
:20:12. > :20:16.ringing the alarm bell, and the clerk would run out and knock the
:20:17. > :20:20.doors of the firefighters, at home or at work. The alert system is a
:20:21. > :20:24.bit more sophisticated nowadays, with mobile phones and pagers, but
:20:25. > :20:29.that sense of service is still in place. What sort of incident would
:20:30. > :20:35.firefighters have attended all over those 100 years? I suppose they
:20:36. > :20:42.would have eerie to a great degree, everything from domestic and
:20:43. > :20:49.commercial fires right through to shipping fires, mountain fires and
:20:50. > :20:54.rescues of the mountain bike track that is an doorstep here. What are
:20:55. > :20:59.the sort of people who joined the service on a part-time community
:21:00. > :21:06.basis? Dictate the type person with that community spirit, is that -- a
:21:07. > :21:10.desire to give back. Somewhere employed, some self-employed, but
:21:11. > :21:14.the thing they have in common is the sense of camaraderie, the fact the
:21:15. > :21:18.train together to serve the community they live in. I've been
:21:19. > :21:22.told that it's not only that sense of serving the community in these
:21:23. > :21:25.parts, but also that that sense is passed on from generation to
:21:26. > :21:28.generation within families. Invariably that was true, because
:21:29. > :21:34.there was a requirement that you lived within a certain response area
:21:35. > :21:38.from the station, so what you found was that father did it for many
:21:39. > :21:44.years, and as a result, the sons and daughters were used to that system,
:21:45. > :21:51.so it was a natural progression when they can seize became available that
:21:52. > :21:55.they were brought into the family. -- when vacancies became available.
:21:56. > :22:04.Let's talk about present-day community firefighters.
:22:05. > :22:07.Monday night is drill night at this fire Station. These men are
:22:08. > :22:14.community firefighters. That means they have day jobs, but are always
:22:15. > :22:17.on call in case of emergency. This man has been in the service for 11
:22:18. > :22:23.years and runs his own software company in the town. It is something
:22:24. > :22:28.I had always wanted to do, and the opportunity came up the recruiting
:22:29. > :22:34.for six people at ten 2005, and I was one of the people that got in.
:22:35. > :22:40.There is a buzz associated with it, but the main thing is being able to
:22:41. > :22:43.help people. In situations where there have been house-buyers are
:22:44. > :22:48.traffic collisions and people have got out, and you see them later and
:22:49. > :22:53.think, if not for the efforts of the cruise, they may not have been
:22:54. > :22:59.alive. Dealing with the likes of broad traffic accidents can be tough
:23:00. > :23:04.emotionally. The camaraderie of the crew at the station afterwards can
:23:05. > :23:08.help to get them through that. It doesn't get any easier over the
:23:09. > :23:13.years when you deal with those. While he and his colleagues may have
:23:14. > :23:17.day jobs, they must always be at the ready to drop everything to deal
:23:18. > :23:21.with an emergency call. Whether I am in work or at home, even out for a
:23:22. > :23:27.meal or anything, you just have to drop it and run. Whenever I met my
:23:28. > :23:32.wife, I think on our second date I was supposed to meet her, and I had
:23:33. > :23:40.to go to a broad traffic collision and stood up. But obviously away
:23:41. > :23:47.with it. Like the firefighters, ready to go 24 seven.
:23:48. > :23:49.How important is it for employers to be flexible when it comes to
:23:50. > :23:57.community firefighters, to let them go on and job? It is absolutely
:23:58. > :24:01.vital. They cannot serve the community without the backing of the
:24:02. > :24:03.employers, and to be honest, it is a vital community service that
:24:04. > :24:08.employers allow them a way to do that job. Thank you. There really is
:24:09. > :24:11.a sense of community here, and at the end of the month there will be
:24:12. > :24:16.an open day to celebrate 100 years of firefighting in the town. Retired
:24:17. > :24:18.firefighters are coming back to join in the celebration, and all the
:24:19. > :24:24.children and young people will be able to find out what it is like to
:24:25. > :24:27.work with one of these. And that open day is this Saturday.
:24:28. > :24:29.Rugby, and a calf injury has ruled Ulster's Jared Payne out
:24:30. > :24:34.of the Ireland team to take on South Africa in Saturday's series
:24:35. > :24:37.Hooker Rory Best will captain Ireland for the 12th time.
:24:38. > :24:40.The team trained this morning in the South
:24:41. > :24:42.African sunshine, and with the series
:24:43. > :24:45.tied at one game each, Joe Schmidt is bidding to become the first
:24:46. > :24:53.Ireland coach to win a series over the Springboks.
:24:54. > :25:01.Let's get the weather now. Things got a bit noisy this afternoon.
:25:02. > :25:07.We still have some more of those scattered showers together this
:25:08. > :25:10.evening, and we may get the odd rumble of thunder before the showers
:25:11. > :25:18.begin to ease overnight. Certainly not a cold night. Tim Morrow the
:25:19. > :25:21.unsettled weather continues. Because we have low pressure in control,
:25:22. > :25:28.providing scattered showers through the day. But to begin with not a bad
:25:29. > :25:31.start. There will be dry weather and sunshine before we begin to see
:25:32. > :25:35.those scattered showers breaking out later on in the morning, and those
:25:36. > :25:39.bright colours indicate some heavy showers. We could see problems on
:25:40. > :25:44.roads, surface flooding and back-end of thing, as we see undermining
:25:45. > :25:47.breaking out. Temperatures will reach about 16 Celsius, cooler than
:25:48. > :25:53.today, because of the northerly wind. So toward the north coast at
:25:54. > :25:56.best 14 or 15 Celsius. If you are travelling tomorrow, scattered
:25:57. > :25:59.showers and sunny spells sums up the picture, perhaps with the exception
:26:00. > :26:03.of the south-east of England. A little bit colour and pressure
:26:04. > :26:09.further north and west, but still not bad for the time of year. For us
:26:10. > :26:13.in mind, 17 or 18 Celsius, but cooler towards the North course.
:26:14. > :26:17.Into tomorrow morning, showers beginning to ease away a little bit.
:26:18. > :26:22.Not a bad end to the daily further north you work with some evening
:26:23. > :26:29.sunshine. A few scattered showers remaining, and is selling counties
:26:30. > :26:34.are aware. Into Saturday, turning cooler, but for most of us about ten
:26:35. > :26:38.or 11 Celsius. For Saturday itself, rather cloudy day. Showers not as
:26:39. > :26:42.heavy, but some wet weather out there. Especially in eastern
:26:43. > :26:51.counties. We hold onto the wind from the North West. 17 or 18 degrees at
:26:52. > :26:56.a push, but we are not expecting a lot of sunshine. If you're heading
:26:57. > :27:02.to the fanzone in Belfast for the game, Pak - just encase. It looks
:27:03. > :27:06.like it will damp. Sunday also looked rather grey and dark, so you
:27:07. > :27:11.will want to bring something with you. Into Monday next week, looking
:27:12. > :27:12.like we will get more in the way of sunshine.
:27:13. > :27:26.That's just before Can Be Viewed for the results of the European
:27:27. > :27:31.referendum.