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divided, what does she have to do to stop the divide in the country? | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Five young people have died in car crashes in the space of 24 hours | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
Two men and a woman died in a head-on collision | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
In the same area yesterday two men were killed when their car | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Here's our North West reporter, Keiron Tourish. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
This head-on collision happened on a rural country road | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
near the village of Drumkeen around four miles outside Letterkenny | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Two cars were involved - a red Toyota Carina | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
Three young people died - a girl who was 19 and two men. | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
One was 18 while the other was in his 20s. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
I would appeal to the young people in this county, | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
if they know why these vehicles were on the road at night. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
We think they knew each other and we cannot understand how | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
they collided and we believe there was a lot of speed involved. | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
Again, the appeal is mostly for the families and for the parents | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
who have been contacting us all morning about young ones | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
And we have some people in the station and we are telling | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
We need that information so we can tell the mothers and fathers | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
Yesterday, two young men died when their car was involved | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
in a head-on collision with a van at 4.45am | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
They were named locally as 28-year-old Barney McGinley | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
They were travelling in the wrong direction on the dual carriageway. | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
In this latest crash, one man is in hospital receiving | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
When I was putting out the newspapers this morning, | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
you could see the tragedy from the front page. | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
I opened up at 7am and to hear about the fatality overnight... | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
It is very important that the families of the deceased | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
and those injured know what happened to their loved ones | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
And more importantly, what we can do as a local authority | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
to ensure that the roads we have in this county are safe | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
As the county tries to come to terms with the death of five | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
young lives in 24 hours, the Gardai have revealed that | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
weather conditions at the time of the latest accident were good. | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
They have made an urgent appeal for information | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
There's been anger in West Belfast after leaflets were distributed | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
criticising two different groups for their engagements with the PSNI. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
One named the organiser of a children's street party | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
in Turf Lodge, the other named the staff of the West Belfast | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
The leaflets are being blamed on dissident republicans, | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Monagh Road in Turf Lodge - the venue for a community | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
children's street party, when the PSNI's Black Mountain | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
What happened next has forced one woman to take a few | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
The street party at the weekend was organised for the younger | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
children of the Turf Lodge area but there has been a good deal | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
of local anger at the leaflet campaign criticising the PSNI's | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
inclusion in this event and the naming of one of the organisers. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
The leaflet was distributed by the Irish Republican Prisoners' | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
It was entitled "Community Notice" and said asking the police to attend | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
The organiser is also pictured and named on social media. | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
On its Facebook page, the policing team say | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
they were "invited and very happy to attend." | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
The leaflet has been widely condemned. | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
They have been named on a leaflet that has been put through some | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
doors in West Belfast, which is wrong. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
They are trying to instil fear among people and people should resist | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
Another group has been singled out - Feile an Phobail, | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
This leaflet names festival staff, accusing them of "promoting | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
the PSNI" and speaking of "unnecessary PSNI | :04:22. | :04:22. | |
The festival's director says the leaflet is a sinister | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
development - especially as it's unsigned. | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
We invite groups and organisations, regardless of political background, | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
to put events on during the festival and we have done that for 27 years. | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
If groups have an issue with the Feile programme, | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
they are welcome to speak to the staff about the programme | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
But as I say, we don't know who we are speaking to at this stage. | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
Festival events are going ahead as planned. | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
A 74-year-old man with an address in Glasgow has become the first | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
person to be charged in connection with the murder in County Donegal 10 | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
years ago of Denis Donaldson, a former Sinn Fein official | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
Patrick Gillespie was charged with withholding information | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Shane Harrison was there and I spoke to him earlier. | :05:16. | :05:34. | |
Denis Donaldson was a former IRA prisoner and a friend | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
of the hunger striker Bobby Sands while they were both in Long Kesh. | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
He worked for Sinn Fein and was arrested by police as part | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
of their investigation into an alleged spy | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
In December 2005 the case against him collapsed | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
because the prosecution said it would not be in the public | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
Gerry Adams immediately told a news conference in Dublin that | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
Denis Donaldson was a British spy and Denis Donaldson at the same | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
event said he had been recruited at a vulnerable period in his life. | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
In April 2006 he was found shot dead at a pre-famine cottage he had been | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
Almost immediately the provisional IRA said it had no responsibility | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
or part in the murder whatsoever and three years later the Real IRA | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
To date, there has been no inquest, much to the annoyance of the family. | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
At the 3-judge Special Criminal Court, Patrick Gillespie, | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
who will be 75 in December, was charged with withholding | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
information from the dates of April 3rd 2006 until July the 20th 2016 | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
The court heard his main address was at Craigvar Street in Glasgow | :06:49. | :06:59. | |
but that was disputed by his solicitor, who said that his | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
residence was in the Dungloe area of County Donegal. | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
He was remanded in custody until noon tomorrow | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
when it is expected there will be a bail application. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Police say a man in his 70s has been left badly shaken after three men | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
broke into his home in North Belfast and stole a large sum of cash. | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
It happened at around midday at the house in Ballycarry Street. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Police are appealing for anyone who saw a small blue car or noticed | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
any suspicious activity in the area to contact them. | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
A dog seized by Belfast City Council can be returned to his home | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
but his owners must comply with court conditions | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
Two-year-old Hank was confiscated by dog wardens earlier this month | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
They concluded he is a pitbull but say that any behavioural issues | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
A new report into a cancelled education scheme has found it | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
helped thousands of pupils improve their English | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
The literacy and numeracy signature programme ran for two | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
years until last year, but it wasn't renewed | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
by the Executive due to a lack of money. | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
Our Education Correspondent Robbie Meredith reports. | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
It helped 19,000 pupils like these at Holy Cross Boys' Primary | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
in Belfast and gave over 300 young teachers a job for two years. | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
Schools had extra staff to help struggling children in English | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
and maths and they had a real impact. | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Of the primary school pupils helped, over three quarters reached level | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
four or above in English - the expected skill level | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
In post-primary, almost two thirds got a grade C or above in GCSE | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
English and 60% got a GCSE grade C or above in mathematics. | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
It cost OFMDFM and the Department of Education | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
But money could not be found to keep it going beyond last June, | :08:54. | :09:04. | |
to the regret of many school leaders. | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
It provided schools with an additional pair of hands, | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
an additional qualified teacher to work, and these are newly | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
qualified, highly motivated and skilled and they knew | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
the curriculum and were able to work in a targeted manner with groups | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
who had been identified as being potential underachievers. | :09:16. | :09:24. | |
Numeracy and literacy are the core of many subjects | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
so it is important to get children up to standard. | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
This report shows just how much of a difference this | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
scheme made to schools, pupils and young teachers. | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
All for a tiny fraction of the overall ?2 billion education budget. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
That the money could not be found to keep it going shows just how | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
Household spending power here is just about half the UK average, | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
The report compiled for Asda by a firm of economic consultants | :09:49. | :09:57. | |
shows families in Northern Ireland are experiencing some growth | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
in their incomes but are still far behind other parts of the UK. | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
As our Economics and Business Editor John Campbell explains, | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
it reflects long-standing weaknesses in our economy. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Asda produce this report four times a year. | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
They use official data on pay, taxes, prices, | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
They try to show what an average household has left over | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
after they've paid for life's essentials, like groceries, | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
And it doesn't make great reading for us. | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
Average disposable income across the UK is estimated | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
Scotland is just below that and in Wales its ?180 a week. | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
And to be honest, this number is no real surprise. | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
It mainly reflects the fact that this is a low-wage economy. | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
It is on private sector wages where we fall significantly behind | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
and we have been falling behind since the recession. | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
There was an upturn last year in private sector wages but that has | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
We have a significant structural problem in terms of the private | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
sector in Northern Ireland and an explosion of low-wage jobs. | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
And we really do need a strategy to turn that around. | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
Disposable income has been edging up over the last two years, | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
helped by low inflation and a buoyant jobs market. | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
In 2014 it was just an estimated ?82 a week compared | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
But even then, we're not closing the gap with the rest of the UK. | :11:28. | :11:36. | |
The Executive does recognise this is a problem. | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
The DUP, in particular, have talked about the need | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
But delivering on that won't be easy. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Now a look at what the weather has in store with Cecilia Daly. | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Well, thankfully it is drying up in a lot of places at the moment. | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
The last of the rain and drizzle will clear away from Southern | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
The rest of the night will be dry with some breaks in the cloud. | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Temperatures could well dip to eight or 9 degrees in parts | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
of the countryside so there will be a freshness to the air tomorrow | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
But it will be a lot drier and a lot brighter, too. | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
So no big puddles tomorrow morning, most places will have a dry morning. | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
There will be some sunshine around and some nice sunrises. | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
There will be a cloudy zone with some damp, | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
drizzly weather continuing across Wicklow and Wexford, | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
through the Midlands and Wales, which will move down | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
towards London and the Southern counties of England. | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
Most of those drizzly showers fading away. | :12:29. | :12:29. | |
A few showers over Northern Ireland, Northern Britain and most | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
of the showers will be up across the North West of Scotland. | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
For tomorrow afternoon, lots of drier weather around. | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
One or two light showers here and there so not completely | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
There will be a coolness to the breeze, 16 degrees | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
at the North Coast, 19 degrees over parts of County Down. | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
So much better conditions and much drier weather to come | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
for the Armoy Road Races, which kicks off tomorrow. | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
And on Saturday it looks like it will be another fairly decent day. | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
There will be a few showers here and there but | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
It will be cooler in the breeze but there will also be some sunshine | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
and it will certainly be a lot better on Saturday afternoon | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Friday, the weekend and the beginning of next week, | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
Not a scorcher by any means but there will be some sunshine. | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 6.25am in the morning | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
You can also keep updated with News Online. | :13:26. | :13:30. |