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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
The headlines this Thursday evening... | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
Should the Orange Order lift its ban on members attending Catholic church | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
services? A new debate has begun. I would say the Order will change the | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
rule, if not in this decade, certainly in the next decade. | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
Plans to make firms disclose how many foreign workers they employ | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
The National Crime Agency says six people are now under investigation | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Dublin Airport gets a record number of passengers from Northern Ireland. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
The cost of going to university, the challenges faced by students and | :00:50. | :01:02. | |
their families. I am at Ulster University in Belfast. | :01:03. | :01:03. | |
Georgia on his mind - with the Republic of Ireland's | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
latest World Cup qualifier just over an hour away, can Martin O'Neill | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
And a few raindrops in the forecast, but still more dry than wet weather. | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
A second senior Orangeman has said the Order should consider lifting | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
a ban on members attending services in a Catholic church. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Yesterday the Reverend Mervyn Gibson, who is a Grand Chaplain, | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
said his personal view was that the rule should change. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Today David McNarry, a past Assistant Grand Master, agreed. | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
The Orange Order's rules go back centuries, but some believe it's now | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
time for a re-think on the ban on members going to | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
The Reverend Mervyn Gibson said it yesterday. | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
It can be changed and it may be changed but that harks back to a | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
different era in many ways. The opportunity is there for the | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
institution itself to change that rule. Would you like to see that | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
change personally? Personally I have to say I would. But does anyone else | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
agree? Mervin has generated a discussion that I think the | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
institution needs to have. I agree with what he said they individually. | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
At the moment I don't detect there is a clamour, because there is no | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
one really being admonished if they go to pay their respects. This is | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
entirely a matter for the grand Lodge and for the Orange | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
institution. I have no doubt there will be strong opinions on both | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
sides, but I think there are occasions when it is the right thing | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
to do. It is what David Trimble after the Omagh bomb, even though he | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
was an Orangemen, he then First Minister went to a Catholic Church | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
for the funeral of three young victims. Mr Trimble, you are | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
particularly welcome with entourage. That was almost 20 years ago. It a | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
talking point then and now it is again. The next meeting of the | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Orange Order's ruling grand Lodge takes place in December. We'll the | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
matter be raised at that meeting? At this stage it seems unlikely. But | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
whether it is raised or not, there is no doubt a new debate has begun. | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
And a former Presbyterian Church moderator believes change will | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
happen. Eventually. If I was a betting man and I have never placed | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
a bet in my life I would say the Order will change the rule. If not | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
in this decade, certainly in the next decade. All sides of the | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
argument agree on one thing. Nothing will happen quickly. | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
The Home Office says a consultation regarding plans to monitor how many | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
foreign workers are employed by individual firms will cover | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
Northern Ireland as immigration is not a devolved matter. | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
Our Political Editor Mark Devenport has more on this. | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
It has been a controversial issue. Give us some of the details. It | :04:07. | :04:19. | |
stirred controversy when Amber Rudd the Home Secretary said that some | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
firms want Kennington of local workers and she said she could nudge | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
them into better behaviour as she put it by getting them to register | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
what percentage of their workforce was international. That has been | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
criticised by some local politicians here. The SDLP call it xenophobic | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
rhetoric and they are concerned about the position of Irish workers | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
in England. Sinn Fein concerned about the position of cross-border | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
workers. Because this idea seems to spam with employment matters which | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
are devolved to Stormont and immigration matters which are still | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
reserved to the Home Office I did ask the Home Office today wouldn't | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
apply and they came back with the answer that a consultation, which we | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
are expecting that this year, will apply to Northern Ireland. Quite how | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
they will define international workers and deal with all the | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
problems of cross-border working, I think we will have to wait until | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
they put the document. We will leave it there. Thank you. | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
The agency investigating the sale of Nama's Northern Ireland property | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
portfolio has broken its silence on the inquiry. | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
In an exclusive interview for the BBC, the Director General | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
of the National Crime Agency has revealed that six people regarded | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
Lynne Owens said the NCA is treating the case | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
She spoke to our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney. | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
This is the headquarters of the organisation referred | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
It's from here that the National Crime Agency's investigation | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
into Nama's Northern Ireland property sale is being directed. | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
It was here I met the agency's Director General for the first | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
interview she's given about the inquiry. | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
Since the beginning of the enquiry we have interviewed under caution | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
seven people. Six of the people remain under criminal investigation. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
We have interviewed over 40 witnesses. We have searched eight | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
properties. We have achieved a number of court orders, both for | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
private properties and public locations. And our enquiries | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
continue. Do you question seven people under caution, with an | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
arrested? Two were arrested. The others will not arrested. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Interviewed under caution with the agreement. Do you envisage further | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
arrests at this stage? We definitely can't rule it out at this stage. | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
The NCA says the possible crimes being investigated include bribery, | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
The agency says it's impossible to say how long | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
When asked if she was confident there would be criminal charges, | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
That isn't a decision for me to make. Our job is to understate it | :06:52. | :07:03. | |
search for the truth, to compel the evidence and to put those files of | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
evidence to a prosecutor 's office. They will make a judgment whether | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
there is a case to answer and any charging decisions. Our job is to | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
make sure our investigation is as thorough as it can possibly be. | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
The NCA has confirmed to the BBC that two men arrested as part | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
of the investigation in May were released | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
The fact that they were released from police bail so quickly suggests | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
they don't have a case to answer will stop as you know there is a big | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
debate about bail legislation. At the moment we should not hold people | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
on bail longer than is necessary, but neither should people draw any | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
conclusion about that release from bail. | :07:46. | :07:46. | |
The agency's Director General was in Belfast today, briefing | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
members of the Policing Board about the investigation. | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
She said the NCA is working with law enforcement agencies | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
in other parts of the UK, the Republic of Ireland, | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
A cyclist has died in a road crash in County Down. | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
The 50-year-old man was on the Newtownards to Bangor | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
carriageway when he was involved in a collision with a car. | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
It happened just before 6am this morning. | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
The driver of the car wasn't injured. | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Last night we heard from the 23-year-old man who blinded | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
It's being investigated by the Justice Committee | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
following a highly critical report which found prison officers stood | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
and watched for over an hour without intervening. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
At a committee hearing today, the Prison Ombudsman told MLAs | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
the shocking incident was down to failures inside | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
The head of the Prison Service also attended the committee | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Sean Lynch was detained in a part of Maghaberry which, | :08:43. | :08:53. | |
the Ombudsman found, was "unsuitable for managing someone | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
The report also declared that Mr Lynch's "increasingly bizarre | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
and violent" conduct was met by short-term responses | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
On the night Sean Lynch blinded himself, two young prison | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
I feel particularly I have to say, for the two Young Amesbury and staff | :09:09. | :09:21. | |
who had to be worthless. Quite simply on that night when he first | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
raised the alarm, they were not sure what to do. They summoned help which | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
came sometime later. They were at the sharp end of a series of | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
failings of the previous eight weeks or so and it wasn't down to those | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
two prison staff alone. Sean Lynch was remanded | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
to Maghaberry after breaching bail conditions on charges of assault | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
and criminal damage. During his detention, | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
according to the Ombudsman, he was taken to outside | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
hospitals - twice. It is also important to realise that | :09:47. | :09:59. | |
Mr Lynch had quite properly been taken to upset hospital on two | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
previous occasions. But on both of those instances, two different | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
hospitals in dignity, because he was a prisoner, those hospitals. That | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
failed in fulfilling the duty of care. Also before the committee | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
today, Sue McAllister director-general of the Prison | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
Service. She says she hopes to meet Sean Lynch's family this month and | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
also had something else to say. I am sorry for the life changing injuries | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
that Mr Lynch sustained while in our care. Today's hearings here at | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Stormont are part of an ongoing debate about people with mental | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
health issues who are going through the justice system. And in | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
particular how they are treated and where. | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Figures from Dublin Airport suggest its use by Northern Ireland | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
It says more than a million passenger journeys were made in 2015 | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
by people who had travelled from across the border. | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
Our business correspondent Julian O'Neill has been | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
Dublin is one of the fastest growing airports in Europe, | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
so breaking the million barrier with regards to Northern Ireland | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
Today's figures are for 2015 and the airport says | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
there were 1.2 million passenger journeys by people who live | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
That's up by 37% on 2014, and the most popular destinations | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
for Northern Ireland customers being firstly Heathrow, | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
followed by JFK in New York and then Dubai. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Our three airports will look on enviously, although both | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
the International and Belfast City are seeing growth. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
But Dublin is making enormous strides. | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
An improved motorway and Ireland's abolition of Air Passenger Duty have | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
contributed to its popularity, but nothing more so than route | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
Dublin does about three times as many destinations | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
On long-haul, where Northern Ireland has also scrapped APD, | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
Dublin operates around 30 routes to Northern Ireland's one. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
Taken as a whole, the figures will serve to focus minds again | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
at our airports and in the Executive, with a feeling | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
some form of strategic thinking is needed going forward. | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
The trial of a couple accused of murdering a man and dumping him | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
in a wheelie bin has heard the body was found by the police at the back | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Owen Creaney's badly beaten remains were dumped in the bin in July 2014. | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
29-year-old Stephen Hughes and 25-year-old Shaunean Boyle | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
Our reporter Ita Dungan was in court. | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
This is Owen Creaney, seen here on the right. | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
On the left - Stephen Hughes, a man who described the victim | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
as his friend, a man accused of his murder. | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Along with this woman - Shaunean Boyle. | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
Owen Creaney's body was found here in a wheelie bin. | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
A post mortem examination found that his ribs and breast | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
Today the jury heard from transcripts of a police | :12:56. | :13:05. | |
During the interview, details of how a PSNI officer | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
discovers the body of Owen Creaney are read to the defendant. | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
"I began taking the rubbish out and about half way down I saw | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
"a human foot and continued to remove rubbish and saw a human hand | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
"with a silver wedding band on one of the fingers. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
"Removed more rubbish and a human torso came into view. | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
The investigating officer then asks Stephen Hughes, | :13:36. | :13:36. | |
"Did you squash Owen's body down into the bin?" | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
Stephen Hughes answers, "The two of us did" - | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
a reference to his co-accused Shaunean Boyle. | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
The officer goes on to ask how, saying "In what way?" | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
Stephen Hughes replies, "Just pushed him into it with my hands." | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
The officer points out that rigor mortis had set in, asking, | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
"So did this take a good amount of effort?" | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Stephen Hughes is asked why he is protecting his | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
He says she was going on about wanting to see her child again. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
He was asked why he cared about Shaunean Boyle. | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
He said he knew what it was like to lose your children. | :14:17. | :14:30. | |
The family of a woman seriously injured in a care home accident say | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
lessons were not learned quickly enough from the fall that | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
Eileen Scullion broke her hip at Marina Care Home | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
The home's new owners have fully complied with all | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
The family have told the BBC that the past two years has been | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
Our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly reports. | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
This is the report into on's death... -- mum. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
Almost two years after their mother's death, | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
her family are still trying to find answers. | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
It has been one of the most traumatic things I have ever had in | :15:06. | :15:15. | |
my life. You know? Mum loved her children and her grandchildren. | :15:16. | :15:16. | |
Eileen Scullion was a mother-of-13 with more than 30 grandchildren. | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
At 89, she was living here at Marina Care Home in Ballyronan. | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
Waiting for a care assistant to take her to the toilet, | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
left alone Mrs Scullion fell off the bed, broke her hip | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
While she'd pneumonia, the broken hip was listed | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
The family had raised concerns about her safety. | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
I think railings around the bed for a start would have helped. More | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
staff, hands on. Maybe people that were more serious about their job. | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
The family have many complaints, including that their mother should | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
never have been left on the edge of a bed unattended. | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
Because the fall was not properly recorded, they don't know how long | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
she lay on the floor in acute pain before | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
Finally, the fall at the privately-run nursing home | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
was not properly investigated until the family contacted | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
The Trust concluded the fall was as a result of the "failure | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
"of the care assistant to remain with Mrs Scullion, | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
It found the care home had a "blanket block" on the provision | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
of bedrails for any resident presenting with confusion. | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
It also said Marina Care home "did not investigate the incident" | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
and so failed to learn anything from it. | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
The family say they were further knocked back when they discovered | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
that the new safety recommendations hadn't been fully complied | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
The new owners say they've now fully implemented all safety requirements. | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
But according to the family, they feel let down by the Trust | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
and they're speaking out so others may benefit | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
Over the past few weeks, tens of thousands of students | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
have started their first year in university. | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
With that new academic journey comes a lot of debt. | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
For BBC Newsline, Donna Traynor was at the Ulster University's | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
If you go to this university ought to Queen's University, you can | :17:19. | :17:30. | |
borrow the cost of your tuition fees. Close to ?4000 a year. On top | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
of that is a maintenance long for everyday expenses. So that means at | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
the end of a three-year course, you could have a debt of ?27,000. That | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
is just if you want to study in Northern Ireland. It would be more | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
expensive if you went elsewhere. And that is just for one student. Sarah | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
visited a family in Garber. Three of the spring chose to go to | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
university. You realise yourself that you will have to start | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
budgeting... No matter what you are studying, student life is a game of | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
numbers. Caitlin topping is back home after graduating from | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Northumbria University. After degrees, at a cost. Three years of | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
taking out the maximum student. I try not to think about it too hard, | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
because I know it is a lot. It is probably just under ?40,000. After | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
three years. Which is a big number. Caitlin is one of more than 40,000 | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
in Northern Ireland who took out a student loan last year to cover | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
university. For the topping family and there two other children these | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
loans were vital. We were kind of hoping that maybe one would stay at | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
home, maybe go to Queen's University or Coleraine. I was hoping maybe | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
will one would didn't go to university and I thought maybe one | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
would go across the water. Whenever they went to Glasgow, we | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
contemplated paying her fees. Make up and said, can you pay the fees | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
for three of them and we realised we couldn't so we would have to take | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
out a student loan or she would have to take that out. Three kids in | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
third level education, as we know they now come out with an amount of | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
debt, do you still think it is worth it? It is leaving with a very big | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
commitment to pay off, but that's Caitlin says, they are paying in | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
little pieces and are capable of doing it, I think it is a good deal. | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
I also think the figure scares people as well because they don't | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
understand that when it comes to it, you're not paying it back until you | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
are capable are able to pay it back. You are paying it back in small | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
amounts. I don't think it should scare people off, because I think | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
university is great and I would do it ten times over. | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
REPORTER: While almost 10,000 people in Northern Ireland have not been | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
scared off, that is the number of students starting university this | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
year. With me is Professor Deirdre Heenan and Paul Callaghan from | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
Citizens Advice bureau. Paul, you have discussed student debt and the | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
cost of going to university at your annual Conference, how difficult is | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
it for dummies at the moment? It is really difficult and also a cause of | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
real concern. We have seen many people coming through asking for | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
advice on student debt. The biggest issue is people don't really | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
understand what the implications of student loans are, what impact it | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
will have live future earnings and take-home pay and the potential | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
disorder of life after university, buying a car or what impact it will | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
have on buying a new house. This is not only for parents but also | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
students. Deidre, is it going to get to the stage where university once | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
again is only for the privileged and well off and therefore what damage | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
with that dude that the Government of your students? It would be hugely | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
damaging that we would not get to that stage. -- I hope we don't get | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
to that stage. It is important that people are able to access higher | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
education but that is a number-1 concern parents when their children | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
are about to leave. They are worried about that. It is important that | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
students are well informed and use what is called as good loans, the | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
student loan company and not credit card or bank loans. There are some | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
families who perhaps with their young people, it is the first time | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
they have experienced university in their family. How off-putting is it | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
for them as Mac it is a real problem. We really want to get | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
across that really it is better to look at student loans as almost like | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
a graduate tax. You might not actually ever paying off the debt | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
that you take on depending on how much you earn. If you only earn | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
?20,000 for the rest of your life you will but we never pay back | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
anything. It is not just a matter of does the taxpayer pay 40 students or | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
the families paid, it is other options that we need to explore. | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
Businesses and employees in terms of paying for third level education | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
will stop it is not black and white. It is a devolved issue. We have to | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
have an informed conversation. It is something that is a reality for | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
families. Something that families are worrying about and we ought to | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
discuss it and ensure we make the best decision for Northern Ireland | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
and for the people here. Professor Deirdre Heenan, thank you, and Paul | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
Callaghan. If you would like to share your experience of the cost of | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
going to university, check out our Facebook page. The addresses on the | :22:40. | :22:40. | |
screen. Are you or members | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
of your family permanently Well, on BBC Newsline next week, | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
we'll have a special series looking at smartphones | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
and digital technology. Four out the five adults now use a | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
smartphone. And the latest research suggests more and more of us are | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
becoming addicted to them. So what impact is this having on our lives? | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
How is it affecting families? What is it doing to our social lives? | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
Good question, and how is it changing the way we work and where | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
we work? And what impact is at having on our health on BBC Newsline | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
next week we will be taking a close look. Oh, and I will be ditching my | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
smartphone for seven days to see if I can cope. I don't think he will be | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
able to. Now sport - and the next wave | :23:30. | :23:30. | |
of World Cup qualifiers is upon us. It's relentless, Tara - the big | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
football wheel keeps on turning. It's Northern Ireland v San Marino | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
in Belfast on Saturday. Tonight, in Group D, | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
Georgia are in Dublin From the venue, here's our reporter | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
Thomas Kane. Even at this early stage of the | :23:44. | :23:56. | |
campaign, the next four days could prove to be crucial for Martin | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
O'Neill's site. For very into an evenly matched teams and only one | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
automatic qualifying spot for Russia, Group D is said to be one of | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
the most competitive. It means it is imperative not to slip up against | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
Moldova and Georgia. The manager is taking nothing for granted. If | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
anyone here had watched the Georgia match against Austria, they caused | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
Austria a lot of problems. A lot of problems during the course of the | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
game. They could have forced an equaliser and could have scored | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
first in the game in fact. It is a difficult game. Anybody who watched | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
the game in the last couple of years would realise that this is a | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
difficult match for us. Georgia will take points from teams without a | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
doubt. I would say, considering if you're talking about rankings, which | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
I don't go along with anyway, they have got to be the best ranked side | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
playing in the particular groups. The Republic of Ireland have won all | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
of their previous contests against the opponents tonight. We will have | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
all the best of the action in our late BBC Newsline bulletin. That is | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
at 10:30pm. The games are over but the fallout | :25:11. | :25:27. | |
continues. All the officials have been suspended from the boxing | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
tournament until an investigation has been carried out. That is the | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
sport. Let's get the weather. We have had a | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
problem with our computer system. We are starting with this lovely | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
picture. It was taken yesterday from Dundrum out towards the more | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
mountains. A lovely twilight scene. Now the cloud is breaking out, the | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
breeze picking up the cloud, we might see scenes like this again | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
this evening. Also in Dublin, pretty similar skies there is the Republic | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
of Ireland take on Georgia. Clear skies but also that cool | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
south-easterly breeze. Through this evening the first part of tonight... | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
Temperatures falling away. Around seven or eight Celsius. Although the | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
breeze is easing down we do get more cloud coming in on the | :26:31. | :26:32. | |
south-easterly breeze and that will indicate what is coming in tomorrow. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Cloudy skies and a few showers in the forecast compared to what we | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
have had lately. Mainly across the eastern counties. Not all parents | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
will get them. Light and scattered. In the west you might not see any at | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
all. Highs of 14 Celsius. As we head into the weekend, high pressure are | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
still over us. Mainly light winds and should be some bright spells. | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
Thank you, Angie. I will be back with our latest news at 10:30pm. | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
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