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You're watching BBC Newsline and once again our main focus | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
The former First Minister Arlene predicts that | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
an election will be brutal, but she hopes an independent inquiry | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
into the renewable heat scandal can be set up within the next 24 hours. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
It is needed to restore the confidence in the institutions and | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
also for me personally to be able to regain my integrity which has been | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
temptingly maligned but this past number of weeks. | :00:45. | :00:45. | |
The Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams warns there can be no | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
We get reaction from business and community groups to the potential | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
collapse of the Northern Ireland executive. I think the losers in | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
this process are the people, the citizens and in particular those | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
citizens that were so badly affected by the troubles. | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
A farmer tells us he fears his industry | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
is being demonised over the renewable heat scandal: | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
a couple admit helping the murderers of a Chinese restaurant owner. | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
And it's going to get much colder over the coming days | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
with a bitter northwest wind and some snow. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
An Assembly election hasn't been called yet but the DUP leader | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
Arlene Foster say if it goes ahead, it will be "brutal." | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
She has also said she hopes an independent inquiry | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
into the controversial heating scheme could start within 24 hours. | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
The resignation of Martin McGuinness as the Deputy First Minister has | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
sparked yet another Stormont crisis and as our political correspondent | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
Gareth Gordon reports, no one is quite sure what will happen next. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Stormont today after. More dark clouds then rays of light but all | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
pointing towards an election. And soon it will be about seats. Not | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
these one stacked in the great Hall but the ones which we knew a place | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
in the assembly chamber across Europe. The last poll how is barely | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
over. The next one unlikely to be pretty. I have no doubt that if the | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
election proceeds, it will be a brutal election. It will be a very | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
difficult election and with Sinn Fein hat indicating that they're not | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
going back to see disco, there are those of us who will also want to | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
look at the construction of the institutions to see what we can do | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
better because I think that there is no doubt, if you look back at our | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
documents from 2003 row forward, we always said mandatory coalition as a | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
first step towards moving to voluntary coalition and so we will | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
want to look those issues as well after an election, if it takes | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
place. So, undoubtedly, we're in for a period of direct rule. 24 hours | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
after her partner in Government told her he was leaving, Arlene Foster | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
sprung a surprise. It public inquiry into the heating scandal could be | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
called soon. We're very keen that it is set up for all the reasons I have | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
set out. The fact that from a political point of view I think it | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
is needed to restore the confidence in the institutions and also for me | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
personally to be able to regain my integrity which has been constantly | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
maligned over this past number of weeks and months so it's important | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
that we get this inquiry up and running as quickly as possible and I | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
hope it'll be in place before the end of the week. Too late impress | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
Sinn Fein. Martin McGuinness thanked well-wishers. Whether his health | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
issues will allow him to even run an election is not clear but others are | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
ready. We've had two max uprising elections, Brexit and the in the | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
American election. I think we have unprecedented anger about this | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
scandal waiting there are so many unknowns that there is all to play | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
for if we go to an election and we will go on very confidently. What | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
should be happening now is the Secretary of State and the Irish | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
Foreign Minister should be convening talks with all five parties, not | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
just with the two that have caused the problems of last 14 months, to | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
see what we can do to reform the structures before we have the | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
election campaign. The next steps as uncertain as Stormont 's future. | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
Tara Mills spoke to the Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams that | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
afternoon. She asked him about the DUP's suggestion that there could be | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
a lengthy period of directional. Directional cannot be an option. | :04:48. | :04:58. | |
That if there is no agreement between the two biggest parties, | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
legally there has to be direct rule. First of all, the situation has | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
moved on tremendously. We are facing Brexit, you know. DUP for this part | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
of the islands, contrary to the wishes of the majority of people, | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
want to exit from the European Union so there is a challenge. So, you | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
see, if you're against half a billion of money being flushed down | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
the drain for possibly into someone's pocket, if you are against | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
that, if you are for fairness and equality, if you value the progress | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
that has been made, and unionist leaders have played a role in that | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
process, if you want that to continue, then come out and vote and | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
vote accordingly to make sure that the institutions that are put in | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
place will be sustainable and will be based upon fairness, decency, | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
good manners and equality. But what you've done means the money is going | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
to go down the drain until the election process is completed and it | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
also means that there can't be a short-term inquiry as the one you | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
had suggested. That could take years, so you have undoubtedly got | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
what she wanted or what you set out to get. And that's why Martin felt | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
that his position was untenable. What are the other consequences of | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
Martin McGuinness resigning is that there is no voice, there is a | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
nationalist voice in the Brexit negotiations because you don't have | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
a voice at Westminster, so we are totally detached. You have detached | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
electorate away from the Brexit negotiations. Our voices loud and | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
clear. We published a document strategy on Brexit, we have argued | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
for the North to be treated with a special designated status... If | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
you're not there, how can you hope... We couldn't get that done | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
anyway because the DUP are for Brexit and against the majority vote | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
which says that the people want to remain within the European Union. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Just a number of final quick points. Martin McGuinness, some commentators | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
have suggested it is actually your influence that has taken a harder | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
line here and that if it had been entirely up to Martin McGuinness, | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
there wouldn't have been resignation. It was from Martin | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
McGuinness. In terms of itself, are you worried about him? Absolutely. I | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
was with him at the castle just before the interviews. I found it | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
very emotional as a period. He obviously is ill. He's very | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
resilient. He's getting very, very best medical treatment so hopefully | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
people praying, and they should pray, hopefully he won't back to | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
himself before too long. Gerry Adams. It is the job of the | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
Secretary of State to call a election. In the House of Commons, | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
he outlined his thoughts. There was a nearly a full house | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
from our local MPs in the Commons for this debate and afterwards | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
I caught up with a number of them. MPs from all parties gathered to | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
hear the Secretary of State, who knows his options and time for | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
decision making is limited. The clock is ticking. If there is no | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
resolution that an election is inevitable. Despite the widely held | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
view that this election may deepen divisions and threatened the | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
continuity of the devolved institutions. And there was a | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
warning that an election could lead to political deadlock. This could | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
last for months. I think were looking at weeks, months, maybe even | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
years. If Sinn Fein continue on the line that they're on now. Just to | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
clarify, years of direct rule? Well, if Sinn Fein are going to turn their | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
back on power sharing and on the agreements that have previously been | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
reached, then directional is the inevitable controversies of that. On | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
the Labour benches, there was a feeling that an election was not the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
solution to Stormont's problems. I just don't believe that what were | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
going into now will resolve anything in any shape or form. You think | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
election will solve anything? Reed no one has convinced me that it will | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
do anything. We will have a result at the end of that which the only | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
change will be the number in the seven rumbled reduced from 108 to | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
90. Others insist the electorate should | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
use an electorate to -- an election to judge the record of the DUP and | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
particularly Sinn Fein. Now they have to tell the truth about the DUP | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
but of course the DUP have got their own point about Sinn Fein as well so | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
be brought public have decisions and choices to make if there is to be an | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
election. Even at this late stage, there is some hope that an election | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
won't be necessary. It is certainly avoidable if everyone sits around | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
the table. That is what the Secretary of State said he would do | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
was sit around with everyone I talk to everyone. It is avoidable but not | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
if we carry on in the same way we have been doing things. At | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
Westminster, there is much surprise and sombre wonderment at how events | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
at Stormont have unfolded in the last 24 hours. And whilst they have | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
heard appeals from talks and solutions, there is a growing | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
feeling that the parties in Northern Ireland will be on the campaign | :10:11. | :10:11. | |
Trail within days. After today's debate | :10:12. | :10:12. | |
the Secretary of State returned And he is going to spend the next | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
few days talking to the parties Former First and Deputy | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
First Ministers have been giving their thoughts | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
on the current crisis at Stormont. The Ulster Unionist, Lord Trimble, | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
says an election probably won't change the dominance | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
on the two main parties but that disillusioned voters at least now | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
have an alternative. The SDLP's Seamus Mallon says | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
the fault for the current problems lies squarely with both | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness. The easy way out of this is to blame | :10:40. | :10:53. | |
the institutions, not to blame the people who didn't bring integrity | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
and a sense of justice and a sense of belonging and reconciliation to | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
the whole process. I can't remember a time when the whole question of | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
reconciliation was addressed in that assembly. Was addressed by beef | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
first and Deputy First Minister. Today marks the deadline for those | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
on the renewable heating initiative scheme to say if their details | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
can be published. A former president of | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
the Ulster Farmers Unions says he fears boiler owners like him | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
will be "demonised" John Gilliland also warned | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
the government against tearing up the contracts of those who signed up | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
to the scheme. Our political correspondent | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
Enda McClafferty has been speaking to Mr Gilliland | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
on his farm in Londonderry. As you can see, this is our willow. | :11:46. | :11:58. | |
A year after harvest... When it comes to renewable energy, few can | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
both a track record like John Gilleland. He installed his first | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
biomass boiler 30 years ago and now supplies woodchip from his willow | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
crop to is all over Northern Ireland. Come to this boiler and I | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
will permit obsolete Ashley C B woodchip. He has three boilers | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
drying woodchip around the clock for which he gets paid ?80,000 a year | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
from the RHI scheme. 30,000 of which is profit which he says he uses to | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
pay off debts from his renewable investments. I encourage many, many | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
people to go into renewable heat, but there are really scared at the | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
moment. They're scared of being victimised, have been made a pariah | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
in their own community. I think the Government needs to be genuine and | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
before they release names at least allow them to be inspected and | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
approved to the public that they're doing it above board so that when | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
the wet woodchip comes in it goes on the special floor. This is where the | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
warm air from the boiler comes up through, underneath the woodchip. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
This is close off at the moment and it drives the moisture out and you | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
can see the water vapour coming out of the woodchip and we extracted out | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
of... John Gilliland expects to be one of the few to go public and he | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
is warned the Government against taking money from those like him who | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
signed up in good faith. When you write a legal contract and you sign | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
a legal contract, there are responsibilities on both parties to | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
deliver the spirit of that contract. If governments then tears up 2000 | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
contracts, what other contracts are they don't want a terrible? They | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
create a very dangerous precedent. John Gilliland, like hundreds of | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
other boiler owners, is now waiting to see if his contract will be | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
scrapped and his money cuts. But a bigger conserver hemp is the | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
long-term damage on future green energy schemes in Northern Ireland | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
and that's something he says he can't surprise on. -- can't put a | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
price on. The knock-on effect of having no | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
functioning Executive could be far Sara Neill has been been speaking | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
to some of the groups who believe they could be left dealing | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
with the fall out. For many nationalists, the straw | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
that broke the camel 's back was the withdrawal of funding to the Irish | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
language scheme. It targeted the most marginalised with in the | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
community, people who couldn't afford to send their children, | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
people who couldn't attend to themselves. This is who the target. | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
You're talking about pennies in terms of the overall budget and it | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
was seen as crass and as an outrageous attack. As I said, almost | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
as valid people. The findings of the as oracle institution of query | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
allegedly made public later this month but without a solid | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
Government, victims say they are the real losers, a sentiment echoed by | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
those affected by the Troubles. We just don't want to believe that as | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
soon as Sir Anthony's report was ready and delivered on Friday, that | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
the collapse of the Government and the collapse of our dreams and hopes | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
and desires that this was going to be our day. I think the losers in | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
this process are the people, either citizens and in particular those | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
citizens that were so badly affected by the Troubles and lost loved ones, | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
lost limbs and they were having some sort of hopes raised by the Stormont | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
agreement on some of the things coming down the line from that. We | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
were assured it would be a fresh start and now the whole thing is | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
that we unravelled. In business, we know that markets hate uncertainty | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
and it is feared that this political instability could cast a shadow over | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
economic growth and later a slowdown in the construction industry. The | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
industry was already in a very fragile position, beginning to make | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
a recovery after ten long years and that just adds further uncertainty | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
to an industry that quite frankly can play a very important role in | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
economic growth so were very concerned. I've never seen a time | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
when we need strong leadership more than we do now in advance of Article | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
50 being triggered in March. We need to have that Northern Ireland voice | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
out there, we had very unique circumstances that the rest of the | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
UK do not face and who is going to be talking for us at those | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
negotiations? In the second week of January, little more than 24 hours | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
after Martin McGuinness stepped down, it's still not clear what lies | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
in store for the people of Northern Ireland and if there is an election, | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
what change that could bring. What is clear is that the events of | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
yesterday at Stormont will be felt long into 2017. | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
Our economics and business editor John Campbell is here in the studio | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
and our political editor Mark Devenport is at | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
Two Stormont first. What do you make of the claim that we could be facing | :16:45. | :16:56. | |
a lengthy period of directional? Well, it seems logical even though | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
Gerry Adams said earlier in the programme that that was not an | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
option. If we do have an extensive negotiation after an election, then | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
there really will be very little alternative but for the Government | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
to step in and to administer Northern Ireland directly. That | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
could mean different things in terms of policies. Maybe they could bring | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
in same-sex marriage as they have elsewhere in the UK, maybe we could | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
get more austerity measures, perhaps the bedroom tax without some of the | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
mitigation that had been planned unless they get those measures in | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
place. But in general, is not really a perfect system of Government | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
having London-based ministers flying in just a few days and civil | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
servants really administering the place on a sort of ticking over | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
caretaker type pieces. John, let's look at the Stormont finances. What | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
will that vacuum do? Just to pick up on something Mark said there, about | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
the bedroom tax. That was a policy introduced by Westminster saying | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
that people living in social housing could have the housing benefits | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
reduced if it was felt they had too much space, too many legends. Under | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
the fresh start agreement, Stormont agreed to mitigate that is so in | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
effect the betting tax would not apply here. However, for that policy | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
to take effect, a piece of legislation needs to go through | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
Stormont and the important thing is that piece of legislation has not | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
yet gone through. So the housing right organisation are warning that | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
come next month, come the middle of next month, more than 30,000 | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
households could unexpectedly be paying the betting tax which means | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
on average they would lose about ?20 a week in housing benefit. I imagine | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
it will be good fun for the parties to try and explain that if they are | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
campaigning on the doorsteps. We heard a business represents to talk | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
about Brexit there in an earlier report. What difference will it make | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
that we do not have executive ministers involved in the Brexit | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
negotiations? There's something Cobbe joint ministerial committee | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
which means each devolved administration comes together and | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
meet with the Government in London and they are meant to feed into | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
those Brexit talks. It looks unlikely that we will be | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
representative to the stocks so in effect, our representative, the | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
present looking ever Northern Ireland, is going to be James Brooke | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
and Shire, the MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup. Back to you Mark and to the | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
keys renewable incentive scheme. What you make from the line from | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Ivan Foster who says she is willing to fast track in inquiry into the | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
scheme? Under the 2005 enquiries act, any DUP ministers who still | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
remain in place until midnight on the exception of Arlene Foster have | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
the ability to put into place and inquiry. They could all Institute | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
and inquiry, but I have to say that opposition parties have given as a | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
dusty response Colling at electioneering or making Northern | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
Ireland a lasting spot will have to see if this becomes a reality in the | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
next few days. John Campbell in the studio and Mark Davenport are | :19:55. | :19:55. | |
political editor at Stormont. A County Antrim husband and wife | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
have admitted helping the murderers of a Chinese restaurant owner | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
try to cover up the killing. Wing Fu Cheung - also | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
known as Nelson Cheung - was stabbed to death outside | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
Randalstown in 2015. Four people have now been convicted | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
in connection with the killing. Our north-east reporter Sara Girvin | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
was at Belfast Crown Court. Nelson Cheung was on his way home to | :20:15. | :20:26. | |
Ballymena after closing his restaurant for the night. His | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
attackers forced his car off the road on the outskirts of Randall | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
Stout, stabbed him 17 times. His wife was injured during the robbery | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
and her handbag, which contained a full and ?200, was stolen. Following | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
her husband's murder, she left Northern Ireland and watched today's | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
court proceedings in Belfast from Hong Kong. Gary and Lisa Thomson had | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
previously denied all charges against them but entered new guilty | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
pleas as their trial was about to begin. Both admitted assisting | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
offenders by allowing two men who have already pleaded guilty to | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
Nelson Cheung's murder to use their home as a refuge, remove clothing | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
and preen themselves after the killing. Gary Thompson was | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
previously accused of Mr Cheung's murder but that charge was left on | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
the books. The couple also admitted perverting the course of justice | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
while Gary Thompson pleaded guilty to robbery and Lisa Thomson to | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
handling stolen goods. The two other men who admitted Mr Cheung's murder | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
late last year are in custody awaiting sentence. Following their | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
guilty pleas, Gary and Lisa Thompson were released on continuing bail. | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
They will be sentenced at a later date. | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
An inspection report on De La Salle College | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
in Belfast says arrangements for safeguarding its pupils | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
The Education and Training Inspectorate also found that staff | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
at the school had been absent for an average of 40 days each | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
during the last school year, as our education correspondent | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
It was business as usual for the education Minister Peter Weir at | :22:01. | :22:12. | |
Corpus Christi College in West Belfast this morning. Seeing and | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
hearing how partnerships between schools there have really raised | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
standards in the classroom. But not far away, it has been another grey | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
day for the college, one of the county's largest primary schools. | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
The inspector said that arrangements for protecting peoples was | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
unsatisfactory. Teaching and assessment required significant | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
improvement, a culture of bullying led to vulnerable and stressed staff | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
and that they had limited confidence in the school governors. The | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
inspection did say there have been some improvements since last | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
September but is the culmination of over a year where there have been | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
disputes among staff here and periods were a significant number of | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
teachers have been off sick and protests by some parents. The local | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
MP is worried. The Inspector's report is a hard-hitting report. We | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
need to learn from it. We need to move on and we need to make sure | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
that education and the inspector's report next year shows massive | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
improvement. Despite the good news at Corpus Christi, the Lasalle was | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
also on the mind of the education minister. We've put in special | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
measures. Those of is the word loosely put in and indeed we are | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
committed to doing that work. In a statement this afternoon, a | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
spokesperson said they would take action to address the concerns | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
highlighted by the inspectors. Golf and Rory McIlroy says | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
he will probably not compete McIlroy has indicated that | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
conflicting loyalties make him uncomfortable with declaring to be | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
part of either a Great Britain Last year, McIlroy opted | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
to represent Ireland, before pulling out of Rio Games | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
because of concerns I'm a very conflicted person and not | :23:54. | :24:05. | |
a lot of people understand that maybe, but it's just the way I feel | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
and I know that some people, or most people, think that that is wrong. | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
But it's the way I feel and I can't really help it, I guess. You know, | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
more and more likely that I'll be going to the games -- more and more | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
unlikely that I'll be going to the games. Not bad feelings towards the | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
games and I think golf included in the games is fantastic, but just | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
throw me, it's something that I just don't want to get into and, you | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
know, that's a personal choice and hopefully people respect that | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
decision and it's a decision that I have not taken lightly. A decision | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
that I have with myself over for so many years and I hope it goes even | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
better in 2020. You know, I just won't be a part of it. If it upsets | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
some people, that's OK. I can't please everyone, but at least I keep | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
saying as long as I'm true to myself, I'll be happy. 's | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
Rugby and back row forward Chris Henry has signed | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
The 32-year-old Ireland international, | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
who's been hampered by injury and illness over the past | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
two seasons, will now remain at the Kingspan Stadium | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
Cecilia Daly is here with the weather forecast. | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
I suspect is going to get even colder. | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
Colder and windier and people have already noticed the wind picking up | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
today. Today we had debited up to 11 or 12 degrees. Those figures will be | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
cut and have to moral and add on an even stronger wind which will make | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
it feel absolutely better. At the moment, not particularly cold. There | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
will be damp weather around for awhile but after midnight, we will | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
find that the wind strengthening with gales, severe gales coming up | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
the coast. Showers coming into the North West as well and temperatures | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
in the south-east could get low enough for perhaps one or two icy | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
spots. So the main feature in Italy of the weather is going to be a very | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
strong, cold wind so much colder tomorrow and much windier. But there | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
will also be some dry and bright weather around and some sunshine. | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
And there will be some showers. We are mostly looking at rain showers | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
during the day tomorrow so first thing, temperatures around 5 degrees | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
but feeling much colder in those very blustery winds. There will also | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
be some sunshine and dry weather at times, particularly across the East | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
and south-east. A day of sunshine and showers but very strong winds | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
and winds could well cause some damage. Especially in the north and | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
west. Could be some thunder mixed in with some heavy showers as well. | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Tomorrow evening, that's when the error gets cold enough for those | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
showers to turn more and more to snow. So through Wednesday night and | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
through the rest of Wednesday and Thursday, we will be looking at | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
snow, cold, windy weather and also ice. You can see on the chart, | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
temperatures not only fall to around freezing or below but also more and | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
more in the way of white stuff. By Thursday morning, there could be | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
some lying snow in places which could well cause some disruption. | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
There will be further wintry showers, a real mix of showers | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
really, through the fee next few days. Most of the lying still on the | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
high ground of the north and west but there could be lying snow just | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
about anywhere over the next couple of days so it certainly is a couple | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
of days to come that will feel bitterly cold, you'll need to wrap | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
up warm. And really strong wind. By the end of Thursday, there could be | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
a couple of inches or more, especially over the high ground in | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
the north and west but really through Thursday and Friday, a bit | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
of snow is possible just about anywhere and it will feel better. | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
And the first significant snowfall Billy the winter. | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
That's right, I really easy winter so far so some say we were Jewett. | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
-- June for some snow. of our local hospitals and | :27:41. | :27:57. | |
clinics... | :27:58. | :28:00. |