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A reminder of the day's main story... The

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An under-car bomb explodes outside the home of a police officer

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My colleague goes to work every morning with the sole aim of working

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to prevent harm in the community. Clubrooms at Healy Park GAA ground

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in Omagh are badly damaged The RHI Controversy -

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the Economy Minister is accused of using those who get the subsidy

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as a political football. The Craigavon-based firm Almac tells

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MPs it might have to move some work to the Republic

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as a result of Brexit. Northern Ireland's population is

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more diverse than ever before. This evening I focus on the newcomers

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from eastern Europe. Join me and a little bit of Lithuania in the

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spring. A very wet and very

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windy night to come We'll have 12 hours of persistent

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and at times heavy rain with strong A bomb's exploded outside the home

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of a police officer in Londonderry. It happened as the army

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tried to defuse it. It's thought the bomb may have

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been an under-car Our northwest reporter

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Keiron Tourish is at the scene. Tara, the scene here in Culmore is

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still cordoned off this evening as the security operation continues.

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One thing is clear and that is a message from the most senior police

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officer in the North West, who believes we could easily have been

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dealing with a major tragedy. The police say an Army bomb disposal

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experts were in the process of making the bomb sites outside the

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home of a serving police officer when it went off. The district

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commander was scathing in his condemnation. My colleague is

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someone who gets up every morning and goes to work with the sole aim

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of ensuring the safety of the community and working to prevent

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harm. That is in sharp contrast to the individuals who left a viable

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explosive device in a residential area with kids and families going to

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school. The dangers don't need to be explained in depth. My colleagues in

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the major investigation team have started an investigation and we

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believe that violent dissident republicans are responsible for this

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attack. It was found at the home of the police officer at Ardanlee in

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the Culmore area of the city. It's understood the device was discovered

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around breakfast time when many children were being taken to school

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and others weren't leaving for work. A major security operation was put

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in place and a number of homes were evacuated. The police later extended

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the cordon. Local people were shot, given the quiet residential nature

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of the area. Lots of families and children, it's typical of young

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families. Nothing like this that I have heard happening. I hope it

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doesn't go back to the old days. Nice and peaceful around here and

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great for kids growing up. The Policing Board condemned those

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responsible and said the officer had a lucky escape. We do know that

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there are dozens of homes in this part of Culmore and detectives have

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issued an appeal for information. They are keen to hear from anyone

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who noticed suspicious activity last night or this morning to come

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forward. A 27-year-old man has

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appeared in court charged with the manslaughter of Conan

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Anderson. The 22-year-old died

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in hospital at the weekend. Conan Anderson, from the Short

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Strand in Belfast, was a student He suffered head injuries

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in an incident during a night out Detectives believe it happened

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at Arthur Lane in the early hours Today at Belfast Magistrates' Court,

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27-year-old Lawrence Dowie appeared in court accused

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of his manslaughter. Lawrence Dowie said nothing during

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the brief hearing. A police officer told the court he believed he could

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connect him to the charge. He said the accused presented himself

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voluntarily to Musgrave police station and told the court that

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Larne still we had been threatened and that police are taking the

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threat seriously. The district judge ordered that neither Larne still

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we's photograph nor his address can be published.

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A defence lawyer stressed that the threat had nothing to do

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with the deceased or anyone associated with him.

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Lawrence Dowie was released on bail and will appear again

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A clubhouse at the Tyrone GAA county grounds has had to cancel activities

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after what it described as a despicable attack

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Significant damage was caused to the clubrooms at St Enda's GAA

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Here's our south-west reporter, Julian Fowler.

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The damage left following an overnight robbery.

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The smell of the drilling equipment used to remove the safes bolted

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This office is just one of the rooms ransacked by burglars.

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Every locked door in St Enda's GAA club rooms

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A lot of people would see this as a large town club,

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but we are just like every GAA club, the more

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but we are just like every GAA club, the more money we can raise is

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There is no profit making here, it is all volunteerism.

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It has a large impact on not only events and activities but also

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equipment and playing gear and everything, buses, transport,

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The thieves cut open two gates and broke through a fire escape

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As well as safes, bottles of spirits and tills were taken from the bars

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along with club equipment used by some of the 33 teams, including

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We just have to gather ourselves again and build this great club.

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The club has cancelled all indoor activities for its youth players

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as well as social events scheduled to take place this week.

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Volunteers are now helping to clear up the damage in time for a couple

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of big matches on Sunday, when 10,000 people are

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The Economy Minister Simon Hamilton has been accused of using firms

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getting RHI subsidy as a political football.

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A barrister told a court his plan to release the names was an attempt

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to deflect from claims that "DUP cronies" had benefited

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Here's our agriculture and environment

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The case was made that the push for publication of the names was little

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A barrister for the boiler owners said there'd been claims

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what he called DUP cronies had benefitted.

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I signalled my intention to publish the names.

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The DUP Economy Minister Simon Hamilton's drive for the release

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of the names was an attempt to spread the political pain.

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Gerald Simpson, QC for the boiler owners, said far from being about

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transparency as Mr Hamilton cleared -- claimed, it was simple political

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point scoring, tit-for-tat politics, Mr Hamilton essentially saying there

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had been criticism of the DUP, now let's see how many of your people

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are in the scheme. The court was told Mr Hamilton had

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persisted in the face of civil service advice that publication

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was a breach of data protection. Boiler owners feared a media frenzy,

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and public criticism culminating The majority of more than 800 firms

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written to by the Department seeking permission to publish their names

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had objected, hardly surprising given the stigma that had grown up

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around the scheme. The feeling these people were being treated as

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scapegoats and a political football. The Department for the Economy

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will give its version tomorrow. A court decision on the naming

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is expected before the election. You're watching BBC Newsline -

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still to come before 7pm: We're in Dublin, where the

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Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, is addressing his own TDs about his future.

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The Prime Minister has attacked those she claims have made

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a business of dragging soldiers through the courts over incidents

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which happened in Northern Ireland, saying it's "absolutely appalling."

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But her remarks have been criticised by a victims group.

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Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon.

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The PSNI say killings involving former soldiers make up around 30%

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of the more than 100 being looked at by their legacy

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But the Secretary of State recently claimed inquiries

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into killings during the Troubles were disproportionately focused

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Today the Prime Minister joined the argument.

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As I have made clear, I think it is absolutely appalling

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when people try to make a business out of dragging our brave

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In the case of Northern Ireland, 90% of deaths were caused

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by terrorists and that is essential that the justice

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It would be entirely wrong to treat terrorists more favourably

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than soldiers or police officers and that is why, as part

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of our work to bring forward the Stormont House Agreement Bill,

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we will ensure that investigative bodies are under a legal duty to be

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fair, balanced and proportionate so our veterans are not

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unfairly treated or disproportionately investigated.

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It was not enough for one of her MPs.

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There is no prospect of new credible evidence coming forward against our

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veterans of the Troubles up to 40 years after the event, yet people

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are starting to use the same techniques in Northern Ireland

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against them as were used against veterans of Iraq. Surely the answer

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has to be a statute of limitations preventing the prosecution of

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veterans to do with matters that occurred prior to the date of the

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Belfast Agreement. That's not going to happen,

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according to campaigners. There isn't going to be a statute of

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limitations, there is no limitation for killings and criminal activity

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that the British Army were engaged in during the conflict, and

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presenting soldiers who killed women and children and civilians,

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presenting them as victims when they killed someone is grotesquely

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offensive to the many hundreds of families who have been bereaved by

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British soldiers. The way forward is never easy

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when we're looking back. Almac, the Craigavon-based

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pharmaceutical firm, has told MPs that it might have

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to move some work to the Republic The company said its decision to buy

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a factory in Dundalk was a direct Here's our economics and business

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editor John Campbell. Almac is one our biggest and most

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important local firms. A major part of its business is

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making products and running trials For those products to be

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distributed in the EU, But it's not clear how the rules

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will change for UK-made Almac's customers made it plain

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that just waiting to see Our acquiring of premises in

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Dundalk, we made that decision two weeks after the Brexit about because

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we couldn't wait, and we were asked by customers, and these are major

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pharmaceutical companies, what is your solution to the EU offering? We

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could not say wait and see. It may be that ultimately the Brexit

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deal will mean the rules will stay But if they don't, that will mean

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more work for the Dundalk operation. We have no desire to change our

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commercial base as Craigavon from an investment perspective and a

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staffing perspective, it would be the wrong thing to do, but we have

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to respond to customers needs and at the facility allows us room to do

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that if we have to. Aside from these worries

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about regulations, Almac also warned that intrusive customs checks

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will be very bad for business. If there is a hard border and checks

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at that border, any issues which caused those products to be delayed

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or opened, whether it is a rougher jury to draw on a lorry were seals

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tampered within the product, will lead us into an uncompetitive

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situation. Our customers will not tolerate that.

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Almac reiterated that Craigavon will remain at the centre

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But like so many businesses, it faces a period of uncertainty

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and not much in the way of political guidance.

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The SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has warned the "the very idea of

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power sharing" is at stake in the Assembly election.

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He was speaking at the launch of his party's manifesto

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Our political correspondent Enda McClafferty was there.

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As venues go, it was a fitting location for the launch

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As much of the talk inside was about the political spinning

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And we didn't have to wait too long for the first jibe.

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I've got man flu. LAUGHTER ??Transmit

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Man flu has become the latest campaign buzzword.

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And Colum Eastwood used another one when setting

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40,000 patients wait over a year for their first outpatient appointment.

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It is a disgrace that crocodiles have been mentioned more in this

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election than the crisis in our health service.

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And health featured at the very top of party's manifesto pledges -

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promising an emergency health budget.

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The SDLP is fielding 21 candidates with some familiar

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But their leader warned it may be some time before those

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He said the election marked a critical moment for power sharing.

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If Direct Rule is the result delivered by Arlene and Michelle,

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it will take a long time to bring back our devolved institutions.

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As we enter into the final stretch of this election, it is that idea of

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power-sharing that is now at risk. Colum Eastwood's big challenge is

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not delivering on the challenges in his manifesto at convincing the

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80,000 SDLP supporters who have stopped rooting for his party,

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because he knows that without them his chance for change will not

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happen. The Fine Gael parliamentary party

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has been meeting this evening with the expectation

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that the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, will give some form of indication

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that he will stand down shortly after meeting President

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Trump next month. It follows the controversy last week

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over his government's handling For the latest we're

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joined now by our Dublin Shane, what's the latest? The Fine

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Gael parliamentary party meeting of senators and TDs was going on until

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a short time ago and without giving a detailed time frame Enda Kenny is

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believed to be telling them he will stand down shortly after returning

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from Washington and the St Patrick's Day ritual of giving the American

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president a bowl of shamrock. He will return to a country getting

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ready for Brexit negotiations and it is expected there will be a meeting

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of heads of government at the end of March or in April were EU leaders

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will come up with their opening positions for those negotiations. I

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suspect Enda Kenny will be Taoiseach at the time of that meeting, if only

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because of the time it will take the Fine Gael electoral college to

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choose a successor, but if a perception grows that he is trying

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to drag out his period as Taoiseach, a motion of no-confidence in his

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leadership can be expected at a future Fine Gael party meeting.

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We've seen a rise in the number of people from countries all over

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the world settle in Northern Ireland.

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What's being done to help families maintain links

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Welcome to Lisburn, or should I say a little piece of litter when you're

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in Lisburn. I'm in a restaurant owned by Edouard R. Why did you come

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to Northern Ireland? First time for holiday and then staying here until

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now. You set up a business here. What demand is therefore a

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Lithuanian restaurant? Nobody had before that the Winnie and food we

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tried to do something, that was my first dream. About 40,000 people

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from eastern Europe are now living in Northern Ireland. Initially the

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newcomers were men and work in the agri-food and engineering sectors

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but now families have come, bringing their language, food and culture. In

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Armagh, children's whose parents were born in Bulgaria are taking

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extra language classes but as Gordon Adair discovered, the language is

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not English. It's Saturday morning, but for these children from newcomer

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families, it's just another school day. There are not here to cram in

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extra English lessons, in fact these Bulgarian children are here to learn

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Bulgarian. Every Saturday for about five hours, these children study the

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language, culture and history of land which is fast becoming not so

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much their home as their parents'. They are integrating, going to local

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schools and learning by curriculum, but at the same time they come on

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Saturdays and burnt their own language because that is the only

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way to keep their national identification. So they don't forget

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who they are and where they are coming from, it doesn't matter they

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live in Northern Ireland, their roots are Bulgarian. It's important

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to know your language and where you are from. This is my own country,

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that is important to me. Often children start to lose their

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language after the first year. If they decide to go home in future,

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especially now when Brexit is coming, they have to have Bulgarian

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in place and be able to go back and study in a normal school in

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Bulgaria. So for these children things are very different than they

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were for their parents. They felt like strangers in a strange land

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arriving here as migrants. These children who were born here clearly

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feel Northern Ireland is as much their home as Bulgaria. I am here

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with the lady who was born in lift the Winnie and came here when she

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was 16. You are an interpreter. In regards language from people who

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come from eastern Europe, what difficulties do they have?

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Difficulties in day to day tasks, owing to the banks, dealing in

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health centres, hospitals, they may be told they have some serious

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illnesses and they usually look at the Doctor blankly and don't

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understand what they are talking about. Brexit is a worry for many

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Eastern European 's and tomorrow I will be in Dungannon, where there is

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a conference discussing the issues around Brexit. That is on tomorrow's

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Newsline. As the weather is about to take a

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turn for the worse. There is some work being done on a County Down

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farm. Rambo the labrador was helping his owner with some ploughing on a

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Seaford farm. You can see more on our Facebook page. Geoff, how much

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do we have to brace ourselves? We have Storm Doris on the way, the

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fourth named storm of the winter but I don't think we will see the worse,

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we do have weather warnings in place for rain and strong winds across

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parts of Northern Ireland tomorrow. That rain has already started and it

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will sit over us for about 12 hours overnight and tomorrow morning, and

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we will hold onto that cold wet and windy theme through Thursday. I

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don't think Northern Ireland will see the worst of it, that will be

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Scotland where we could see four or five centimetres of snow across the

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Central Belt and into Edinburgh, further south we have stronger winds

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across North Wales and central England, so we have a mist of

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warnings in place for rain and snow across Northern Ireland and Scotland

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and then this big area of warning for Wales and England, including

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this amber zone where the worst damage is affected, so if you are

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planning a trip across the water tomorrow, there could be disruption.

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We have strong winds coming in is that Northwest breeze is funnelled

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into the North Channel, so that could make driving challenging in

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the morning. Through the day there could be some brightness, some

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wintriness in the showers and raw feel to the day, top temperatures of

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six or seven but feeling better in the breeze. Overnight things start

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to clear a little and the temperatures will drop away, so by

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Friday morning the risk of some icy patches, a chilly start to the day

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on Friday before more rain arrives during the day to spread into old

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parts, so we keep that unsettled theme. Towards the weekend we will

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start to draw the breeze out of the north-west, so as these fronts come

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through it draws in some more Mander, so it will still be wet and

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windy but at least come Saturday the temperatures will be in double

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figures.

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