22/08/2016 BBC Newsline

legendary performer and producer, Quincy Jones.

The Finance Minister Mairtin O'Muilleoir has denied knowing

about a secret channel of communication between a witness

at a Stormont committee and the committee's

Last week Mr McKay resigned as a Sinn Fein MLA after it was

revealed that he had been in contact with loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson

on Twitter ahead of his evidence to the finance

Mairtin O'Muilleoir was a member of the committee at the time.

Last week, we had an apology and resigning

from this man after the

revelation he advised Jamie Bryson on have presented evidence

on the multi million pound deal of property.

By contrast, Mairtin O Muilleoir is

going nowhere even though he was one of three

Sinn Fein supporters who

There were said to be exchanges prior to the meeting.

One of those was from a Sinn Fein activist.

I was shocked when all these revelations were made

public because that even when I have heard of them.

No one had permission to use my name or involved in any

No one told me at the time or since, or afterwards

I had nothing at all to do with these.

However, the Finance Minister's refusal to stand down has not gone

I'm not accusing him of any wrongdoing.

Martin had a strong choice between restoring public

confidence in institutions and self-interest.

The flustered because it and that was me, me, me.

There's no clear indication yet of a

timeline for the standards Commissioner's investigation into

this matter what the MLA was that meeting will be tomorrow morning.

To discuss the ramifications of Danny

Passports belonging to three senior Olympic Council of Ireland officials

have been seized in Brazil as part of the investigation into alleged

The three include the OCI chief executive Stephen Martin

from Bangor, who won a gold medal with the GB hockey team in 1988.

The President of the OCI was arrested last week -

Irish consultate staff in Rio were due to visit him

Crisis talks were held last night in Dublin by members of the Olympic

Council in Ireland as the controversy over alleged illegal

selling of Olympic tickets continues.

Among those attending were the acting president

Willie O'Brien who had just returned from Rio.

It had been reported that police were

seeking their passports in an investigation into the alleged

Meanwhile in Brazil, Northern Ireland's Stephen Martin

was among three officials from the Council who had their passport,

phones and laptops seized by the police

Reports from Brazil's failure is nothing

to suggest impropriety on

The meeting from Dublin finished in the early

was agreed to appoint the subcommittee

the deal with regard to

There will be an independent review of ticket

The firm will be selected this week and they will

The report will be prepared and presented to the judge

surrounding the handling of ticketing at the Rio Olympics.

The former president, who was arrested

in his hotel last week, and ticketing agency director Kevin

Mallon are still in prison with investigation into the controversy.

The governing body had this to say about the top Irish and

With the situation with Mr Hickey, we will have

his first hearing by a judge next Tuesday and that, of course,

according to the Brazilian law and laws of national justice

Other officials who had their passports seized have agreed to

present themselves for questioning at a local police station in Rio

Meanwhile, police have taken possession of a quantity of

unused tickets in the offices in Brazil that the council said had

been made available for the family and friends of the athletes.

Abortion services at Marie Stopes International clinic

in Belfast have been suspended for under 18s and what are described

Last Friday restrictions were imposed on the organisation

in England after health care inspectors raised concerns.

Earlier I spoke to our Health Correspondent

Marie-Louise Connolly and I asked her what's

The clinic has voluntarily decided to stop some of its terminations in

Belfast. In a statement it said it will suspend abortion services in

Belfast for two groups, vulnerable women and for those under 18. They

say they have taken this action because they want to work alongside

the Care Quality Commission in England to resolve the areas of

concern, around governance issues and training of medical staff. They

also say their immediate concern is to try and redirect those women who

may in Belfast have made a booking, that they want to try and help them

dry and fine an alternative place in England. Many will be described --

surprised that we are talking about abortion services in Northern

Ireland. What services are available? Northern Ireland operates

under a strict legal framework whenever it comes to abortion and

one that is different to what is up and running in England. Terminations

are only allowed in Northern Ireland under the law when a woman's life is

at risk or if there is permanent risk to her mental health. Here in

Belfast, while we don't have a surgical terminations, have

terminations by medicine, or tablets which are given to women who are up

to nine weeks pregnant and that would trigger a termination. As of

today, it will not be providing that service of oral medication to women

under 18 or two women who are seen to be vulnerable. Can we put a

figure on this, the number of local women that may be affected by this?

We understand 1,000 women every year from Northern Ireland travel to

England to avail of the service of a clinic. We can imagine that someone

in this week are bound to be affected. Larry Stopes say they have

set up a confidential helpline and you can avail of that number on

their website. They are encouraging women to make that call to seek help

and they will try to redirect them. A man has been caught on CCTV

smashing a defibrillator which was installed outside

a shop in Londonderry. The footage shows the man throwing

the life-saving equipment to the ground after taking it

from its container outside the premises on Rossdowney Road

during the early hours The defibrillator cost

?1,500 and was bought by the local community

after a fundraising campaign. Every single penny of it was donated

and raised by people in our local Every penny went into the markets

we have in the store. From the customers we have spoken

to in the pst few days, they are extremely

angry that the effort they put in have been taken away in

a moment of madness. A couple in their 80s have escaped

serious injury after a fire Fire crews were called

to the blaze at their bungalow With the end of the Olympic Games

in Rio, it's time to look back at the success

of our local competitors. Others had higher finishes

that the London Games. But medal expectations, especially

in the boxing, weren't realised. Pre-games, there was the fear of

crime, traffic chaos, Zika and that the first Olympics in

South America would not work. It worked perfect and

the sport was outstanding. There were no Northern Irish

medallists to cheer. For Alan Campbell, there was

a record for the Olympic appearance for the rower that no Northern Irish

athlete had achieved before. It is really tough but I have to say

that I have been so, lucky I put it all out there

and did what I had to do Team Ireland finished

with just two medals. Gary and Paul O'Donovan,

brothers from Ireland finishing with a silver.

It's a pity we are missing the celebration in Ireland when we

Yes, hopefully get a national holiday or something.

There was also a silver medal but for the

Irish boxing team, it was a games to forget.

Welterweight Mike O'Reilly failed a drug test and

Michael Conlon said his dreams were shattered

And they have robbed me of my Olympic dream.

I wanted to be in Olympic champion and that was robbed of me.

I have always said I was going to be Olympic

champion today and I feel it has been robbed of me.

There was one Irish winner in the ring.

For more performance director Billy Walsh.

He was in the corner for his new

The story of the Rio games for Ireland will not

The weather is next. Not a bad start to the week. If it

is here last week off for the summer, unfortunately tomorrow is

not looking quite so good. You may need to plan some indoor activities.

Wednesday onwards looks to be fairly dry and warm at times. Temperatures

up to 20 degrees. That dry weather should hold on for at least part of

the coming weekend. It is dry at the moment but the rain returns

northwards during the early hours and it will become heavy in places

by the end of the night. Warm with temperatures staying in the teens.

Early tomorrow morning, expect some wet weather. The rain could be quite

heavy for a while. It is a weather front and the heaviest of that being

ripped northwards into many parts of Scotland but south of that, we have

sunshine and we will also see some heat with temperatures getting close

to 30 degrees in parts of London and the south-east. Behind the weather

front, it dries up and brightens up in 12 places but it is a fair bit

cooler. The rain clearing away from Northern Ireland tomorrow afternoon

but there will always be drugs and grabs of dampness continuing in

parts of the east until tomorrow evening. The sunshine will be back

on Wednesday. A couple of showers mainly in the west but temperatures

in the sunshine should get up to around 20 degrees. Not so good

tomorrow but nicer on Wednesday. Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25

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