20/03/2017 BBC Newsline


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This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor.

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Tributes have been paid to Ryan McBride -

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the captain of Derry City's football team who died

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just a day after he led his side to another league victory.

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Hundreds of people lined the streets tonight

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as his coffin was carried to his home.

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He was a warrior on the field of play and a quiet,

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Ryan McBride only ever wanted to play for his hometown club

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and was delighted to be given the captain's armband two years ago.

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He died suddenly at his home in the Brandywell last night.

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It's right next to the stadium where he turned out for the Candystripes.

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Devastated players gather to remember a highly popular player

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with all union. This is going to be a difficult one for everyone in the

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city. And the players loved Ryan. He was a perfect example to any young

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player coming through. 14, 15. He never gave 99%.

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The club's chief executive says contract negotiations

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with Ryan McBride were always straightforward

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as he was a passionate fan of the club as a young boy.

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Our main man, Captain fantastic, old superlatives you use

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or all for him, 100%, call it what you want,

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he was our man and we are devastated as a football family.

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He just love playing for Derry City. He loved being captain. He was

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turning into the best defender in Irish league football. And you could

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only see him getting better. It is just so sad that it has been cut

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short. The Football Association of Ireland

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will remember Ryan McBride with a tribute at the World Cup

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qualifier against Wales The FAI said Irish

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football was in mourning. Irish President Michael D

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Higgins led the tributes, clubs and former players

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across Ireland and beyond. While Derry City fans

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reflect on a huge loss, the wider community

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will be affected also. He is only a young man with a big

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career in front of him, coming from The community is deeply

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hurt and deeply The funeral will take place on

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Thursday. A former soldier has been in court

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charged over the killing of a man Dennis Hutchings led an army

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patrol which carried out 43 years after his patrol shot dead

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a man with learning difficulties, former colour sergeant Dennis

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Hutchings finds himself in court. John Pat Cunningham had the mental

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age of a child aged between six and ten at the time

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of his death. His family say he had a fear of men

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in uniform and it was perhaps best that prompted him

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to take the fateful decision to run away from an army patrol

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he encountered near Benburb. The preliminary inquiry will decide

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whether or not to send Dennis Among the witnesses

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were a former military policeman who was

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first on the scene. The former military policeman told

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the court that on the day in question he had seized an SLR rifle

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at the scene from a soldier. He was asked why he

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had done this and he said this was normal practice

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when you suspected a weapon Asked why he suspected

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as particular weapon had been fired, he said,

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"I was told it had been." He was asked who had told him

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and he said "the defendant". Summing up, the judge said that

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Dennis Hutchings had shot dead a vulnerable and innocent man

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and all this must be Sinn Fein say the Prime Minister

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will receive a clear anti Brexit message from the party

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when she visits Northern Ireland. Theresa May will trigger Article 50

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on Wednesday next week. Our Political Editor

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Mark Devenport reports. Theresa May was in Wales at the

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start of a UK-wide tour today. Despite those to remain in both

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Scotland and Northern Ireland, she is stressing that the UK will leave

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the EU as one United Kingdom. When people voted in a referendum last

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year I think they did vote for change. They voted for a change in

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the way the country works, to make sure it works for everyone, not just

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a privileged few. It is unclear whether the Prime Minister will make

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time to see politicians at Stormont Castle, where the politicians remain

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locked in talks, but if she does the message from Sinn Fein will be

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forthright. Obviously the people here voted in majority to remain in

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the EU, so the British government are acting against the express

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wishes of the people here who want to stay within Europe, so we will be

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making that message very clear to them. We will make that message very

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clear to her, that this is bad news for the people of Ireland. With one

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week to go until the deadline in restoring devolution, there is no

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sign of a breakthrough in the Stormont talks. With the UK formally

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triggering its departure from the European Union on Wednesday next

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week, the attention of most politicians at Westminster will be

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focused on Brexit rather than the deadlock here.

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More wreckage from the Irish coastguard helicopter which crashed

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last week has been found near Blacksod lighthouse off

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One crew member died, three others are missing.

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Bad weather has hampered the search.

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Health trusts are funding private care homes to try to reduce

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the number of people staying in hospital because

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there isn't a suitable care package in the community.

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Around a hundred and twenty people are unable to leave

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Our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly has more.

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After breaking her hip, this 86-year-old was sent to the

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independent care home to recuperate, funded by the Belfast Health Trust.

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The one-to-one care meant she wasn't left in hospital.

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The minute I was wheeled in, the atmosphere hit me.

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The atmosphere and the homeliness and the friendliness and the food,

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And I was hungry for my food, I was hungry

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in the morning getting up for my breakfast.

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Every day, 120 people cannot be discharged from hospital

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because there is not enough caves facilities.

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It is hoped this type of facility will be more efficient.

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It is definitely in demand because there are difficulties with packages

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of kid at home and obviously the more independent someone

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is the less help they will need in the

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Those 65 and over are expected to increase in numbers by 2025

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Despite government attempts to use less residential care and

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look after people in their own homes, that has slowed down

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and it is speculated that is because there is not enough

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In the past three years, we have gone through for health ministers.

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We need to have a consistent, constant approach to that reform and

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Well a range of community care services are offered,

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judging by waiting lists, demand is outstripping supply.

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A Commons committee says the government should consider

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giving the local tourism industry a tax break after Brexit.

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The industry would like to see its VAT rate more than halved.

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Here's our Economics and Business Editor John Campbell.

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The local tourism sector has been on the up for more than 20 years.

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Attractions like this have helped grow it into a wealthy business.

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It points to competition from south of the border.

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Tourism businesses south of the border pay just 9% VAT.

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EU law generally events member countries from varying

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That means at present the government cannot get Northern Ireland tourism

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a special deal, but after Brexit there will be more flexibility

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and there therefore the potential for a tax cut.

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We want the government to look closely at the benefits

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that the Republic of Ireland appear to have gained when

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It seems to have done a great deal of good there.

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The tourism trade has been asking for this for a long time.

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But it is not just the EU that is a barrier to this policy. The UK

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Treasury is sceptical. It says any reduction in tax revenue is matched

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by a reduction in the money Stormont gets from Westminster. The Northern

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Ireland Minister of Finance should be prepared to make this a priority.

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A hotel building boom in Belfast suggests an industry with some

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confidence about the future. Just what extra support and incentives it

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needs will be a matter for the next executive.

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Now here's our investigations reporter Kevin Magee with a story

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he'll have on tomorrow's BBC Newsline.

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Tomorrow, we reveal the story of a Belfast man who confessed to police

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in 1985 that he was a serial child abuser, but who never faced justice.

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We found him living openly here in northern Canada.

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More on that exclusive story from Kevin Magee

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Here's Geoff Maskell with the weather.

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Good evening. It is a cold night across Northern Ireland. There is a

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severe weather warning in place for both snow and ice. Showers from the

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West will become increasingly wintry overnight with temperatures dropping

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to below zero. Snow falling on the hills and at lower levels as well.

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Ice will be a problem so that will be a challenge for the gritters to

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get the salt down between the showers. Tomorrow, a chilly start

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and then a mixture of sunshine and showers, some of them wintry in the

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West, further east we have more chance of seeing a bit of

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brightness. We saw temperatures of 11 Celsius across parts of County

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Down this afternoon. We will not get anything like as warm as that

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tomorrow. We are in a cold air mass across the North, with the fun

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sitting in the middle and some warmer temperatures ahead of that

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for south-east England. There, they will see double-figure temperatures.

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For us, Tuesday night in who wins they could be the coldest bit of the

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week. The Wings wardrop allowing the cold air to pool advocacy

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temperatures of -3 in some places. Dry and the West on Wednesday, but

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some positive news as we get through this week. We will see a ridge of

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high pressure building, helping out temperatures which will start to

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recover towards the end of this week.

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