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The Chief Constable George Hamilton has issued an online apology | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
for a message he sent on social media. | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
In an exchange with another Twitter user, he said that anyone | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
who was unhappy in the PSNI should dry their eyes | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
The Police Federation had described the comments as offensive. | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
A video appeared on Twitter - the Chief Constable saying sorry. | :00:30. | :00:40. | |
I've clearly caused some offence with what I've said. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
forum followed an exchange on Twitter yesterday afternoon. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
It began when the Chief Constable posted a message calling for people | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
He was callenged about working conditions. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
One user claimed that police officers | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
are expected to fulfil far more roles than ever anticipated. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
During an exchange, Mr Hamilton said the PSNI is here to serve, adding, | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
"So let's get on with it rather than wallowing in self-pity." | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
He also tweeted another message saying, | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
"Well, you are allowed to leave and seek another job. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
"Dry your eyes, do the job or move on." | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Today, the Chief Constable took to Twitter to apologise. | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
With such important issues, they're not best dealt with 140 characters | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
of a tweet. I've clearly caused some offence with what I've said and for | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
that I apologise. I am hugely proud of the officers and staff who go out | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
and serve the public everyday. I want to encourage and support them. | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
I except that my comments last night would not have conveyed that | :01:45. | :01:45. | |
support. For that, I am sorry. The Police Federation later | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
accepted that the apology. The Police Federation release date | :01:48. | :01:58. | |
strongly worded statement. They said the comments amounted to a great | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
insult and a stunning misjudgment. The statement said that the job was | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
difficult enough without the Chief Constable showing such indifference. | :02:10. | :02:10. | |
And politicians who had called him Mr Hamilton to reflect on the | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
content of the tweets said the police force | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
must not underestimate the difficulties facing officers. | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
Recently, I lost my grandson and the police officers who came to my house | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
who had to do with that as my grandson lay dead on the floor had | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
to witness that. They were there for a number of hours. I say they were | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
fantastic, but once they finished, I know it affected them greatly, they | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
then had to leave my house and want to do other duties. -- and had to do | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
other duties. The Twitter exchanges and today's | :02:45. | :02:45. | |
apology will feed into those ongoing concerns about the welfare | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
of police officers. A man in his forties has | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
died following a road It happened on the Tullyvar Road | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
in Aughnacloy shortly before The man's van was the only | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
vehicle involved. The front room of a house | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
in South Belfast has been damaged A brick was used to break | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
the downstairs window of the house on Cooke Street at around | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
4:00 this morning. The firework partially exploded, | :03:12. | :03:12. | |
causing smoke damage. A man who was at home | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
at the time was uninjured. The Olympic Council of Ireland | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
is to hold a meeting tonight at an undisclosed location | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
to discuss the arrest of its former The 71-year-old is in jail in Brazil | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
after being arrested in Rio earlier this week over | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
alleged ticket fraud. He's understood to be sharing | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
a prison cell with Kevin Mallon, the director of sports | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
hospitality company THG, who is also caught up | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
in the ticketing investigation. Mr Hickey denies any allegations | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
he was involved in ticket touting and it is expected his lawyers | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
will appeal the decision to deny him Now, motorists driving | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
to the County Tyrone village of Newtownstewart have been doing | :03:45. | :03:53. | |
a double take as they pass through Our reporter Teresa Craig has been | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
to investigate what's going on. If you go down in the woods today, | :03:58. | :04:11. | |
you're sure for a big surprise... There is something different about | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
the country Hunter side outside the village of Newtownstewart and it's | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
causing a lot of excitement as people travel for miles to find out | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
what is lurking in the skills to lick fields here. We went past and | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
had to turn back to see it. It's fantastic. He is made out of hay, so | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
it's quite cool. I've never seen a bear made out of hay before. It's | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
like the dog I have at home. Dozens of people are coming from all over | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
to hear today. Meet Ted, he is over 12 feet tall, made of bales of hay | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
and it's all down to the hard work of one local farmer who says it's | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
been no picnic. I brought them here, I piled them up three hi and this | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
has exploded out. Such as the popularity of this very special | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
straw creation, that Ted could find himself with company next year. Next | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
year we'll have to go for Goldilocks and the three bears. The question | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
is, who will be eating his porridge? Me! | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Hello, good evening. Not such a great end to the day, you'll be glad | :05:25. | :05:34. | |
to hear there is a fair amount of try whether in the forecast this | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
week. Scattered showers, Prater Sunny spells. The exception will be | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
tomorrow night into Tuesday, it is likely to be quite what. The eastern | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
areas may well bear the brunt of that, heavy at times, but nowhere is | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
immune. Quite what across many parts this evening, heavy bursts likely, | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
but the rain will ease off tonight. There will be and pieces of rain and | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
drizzle around. A lot of low cloud and mist, temperatures monkey. | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
Temperatures not lower than 15 or 16 Celsius. First thing in the morning, | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
some low cloud, bits and pieces of drizzle before they fade away. That | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
weather front that brought the overnight rain, it will head into | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
the central England, heavy bursts at first. To the south of that, dry, | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
bright and humid. A buffet, variable amounts of clouds, but some sun for | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
eastern parts of Scotland. A dry afternoon for Northern Ireland, a | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
fair amount of cloud. The best of the bright spells towards the north. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
Highs should get up to 19 or 20 Celsius. There the middle part of | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
the week, low-pressure out in the Atlantic. Driving a weather front | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
into northern and western areas am I pushing gradually south into | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
Wednesday. Ready what in places and not Ireland and Scotland, as we head | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
into Tuesday in particular. Parts of eastern Northern Ireland most at | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
risk. To the south, humid with the sunshine, and it is still there as | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
we head into Wednesday. For more cloud as the weather front pushes | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
southwards. Towards the north, bright spells, just a view scattered | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
showers. Pretty much the same sort of theme as we head into Thursday. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Not looking too bad. That said, goodbye. | :07:31. | :07:33. |