..former sinn fein president gerry adams and shane's wife, victoria mary clarke.ided by archive footage, these interviews work as a potted social history of ireland, as well as a fascinating insight into a musical scene and a portrait of a troubled, talented and funny man. crock of gold: a few rounds with shane macgowan is in cinemas now and on digital and dvd from monday, december 7. i love seeing film—makers come up with creative solutions in challenging situations, and rob savage has done just that with the horrorfilm host. sitting in a circle. spirit, we invite you to use us to pass on any communication. is there anyone there? please come forward. what was that? amy, was that you? i heard it. i heard something. i think there's something here. do you see that? inspired by a short that went viral on social media, it's set entirely on zoom, where six friends decide to hold an online seance under the guidance of a medium. thanks to a sharp script, naturalistic performances and a bit of improv, the characters are swiftly established and the stage is set for demonic

and and the forces of government so these were the people who were attacking the the links with sinn fein and their p. will settle to mislead if they had the hands dufty with sic that those well i mean nobody ever trusts the british government they're always double dealing and their history and i are just been one of double dealing for a 1000 years on their 1st you know they wear harvey of course back channels all the time and i think that was a conscious or so it there that they were back channels available all the time but i mean a result of that was also conscious of very clear consciousness. security interests both army policing i don't flew into over lawyers part of militaries and particularly the army used loyalist paramilitaries i was if you like a 3rd force or a 4th force to do their dirty work and a lot of television's security intelligence was handed over to loyalist paramilitaries. of the amazon as a 5th column attacking. members of the national population that whole tragedy of it all was the that basically it constantly and assist people that the loyalists attacked a soft targ

answering questions at stormont, the sinn fein vice president also criticised the uk's government's attemptto northern ireland. how does the deputy first minister feel about the guarded border that's been provided by the republic of ireland in respect of covid? and doesn't it illustrate the full anger and the farce of opposition to as much as an extra camera on the border when it came to brexit, both by dublin and politicians like yourself? or is she so wedded to an ideology that she doesn't care if restrictions on imports into northern ireland cripples the northern ireland economy? or, in fact, is that what she's looking for? well, can i say, just to remind the member, that it's the majority view of this house that actually reject brexit. the majority of the parties, the majority of the mlas elected to this chamber reject brexit. it's something that's been foisted upon us against our wishes. we set ourselves a task at the very start of the brexit debacle to try and afford ourselves some protections, and that was achieved in the form of the protocol and the withdrawal agreement. and within

the biggest nationalist party sinn fein have said there should be a travel ban from the rest of the ukid is people into your four areas democratic unionists have said is people into yourfour areas in england cannot leave them anyway, why should there be specific arrangements for northern ireland? so that is still being worked out. chris page at stormont, thank you. the nhs has been struggling with rising hospital admissions for weeks now — and with a new variant of the virus thought to be up to 70% more transmissable than previous types there is real concern hospitals could be become overwhelmed, as our health correspondent laura foster reports. news that a new strain of coronavirus can spread up to 70% more easily could not have come at a worse time for the nhs. it's the start of winter, their toughest time. the cold weather means more people get sick and more staff are likely to be off ill, reducing the capacity of the health service. covid—19 was always going to mean more people needing help, but the fear is this new variant is making a bad situation even worse. we are seeing the ki

sinn fein argued travel between great britain and northern ireland should be banned.. another aspect that is republic of ireland has put in place a travel ban between that country and england, scotla nd between that country and england, scotland and wales. flights are banned and ferries only permitted to bring freight across the irish stay. there will be talks between the governments in dublin and belfast about that today. chris, for the moment, thank you. meanwhile, people in scotland are facing the toughest coronavirus restrictions from boxing day, nonessential shops, pubs, restaurants and gyms will close for at least three weeks. household mixing will be allowed on christmas day only. let's get more on this from our scotland correspondent, james shaw. james, how is this going down, another lockdown? well, that's right and really, it's the last thing people wanted just before christmas. scotland, like the rest of the uk, we we re scotland, like the rest of the uk, we were expecting to have those five days. that limited flexibility that would allow christmas celebrat

..former sinn fein president gerry adams and shane's wife, victoria mary clarke.tory of ireland, as well as a fascinating insight into a musical scene and a portrait of a troubled, talented and funny man. crock of gold: a few rounds with shane macgowan is in cinemas now and on digital and dvd from monday, december 7. i love seeing film—makers come up with creative solutions in challenging situations, and rob savage has done just that with the horrorfilm host. sitting in a circle. spirit, we invite you to use us to pass on any communication. is there anyone there? please come forward. what was that? amy, was that you? i heard it. i heard something. i think there's something here. do you see that? inspired by a short that went viral on social media, it's set entirely on zoom, where six friends decide to hold an online seance under the guidance of a medium. thanks to a sharp script, naturalistic performances and a bit of improv, the characters are swiftly established and the stage is set for demonic activity that escalates to an alarming degree. shouting haley, this