17/09/2019
Family being 'torn apart' by immigration laws - Omagh woman's despair as she's told her American husband can't stay in NI.
Omagh woman Kylie Crawford says her family is being 'torn apart' by immigration laws - because she does not earn enough money to sponsor her American husband's visa to stay in Northern Ireland. Stephen has been speaking to Kylie and she began by telling me how she first met her American husband.
Also on the programme, fines for missed GP appointments. The return of prescription charges. Higher car parking fees at hospitals. Would you be prepared to accept these measures if it helps to ease the funding crisis in the health service? These suggestions have come not from NHS bosses, but from patients themselves. The public in Fermanagh have been giving their views to the Western Local Commissioning Group in a series of community meetings. The commissioning group is one of the bodies within the health service that feeds into decision making. Stephen got the views of Belfast GP, Dr George O'Neill and the businessman Frank Shivers, who's a member of the Conservative Party.
And, the National Union of Journalists has condemned as "unwarranted and unworthy" an attack by DUP MP Ian Paisley on News Letter Political Editor Sam McBride. Mr Paisley published a strongly worded article on Facebook responding to a story written by the journalist in Saturday's paper. Sam McBride's piece explored the possibility of Stormont returning by October 21 - the date on which abortion will be decriminalised unless devolution is restored - and concluded that was unlikely. Mr Paisley accused Mr McBride of trying to destroy and undermine the DUP, and used several offensive terms to describe the journalist. Sam McBride wasn't available this morning, but Stephen spoke to Seamus Dooley, Irish Secretary of the NUJ.
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