Arlene Foster Martin McGuinness and Northern Ireland

Biffy Clyro: The first and deputy first ministers of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness, held an emergency meeting earlier on Thursday to seek an alternative fan zone venue, according to The Guardian. Michael O'Neill Northern Ireland side face Wales in a home nations clash on Saturday evening, when the Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro will be playing the Titanic fan zone as part of the Belsonic music festival. The Titanic Slipways quarter on Belfast Lough, where both sets of fans watched their national teams take on Germany and Italy this week, was booked for rock concerts on Saturday and Sunday so was unavailable. Foster tweeted earlier on Thursday that the problem would be sorted and she had asked Belfast city council to come up with an alternative location. It is understood it will cost the council at least £100,000 and that bar facilities have not yet been agreed. Belfast lord mayor, Brian Kingston, had suggested that the SSE Arena near the Titanic quarter might have been a possible alternative, but Belfast city council later announced that playing fields at Boucher Road in the south of the city had been chosen as the new fan zone. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.