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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline. The headlines this Monday evening. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
The worst team in Europe, why teenagers here are twice as likely | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
to have permanent dental damage. see a whole range of dental disease | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
coming in, from Ron -- rampant decay in pre-school children to | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
children at primary school coming for treatment in the need of an | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
number of extractions. He duped people into buying Turkish holiday | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
homes he did not own. The victims of these gamma speak out. The first | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
taste of winter arrives. Is the road surface ready to keep us | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
moving. First, the spending cuts, tomorrow, the tax rises, a chill | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
wind continues to blow through the Republic's economy. Rory is on a | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
roll, a spectacular finish in Hong Kong kit HGV in the race to be | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
European No. 1. And because that is here for another 24 hours are so, | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
still some wintery showers, but eyes is the main concern. Teenagers | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
here are among the worst in Europe for oral hygiene. Or when it comes | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
to younger children, 60 per cent of by years-old at some form of tooth | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
decay. A report, funded by Queen's University, has also found huge | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
differences in treatment with people in affluent areas benefiting | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
more from braces. According to dent this, if they were paid to provide | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
preventative treatments, the problem would not be as serious and | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
they are accusing the Department of Health of striking it speed by not | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
implementing a new contract with dentist. Our health correspondent | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
reports. They are shocking, but these pictures highlight where | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
adolescents here are now among the worst in Europe for oral hygiene. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
We see a whole range of dental disease coming end, from rampant | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
decay in pre-school children, two children at primary school coming | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
for treatment for the first time, it in need of a number of | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
extractions, which is tragic, because those same children are | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
likely to have problems with the succession of tea. They are likely | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
to need orthodontic treatment, but equally, they will be reluctant to | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
have that treatment. Here on Belfast's Falls Road, the majority | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
of patients are having extensive treatment, including extractions | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
and fillings. The big Scot but is this the drinks. It started out | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
with just a few fillings, nothing major, but then I ignored it when | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
Mike he got worse, and in the end, it ended up with me having to have | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
two root canals, which was not good. The report, funded by Queen's | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
University, also found dramatic differences in treatment depending | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
on your postcode. Those who are West does macro less well-off were | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
less likely to have had a orthodontic treatment, compared to | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
more affluent people. What are health system may be doing, is | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
widening its social inequalities, so if we are improving the | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
appearance of those adolescents with the highest social classes, | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
why we are extracting and providing very intrusive treatments to the | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
lower social classes, we may in fact be widening health | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
inequalities in oral health. I must say but brace is doing a fantastic | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
job. A dentist like this one at say the imbalance could be addressed if | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
they were paid to educate about oral hygiene, as opposed to just | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
removing and filling teeth. Then does realise that money is tight, | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
especially in the Health Service, but we want a real emphasis on | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
prevention and at the moment, we, getting paid for doing fillings and | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
extractions, but we are quite happy to sit down and try to focus on a | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
new system which rewards us for prevention. Dentists are currently | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
negotiating a new dental contract with the Department of Health. | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
Discussions began five years ago. Is it about getting more money. We | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
wanted see better dental health for our population and it would make a | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
dentist lives easier. Bottomley, it would make patients lies much more | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
comfortable as well. To get to be rid of the problem, in England a | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
new contract is been tried, were a small number of dentists are being | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
paid for the quality of the treatment provided, as opposed to | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
quantity. But the good be considered here. Joining now from | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
our for a studio is Donnacha O'Carolan. That is a dreadful a | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
dental check-up. Who is to blame for that record? I would not agree | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
that it is a dreadful record. would not agree? So many teenagers, | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
among the worst in Europe for oral hygiene? We have made massive | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
improvements over the last five years. It is disappointing that | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
members of the profession have told you that they do not get paid for | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
prevention. We have brought in several preventative programmes | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
that have been successful, for example, I can outline some of them. | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
We brought into pay schemes in the most deprived areas. We have | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
brought other's games, but we pay dentists for putting on. We pay | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
vendors other payments for or giving preventative advice and | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
giving the advice that the vendors have been talking about, we | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
increase those payments in the last five years. In some cases, we have | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
increased them by 100 per cent. question was put to dent his, do | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
you think the dentists are being greedy? They are currently paid a | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
monthly payment to secure and maintaining the oral health of | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
children under 18, so they should be already providing the has | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
prevented it of treatments? If I could give an example of a teenager, | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
someone who is a teenager in a deprived area, we pay for the | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
fillings, extractions and we also pay the debt is over �80 a year to | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
give the Tiber prevented have advised that your reporter was | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
talking about. Can I Alpine the progress being made. If we talk | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
about the extractions, they have dropped from 40,000 in 2004, down | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
to 25,000. It is still a lot, but they have dropped dramatically, but | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
this is because of these preventative schemes. The report | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
does not get a clean bill of health. We did not be better to put a dent | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
his back into the schools? The strategy that you implemented is | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
not really working? It is working. That dramatic drop in the number of | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
extractions has not been seen as poor in the UK. The number of | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
fillings has dropped by more than 20,000 in sex macro years. Those | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
are dramatic improvements in health of... There is more progress to be | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
made. Can we do that through preventative programmes in places | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
like Sure Start, and nurseries, schools, health visitors, using two | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
of the schemes which are evidence- based and are working. As well as | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
that, the department has put support into a research tribe that | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
has started and will look at using fluoride varnishes to reduce dental | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
decay. We have been proactive and we have been successful and I am | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
disappointed that the British Dental organisation have misled you. | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
Clearly we must do better. Thank you. It has been revealed in court | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
that a convicted conman secretly fled Turkey and a friend's but as | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
the authorities began investigating his multi-million pound property | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
scam. Kevin O'Kane from Portglenone was convicted on Friday of duping | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
people into buying homes that he did not own in a holiday resort. A | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
reporter has put into some of his victims. It was a properties than | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
reading from Northern Ireland to the shores of Turkey were 52 year- | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
old Kevin O'Kane it sold homes he had no right to be selling. The | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
judge says he must be prepared for a prison sentence. In court, the | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
judge granted continuing bail, rejecting O'Kane's claims that he | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
is under threat from Turkish gangsters. The court also heard | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
that Turkish bank accounts have been credited with �4.7 million, | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
all that since withdrawn in cash and now missing. Of the properties | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
GAN, the judge said that for now have million pounds was put into a | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
bucket with no bottom. He called O'Kane's previous apologies to | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
victims are hollow words. The we are here for fair play, to try and | :09:15. | :09:25. | |
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get a bit of money back for our cells and life goes on. There are | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
far -- whenever the authorities decide to do with Mr O'Kane, it | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
does not affect us. I will not be richer if he is in jail or at home. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Dozens of people are involved in this, most from Northern Ireland. | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
These people simply hoped and paid for a home in the son and they lost | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
tens of thousands of pounds. Some of them have told me they will be | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
back in court each day write a bundle sentencing to see if Kevin | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
O'Kane loses his liberty. Well, we had our first real taste of winter | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
last night. Most of us had its nose showers and it these temperatures | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
are very noticeable, especially if you are outside our reporter who is | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
at the roads service salt depot in East Belfast. How cold is it with | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
you? He it is getting very net a and just before we came on air, he | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
we had a quick flurry of snow, but I took the advice of the weather | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
team and I have a layered up. This is just a hint of what our winter | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
weather could bring. Shortly, we will be hearing from the roads | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
service on how they are dealing with his current cold snap. This | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
time last year, we or in the middle of the big freeze when temperatures | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
in some places in Northern Ireland drop to minus a team, so what we | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
have experienced today and yesterday has not come close, | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
although it has caused some problems. It was the first snow of | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
this winter and although it did not cause major disruption on the roads, | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
there were difficulties for some passengers at Belfast city Airport | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
and when fly be's de-icing equipment broke down. There Glasgow | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
service was cancelled. For most of the day, the airline relied on the | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
airport's equipment to keep things moving. The no further delays are | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
expected. Still, it is a reminder of just what can happen in this | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
weather, bringing back memories of the widespread problems caused by | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
the big freeze last year. Although it has created some fantastic | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
winter scenes. These were captured by a our district journalists who | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
have been out and about today gathering pictures of the snow | :11:42. | :11:52. | |
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across Northern Ireland. The summer really lovely pictures there, but | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
as we all know from last year, the reality is that the cold weather | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
causes disruption and no one knows that better than this man from the | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
roads service. How readily to deal with this cold snap? From now until | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
April we have 300 staff on standby to go gritting. We have 135 | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
critters available and we have already started getting operations | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
tonight, so we are well prepared. We were told that last year, they | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
knew ran out of salt. BBC Newsline got a lot of complaints, | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
particularly from people in rural areas, woke in they say to them? | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
will grit all the main through roads that carried a 80 per cent of | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
the traffic. We have brought in extra and resilience stocks to cope | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
with any Severe weather, so some the roads there has pointed you we | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
are more than prepared for a hard winter. How much does come down to | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
personal responsibility for people to take care of their own areas? | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
needed to treat all the main roads and I were asked drivers to drive | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
carefully where possible. We cannot guarantee that the roads will be a | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
ice-free at all times, so there for people to drive with care if in | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
these conditions. No doubt we will catch up but he before the winter | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
is out! Temperatures tonight are set to tumble, but how low will | :13:36. | :13:46. | |
Angie Phillips will be joining me later for the latest weather | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
forecast. Also to come on the programme. We take any sort of | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
money, except matrimony! We're down at the market, but hear why traders | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
fear for their future. Had we heard how he fought depression last week. | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Now, Mark Allen gets off to a winning start at the UK | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
Championships. The Irish Government today announced budget cuts of 2.2 | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
billion euro. Tomorrow, the Finance Minister, Michael Noonan, will | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
outline tax rises of a further 1.6 billion euro, including an increase | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
in VAT by 2%. It's all part of the economic medicine prescribed by the | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
Republic's funding partners in Europe and the International | :14:25. | :14:34. | |
Monetary Fund. Our Business and Economics Editor, Jim Fitzpatrick, | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
spent the day along the border to discover the effect on cross-border | :14:37. | :14:47. | |
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trade. A two % rise in price, it is noticeable when it comes to | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
expensive items. But this jeweller is delighted with plans to raise | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
VAT in the Republic to 23%. Because his shop is in Newry and he is | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
hoping to see the return of the cross-border shoppers. It will be a | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
huge boost. People will realise down south at prices are going to | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
get higher and they will thing to what it was like the year before, | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
they welcome back and get better value and they will go away, | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
telling neighbours. It is fantastic. While traders in Newry might be | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
hoping for a VAT inspired increase in business, the truth is, there | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
was less money available to come north. Ireland is into its 4th year | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
of austerity budgets and people here in Dundalk seemed almost | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
resigned to being hit hard. We have got to the stage were a bit just | :15:39. | :15:48. | |
let it go over our heads. You just have to get on. You keep hitting | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
the lower paid people. It is just the way society is divided. It's | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
like the jungle, those at the top and those at the bottom of the tree. | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
We struggle on, that is all we can do. We cut back on luxuries. | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
won't be able to afford to go to college next year. With higher fees | :16:06. | :16:15. | |
and less of a grant. But the tough measures are winning international | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
praise for Ireland. Particularly from funding partners in Europe and | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
the IMF, the so-called troika. terms of the budget, it will be | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
another step on the road to international brand Ireland being | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
restored. Our credibility has improved, we can see that in terms | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
of all these measures so that people see we stick to that can be | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
agreed, it will be received very positively. International | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
credibility does not mean much on the streets of Dundalk. The 100,000 | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
people walking in the pharmaceutical industry or Google, | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
life is good, but for the rest of us, sorry, still gloom. And it will | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
be. It is hitting business in Northern Ireland also, like this | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
Warrenpoint construction and building supplies firm. There have | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
been less people coming north, the VAT has had an impact but it's a | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
general lack of money in the economy and people doing smaller | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
work. Today, the Dublin government produced spending cuts and tomorrow | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
they will introduce tax rises. Austerity is here to stay, north | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
and south. Workers suffering from the asbestos-related lung condition | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Pleural Plaques will be able to apply for compensation from their | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
former employers from next week. The Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson, | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
says after a series of legal hurdles, the law to allow workers | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
to pursue claims will become effective from December 14th. The | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
Executive has already set aside �2.5 million for claims against | :17:46. | :17:54. | |
government-owned companies. decades, the law allowed for claims | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
against employers for this disease and we have fought this all the way | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
to the House of Lords and we're putting his back the way it should | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
be and has been for many decades and bringing justice for those many | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
vulnerable and sick people suffering today. At every | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
children's nativity play this month we'll hear the cry, there's no room | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
in the inn. In Newtownards at the moment there's no room in the | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
square, at least not for the market traders. While the area is | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
refurbished, the Road Service won't allow the Saturday market to | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
relocate to one of its nearby car parks. Claire Savage has been | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
speaking to traders who believe their livelihoods are being put at | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
risk. We take diners Club, any sort of money, except matrimony. | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
Newtownards is known for being a market town but at temporary site | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
cannot be found whilst Conway Square gets a makeover from January. | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
Arts Council blames the Road Service for not allowing the market | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
to use one of their car parks. One trader who has been here for 35 | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
years hopes the Minister responsible, Danny Kennedy, will | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
intervene. Traders come from all over and they come to get one day's | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
pay. They want to earn a living. And the market has been here for so | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
long, it is a meeting place, people love it. And if they don't work | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
with us, it will close. Other traders are worried. This is our | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
livelihood. If we cannot get trade in here, we will lose big money. | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
There will be a lot of people out of work and could be signing on to | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
the dole if they don't get somewhere. No market, no money, we | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
will lose our livelihood. And by law prevents a nearby car park | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
being used. I don't think it would be a problem, having this in a car- | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
park? You would not miss that too much of that is what they want to | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
have it. This market would be missed. I can remember as a child, | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
here and loving it. The Department of Regional Development says it is | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
looking at the issue but the car- park traders want to use generates | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
much-needed revenue. At a time when existing resources are heavily | :20:03. | :20:13. | |
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stretched. And we will keep a cross that story. The race to become the | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
most successful European golfer will go all the way to the last | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
tournament of the year in Dubai. Rory McIlroy is still very much in | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
the running to be crowned the top prize money winner. Gavin Andrews | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
is here with the sport. King Kong was just one of the headlines | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
following Rory's gutsy win in Hong Kong. And the US Open champion has | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
current European Order of Merit leader Luke Donald in his sights. | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Rory must win in Dubai this weekend and hope Donald finishes outside | :20:35. | :20:44. | |
the top nine in the season finale. It was a bomb at of magic that saw | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
the Hong Kong crowd and Rory McIlroy going wild. That wasn't too | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
bad! Trailing the leader by three at the start of the day, he saved | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
his best to last to pick up his third title of the season. But it | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
was the manner of this when that please the 22 year-old most. | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
Finally, to get this trophy in my hands, it's very special and means | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
a lot. It meant a lot to go out, knowing that I had to play well, to | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
get myself in the race and to keep myself in second place in the world | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
rankings. There is a lot to play for and to produce that sort of | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
golf today is very pleasing. Rory McIlroy will hope to bring this | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
form to the Dubai World Championships. His winning cheque | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
of just over 340,000 euros keep the race to be coming European No. 1 | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
very much alive. And Graham McDowell will join him in the | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
desert on Thursday. The Portrush man finished in a tie for third | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
place in South Africa. He remains 14th in the world rankings. | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
Ballyclare's Gareth Maybin won't be in Dubai but he's retained his | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
European Tour card for 2012 after a solid performance in Hong Kong. Now | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
to football and Rory Donnelly and Cliftonville are on a roll. The | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
Reds have now won 13 games in a row. They've jumped to second in the | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
table, four points behind Linfield. Thomas Kane reports. The hottest | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
property in local football continues to add to his growing | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
reputation. Rory Donnelly hit his third hat-trick of the season | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
within 18 minutes against Dungannon Swifts. The wonder boy gets his | :22:27. | :22:37. | |
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15th of the season. Joe Gormley also found the net. He finishes! | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Linfield had just one goal against Ballymoney United but the strike | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
was enough to secure all three points. Although Mark McAllister | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
was left wondering how he did not manage to double the lead. There | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
was plenty of drama and plenty of goals at the Oval. Lisburn | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
Distillery thought they were secured victory but substitute | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
Richard Gibson rescued a point for Glentoran. For their manager, it | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
just was not good enough. They had chances and some players have not | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
done that. For me, we have to make changes. Crusaders infected | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Portadown's second home loss of the season, Chris Moore with the pick | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
of the goals. In injury time, a penalty earned Glenavon a point | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
away at Carrick Rangers. Snooker and Antrim's Mark Allen has won his | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
opening match at the UK Championships this afternoon. With | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
that and news of wins for Ulster rugby and the Belfast Giants, | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
here's Niall Foster. World No. 12 mark Allen is through to the last | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
16 in the work after beating Adrian Gunnell by six frames to 3 ft at -- | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
6 - 3. He will play the former World Championship runner-up Ali | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
Carter on Wednesday. In rugby, Ulster got back to winning ways | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
with the help of one of their bigger names. Ulster get their | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
first try! Stephen Ferris scored two tries as Ulster defeated the | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
Scarlets 24 - 17 at Ravenhill. letter to get the win, because we | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
have not fired that well in the past weeks but we're still | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
disappointed because I were performance was excellent and we | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
made some silly mistakes which can cost us. A Belfast Giants completed | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
a weekend elite league double with this fight - 1 victory over Hull | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
Stingrays on Saturday and a 4 - 2 win over the Cardiff Devils in | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
Wales last night. And Ulster's newest signing, Steffan Terblanche, | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
has finally arrived. We'll here from the South African on tomorrow | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
night's Newsline. It may have added to the Christmas spirit but the | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
snow does cause problems, as we heard earlier in the programme. And | :25:06. | :25:14. | |
we're in for more chilly conditions Cold enough for more sleet and snow | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
and people have been texting me to tell me about this in parts of the | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
North but we will find sleet and snow will not be quite is | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
widespread tonight. Those conditions left us with scenes like | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
this one this morning. Even low- lying areas had a dusting but the | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
hills some most of us know. Even a few inches and places. Ice will be | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
the main concern tonight. There is a yellow warning for those icy | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
conditions. Particularly on untreated roads and pavements but | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
also with further sleet and snow showers. They will continue today. | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
Certainly towards the north and parts of the West. A mixture of | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
sleet and snow. And they are more less going to continue through this | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
evening, drifting in on that blustery westerly wind. And bear in | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
mind, where you get sick and snow, they could also wash the grit off | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
the road. It will be problematic and cold with temperatures around | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
freezing or maybe a couple of degrees lower in sheltered spots. | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
The gusty wind overnight eventually eases down tomorrow. Quite breezy | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
at first and it is an icy start. You could well be scraping ice off | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
the windscreen. Still wintry showers around first thing, | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
particularly towards North Antrim. Otherwise, it's a bright start for | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Antrim and County Down. Towards the West, cloudier skies and initially | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
wintry showers but you will find they turn increasingly into rain | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
into the afternoon and this band of cloud and rain works eastwards | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
through the rest of the afternoon at towards evening time. And | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
although temperatures recover, it certainly isn't too warm. The wind | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
has seized, it will pick up tomorrow night, bringing more | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
showers but not as widespread as they have been and not as much ice | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
and frost. But still some pockets. A mixture of bright spells and | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
mostly rain showers on Wednesday, and it's windy and for the middle | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
part of the week it's looking less cold but unsettled with rain and | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
brisk wind. Thank you very much. News Justin - within the last few | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
minutes, Belfast City Council has voted to accept an apology from a | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
Lord Mayor, while all Dundela, over his refusal to present an award to | :27:43. | :27:48. |