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This is BBC Newsline. They headlines: Could the Republic's bad | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
debt agency be about to step into the Northern Ireland mortgage | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
market? The alleged IRA informer Freddie | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Scappaticci may give evidence in the Smithwick Tribunal. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
Storms bring down 20 miles of cables in the Sperrin Mountains. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
One night of severe weather with over 80 men sites try to get this | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
repair. Derry's walls falling again. A | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
second wall collapses behind a row of houses. The fire service were | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
here last night and they said they are more concerned about Beth -- | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
the next door neighbour and a because that was ready to go as | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
well. Bars across Northern Ireland are | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
packed with people out celebrating for Christmas. So why is today | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
called Black Eye Friday? We reveal the winner of this trophy for the | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
BBC Northern Ireland Sports personality of the year. And with | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
many weather warnings in place, just how cold will be? | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Good evening. House prices have fallen in Northern Ireland by as | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
much as 50% from their peak four years ago. The Republic's so-called | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
bad and NAMA could offer a solution for potential buyers worrying about | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
falling prices. This proposal has been welcomed by Sammy Wilson, the | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
finance minister. Negative equity, where your mortgage is larger than | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
the value of your home, FX 40,000 households here. This scheme would | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
not help them, but would help -- offer comfort to nervous buyers in | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
this market. They call it the bad bank because | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
it took over all the bad property loans that choked up the Irish | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
banking system. Now it is about to get involved in some angel | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
financing. NAMA will pilot a scheme in the Republic in the new year | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
which will guarantee homebuyers against falling values. Over a | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
five-year period, if a house for through the scheme loses anything | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
off -- up to 20% of the value, NAMA pays the equivalent slice of the | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
mortgage. It is interested in doing the same in Northern Ireland. | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
People have a fear, understandably, that the day after they by they | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
will be in negative equity of Price begins to fall. We're trying to | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
trial a product that gives them some guarantee. Will that be | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
available to Northern Ireland? Let us see how it pans out here first. | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
The scheme can only apply to Number controlled properties. Its impact | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
here will be limited. Do people need to worry about falling prices | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
or have we hit rock bottom? market seems to be stabilising. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
Looking across the second and third quarter here, prices have been | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
firming up. I think we're getting close to the trough. Having said | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
that, there is a lot of major activity that we do not know the | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
overall impact of. The property boom was fuelled by a mix of cheap | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
money and greed. Greed is gone. Fear is here. Schemes like this | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
might be enough to bolster confidence. | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Later in the programme, we will hear about it tends to save a | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
listed building that has been passed on to NAMA's books. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
Freddie Scappaticci may give evidence to the Dublin-based | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Smithwick Tribunal which is investigating claims of garda | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
collusion in the murders of two senior RUC officers. This follows a | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
day of evidence from British agent Kevin Fulton. A dramatic day in | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
terms of what has been emerging. Let us turn to the suggestion that | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Scappaticci may give evidence. That is right. To clarify, his name | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
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is mentioned in evidence, which is why he has a tribunal. He claims he | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
was an agent. Mr Scappaticci's council wants a second lawyer | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
appointed. The judge said he was considerate, but attached a number | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
of provisos. He wanted Scappaticci to travel to Dublin to give | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
evidence in person. The council's reply was that they McGuinness | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
consideration. Howard and the former bomb-maker | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
Patrick Blair? Mr Blair has previously told the | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
tribunal that he had no part in the Omagh bombing. Today, Kevin Fulton, | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
the former secret agent in the IRA, spoke about how he came to the | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
conclusion that Patrick "Mooch" Blair was effectively also an agent. | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
He said after the Omagh bomb, I did target him, but was thwarted by | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
police. He claimed he passed information on to his handlers and | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
the Leeds were not followed up. He claims that Patrick "Mooch" Blair | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
was being protected by state agencies. The tribunal will not | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
hear new evidence until the New Year again. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
A large oil tanker is in difficulties off the coast of | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
Donegal. Coastguard says the captain has reported cracks in the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
deck but that there is no leak. It is carrying more than 55,000 tons | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
of gas oil and is halted 25 miles off Tory Island. It is heading to | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Belfast for repairs. If you think you have a hard job, | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
think about this one. Climbing up hundreds of feet up a high on in | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
the countryside in sub-zero temperatures. It is happening right | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
now as engineers worked to repair it -- repaired cables in the | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
Sperrin Mountains. The tables were damaged in a storm on Tuesday night. | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
Repairing them is a massive undertaking. | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
The snow is deep in the Sperrins, but nothing compared to Wednesday | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
morning when engineers first got a clear look at the damage done over | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
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6th consecutive pylons. Snow to track the cables down to the ground | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
and broke them. Driving up from Moneyneany, Alastair Fenton, an | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
engineer, gives me an idea about the job in hand. There is damage to | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
conduct his. Some of them are damaged to the extent we will have | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
to replace them entirely. The road has been gritted and cloud. It is | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
close to normal traffic. These wires a PR handing down onto the | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
road. I can turn and go back again if I have to. They have been | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
engineers on site since Wednesday, working all day and into the hours | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
of darkness. They are taken aback by the damage done in one storm. | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
The snow came in across the mountainside. It accumulated on the | :07:53. | :08:02. | |
conduct is. That added extra weight on to the conductor's which brought | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
them to the ground and broke them. It means a normally silent hillside | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
has become a hive of activity. night of severe weather with over | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
80 men on side trying to repair these lines. We have drafted in men | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
from our sister Kennedy from Letterkenny and Dundalk. Working in | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
these conditions is tiring and exhausting for everyone involved. | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
After a day of climbing, you do not need to go to the gym! Behind me, | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
1.5 miles of new cables are being strung between two Island's. There | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
are 80 men working here, and they will be here from 6am until 10pm | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
well into next week. The Sun has been trying to break through all | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
day. It offers little warmth for the men 160 ft above the hillside | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
this evening, clipped on to a freezing metal pylon in the pitch | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
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dark. Still to come: A victim of the | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
property price slump. The campaign to save this listed | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
building in North Down. Live in a Belfast bar full of | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Christmas parties. Why is it known as Black Eye Friday? I will have | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
the answer in a few minutes. The Executive is being asked for | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
its out -- help in Londonderry where two held -- retaining walls | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
have collapsed. One caused a landslide and another caused | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
extensive damage in Harding Street. Emergency talks were held today. | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
These families are looking for help. They have a courtier -- been | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
brought here by Derry City Council to look at what can be done to | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
protect their homes. Two high walls have been -- collapsed within two | :09:58. | :10:08. | |
days of each other. It is over two days since the landslide and the | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
rubble and debris. According to local residents, it is still | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
dangerous. The First Minister is being asked to intervene to provide | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
funding and support. Derry City Council officials have | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
made it clear they do not own the walls. In one Stormont to help. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
we need here is some sophisticated engineering assistance to look at | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
the wall to establish the stability of the structure to -- before any | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
work is commenced. We really do need some assistance from central | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
government and we have put him that the quest today. We hope they might | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
get some direction. Agencies are starting to work together, but | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
residents are preparing for a lengthy process. It is an unusual | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
situation. It is a hilly city. This is something that is going to | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
require a lot of people to communicate with each other. The | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
insurance companies need to communicate with the council and | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
with their clients and with each other. This man has lived here for | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
over 30 years. He spent most of today's surveying the damage. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
completely flabbergasted. It made such a difference for the wall to | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
be a -- completely away. I have been here 34 years. I have never | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
experienced anything like this before. The full extent of the | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
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damage is still not clear. It has been revealed that thousands | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
of people have been sent to prison for not paying fines. A website | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
called The Detail found that many fines were issued for minor crimes | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
like riding a bike without a lights or fishing without a licence. Three | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
of the fines were for just �1. Legislation calls for an | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
alternative. I think they should be made to work in the community, and | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
the Department for justice in Northern Ireland has set up a pilot | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
scheme in Newry and that scheme is making people who default on fines | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
pay by working in the community. For example, they would have to go | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
to an old people's home and help out there. | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
It will be a late night in Brussels where fishing quotas are once again | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
up for negotiation. Michelle O'Neill is their fight in a | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
European Commission plan for the closure of Irish Sea cod fishing. | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
Our consumer Correspondent has been assessing the impact on consumers | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
and fishmongers. It is a busy market here for the | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
fishmongers. With Christmas coming up prawns are a big seller. All | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
those for cartels have to be served up. The biggest talking point his | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
cot. The European Commission is proposing a zero catch on the Irish | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
Sea next year. Will that leave fishermen and fishmongers with no | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
cot? Despite the size of this fish, cod on a plentiful here. It has | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
been banned since locally caught cod Cup have been available. | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
Shoppers do not need to be told how a scarcity has driven up prices. | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
The last four months we have had to bring cod from the Shetland Islands, | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
the Faroe Islands, Scotland, because our fishermen locally have | :13:42. | :13:52. | |
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been catching a fish like this and that had to throw it back overboard. | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
They do not have a quota to land this type of fish. There are fish | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
like that in the Irish Sea chi mac yes. The fishermen are not allowed | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
to catch it. We have to go and buy from the Shetland Islands and | :14:05. | :14:14. | |
Aberdeen and Peter heads. Yes, you cannot get the supplies, but | :14:14. | :14:24. | |
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transport in that is more expensive They are no shortage of prawns and | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
the Irish Sea, but inevitably, are boards also catch some cot. That is | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
why the a patient -- European Commission plan to cut our cot next | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
year by 19%. It is an issue for consumers, but so are the price | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
rises which result from restricting catches. Shoppers are hoping the | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
local fleet can continue to land a wide variety of fish. Herring and | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
mackerel. A lot about cot? I don't like cod, but there are lots of | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
others. I like salmon. And trout. And smoked whiting. What about cot | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
did? Lovely, but expensive. Many shoppers will be steaming, grilling | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
or frying their favourite fish. In Brussels, fisheries ministers face | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
a long night as they search for compromise that in the competing | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
demands of conservationists and fishing communities. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
We heard earlier about the Republic's bad debt agency, NAMA. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
It is now the owner of many properties and sites across | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
Northern Ireland. Among them is one of North Down's landmark buildings, | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
the station house at Cultra. It has been derelict for years, and one | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
plan to restore it to its former glory evaporated with the end of | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
the property boom. Now, local campaigners are calling for someone | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
to step in and save the listed building before it's too late. Here | :15:44. | :15:53. | |
is our district journalist, Claire Savage. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
But when Cultra railway station was built, it was designed to be as | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
grand as the neighbouring houses, but it has been derelict for years. | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
You look at the outside, the boards are all very decorative. It is very | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
unique, it is a unique building. From a design point of view. | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
listed building is on the Belfast to Bangor railway line. I think the | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
concerns are read that the body might be vandalised. We should | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
secure the building, for now and for the future. In Northern Ireland, | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
we do not really do that, we do not see the value of built heritage. | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
Loans have been transferred to the Irish bad debt agency, NAMA. That | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
is an even greater concern for some. It is on the market for �450,000. | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
It is a piece of history. The look of the building is attractive. It | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
is rare to find properties with such a character on the market | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
today, and also, you will rarely find new-build property that this | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
character. North Down would love this to be restored. Even a | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
planning permission has been granted for a change of usage, | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
somewhat part of it open to the public. It is so unique as a | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
station. The old fire left, -- the old fireplace, they could come in | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
and have a copy of coffee, see the old signs and wonder after the | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
museum. But unless the new owner is found, it could be goodbye to this | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
bygone building. The race is hotting up to see who | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
will be the next Northern Ireland football manager. Here's Stephen | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
Watson. Jim Eggleton was into the, Michael | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
O'Neill is next. Michael O'Neill has ruled out the | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
possibility of joining forces with Jim Magilton to Koh manage Northern | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
Ireland. Both men are on the Irish Football Association's shortlist. | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
O'Neill, who parted company with Shamrock Rovers after last night's | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
Europa League defeat by Tottenham, will be interviewed for the | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
international job on Monday. Austin O'Callaghan reports. | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
The Irish words on this than any in many thanks, a message from | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
Shamrock Rovers supporters to this Ulsterman, who has guided the leak | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
of Ireland's most famous club two league titles and the group stages | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
of the Europa League. His players one at that -- were unable to give | :18:20. | :18:29. | |
him a winning send-off last night. The question now is, well O'Neill's | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
next job the at international level? I am in a situation where I | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
am not tied to a club, so it jobs become available and I can apply | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
for those jobs, I have enjoyed by three years here, but it is the | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
right time for me to move on. O'Neill's assistant at Shamrock | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
Rovers has been Jim Magilton, one of the names he is up against for | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
the Northern Ireland job. If successful, O'Neill says he is | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
clean for Jim Magilton to be part of his backroom team, but they can | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
only be one boss. We are close friends, so at the end of the day, | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
so we will see what happens. Those things can be discussed at a future | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
date. If Jim gets the job, I will be delighted for him. But and two | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
the Irish Football Association makes his choice, Michael O'Neill | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
and Jim Magilton our competitors, not team-mates. | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
There has been a managerial merry- go-round in local football. It is | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
all change in dug-outs throughout the Irish League tomorrow. There | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
are new manager is in charge of Carrick Rangers, Ballymena United | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
and Dungannon Swifts, while Gary Hamilton faces a tough baptism has | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
Glenavon's new boss as his side travel to league leaders Linfield. | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
-- new managers. The last time Gary Hamilton faced | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
Linfield, he had just been named Player of the month and scored both | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
goals in this victory. It is understandable that after | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
experiences like that, tomorrow's opponents will love be taking Gary | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Hamilton the manager for granted. We thought about it in training | :20:10. | :20:20. | |
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last night. You are trying to impress new managers, so it will be | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
very tough. Hamilton Bottoms Up out of the existing six months of his | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
existing contract from his own pocket. -- bought himself up. He | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
cannot play Glenavon until the new year but she has confidence his | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
squad will raise their game. As a person, a player, a manager, you | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
want to go to places like Windsor Park. It is a big match. A big | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
crowd. You want to showcase yourself as a player, you do it | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
there. Hamilton has already been in a winning side against Linfield | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
twice this season and it will be managerial debut to the Member for | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
the Glenavon fans. Ulster face Aironi tomorrow in | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
Italy in the Heineken Cup. New signing Stefan Terblanche is lucky | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
to be making the trip at all. The South African player's new passport | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
went missing. But as you can see from this picture, it is a good job | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
Ulster have connections at the Post Office, as Nial Foster explains. | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
It was hard enough getting Stefan Terblanche into the country because | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
a paper work, but today Ulster had problems getting him out. We got a | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
phone call from director of rugby in Ulster who asked us if he could | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
-- we could have the find a passport for one of their players, | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
who was flying out to Italy that afternoon and could not find his | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
passport, it had not arrived. We got all the staff looking for this | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
particular package. Pamela is the mother of Louis Stevenson and the | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
post of his's connections to the team do not end there. -- the Post | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
Office. We were able to deliver the passport this morning to Stefan | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Terblanche and he came along with some of his colleagues. He was very | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
happy and that asked if I could have a photograph with him. I'm | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
very pleased. And now it is up to Ulster to | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
deliver a first class performers tomorrow in Italy. -- performance. | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
And there is live commentary on BBC Radio Ulster. | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Finally tonight, we can reveal that Rory McIlroy is the winner of BBC | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
Sport NI's Sports Personality of the Year award for 2011. In an | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
amazing year, the golfer from Holywood made his major | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
breakthrough, winning the US Open at Congressional in June. And he | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
has just finished this season second only to Luke Donald on the | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
Money List. He is currently recovering from a virus, but he | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
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took time today to acknowledge this We hope so, too! We will catch up | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
with him next week, because he and Darren Clarke are both nominated | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
for the main BBC Sports personality of the Year award. Darren was the | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
run up, but it was a very tight. I would not have liked to be the | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
judge. Have you had your Christmas party | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
yet? Yes. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
Was a good? It was memorable. | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Yes, it is still nine days to Christmas, but when it comes to the | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
festive calendar, this is a very important date. That is because it | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
is one of the biggest party nights of the year, when most work do's | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
are on. It is officially known as Black Eye Friday. Sounds ominous! | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
Our reporter Natasha Sayee is at a packed Belfast bar to tell us more. | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
I hope you can hear me. I can just about hear you. I heard you say you | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
are a civilised hour party, not too sure about that! If this is the | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
biggest party night of the year. Lots of people celebrating, since | :24:18. | :24:27. | |
lunchtime. It is called Black Eye Friday. Why? These explain the name. | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
Black Eye Friday, back in the days when men were men, the last wage, | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
it came out before Christmas, spend it all may be on the way home in | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
the pub and end up with the odd bruise or two. Friday Night Is | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Black Friday, they have to work so hard, where everyone does what we | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
are more famous for, enjoying themselves. There has been some | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
confusion because we have next Friday as well, so which one is the | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
real Black Eye Friday? Technically, it is always the one before | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
Christmas. But let's not criticise it, Christmas has come early, let's | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
have two of them! They are two good opportunities to get out and | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
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socialise and be a good Republican. Thanks very much indeed. A | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
furtively is back to the office. We cannot stay out, no rest for the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
wicked. You left as I arrived last week, | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
Natasha! Natasha! | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
Now let's get a look at the weather. Forget about Black Eye Friday for | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
the time being, it is more like black ice Friday. We have a weather | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
warning enforced from the Met Office. Be aware of ice forming on | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
the roads overnight. Some black ice as well, in case you are driving | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
overnight. The showers will continue to pursue an from the West | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
through the night. Falling on already frozen ground. That will | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
introduce the real risk of ice. Temperatures between zero and minus | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
two degrees. It will be a crispy start to the weekend and we will | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
hold on to that mixed weather. Wintry showers at first, mostly | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
confined to the North and west. Elsewhere, a fairly TriStar. Bright | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
with some sunshine across Fermanagh, Armagh and County Down. -- a fairly | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
TriStar. They will be pitched for the South by the wind. Those winds | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
coming in from the chilly North West. It will feel much colder than | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
that. Those showers will have a mix of wintry weather, some rain, sleet | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
and snow. For the South east corner, he could stay dry and bright for | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
most of the day before the damper and greyer weather makes its way | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
there. Into the evening, cloud drifting further south, for the | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
showers to come. Once again, the Blues come on the Mac quite rapidly | :27:04. | :27:12. | |
overnight into Sunday. -- the map. Another frosty night, and another | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
weather warning is in force going into Sunday's FA icy conditions. | :27:17. | :27:25. | |
That will last in to Monday. Holding on to win two showers, | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
especially for the North coast. Elsewhere, a dry a picture. It is | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
not until the beginning of next week that another weather front | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
pushes in from the Atlantic, bringing rain. The temperatures | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
will be much milder, beginning to will be much milder, beginning to | :27:41. | :27:49. | |
see double figures by Wednesday. Are late summary is at 10.25 Andy | :27:49. | :27:51. |