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Good evening. The headlines this Thursday | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
evening... We hear from the heartbroken | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
parents of a baby who died in Altnagelvin Hospital from the | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Pseudomonas infection. And they tell us what action they believe | :00:22. | :00:31. | |
should be taken into the outbreak which has killed their baby son. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
are looking for a full public inquiry and the truth about what | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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happened. Wider memoirs of this former Secretary of State have set | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
-- upset our most senior judge. How thousands of fish ended up in a | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
County Down feel. Rory McIlroy leads the way ahead | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Tiger and the rest in Abu Dhabi. Meet the young footballers on their | :01:04. | :01:13. | |
way to the Nou Camp, home of the mighty Barcelona. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
There has been a distinct chill in the air and a wintry spell | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
continues tonight and tomorrow. Tonight on BBC Newsline, we hear | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
for the first time from the parents of one of the babies who have died | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
from Pseudonomas. Four infants fell victim to the bacterial infection | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
during the past two months. In all cases the sources of the infection | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
were sink taps in hospital neonatal units. Three babies were in the | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
Royal in Belfast. The little boy we're focussing on tonight died at | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Altnagelvin in Londonderry. We approached his parents after they | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
commented about the deaths on our Facebook page. They wanted to tell | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
us what happened to try to prevent another outbreak. They've been | :01:59. | :02:08. | |
talking to our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
First they had to deal with the trauma of losing their baby son, | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
and then they learned he had acquired an infection from a tap in | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
the neonatal unit he was being cared for. He was beautiful. He was | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
very tiny. While a couple acknowledge their son was born | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
prematurely and was very seriously ill, they say he was showing signs | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
of improvement. If you had put your finger in his hand what would he | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
have done? He would grab your finger. He left for just 10 days. | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
His condition deteriorated after an infection in his bloodstream. | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
just realised after we buried him that he had died of Pseudomonas. | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
doctor came to your house to tell you? To doctors came and told us. | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
As well as visiting a couple, be First wrote to them, confirming | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
their son had died from Pseudomonas and the sauce had been traced to a | :03:25. | :03:34. | |
tap. Two consultants from Altnagelvin's paediatric department | :03:34. | :03:43. | |
expressed simple. -- sympathy. They said they believed the sauce was a | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
tap and think area and have taken measures to eradicate the source. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
They say, we hope you can accept we are deeply sorry. According to the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Western Health Trust, they followed the advice from the Public Health | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
Agency and moved quickly to clean the affected area. The trust said | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
expectant mothers should be reassured that the room was closed | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
to new admissions and the tap was dismantled, disinfected and | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
retested and remains clear of Pseudomonas. Around this time, | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
another baby, who had also tested positive for the infection, was | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
transferred to the Royal Jubilee Maternity. While that child had a | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
different strain of Pseudomonas, according to this letter sent from | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
the Chief Medical Officer on 22nd December, at no stage was the | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
Belfast Health Trust advised that a child had died at Altnagelvin. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
should have brought out that this infection was about to prevent it | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
from getting in and killing any other babies. Be as was the | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
couple's third child. Their first was still. -- stillborn when the | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
second is two years old. Shortly after it was confirmed the child | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
had died from Pseudomonas, they asked a solicitor to help them | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
trying prevent a similar outbreak occurring again. If we are looking | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
for a public inquiry into the truth. Many questions still remain | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
unanswered by the health authorities here in Derry and in | :05:17. | :05:26. | |
Belfast. In the meantime, should be Health Minister making -- consider | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
making it compulsory to replace all things and have then neonatal units | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
across Northern Ireland? -- stinks and taps. | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
I am joined by Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer. Are you | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
satisfied that everything about this infection and the first baby's | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
death was communicated to Department of Health and all | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
medical officials in the Trust's? Let me take this opportunity to | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
express my deepest sympathy to the parents of this baby. This is a | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
tragic set of circumstances and I find it difficult to put that into | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
words. It is a tragic loss. I am deeply sorry for what has happened. | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
I can only begin to understand the sense of anguish and pain they are | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
experiencing at this time. It is deeply regrettable. I believe that | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
we took swift and decisive action to communicate to the rest of the | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Health Service that we had a pseudomonas infection in | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
Altnagelvin hospital and that we had traced the source of that to | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
two taps were then that unit. is verbally to other trusts? -- did | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
you say verbally. He said it was up to you to answer this. It did not | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
say that the baby had died or no memo and that the source of the | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
infection was the sink tap in the neonatal unit. Why was that not in | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
the memo? This statement was very clear and pointed out the fact that | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
there were risks in all such units, where patients who are sick and | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
immunosuppressed. This is not necessarily confined to neonatal | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
units. There was an important message to get out to staff in | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
hospitals that appropriate steps need to be taken to prevent, and | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
that is the important point, to prevent contamination of hand | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
basins and to ensure... But why leave out the information that a | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
child had died? I understand that morning, but why leave out the very | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
important fact that the child had died? Would that not have added a | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
sense of urgency? It would have created the impression that the | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
only cause for concern was in relation to a particular trust, of | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
the Gilford in this case, or a particular male made her unit. -- | :07:52. | :08:01. | |
Altnagelvin in this case. -- particular neonatal unit. Any unit | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
where patients are immunosuppressed, there is an important message about | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
reinforcing good infection control, to avoid contamination and that | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
ensured basins are used for the purpose they are intended and | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
cleaned properly. The letter was very clear about the risk of | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
outbreaks in these units and the consequences and specific in terms | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
of the action required to be taken. The minister raised about | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
ultraviolet light taps replacing the neonatal taps in the Royal. | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
Should all of the trusts set out in their budgets that neonatal taps in | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
all of the hospital's been replaced with these new, hi-tech caps? | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
would be missing a point. We saw this tragedy associated with paps. | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
This is about good infection control practices in our hospitals. | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
This is about wash hand basin is used solely for the purpose they | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
are intended and claimed appropriately. -- basins. Would be | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
new help -- taps have more? important thing is we avoid | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
contamination of the taps. Those were lessons learned from England | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
and Wales. There was a letter in September saying be aware there is | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
eight potential for contamination of taps. The purpose of reissuing | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
the letter was to advise that the situation had reoccurred in | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Northern Ireland and to ensure appropriate steps were taken. Our | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
first priority is the safety of patients. Eight I defer joining us. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
-- thank you for joining us. An extraordinary row has broken out | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
between Northern Ireland's most senior judge and the former | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
secretary of state, Peter Hain. The Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
Morgan, has called remarks about another judge in Mr Hain's memoirs | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
"unwarranted and wholly inappropriate." Mr Hain says he has | :10:08. | :10:17. | |
no regrets. Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon. | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
Peter Hain was back in the news today. His memoir is hard to find. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
We tracked down three copies in this shop in Lisburn but extracts | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
in the newspapers have been she seen by Northern iron's top judge. | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
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His verdict is not favourable. -- Northern Ireland. It was found that | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
the Secretary of State had broken the law. Mr Hain said he found a | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
judge's handling of the case was high-handed and idiosyncratic. He | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
said he thought he was off his rocker and even thought about bring | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
yet to be Appeal Court. This provoked a response from the Lord | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Chief Justice. He said it was highly regrettable that Mr Hain | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
seeks to call into question the honour and integrity of the trial | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
judge. He calls the remarks unwarranted and wholly | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
inappropriate and claims it is potentially an assault on the wider | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
independence of the judiciary. stand by everything in my memoirs. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
I have given an account of this episode, after which I was | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
exonerated as was the chief of the Northern Ireland Civil Service and | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
the permanent secretary in the Northern Ireland Office. I have no | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
regrets about writing it. The row is said to have amused the legal | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
profession. If every single person I have spoken to he is talking | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
about this and lawyers are horrified about the situation. I | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
feel sympathetic to the judge in question and we are supportive of | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
the statement and reaction of the Lord Chief Justice. Mr Hain is to | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
get an invite from Stormont's justice committee, which is | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
reviewing justice appointments. Secretary of State has written a | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
book and he has definite and outspoken views on this issue... | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
They said there is no such thing as bad publicity but for some senior | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
figures in the legal profession, looking at this book closely, Peter | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
Hain my soon find out if that is true. -- may soon find out. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
The safety of a road in County Down has been called into question again | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
after an accident which a man died yesterday. His car left the road | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
which runs right beside Newry Canal and plunged into the water. It's | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
led to further calls for more crash barriers on the route. Eunan | :12:45. | :12:54. | |
McConville reports. This latest accident happened | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
yesterday afternoon. A local businessman was driving his car | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
along this stretch and it left the road and plunged into the water. A | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
specialist diving team was called in but they were unable to save him. | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
He was a well respected trader in Newry. I have known him for many | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
years. He has run a successful restaurant and ladies' clothing | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
shop and also owns a beautiful bar. This is an up standing businessman, | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
highly respected and liked. There have been accidents and fatalities | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
of this nature over the years. Geraldine rice and her family were | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
lucky to survive after their car entered the canal five years ago. | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
An additional 100 metres of barrier was erected. The road is not safe. | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
There needs to be more of safety measures put on the road. There | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
should be speed ramps, speed cameras. You can see how close this | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
road runs beside the water of Newry Canal. There are barriers at | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
certain stretches of the road, mainly at corners. The question has | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
been raised whether there should be more barriers along the road. | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
would like to see a complete steel barrier from Newry right down to | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
the border. I do believe this is needed. There is an excellent | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
barrier in patches but I would like to see a continuous barrier, so | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
that if a carded he did it would not enter the canal. Lives would be | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
saved, of that I have no doubt. spokesperson for the Department of | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
Regional Development, which has responsibility for crash barriers, | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
says there are no plans to improve the barriers along this stretch of | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
road but that the Roads Service will consider the outcome of a | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
police investigation into this recent death. | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Still to come on the programme... Why things really did go bump in | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
the night for people in County Donegal. | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
And a young footballer from Belfast who is bound for the training trek | :15:04. | :15:14. | |
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of a lifetime with European champions. Whenever have you seen a | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
field of fish like this? This what a County Down farmer came across | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
when a lorry load of mackerel veered off the road outside | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
Killyleagh. Our district journalist Francis Gorman has discovered that | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
the catch was initially not supposed to be on that road. | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
The driver was not injured. Holy mackerel! An estimated 20 tons | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
of it. The lorry was going along the Comber road in the direction of | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
Killyleagh when it went through a thorn hedge and dropped into this | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
field. The fish were supposed to have been brought in by boat to | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
Ardglass harbour yesterday but this was impossible because of bad | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
weather. I filmed these scenes yesterday for another story. | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
Instead, the boat went to Bangor. The fish was transferred onto a | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
lorry to drive to a fish processor in our class. But it never got | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
there. Today the land owner told BBC Newsline what he saw when he | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
arrived on the scene. When we looked over initially it was like a | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
big mirror in the field with the light reflecting from the fish. We | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
came down anyway and they were starting to get ready to clear the | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
place up. It started about 6 o'clock last night they really got | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
into gear and apparently they were working until 2 o'clock this | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
morning. The field has now been cleared of most of the fish and it | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
will not go into the food chain. Down District Council says it is | :16:43. | :16:53. | |
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due to be processed into fish meal. Some residents of Donegal got a bit | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
of a surprise in the early hours of this morning when they were woken | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
up by an earthquake. It was registered in Buncrana just after | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
one o'clock this morning. It wasn't major, registering 2.2, but it was | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
strong enough to create a bit of a stir in the area. | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
Life as usual in Buncrana today, but it had been a disturbed night | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
for his son. I heard this big rumble and the whole house shook. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
My mum wanted to know what had happened. I knew it was an | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
earthquake. I thought it was under, I thought it was a storm. But it | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
was an earthquake. You wouldn't expect that here. It's fair to say | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
there's not much earthquake activity in these parts but Donegal | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
is one of two counties in Ireland that has seen quite a lot of | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
seismic activity. The other is Wexford. That is because of the | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
number of faults below both counties, tiny cracks in the | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
Earth's crust. It woke me from my sleep just after 1 o'clock. I | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
thought, all my God, we are going to have a tsunami, and the house | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
was vibrating. By was more scared of the thunder and lightning in | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
November. There was nothing to it. Did you figure out how far away it | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
is? The earthquake brought lessons to live for these students. Their | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
school's seismograph recorded it. We got a trace of it so I am very | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
happy. The machine can be badly behaved sometimes but it was | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
recording faithfully last night. This is the first air quirk we have | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
recorded close to home and it is exciting. -- earthquake. Most | :18:37. | :18:46. | |
people here will be hoping for a quiet night tonight! | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
Or one of the world's leading experts on earthquakes is in the | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
University of Ulster and he joins me now from close to the epicentre, | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
just outside Buncrana. Just how unusual is an earthquake in County | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
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Donegal, or anywhere in Ireland. Unusual -- small ones are not | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
unusual. I happen occasionally. we on a fault line? There are quite | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
a lot of major faults that run through this area. Lough Ness is on | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
the Great Glen fault in Scotland and back comes across the Irish Sea | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
and appears north of all crime map. -- Buncrana. These earthquakes | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
happen on those old faults that were formed hundreds of millions of | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
years ago and they are being reactivated by small changes in | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
stress due to the rebound of the crust after the ice melted from the | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
last Ice Age, about 15,000 years ago. So, very small changes in | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
stress can generate small earthquakes on structures that have | :20:08. | :20:16. | |
preexisted in the Earth's crushed. Behind me, the fault comes across. | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
Is there anything that triggers this? Is there anything within our | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
control at all? Even to give us warning it will happen. No, there's | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
absolutely no warning, even for a very big earthquakes. You would | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
think that the Earth's crust would prepare some hard but it doesn't | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
happen like that and small earthquakes like this will have no | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
warning. They do just happen as a response to this very, very slow | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
increase in pressure on these faults. There's no warning. | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
Fortunately, as the people in Buncrana told you, this was not a | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
frightening event. The chances of anything major in this area are | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
very small. It is not zero. One interesting thing about earthquakes | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
like this, it shows us that it in even one of the safest countries in | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
the world for earthquakes, the chance of having an earthquake is | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
never a zero. We always have a possibility. The chances of a | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
bigger one hour very small in this area. That is good news, at least | :21:30. | :21:38. | |
they will not have a big one. I gave returning us. | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
And if you want to add a witty comment to the many that have | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
already been posted on our Facebook page, the address is there on the | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
screen. A lot about fish 'n' chips! In a moment, the story of a dream | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
football journey from some young Belfast soccer players. First, | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
Austin O'Callaghan's here with news of another impressive young | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
sportsman. I think you'll recognise him. Rory | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
McIlroy is enjoying a share of the lead after the opening round of the | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
Abu Dhabi Championship. The Holywood golfer outshone playing | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
partners Tiger Woods and Luke Donald with a five-under-par | :22:06. | :22:15. | |
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opening round of 67. This is Rory McIlroy's first | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
tournament of 2012. His opening round was not flawless. Remember | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
him hitting cabins in the final round of the Masters? Today, a | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
hospitality tent received a visit. It did not put the spectators off. | :22:35. | :22:44. | |
For every mess had shot, there was a precision shot. An opening round | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
of 67 put Rory McIlroy in front of his playing partners. There are two | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
guys established in the game. Tiger Woods is great and Luke Donald is | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
fantastic. I felt we all play pretty good. I was lucky to score a | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
bit better than the other guys. It was a nice way to start the season. | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
There were strong performances from Gareth Maybin and Michael Hoey | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
matched Tiger Woods' opening round with a two-under-par 70. | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
Now a BBC Newsline exclusive. A cross-community project is offering | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
local budding footballers the chance to experience a coaching | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
session with a difference. They'll travel to the Nou Camp, the home of | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
Lionel Messi and the European Champions FC Barcelona. Nikki Gregg | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
reports. When word spread about a coaching | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
clinic, years per job. When it turned to be in Barcelona, they | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
came in their droves. Martin Lavery is a community worker. This | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
programme is to help children develop soccer skills at an early | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
age. It has the backing of Northern Ireland internationals. Now they | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
are going a step further. I got a contract with Barcelona and I | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
badgered him for four months and he agreed to a meeting. We will change | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
today's with the coaches that take Lionel Messi. We will train at Nou | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
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Camp and then they play on -- we will play them, which is unheard of. | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
They will have the opportunity to work with Barcelona coaches. We are | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
trying to adapt the Spanish a philosophy on football. It seems | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
you are never too young to start. The trips will be staggered that | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
Gerard the year. Players from the Irish League are on board to help | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
out. They are working on their passing. There are some beginners | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
and some advanced. A lot of them have potential and could be decent | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
footballers. The first group will travel to Barcelona at Easter and | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
there is no doubt which but bomber they are most excited to see. Who | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
is your favourite player? Will Lionel Messi. He is skilful and he | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
is the best player in the world. Here is the best? Lie in a messy. | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
Where you meet him? And I don't know, hopefully. They can dine is | :25:29. | :25:38. | |
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under way. -- the countdown is under way. | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
Ulster Rugby's request to have the Heineken Cup quarter-final against | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Munster moved from its Easter Sunday date has been turned down by | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
the competition's organisers. Ulster had asked the ERC to 'bear | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
in mind' the strong Christian commitments of a number of the | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
team's players and supporters. But tournament chiefs say the game will | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
go ahead as planned on Sunday April 8th. Ulster have told us they'll | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
abide by that ruling and all players will be available for the | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
big game. Now with the weather here's Cecilia | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
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It has been cold today, may be a shot -- may be a shock because of | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
the warmer weather. As temperatures fall this evening, some showers | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
could turn into snow. It could be I see this evening with temperatures | :26:27. | :26:35. | |
around freezing or just below. -- I see. It is another chilly night and | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
another chilly morning. Later this evening the showers will ease off. | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
The breeze picking up with time, especially towards the north coast. | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
The breeze will be evident at tomorrow morning making it feel | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
distinctly chilly and dragging some of those wintry showers over to the | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
east coast. There may be some snow over their health above 200 metres. | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
-- over there hills. Another cold and in some areas, snow we start. - | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
- snowing. Temperatures just above freezing. That is low enough for | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
some ice. A nasty start to the morning. The showers will ease off | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
and the wind will these as well. The afternoon will be the better | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
half of the day. Many places becoming dry and temperatures | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
eventually slightly higher than today. They will fall away quickly | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
tomorrow night. Another frost. Saturday morning at a, a sharp | :27:40. | :27:47. | |
frost in places. This cheeky chappie was spotted in its | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
Jordanstown this morning. Saturday morning starts off dry and crisp | :27:53. | :27:56. |