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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor and Noel | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
Thompson. Good evening. Our main news: | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Alex Attwood gives the go ahead to the �100 million Runkerry golf | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
development near the Giant's Causeway, the developer promises | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
hundreds of new jobs. The National Trust and Friends of the Earth say | :00:32. | :00:41. | |
they have big concerns about the potential environmental impact. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
What other country would allow its national treasures to be desecrated | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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in that way? Also on the programme this Tuesday | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
evening. Organ donation. The Assembly wants to consider a scheme | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
that includes everyone unless you opt out. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Not so easy rider. Big changes for learner bikers. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
We'll meet the Premier League footballer who's celebrating his | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
international call-up at home. And the temperatures are set to go | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
even higher on Wednesday, but you will want to keep the umbrella | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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handy. Find out why later in the programme. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
You join me in the Bushmills Hotel where the green light has been | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
given to a �100 million hotel and golf complex on the north coast in | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
the face of strong environmental objections. This complex will sit | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
about one mile from the Causeway, Northern Ireland's only World | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
Heritage Site. Alex Attwood said he thought long and hard about it but | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
he came down in favour of it. He said it would make Northern Ireland | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
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a forefront holiday destination and give a boost to the local of -- | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
economy. This is one of Alex Attwood's | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
biggest decisions of his career. He faced strong opposition. The coast | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
needs to be developed. The golfing product that we have needs to be | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
developed. This decision allows that to happen. It allows it to | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
happen in a way that is absolutely sympathetic to all the heritage and | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
environmental standards that we have to uphold because it is part | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
of the quality and character of our tourist economy going forward. | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
five-star hotel, golf academy and 75 villas as well as a golf course | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
and a conference centre have all been given the green light. This | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
will be the first purpose-built golf course in almost 100 years. I | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
will be standing around the 10th tee. The entire course will cover | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
365 acres. The proposed development aims to attract high end, high | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
spending golf tourists from around the globe. The give tourists the | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
opportunity to come and spend time on the north coast and play on our | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
new links course and the other links course is in the area and to | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
visit the distillery and the other attractions in the area. We are | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
very excited about the possibility of providing something of world- | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
class standing. At a near by course there was excitement at the thought | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
of a golfer's village being built next door. With accommodation the | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
hearers will it will entice people to stay. Apart from the employment | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
it will bring, it is additional revenue into the area which | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
everyone will welcome. It will be an added attraction to the north | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
coast. The local MP it welcomed the decision. This shows the turn of | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
the page. We are seeing a dip -- we are seeing a vision and believing | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
in it and starting to deliver. It is very important. Developers begin | :03:59. | :04:09. | |
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work soon. Well the man leading the project is | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
the US-based management consultant Dr Alistair Hanna, who's originally | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
from east Belfast. He wasn't at today's event in Bushmills, but | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Kevin Magee met him a couple of days ago in Belfast, and asked him | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
why he thought the business would succeed. We would like to think it | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
is a world-class facility that can compete with the likes of Celtic | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
Manor, Turnberry and up in the same sort of character as Gleneagles. | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Are you sure there is a market for this? There is absolutely Haymarket | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
for the best. In today's world the best is still selling very well. | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
The mediocre is not doing well at all. You have got to position this | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
as being one of the best in the world. We believe that with | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Bushmills Dunes Golf Resort and Spa, Port Rush, Port Stewart and Castle | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
Rock, we will have four world-class links golf courses within half-an- | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
hour of each other. There is nowhere else in the world where you | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
can offer that except perhaps St Andrews. Another one is currently | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
in administration. It is not a links course. It is a long way away | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
from it does suffer competitively in that sense. How much will the | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
project cost? If we pray sit in today's costs it will be somewhere | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
around �100 million to build the whole thing. It is a lot of money. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
Do you have the Resources to go ahead? I have an investment banker | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
standing by ready to go as soon as I give him the word. We will raise | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
the money. He tells me because of the uniqueness of this piece of | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
land and because of the property that we will have, the money will | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
be forthcoming. The National Trust are opposed to this scheme. Will it | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
affect the integrity of the Giant's Causeway? We have been very | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
sensitive to the positioning of the buildings and a height of the | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
buildings and the buildings will have grass roofs. We have done a | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
lot of stuff to make this very environmentally sensitive. We | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
actually believe this project will help the area as a World Heritage | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
Site because what is a world heritage site for? It is to attract | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
visitors. We will have a facility that will make it much more | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
pleasant and enjoyable for visitors to come. Too many visitors come to | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
this area come for one day and leave and we want to give the | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
visitors a reason to stay and spend money. Not everyone is happy. One | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
environmentalists said it was like building a Burger Bar at the Taj | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Mahal. Environment Minister says he has worked hard to smooth that all | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
the problems that cannot to co- exist beside each other? And | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
Environment Correspondent has been looking at the implications. | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
It is not just the Giants Causeway the planners have to consider, the | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
development is alongside an area of special scientific interest, | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
Runkerry beach. These sand dunes behind me are where they will build | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
the golf course. Digging will take place between March and August -- | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
no digging would take place to protect the birds. Badgers also | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
have to be protected. There are also rivers and critical habitats | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
including rare wild far -- flat was which may have to be moved in some | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
cases. Even that is not enough to convince everybody it is a good | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
idea. I am completely flabbergasted by the decision. We have a national | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
treasure. The Giant's Causeway belongs to us all. It is the only | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
World Heritage Site. It is a site of international which is protected | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
and the buffer zones around the dark protected by many different | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
planning policies and yet we have a decision by the Minister today | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
which is quite unfathomable. He has improved what -- he has approved a | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
huge holiday resort within breathing distance of the Giant's | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Causeway. Most concern is about the visual effect it will have on the | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
Giant's Causeway. The National Trust cellaret they are | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
disappointed by the decision. But they have not given any interviews. | :08:31. | :08:41. | |
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A lot of people we have spoken to seem genuinely shocked by today's | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
decision. They thought that given all the planning protection this | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
site had that nothing would be built here. | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
I am joined by it someone from a resident group who is opposed to | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
this development. Surely it is possible to work is so that both | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
sides can be happy? One would think so. Unfortunately there are | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
planning policies here which seemed to have been brushed aside to | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
achieve this. That is our concern. There is a policy which states that | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
there can only be modest scale development without a landscape | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
detriment in this area. If I were householder in that area, I would | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
be limited to only 20% extension, 20% of the cubic capacity of my | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
house and yet here is the developer coming and there seems to be able | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
to get away with 75 houses and a hotel and everything else. But this | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
does include two lovely parkland golf courses and golf courses can | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
be quite nice. Surely it is more than one mile from beam Causeway, | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
surely that two can consist -- co- exist peacefully. It is still | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
within the landscape setting of the causeway which is very heavily | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
protected by environmental protection. It is an area of | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
outstanding beauty and a distinctive landscape setting as | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
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defined by the World Heritage Site. Also it is in areas that give it | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
additional protection and people around have find it quite | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
horrifying because they did not think it was possible that a | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
development of this scale could take place. It is not so much the | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
golf course, but what we are concerned about is the amount of | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
building concerned. Not everyone is horrified. They could be 300 jobs | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
and as complex as well as the jobs involved in building up. Those jobs | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
are badly needed. I quite agree that jobs are badly needed in this | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
area and I understand that. I understand that there are strong | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
economic arguments for this. Our view is that if you drive a coach | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
and horses through the environmental protection, it does | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
not stop there. It sets a precedent for the future and more damage | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
could be done. This post has suffered a lot of damage from the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
wrong kind of development in the last few years. We feel it is | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
essential that environmental protection should remain in place. | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
This development could bring jobs but it is hypothetical. Thank you | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
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very much. Just before I leave you here in | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Bushmills, Ian Paisley Junior who we heard from earlier, also spoke | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
today about how his father, the former first minister, is making | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
steady progress after a serious health scare. And he thanked all | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
those who'd sent messages of support to his family. That is | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
making a good recovery but he has been a sick man. He is making a | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
good and steady recovery and I am very hopeful for him. I would like | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
to thank all the staff at the hospital to have been fantastic. I | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
have sat with other patients there and other families of patients and | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
they would also recognise that the hospital staff have been wonderful. | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
It is a real leveller in recognising what is important in | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
life. He has rallied in recent days? He is a remarkable man and he | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
will surprise you will still. The latest on the health of Ian | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Paisley senior. We have heard debate for and against this project | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
but the complex is going ahead as things stand and I understand it | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
will be reported to Unesco and the next 24 hours and they will decide | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
whether it will have any bad effect on the World Heritage site but for | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
the moment it is back to Belfast. This is BBC Newsline and still to | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
come on the programme: The alien invader threatening some | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
of our furrier inhabitants. The latest drama from a Belfast | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
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playwright with a history of Organ donation. The Assembly has | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
called on the Health Minister to consult on a scheme where everyone | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
is included unless they opt out. 17 people died last year while on the | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
waiting list for a transplant here, and an MLA told Stormont that it | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
had not been for a kidney transplant, she would have lost a | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
teenage son. William Johnston is one of nearly 300 people here | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
waiting for a light changing transplant operation. He has to | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
receive dialysis treatment for his kidneys, three times a week. Given | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
the shortage of organs across the UK, Williams supports any change | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
which might cut the waiting list. few organ donation as a new life | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
and people that decide to donate organs are giving the gift of new | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
life to people like myself who have been waiting for many years. | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
Currently, around half a million people here are on the organ | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
donation register, carrying a card like this. There is a discussion | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
about a move to a system under which every adult would be presumed | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
to have given their consent to have their organs used after the death, | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
unless they had first registered their objection. The Ulster | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Unionist's and Dobson son was diagnosed with kidney failure when | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
he was just 13. She made an emotional speech, thanking the | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
donor who gave her son a kidney. do not know who the donor of the | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
kidney was, and probably never will, but even so we thank his family | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
every day, for giving mark the gift of life. The Welsh government is | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
considering giving a change to the opt-out system, but not all our | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
politicians are convinced. cannot be stated strongly enough, | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
that presumed consent isn't actual consent. I think that is important. | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
The Health Minister called for a public debate on how the organ | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
donation system might be improved, but Edwin Poots stop short of any | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
definite announcement of a formal review. | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
From today, anyone learning to ride a moped, scooter or motorbike, | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
cannot start without taking some compulsory basic training. If you | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
do not do it, you could be riding illegally. The changes have been | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
phased in over the last 12 months, but as we now report, time has run | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
out. They are stylish and a nippy, but from today, there is more to | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
learning to ride want. At this training centre, one rider is | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
working on his lessons, from now learners like him are not allowed | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
to practise on the roads, without the paperwork to show they are safe | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
to do so. In the past, I could have walked off the street, bought a | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
scooter, and driven away illegally. Now, I cannot do so without | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
compulsory basic training. The deal we brought it in for New Riders one | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
year ago, but now it applies even to those who have been learning for | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
a while it. Bowling a full driving licence for a car, does not let you | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
off. This is the latest machine. It is unique in that it has three | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
wheels. Some salesmen say their customers are confused about the | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
changes, but to see the benefits. think it is very important, | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
particularly amongst young teenagers. They tend to want to | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
come into a place like this, usually with their mother, not | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
their father, and want a bike and want to drive it straight out of | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
the shop. It is an excellent idea to have tests, particularly for | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
those people. Instructors are worried that many riders have not | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
realised the requirement applies to them. Everyone with a learner | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
categoric on their licence, 16- year-old oz by two-60-year-old, so | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
if you are riding a moped, scooter, small capacity motorcycle and you | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
have and they will on your driving licence, you have to have CBT, | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
otherwise you will be driving illegally and you will face | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
prosecution and more than likely, you're at insurance will be void. | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
It takes around 10 are straining and �200 a more depending on the | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
instructor and it is no longer an option. | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
You can join our Facebook discussion on this and other news | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
stories. We are also on Twitter and you can e-mail us with any issue | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
you would like us to investigate. Belfast playwright who is no | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
stranger to controversy when he has written about loyalism, has created | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
his first drama in Irish, even though he does not speak it. As our | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Arts correspondent reports, Gary Mitchell says he is expecting | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
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criticism for those who view Irish as the language of their enemies. | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Lovell matters has many of the elements you might expect from Gary | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
Mitchell. He was brought up in the Rathcoole estate, by a -- it has | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
not stopped and tackling the subject, and this play has an ex- | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
prisoner, a loyalist feud, and handguns. He has written it to be | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
performed in arrears, which she does not speak or understand. | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
arrive here, and have my play translated into what I would say | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
would be the perceived language of my enemies, is probably the final | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
step in this journey. He admits it may not go down well with those who | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
threaten 10 in the past. Some people who would never come here to | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
see anything, people there who would be close mind, it would give | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
me criticism. Every time I do a play, I get a lot of criticism. | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
This company commissioned and translated the play. None Irish | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
baking viewers will wear headphones, receiving a live transmission of | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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the script. It is perfect. It is a new departure for a company based | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
in West Belfast and performing only in Irish. It is a surprising choice | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
for our company and I think that is how it will be perceived. We are | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
interested in looking... At piece of programming that reflects the | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
unique cultural heritage of this very unique part of the world. | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
playwright isn't the only one having problems with the language. | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
This actor speaks Scots Gaelic and does not understand Irish. I have | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
had to learn Irish phonetically. I sit with my a fellow actors to | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
conversant Irish and I am able to follow bits of the language, and I | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
know when they're talking about me! The first performance is on the | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
Falls Road on 29th February, followed by runs on the Lyric | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
Theatre and in Dublin. The Alan drum-beating will try to | :20:07. | :20:15. | |
get the show back on the Six Nations Road against at -- Italy. | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
Assuming the temperatures are warmer. They will stick with the | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
same 15 players to have that unexpected night of in powers nine | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
days ago. Today's is the last day for refunds for back cancel French | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
game. Andrew Trimble, Rory Best and Stephen Ferris retain a starting | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
place for Saturday's home game against the Italians. Gavin Andrews | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
reports on Alan's gruelling six nations scheduled. The ease players | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
have had a lot of time to stop and think in the last week and Declan | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Kidney has had looked plenty to mull over. He has picked his strong | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
this 15. We deliberated over it. You do not want to over-exposed | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
players, but you do not want to underexposed them. The players are | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
champing at the bit to have a go. We have been training over the last | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
couple of weeks to make sure they have enough practice. It is as you | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
were for our London after a lengthy break, the challenge now is to | :21:15. | :21:25. | |
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manage four games in as many weeks. It feels like frustrations against | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
Wales have kicked on a little bit and we have not have the chance to | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
get out and put that right. We are hoping that preparation is going | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
the way that that frustration will lead to make sure that the we are | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
100% right. When you play Italy physically, if you are not mentally | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
and physically there,... We need to get the full it so -- physicality | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
right and the that bit more hungry. Whoever wants it more, generally | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
wins the game. It took a Ronan O'Gara dropped goal to prevent a | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
shop Italian when last year. Irish fans will be hoping this last gaps | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
have -- last-gasp heroics will not be required this time around. | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
James McLean return to the Brandywell to watch Derry City's | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
Setanta Cup when against Liz bank history. The player is now | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
established in the Sunderland first-team, has just earned a first | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
call-up to the Republic of Ireland squad. Back in the glare of the | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
media, James McLean has come a long way since making his Irish league | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
debut as the 16 eight for Glentoran. He would blossom at the Brandywell | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
and has since gone on to dazzle in Sunderland. He is still only 22 and | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
is now set to perform on the international stage. I am over the | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
moon. It has been a dream of mine since no age. It is the biggest | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
honour you can get to represent your country. You get the call, I | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
am over the main. He has been here before. He played at under-age | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
level in the green jersey for Northern Ireland and was also | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
called into the senior squad. As for the subsequent fall-out and | :23:16. | :23:25. | |
controversy, he says he has no regrets. My dream was always to | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
play for Ireland. I am over the main. Hit has been well publicised | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
the Northern Ireland thing, but my mind was made up from my started | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
playing football, that my dream is to play for the Republic. That | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
dream is on the verge of becoming football reality and like his new- | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
found celebrity, James McLean will take it all in his stride. | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
Michael O'Neill is exploring whether the Dutch-based Japanese | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
player Robert Cullen might be prepared to make himself available | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
to the Northern Ireland team. He has a Northern Irish Babb and is | :24:03. | :24:11. | |
for the Dutch side Venlo. Some of our native wildlife is | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
being wiped out by foreign invaders. Scientists at Queen's University | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
say that species like the wood mouse, pygmy shrew were under | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
threat and they are calling on the authorities in Belfast and Dublin | :24:22. | :24:31. | |
to do something about it. It is a beautifully calm afternoon by the | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
River Lagan in South Belfast. Amidst the silence, a destructive | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
invasion is causing havoc. It is happening in vegetation like this, | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
native animals are coming under threat from creatures from overseas. | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
The invasive species, assigned us call them, have often been brought | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
here by accident in the last century or so. The damage to | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
Habitat... We have had to come here to the Ulster Museum to see a wood | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
mouse and a pygmies true, because they're so hard to find in the wide. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
They are now becoming more difficult to spot, because of this | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
foreign invader, the Bank Gold. Another invasive species, the | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
greater weight to fit Shrew has also had a negative effect on | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
native animals. In areas were both these species are pleasant, the | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
pygmy shrew has disappeared. This scientists made the discovery and | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
says ministers in Stormont and Dublin must do something. We have | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
got to be prepared to manage the system, either by directly | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
interfering, sometimes removing species that have come end, which | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
are not welcome, or alternatively providing more of the kind of | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
habitat -- habitat small rodents like to live in. Ecologists say the | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
defenders have to be defeated are us we will be hard pushed find | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
native wildlife outside a museum. We welcome tourists but we like | :26:03. | :26:13. | |
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Begin uses the temperatures are set to get a bit higher over the next | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
few days. This was the picture today across the UK and Allen, | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
cloudy with little in the wake of bright he will -- brighter weather | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
are sunshine. There will be more rain through the night, some of | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
that heavy, quite blustery as well, but look at the temperatures, nine | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
or ten degrees. No frost to worry about. A mild started tomorrow, but | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
it will be wet and windy, with some heavy rain around, especially | :26:42. | :26:49. | |
around Russia are. There may be visibility problems. Into the | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
afternoon, we will see the rain breaking in the North Coast and | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
here we will have some drier spells at times. Further south and West, | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
it will stay grey and damp. Winds will stay press, but temperatures | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
higher despite the cloud and wet weather, up to 14 degrees. Seven | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
degrees above average for the time of year. As a result, tomorrow we | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
will hold on to a cloudier picture as we go into Thursday and those | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
temperatures will stay in double figures, 10 or 11 degrees. Thursday | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
is shaping up to be the better day of the week, but for western areas, | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
it will stay rather cloudy year at times, but for the east it will be | :27:30. | :27:37. | |
a better day, but brighter weather and some sunshine. As we go into | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
the rest of the week, on Friday and Saturday, when it will be fully | :27:42. | :27:49. |