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Good evening, this is BBC BBC Newsline. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Tom Elliott quits as Ulster Unionist leader. We will be talking | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
to him about his decision. A Belfast businessman who pride to | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
civil servants may have to hand over �1 million -- who bribed two | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
civil Stowe -- two civil servants. The spiralling cost of managing one | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
student area of Belfast. The local scientists boldly going | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
where no scientists have gone before. We want to know the origins | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
of life on Earth. We hear from snooker star Mark | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
Allen about the outspoken comments he made on the tournament he won in | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
the Far East. A mild weekend, but only the chosen | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
few will catch a few rays of sunshine. | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
The old cynic -- the Ulster Unionist leader is once again in | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
search of a new leader following Tom Elliott's dramatic announcement | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
that he is quitting after 18 months. He accused some members of his | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
party of briefing journalists against him. Today members of the | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
party paid tribute to him after an emergency meeting of the team and | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
said they were this shocked and surprised about his decision. | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
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I am now do -- I am a new leader of the party. Leading the Ulster | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Unionist Party is not for the faint-hearted, as Tom Elliott has | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
decided. He had a decisive win but was on the defensive from the start. | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
Attacked from inside his own party and beyond for refusing to attend | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
the GAA match each, and lashing out at Sinn Fein after it is a poll | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
think -- a disappointing Paul. see many people with flags today, | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
some of them with flags from a foreign nation. I will say... I | :02:14. | :02:24. | |
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must say, I am also... Yes, I will. I will expect nothing better. I | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
would expect nothing better from the scum of Sinn Fein began to come | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
up with this. He did eventually apologise for his remark, but not | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
for attending the funeral of a Catholic policeman shot dead by | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
republican dissidents. Mr Elliott won plaudits for this and facing | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
down some critical voices in the Orange Order, but this controversy | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
continued. One Assembly member quit weeks ago and publicly criticised | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
Tom Elliott for trying to punish him. He made a mistake by choosing | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
to sack me. I know I have had tremendous support. When Tom | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
Elliott met his assembly team on Monday as usual, party sources he | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
said he had something on his mind. Danny Kennedy was coming under | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
pressure to stand for the leadership. This was discussed at a | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
party meeting and stories like these seem to have undermined Mr | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
Elliott's resolved to stay in the job. If there are briefings against | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
two, the media is running a campaign against you, it clearly | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
gets to the point where you have to make this judgment call. There is a | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
time to move on and allow someone to take over. He seemed relieved by | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
his decision, but members of his assembly team, who met this | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
afternoon, seemed genuinely shocked. I think to some extent, to some | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
extent I think, was frustrated with certain aspects. It is a shock that | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
he has gone, and a loss. There is great shock, surprise and | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
disappointment that he has taken this decision. We respect it and we | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
continue to respect him. He will still be a big force in Ulster | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Unionist politics. All three of these members, along as -- along | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
with basil McRae, are seen as potential candidates. None of them | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
have ruled themselves in or out yet. There is a leadership contest set | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
by the end of the month. Tom Elliott has refused to be drawn | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
on who he thinks should succeed him. I asked him to name the party | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
colleagues he said had been undermining his leadership. I think | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
over the last number of weeks, some people in the party had been | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
discontented. What they have done is they have been briefing | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
journalists. The journalists have been going to other members of the | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
party, as well as myself, and causing quite considerable upset | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
within the party ranks. Obviously that left people uneasy. It meant | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
that people were obviously starting to question where we were going | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
forward. I took the decision, is it better for me to stay on as party | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
leader or is it more appropriate for the Ulster Unionist Party that | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
I leave? At all times in my decisions, the Ulster Unionist | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Party has been foremost in my thoughts. Are you going to name | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
names of these Ceric -- senior members at Stormont? I am still a | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
member of the party and intend to be. Some of those in the past have | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
lambasted me personally, and had personal attacks on me, I am not | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
going down that long -- that road. I would make sure the party moves | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
forward, with a united front. I am not going to put a knife through | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
that. What was the final straw for you? Earlier this week, you | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
announced he would be standing for leadership again. There were a | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
number of issues, especially over the last 10 days. When you get | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
journalists continually coming back and saying, a member of a party has | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
told me this, and reports of private meetings were appearing in | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
newsprint. This is quite difficult to continue. I had to consider the | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Ulster Unionist Party, the integrity of the party and consider | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
whatever I did was for the best of the party. You sat with me that | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
this -- in this very studio when he became Leader 18 months ago. Are | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
you saddened by what has happened? I do not take these decisions | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
lightly, but could do not apologise for taking on the leadership of the | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
party. I give the best job I could. -- I did the best job I could, a | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
reformed internal party structures, moved the party forward with | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
internal communication structures, and that I am hard of -- proud of. | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
Will the public cannot see these internal spats, this division, is | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
this not the final nail in the coffin for the Ulster Unionist | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
Party? Politics goes round in a circle. Some parties are on a high | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
point, and in government at times, and some are not. That is very | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
easily seen within the Republic of Ireland and the UK government, the | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
Conservative Party were back in government after being out of | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
favour. It will happen with the Ulster Unionist Party, we will be | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
back in government again. It is my intention to support the leader and | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
give he or she that the sport that they deserve and they will need -- | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
the support they deserve and need. I ask and appeal that other members | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
of the party do the same. Belfast Crown Court has been told a | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Belfast businessman at the centre of a corruption scandal who bribe | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
staff at the Ministry of Defence there may have to pay �1 million in | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
restitution. Jimmy McGeown received �16 million in contract with the | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
MoD, he paid �80,000 in bribes to two civil servants. | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
This is 73 year-old Jimmy McGeown. A successful businessman with all | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
the trappings of wealth. Today the Crown Court heard he is also a | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
crook, who bribed Ministry of Defence staff to help when multi- | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
million-pound contracts for his CCTV business. Between 1999 and | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
2004, his company, now under new management, one contract's 1 -- | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
worth �60 million to provide security systems for army bases. | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
The contract process was rigged, Jimmy McGeown was bribing people on | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
the inside to help his company get the work. Ronnie Knox was the main | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
beneficiary, a contract manager for the MoD based at feed Field backs. | :08:39. | :08:48. | |
He took �66,500 in bribes. The other inside man was a quantum leap | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
so there based in Portadown. -- a quantity surveyor. Whilst Jimmy | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
McGeown's company carried out �60 million worth of work for the MoD, | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
the court was told the focus of the case was the extent of the bribery. | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
The prosecuting QC told the judge that in spite of the corrupt | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
payments main to buy it Jimmy McGeown, there was no cost to the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
public purse. -- made by Jimmy McGeown. There is no evidence that | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
the MoD did not give value for money for the work that had been | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
carried out. The principle it defence, he said, was one of | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
corruption. All three appeared in court although sentencing was | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
delayed. The court was told they would all face financial penalties, | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
in Jimmy McGeown's case, after �1 million. | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
The first photographs of the former First Minister Ian Paisley | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
recovering after his recent illness have been published. They show the | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
85 year-old relaxing at home with his wife Eileen, just 10 days after | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
his release from hospital. Lord Bannside was rushed to the Ulster | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Hospital at the Parc de start of last month suffering from heart | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
problems. The former Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church fell | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
ill less than a fortnight after preaching his final sermon as a | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
minister. You are watching BBC Newsline. | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
Still to come, a find out why Belfast has to do with stars that | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
exploded billions of years ago. I am at the stadium where Ireland | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
are hoping for their first victory against Scotland on home soil since | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
2008. The captain of the cargo ship that | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
was in collision with a passenger ferry in Belfast Lough has appeared | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
in court. 55 year-old Miroslaw Pozniak from Poland is charged with | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
being over the alcohol limit whilst in charge of his ship last | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
Wednesday night. Today, through his lawyer, he pleaded guilty at Bangor | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
court. Miroslaw Pozniak, who has no links with Northern Ireland, will | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
remain in custody. The annual cost of providing | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
policing and other services in Belfast's Brit -- Holyland area has | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
risen to more than 3000 -- �3 million per year. It is very | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
popular with students, which often causes friction with those who live | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
there all year round the point It can be troubled and messy, but it | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
should be vibrant and diverse. Belfast's Holyland has often to | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
anti-social behaviour, and sometimes more serious trouble. The | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
cost of policing, wardens, CCTV, housing and other services have | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
spiralled. Day-to-day costs rose from �500,000 in 2006 to �2.7 | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
million in 2010. There are extra costs associated with special | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
events like St Patrick's Day. In 2010, does cost �300,000. This adds | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
up to eight built in 2010 of more than �3 million. If we did not | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
prove the money in, life would be unbearable for people living there. | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
They need to have a quality of life. It is not for the ratepayer to pick | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
the tap up. For those of living here, the figures is no surprise. | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
We welcome the report, an independent report which has been | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
put -- which has put what we have been saying on to paper for the | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
first time. The main thing coming out of the report is the huge short | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
ball in university provided accommodation for students. Queen's | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
University is providing more official housing. The University of | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
Ulster has no plans. The report suggests that is not enough. If you | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
take comparable cities like Nottingham, Cardiff -- Cardiff or | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
lead, -- Leeds, there are five students per bed space. The figure | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
in Belfast is worse, 16 students. have an outstanding private rented | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
sector, and I think out of all the places in the UK, we have no | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
regulation of the rented sector, no landlord registration, we need to | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
sort that out as soon as possible. Neither university would comment on | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
the report and will the full The chairman of a Dublin tribunal | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
investigating allegations of collusion has expressed | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
disappointment at the lack of co- operation from some former RUC | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
officers. In his report, Judge Peter Smithwick said a small number | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
of potentially important witnesses had refused to give evidence. It is | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
investigating the murders of two officers in 1989. They were the two | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
most senior men killed during the Troubles. Murdered by M I are a hit | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
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squad in 1989 on the way home from a meeting. -- the IRA. Rumours | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
abounded that a Garda Moll had been informed of the officer's movement | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
but that was dismissed by the of parities. I reject any suggestion | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
of that kind. -- authorities. We reject that firmly and clearly. | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
Investigations found no evidence of collusion but suspicion persisted | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
and in 2005, the tribunal was set up to investigate. Getting to the | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
truth of what happened is not easy. The tribunal has heard from 170 | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
witnesses so far, including a bomb maker, former Garda officers, a DUP | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
MP and an IRA spite. There has been much to eliminate but there has | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
been claim and counter-claim, confusion and contradiction. A | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
former British agent claimed he was present when a Garda officer passed | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
information to the Provisionals and he thought he was implicated in the | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
murders. This was denied by others and the agent has been described as | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
an intelligence nuisance. Judge Peter Smithwick will have to decide | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
who two believed it. But in today's report he said he was disappointed | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
that some officers were refusing to help with inquiries. He said the | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
British authorities in Northern Ireland had Heidi relevant | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
intelligence information regarding pollution but so far no agreement | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
could be released to put that into evidence. Whether that agreement | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
could be reached or not, the trial is almost finished, with a small | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
number of witnesses yet to appear, including free officers under the | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
spotlight. They might hear from an IRA man directly involved and a | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
former agent from the British Army. The dying days of the tribunal | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
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Just a look ahead to what is coming up on Newsline next week and we | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
reveal the extent of shocking animal cruelty in the countryside. | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
We have had access to a USPCA operation targeting badger-baiting. | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
These men are in the countryside intending to kill badgers. Country | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
been -- USPCA has tracked them and we are showing images of badgers | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
been attacked. We are looking at the affect on animals involved and | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
the extraordinary lengths at USPCA is going to to stop the activity | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
and we are asking if more can be done to bring these gangs to | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
justice. That is all next week. A Queen's University scientist has | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
been chosen to lead a search to discover the first chemical | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
elements and how they were created. The team has got funding of almost | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
�2 million to look deep into space for the first exploding stars. Here | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
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To boldly go where few other scientists have gone before, to the | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
edge of the universe. They are looking for the first supernova. | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
Stars that exploded billions of years before and build the universe | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
today. Be team are planning to use substantial funding to search deep | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
into space. They are looking for the light from the first exploding | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
stars. But East Belfast the best place to start? It would be a | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
terrible place if we had inferior equipment but we have got the best | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
telescopes on Earth and we are frequent users of them. We have got | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
internet connectivity and eat is easy to do top level astronomy from | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Belfast and any university. They have discovered that they can strip | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
away identical images by computers, taking different times and leaving | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
just the very start they are looking for. We want to understand | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
the origins of the solar system and life on her and the fundamental | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
building blocks like carbon, silicon and oxygen. These were | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
formed in explosions. We want to push that back to the earliest | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
stages when chemical elements were formed. It could take many years to | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
find the first exploding star but after billions of years, it is | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
probably worth the wait. You will hear it first on Newsline if they | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
discover these stars. We have heard from the Irish Olympians of 1948 | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
but first, the rest of the sport. Mark Allen has come back home with | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
the coveted World Snooker Open title which he got last weekend. | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
But it has been eclipsed by comments he made about China on | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
Twitter. He has told BBC Newsline he expects to be disciplined by the | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
governing body but said he would continue to speak his mind. | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
home club in Antrim is a far cry from China but Mark Allen is not | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
far from controversy. He described the venue hosting the event as | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
horrendous and ski arena rubbish and toilet inadequate. There is a | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
lot of truth in what I said. It is a different culture as I talked | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
about before. I had to adapt but the facilities and the venue, in | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
Marks out of 10, it was definitely nothing. It was that bad. It was | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
not very nice for us to come over and they are trying to encourage us | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
to participate in these events but the standards were not good enough. | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
The body has described his remarks as extremely disappointing. I was | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
expressing my opinion. It gets me into trouble now and again and I am | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
sure I will get reprimanded but it is just an opinion at the end of | :20:10. | :20:20. | |
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Ballymena United Football Club will contest the Irish Cup semi-final | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
after role. It was expected they would be expelled from the | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
competition after fielding an ineligible player, Alan Davison, | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
who got the winner against Newry. But the authority said a opinion | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
indicated that he had been eligible to play. Steven Davis is one of a | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
number of Rangers players that might accept it's a 75 % pay cut in | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
an attempt to avoid redundancy as the club fights for survival. In | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
view of the doom and gloom surrounding Rangers, Scottish | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Sports needs a lift and the rugby team is hoping to spring a surprise | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
against Ireland in the Six Nations. But Ireland, led by an Ulsterman | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
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tomorrow, need a victory to get Tomorrow, he will be walking out as | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
the captain but today, alongside Declan Kidney, it was all about | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
perfecting the structure as Ireland try to salvage pride from the | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
remaining matches. Too much is left. Four points are available and that | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
is the great thing about the Six Nations against other countries. It | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
is a different challenge and every game will throw up different | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
scenarios and that is what makes it a fantastic competition and long | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
may that continue and tomorrow will be another one of these games. | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
last time, they prevented Ireland from getting the Triple Crown. But | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
this time round, Scotland are hoping to avoid picking up the | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
wooden spoon. There is pressure on you and from your friends, your | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
family and your fellow Scottish people and people watching the game. | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
There will always be pressure. You do not feel it more. It is always | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
going to be there. The stadium will host Scotland for the first time | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
tomorrow and Scotland will be hoping to end a run of five | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
successive defeats. Ireland will be hoping to start Rory Best's ten- | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
year with victory. -- career. They have never qualified for the | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Olympics but the men and women's hockey teams have got a chance for | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
2012. The Irish hockey teams are not familiar with this attention | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
but it all goes according to plan, the men and women's teams could | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
qualify for the Olympic Games for the very first time. That is if | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
they win a qualification tournament, starting with the men tomorrow in | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
Dublin. I think the last few years of qualification have seen Ireland | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
finish six, 4th, third and the natural progression would be into | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
the finals. That would be delightful. The way we are training, | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
it is another tournament. As much as we have got the glory of | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
qualification, we have got it ends after this tournament and the | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
Olympics. We have got life after 2012. It is important but we have | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
got the big picture. That is to stop the trickle of Irish players | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
playing for Great Britain instead of Ireland. We hope every player in | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
Ireland will play for asked. We have struggled financially and we | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
cannot offer what other countries camp. Team GB is one of them. But | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
we can create a mind set and attitude and expectation and I | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
think the players recognise that. Qualification would certainly help | :24:01. | :24:10. | |
The second round of the Gulf world championship event is underway in | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
Miami and Rory MacIlroy has started seven behind the leader. -- golf. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
He had an eagle on the first hole and followed that with an | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
impressive approach for a birdie on the second but dropped shots on the | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
third and is just one under par. Graeme McDowell is on the same. He | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
has been in fantastic form before, four under on the first four holes. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
But not good Paul Darren Clarke, three Labour. The hockey players | :24:41. | :24:49. | |
are trying to qualify. -- freak over par. The Olympic Council of | :24:49. | :24:59. | |
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Ireland on the surviving members of The 14th Olympiad of the modern era. | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
The athletes of the nations gather to pit their strength and skill. 4 | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
B team of 1948, the category was bureaucratic. -- for the Irish team | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
of 1948. They were parading under this banner instead of Ireland and | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
some athletes refused to co-operate. Other athletes were denied the | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
right to compete because some team members were from Northern Ireland. | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
We had team members from Northern Ireland on the team and we were | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
told that we had to have an Irish Free State. People were getting | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
rejected. People from the south could take part and the North were | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
getting ignored and we said, no way. We are the same team and we get | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
together or not at all. Were you devastated because you could not | :25:54. | :26:04. | |
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compete? The standards were so poor. Do not beat last anyway! Given the | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
widespread rationing, the Olympics became known as the austerity Games. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
When they were released at the opening, we had thousands of | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
pigeons cooped up. They were flying everywhere. We were disappearing. | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
But it was great. Some 64 years after the London Games, the former | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
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Olympians were presented with a What a lovely day. Now the weather. | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
Mild weather is here and will stay for a few days and not just for the | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
weekend. Dry weather to come. Sunshine will be in pretty short | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
supply and a lot of cloud, much as we had today. Cloud across Northern | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
Ireland. This system brought rain. Not heavy but quite persistent at | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
times and that reduced visibility and left puddles. Overcast tonight | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
and a bit disappointing if you were hoping to get better conditions. In | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
the centre and the south, it will fragment tonight. But we will get a | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
bit of rain. Fog and mist but it is mild with temperatures and 10 | :27:29. | :27:37. | |
degrees. That stays this weekend. Cloudy and dry, apart from these | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
places tomorrow morning in the north. But rain and that will be | :27:43. | :27:51. | |
edging north and by the time we get to the after being, dry. -- after | :27:51. | :27:59. | |
lunch time. We have got a chance that we might get a bit of rain in | :27:59. | :28:05. | |
the east but it will be mild and at about 14 degrees. A chance of | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
bright conditions for the islands- Scotland match. Pretty mild at 13 | :28:10. | :28:20. | |
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degrees. -- Island-Scotland. More cloud but still mild at 12 degrees. | :28:21. | :28:26. |