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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline: Stormont draws up an | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
action plan to save Crumlin Road courthouse from ruin. More | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
harrowing details emerge of how three family members died in a | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
slurry tank accident. A report finds the shooting of an Official | :00:34. | :00:42. | |
IRA man by the army was unjustified. Just two Ulster players are named | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
on the Ireland rugby team to play Wales. We'll hear Declan Kidney's | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
explanation. The wind remains a feature of the weather and after a | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
mild day, it's cooling down again as well. Stormont is stepping in to | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
sort out the future of one of our best known listed buildings. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Crumlin Road courthouse in north Belfast has been lying derelict for | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
15 years now and is a state of serious disrepair. It's owned by a | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
private developer, but now Stormont is intervening with an action plan. | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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Julian O'Neill has this exclusive report. The damage is clear for all | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
to see. A series of fires several years ago left this 160-year-old | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
listed building exposed to the elements. According to an architect | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
for the building's own e it is not beyond repair. There is still a | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
structure which is capable of restoration. Number one court, the | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
bit that survived the most and a lot of the original features are | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
there. Although it looks terrible and it is terrible and it would be | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
great to see work starting, we still have a structure that is | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
important and can be restored. Crumlin Road jail is enjoying a new | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
lease of life, thanks to fub lick - - public funds. But the court has | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
failed to attract investment. As far back as 2007 the jail and the | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
court house were seen as playing a key role in the revitalisation of | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
what is one of the most deprived parts of Belfast. While the jail | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
has been refurbished into a tourist attraction, at the court house, | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
time has stood still, as first plans for an office and then a | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
hotel have failed to get off the drawing board. Stormont has | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
commissioned a report and it will establish the building's condition | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
and value. It will also select the preferred development option. And | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
taking back public ownership through vesting or buying the court | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
house is a possible outcome. The social development minister says it | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
is time to act. I see it in terms of regeneration, economic | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
development, employment opportunities. Also the removal of | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
a blight from that part of the city. We have condemned people, the | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
owners have condemned people for years to living in an area where | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
that is what they look at day after day. That is unacceptable. We need | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
a resolution and I'm determined that we will do that. The owner has | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
a new idea and his architect told me it is to turn the corporate | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
house into a museum for records and drawings of local historic | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
buildings. There has been a muted reception in the community. Bearing | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
in mind this building sits, it is actually an interface between | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
Antrim Road, Cliftonville and Shankill, I feel -- fail to imagine | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
what would draw someone like myself or someone from a deprived building | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
to access a wilding -- building to access architect. The economic down | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
U-turn has not helped. The study on its future is due to be completed | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
by July. The deaths of three members of the Spence family last | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
September has been described as the worst farming tragedy here in 20 | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
years. The inquest into the deaths of Noel Spence, and his two sons | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Graham and Nevin finished today and our reporter Claire Savage was in | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
the Coroner's Court in Belfast. Today giving evidence was the state | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
pathologist professor Jack Crane. He said when the men entered the | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
tank, the level of toxic gases was high enough to render the men | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
unconscious and when they fell into the slurry, they died. Two Health | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
and Safety Executives gave evidence about the dangers of working in | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
tanks on farm and recommended a number of precautions. You take of | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
taking a bottle of fizzy drink with the cap on, shake it and removing | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
the cap. You get a huge quantity of gas released. That is what happens | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
when you mix slurry. The advice is get the animals out, mix on a windy | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
day, open all openings, put in the pump, start it up and get out and | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
stay out for half an hour at least. The coroner said this was an | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
unbelievable tragedy and when it happened people were river eted to | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
the newspapers and radio as they couldn't believe such a tragedy | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
could happen in the 21st Century. He added until this happened, not | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
everyone was aware of the dangers and said what he has been told is | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
the message is getting across to the wider Northern Ireland farming | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
community. And that the tradgejibg - tragic death were now known | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
throughout the British Isles. He said not only was a it a loss to | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
the farming communities, but to anyone that loved rugby and that | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
Nevin's loss was felt throughout the rugby world. The coroner added | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
that often the ending of an inquest brought closure to a family, but he | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
didn't that that was the case in this instance and he hoped the | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
Spence family would be able to get on with their lives. A 26-year-old | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
man has died in a car crash in County Armagh. It happened on | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Monaghan Road at Madden on Monday. The man was driving a silver car | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
which went into a hedge. The police have appealed for anyone who saw | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
the crash to contact them. Detectives are treating as | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
attempted murder an incident in Omagh when a pipe bomb was left | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
close to a police officer's home. The off-duty officer fired after he | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
said he saw people acting suspiciously near the house in the | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
Coolnagard area on Friday night. The police officer no longer lives | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
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there but had returned to carry out repairs. A judge has ruled that a | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
15-year-old girl should remain in a juvenile detention centre, after | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
hearing claims that she was involved in sex and drug-taking | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
sessions with men linked to Loyalist paramilitaries. The | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
teenager - who is in care - was refused bail to help her sever ties | :07:19. | :07:29. | |
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with any men trying to exploit her. Julie McCullough has the story. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
What more can you tell us. Frplgt these allegations emerged during a | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
bail hearing for the teenager today. The 15-year-old, who can't be | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
identified for legal reasons, is charged with assaulting a member of | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
staff and another resident at a children's home. Last week it was | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
claimed that she breeched her conditions, by leaving the home | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
without permission early on a morning that she was due in court. | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
The court was later told she had said a local LVF man had demanded | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
she go to his home at 5am. A prosecution lawyer told the court | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
that the girl referred to engaging in sexual activity with more than | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
one man and taking cocaine and other drugs. He said she was | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
forming dangerous bonds and that the trust wanted to break the bonds. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
He said while the home was happy to have her back, they wanted her to | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
spend some time in secure accommodation first. What did her | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
legal team have to say? Well, a defence lawyer accepted that the | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
girl had left the home at the request of a local known figure. | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
But he added she said her own safety was never in doubt. And she | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
denies some of the circumstances outlined about her activity with | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
older men. However, the judge pointed out that vulnerable young | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
people in care are being targeted very often for sexual purposes. And | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
he said those who do it seem to know who might easily fall under | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
their influence. He ruled she should remain in a juvenile | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
detention centre until secure accommodation is found. Thank you. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
An information has found that the Parachutet Regiment were not | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
justified in shooting an official figure in the IRA in Belfast 40 | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
years ago. The finding has come from the Historical Enquiries Team. | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
Mervyn Jess reports. Official IRA leader, Joe McCann during a gun | :09:29. | :09:37. | |
battle in the 70s. A year later, he was dead. Shot by the army running | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
away from the police in the city's Markets ar Y -- area. His widow was | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
the chief mourner at his funeral. Today, she and her sons and | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
daughters were at a news conference outlieping the findings of the | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Historical Enquiries Team report into his killing. The official IRA | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
leader was shot dead by paratrooperers 1972 as he was | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
running way from the police. shooting of our father was not | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
justified. It was unjustified. report says while Joe McCann was | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
wanted in connection with terrorist crime and the soldiers thought he | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
was armed, his actions did not amount to the level of specific | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
threat to justify them opening fire. All three soldiers, A, B and C, | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
opened fire and Joe fell. Having been struck by three bullets. He | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
was unarmed. It has not been possible to question the Special | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
Branch version of events. Because incredibly the RUC then and the | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
PSNI now claim no -- not to be aware of the Special Branch | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
officers who were following Joe. The feignedings themselves were | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
that the paras were unjustified in their use of lethal force and | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
contravened the yellow card and their own procedures. The shooting | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
of this IRA figure led to widespread rioting in Belfast at | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
the time. The Historical Enquiries Team report concludes there are no | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
lines of inquiry, or further investigative opportunities that | :11:24. | :11:34. | |
could clarify the circumstances of his death. Still to come: Two | :11:34. | :11:43. | |
churches close to the border are targeted by armed robbers. The | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Alliance Party is being accused of denying parents the choice over | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
their children's education by proposing a major increase in | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
places in integrated schools. It's one of a series of proposals in a | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
new Alliance document setting out how the Executive should build a | :11:54. | :12:04. | |
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shared future. Our Political Editor Mark Devenport is at Stormont. How | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
do alliance hope to achieve this expadges in integrated education? | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
They are setting a dramatic target for more than tripling the number | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
of children in integrated schools by 2020. They would make it easier | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
for some schools to deClare themselves as integrated and saying | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
all new build schools should be integrated. The alliance minister | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
said the party is responding to popular demands. In the fast few | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
weirs we have had 6% of our -- in the past few year we have had 6% of | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
children in integrated schools. The schools have a range of benefits. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
We have a plan to increase the number of places in Northern | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
Ireland and we believe that is in line with what most people want to | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
see. What has been the reaction to that plan? Well there has been | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
criticism of the plan from other parties. The DUP and Sinn Fein and | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
the SDLP say that the plan appears to eliminate parental choice. We | :13:12. | :13:20. | |
asked Jim Clarke from the council for Catholic maintained schools | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
whether this increase was realistic. The simple answer is no. We have | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
had 25 years of department encouraging integrated education | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
and we have 6%. We have many spare places in the integrated sector. | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
Only five or six schools are oversubscribed. The offer of | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
Catholic education is available throughout the world and it is | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
nearly almost a sign of a mature society that we can offer a faith- | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
based option. We are prepared to offer a fate-based option, | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
alongside the Protestant churches if communities want that. This I | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
about a shared feature with flag flying at the centre of attention. | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
What is the party proposing there? They suggest that the designated | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
day flag flying policy should be applied to all government buildings | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
and should be rolled out across the other new supercouncils which are | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
due to come into existence. They also call for regulation of the | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
flying of flags on street furniture, such as lamp posts. So people could | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
apply for a licence to fly the union flag around a certain day and | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
after that it would be their responsibility to take that flag | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
down. I should say that this is of course an alliance proposal and the | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
First Minister in a BBC interview rejected the notion of any Parades | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
Commission-style body to regulate flag flying. So not all the parties | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
are singing off the same hymn sheet. Thank you. You're watching BBC | :15:00. | :15:09. | |
Newsline and still to come on the programme: I'm live at Donegal, | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
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they play Linfield tonight. Within the last hour senior politicians in | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
the Republic have been paying tribute to the bravery of Detective | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
Garda Adrian Donohoe. He was murdered last Friday night while on | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
escort duty outside a credit union in County Louth. Shane Harrison is | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
in Dublin. What is the latest on the investigation. The Irish | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
justice minister and senior police officers believe a burnt out car | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
found in woods near the scene is linked to the murder of Adrian | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
Donohoe, whose funeral will take place tomorrow. It emerged the car | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
was stolen in a village a few days before the murder and kept out of | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
circulation. There are reports that police have a good idea who the | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
murder gang are, but those reports are not being officially confirmed. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
The focus remains on North Louth criminals. Politicians have been | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
paying tribute to the police officer today? Yes members of the | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
Parliament stood in silence in tribute to Adrian Donohoe. The | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Taoiseach told the house that the murder of a garda is a capital | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
offence with a mandatory 40 year sentence and in paying tribute he | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
said no effort would be spared in bringing the killers before the | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
courts. Let me assure everyone here, everyone in his family and in the | :16:38. | :16:47. | |
country, that we will do everything possible to bring those who | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
murdered Adrian Donohoe to justice. And we will not rest and we cannot | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
rest until we have done. So Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
appealed to anyone with information to contact the police. H said Mr | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
Donohoe's murder brought memories of the murder of Gerry McCabe in | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
1996 and Ger ger apologised to Gerry McCabe's widow and said he | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
was sorry for the pain inflicted on those who had served the state. | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
Thank you. A parish priest who knew Detective Adrian Donohoe has been | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
speaking about his fears when he was held by armed raiders in his | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
parochial house last night. The robbery was in Belturbet in County | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
Cavan shortly before another robbery at a parochial house in | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
Kinawley in County Fermanagh. It's thought the same gang was involved. | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
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With more here's our district reporter Julian Fowler. Recovering | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
from their ordeal, the parish priest and his house keeper have | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
been left shaken after three men came to the house last night and | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
demanded money. They were kept in the kitchen for half an hour while | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
the gang searched the house. The I offered the man with a hammer a cup | :18:10. | :18:19. | |
of tea. Which he declined. So I didn't feel frightened, my house | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
keeper was terrified. She said it was the worst ordeal she had | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
experienced. Me said the murder of police officer had crossed his mind. | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
I felt this was of a minor nature compared to the, horrible events in | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
Dundalk. I knew Adrian Donohoe. I was in parish some years back and | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
he was a wonderful young man. Wonderful. Half an hour after | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
leaving the area, it is thought the same gang crossed the border and | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
made their way to the pa roachial house elsewhere. Two women were | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
counting money in the office when the gang came through the door. | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
think priests' houses would be targeted, somebody said nothing is | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
sacred. But I have been heartened by the messages of support by | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
people in the Parrish who are sickened this is happening. It is | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
thought only a small sup was taken in both robbery -- sum was taken in | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
both robberies. Ulster may be the in-form team in Irish rugby at the | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
moment. But just two of their players have been picked for the | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
international side to play Wales in the Six Nations championship on | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Saturday. Austin O'Callaghan is in west Belfast this evening. I'm at | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
Suffolk Road, home of Donegal Celtic, who play Linfield in a key | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
league match tonight. More on that in a few moments. But, yes, I think | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
a few eyebrows were raised around Ravenhill at Declan's Kidney's team | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
selection for the trip to Cardiff on Saturday. Ulster may be top of | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
rugby's Pro 12, but only Rory Best and winger Craig Gilroy have made | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
the starting 15. Two more players Chris Henry and Declan Fitzpatrick | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
have been named on the bench. Our reporter Thomas Kane has spent the | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
day at the Ireland team headquarters in county Kildare. It | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
wasn't exactly the changing of guard, but the new captain wasn't | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
going to let the previous skipper Hoad hill up on his way to training. | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
-- hold him up on his way to training. Hitching a ride with him | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
was a young Ulster man handed his Six Nations debut. Having announced | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
his presence during the November internationals. He has been playing | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
well. He played well on the right- wing against the Barbarians last | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
year. That was well noted. He can go on both and acquit himself well. | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
That is no easy task. He deserves his chance. Ulster have been the in | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
form Irish province this season and while Stephen ferris and Tommy Bow | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
would have started, the contingent from the side is outnumbered by the | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
Repationings from Munster and Leinster. -- representations. Can | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
you understand supporters saying we are doing well and we only have two | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
starting. I wasn't aware of that until you pointed that out. That is | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
never the way we pick the team. I could imagine you know hn you do | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
the numbers, but once you're involved in an Irish set up, if the | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
15 lads come from there and they're the best 15, that is the 15 that | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
will play. I think Chris Henry is hard done by. His form has been | :21:38. | :21:46. | |
comepgsal. The Ulster guys have to be more patient. -- exceptional. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
They are unluckly there not a few more of them in the team. Although | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
not named in the match day 22, Ian Henderson will travel with the | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
squad asen extra player. Suggesting that Declan Kidney will give him a | :22:00. | :22:09. | |
chance to impress as the Six Nations progresses. Wales again | :22:09. | :22:19. | |
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Ireland is live across the BBC on Saturday. The Larne versus Lurgan | :22:20. | :22:30. | |
match is off. $$WHITEWith me now is the DC manager Pat McAllister. Who | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
needs the points most? What Linfield need is no concern to me. | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
My only focus is to keep the club in the league. We haven't been | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
picking up many points. So it is important to start getting points | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
on the board. Whats gone wrong this season? It is simple, we haven't | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
won enough games. But our level of performance has been good. We have | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
matched teams but we have lacked the killing edge up front. Good | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
luck tonight. Kick off is at quart tore 8 and Mr Is cover on radio | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
Ulster immediate wave. -- medium wave. Next to one of the more | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
unusual journeys for one of our leading rally drivers. The BBC's | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
Top Gear programme has enlisted the help of Dungannon's Kris Meeke. His | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
task - to drive a luxury car around a world rally championship circuit | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
with presenter James May as co- pilot. Denise Watson's report | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
begins with an excerpt from a roller coaster ride. Are you scared | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
about driving this on a rally course? I am a bit. You should be | :23:41. | :23:50. | |
more scared. Come on. Plus two left. Don't call the notes. When Chris | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
Meeke is at the wheel, he means business. But James May wasn't up | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
to speed with the pace notes. was something different and to take | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
a 2.3 turn Bentley 620 was something different. As Chris tried | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
to keep the car on the road, James was getting on his nerve. Get it | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
right or shut up. When you're running on gravel tracks on those | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
tyres, the grip can be limited. It was capable of doing up to 145mph. | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
So trying to get it stopped in those sishs can be challenging. | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
this was a challenge, sustaining a career is more difficult. The | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
County ty Rhone man is without a drive and the economic climate | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
causing the world of motor sport to tighten its belt. There is not many | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
properly paid seats at the top level, once you come out of that, | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
it is hard to earn a living. But I want to be back competing. Million | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
of Top Gear viewers will agree. If he can drive a Bentley around a | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
rally course like thi, it is only a matter of time before he is back on | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
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the world stage. Larne against Lurgan Celtic is off. But the two | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
league matches are on. I'm sure it's a bit soggy underfoot at | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
Donegal Celtic tonight - it's been a wild day. Angie has more to tell | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
a wild day. Angie has more to tell us about the windy weather. The | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
wind has been a feature and will continue to be a feature over the | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
next couple of days, but did you notice how mild it felt? That is | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
because the wind was coming from the south and lifted the | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
temperatures into double fi,. Highest temperature 14.3 Celsius. | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
Look how much higher than the average which is normally around | :25:59. | :26:08. | |
six degrees. But the weather was quite wild, windy and wet. That is | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
clearing and now that weather system is moving away, we look at | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
the isobars, the white line, they're packing in tightly tonight. | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
So gale force gusts maybe as high as 60mph towards the north coast. | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
That could cause some minor tree damage. But it is a dry evening and | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
those strongest winds should die away during the night. But it is | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
still breezy and that breeze will bring more showers. Some later in | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
the night could be on the heavy side. But at least it is frost-free | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
No lower than four or five degrees. Tomorrow, the showery and windy | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
theme continues. But we may get a bright gap through the morning rush | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
hour. But I think as the morning wears on we will see more showers | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
appearing and again where they show up, they could be heavy. Maybe | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
mixed with hail or thunder ch things improve by the afternoon. | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
Although the showers could linger across parts of the east for a | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
while. Drier and brighter weather will follow, with sunshine coming | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
through. But nowhere near as mild as today with the breeze from the | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
west. Highs of around eight degrees. Tomorrow night ot system appears, | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
again the ice bars pack in. So we have to expect a squally band of | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
heavy rain to move through during the latter part of tomorrow night. | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
That should clear away to leave a breezy day on Thursday. A few | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
showers around, particularly towards the north coast. It should | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
become drier towards the weekend fpbgt, the wind should ease down, | :27:42. | :27:49. |