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Newsline... Two teenagers are stabbed and eight | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
police officers injured at internment night bonfires. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Tomorrow's protest at an Apprentice Boys parade is cancelled but | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
tensions remain high in Castlederg ahead of a republican parade. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
The IRA admits killing Brian Stack, the only prison officer murdered in | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
the Republic during the Troubles. Also on the programme... | :00:42. | :00:51. | |
The Belfast pilot who'll be flying THIS over Newcastle tomorrow. | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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a real Thunderbirds sort of thing. If you give a child a crayon to draw | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
an aeroplane he will come up with something like a Vulcan. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
On day two of Golf's final major of the year, Rory McIlroy is struggling | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
to defend his US PGA title. It'll be a dry bright end to the | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
week and a pretty good day for Saturday. But we could have hail and | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
thunder on Sunday! There is a heavy police presence in | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Belfast city said this evening ahead of an ante in tournament march by | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Republicans. Loyalist protests have been planned. Mark since and is in | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
the city centre for us. What is happening there at the moment? | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
The police have had to call for reinforcements down here to the city | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
centre after a brief outbreak of trouble involving loyalist | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
protesters. I am at the bottom of Royal Avenue outside Debenhams. The | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
shopping centre closed earlier this evening because of fears of what | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
could happen with this protest and the anti-internment republican | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
parade. The trouble has been pretty minor so far, but there is a very | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
heavy police presence. There was a smoke bomb thrown by loyalist | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
protest is about 15 minutes ago and a couple of missiles. Then, some | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
protesters tried to turn over a police Land Rover. The police | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
arrived and the reinforcements arrived. I have seen the police | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
water cannon arrive as well. Everywhere you look in the city | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
centre this evening, you can see the police, dozens of vehicles, hundreds | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
of officers. It seems relatively calm at the moment, it is one of | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
those nights when the police will be very glad when it is over. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Eight police officers were injured and two teenagers were stabbed | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
during last night's violence at several bonfires marking the | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
anniversary of internment. The stabbings were in a nationalist area | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
of north Belfast. In another incident, a man attacked the police | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
with a sword. Sinn Fein have criticised the bonfire organisers, | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
saying the fires attract people who want to cause trouble. Chris Page's | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
report begins in the Lower Falls area of west Belfast. | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
As the flames were dying down this morning, the police investigation | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
was beginning. So was the clear-up. Council staff were getting rid of | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
the rubbish from the site where the police came under attack last night. | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
A crowd threw paint bombs, bottles and bricks at PSNI officers. Eight | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
police were hurt. Two were treated in hospital for head injuries. The | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
PSNI arrested eight people. While the bonfire burned, the Fire and | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
Rescue Service had to come out and watch these houses, in case they | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
caught fire. Although the bonfires are to mark the anniversary of | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
internment, Sinn Fein are opposed to them. People from this community are | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
asking that this is the last one fire that we see, because it is | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
unacceptable, it attracts anti-social elements, and it is | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
unacceptable to the majority of people. And the problems began even | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
before the fire was lit. This journalist was attacked, along with | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
a photographer, when they went to the site yesterday. They were fairly | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
drunk, most of them. When we decided to leave because it was getting | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
dangerous, we came under attack with a barrage of glass bottles. When we | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
managed to get out of the way, they continued to throw the bottles at | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
passing cars, almost causing an accident at one stage. There was | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
also trouble at this bonfire at Torrens Crescent, near the Oldpark | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Road in North Belfast. Two teenagers who were at the site were stabbed | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
nearby. The attack happened here at about half past midnight. A boy and | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
April were taken to hospital the condition of the boy, who is 16, is | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
described as serious but stable. The girl suffered injuries which are not | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
thought to be life-threatening. And here in the New Lodge area, the | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
police fired two plastic bullets during more disturbances. A man | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
armed with a sword attacked officers. After a difficult night, | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
the PSNI say their inquiry will be thorough in trying to identify | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
anyone involved in violence. A nationalist residents' group has | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
called off a protest against an Apprentice Boys parade through | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
Castlederg tomorrow. The move comes as tensions in the town remain high. | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
On Sunday, republicans are planning a commemoration to remember IRA | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
members killed during the Troubles. Sinn Fein say it will be a peaceful | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
act of remembrance, but the Secretary of State Theresa Villiers, | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Unionist politicians, the SDLP and the Alliance Party say it should be | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
called off. Here's our Political Reporter Stephen Walker. | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
This part of Country Tyrone has focussed political minds all week. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Castlederg is due to host an Apprentice Boys parade on Saturday | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
and a republican parade on Sunday. Nationalists and republicans had | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
originally planned to hold a counter demonstration to the Apprentice Boys | :05:56. | :06:06. | |
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parade, but now that protest has been called off. We have never | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
protest against the Apprentice Boys, but we were protesting against the | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
fact that they have come into the Nationalists end of the town without | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
seeking the consent of the community, which is the first time | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
they have done that in five and half years. Sunday's prarade by | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
republicans commemorates members of the IRA, including two IRA men who | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
died in 1973 when their own bomb exploded prematurely. A number of | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
families whose relatives were killed by the IRA in Castlederg say the | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
parade is insensitive. Jackie Hamilton was in the UDR and was shot | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
by the IRA. His nephew is against Sunday's parade. Why do they have to | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
bring it to the place where they cost so much death and destruction? | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
29 murders, over 50 bombs. I mean, they could have it where the two men | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
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had died. They have been having it elsewhere for years, why bring it to | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
the scene of such death and devastation? There is much political | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
opposition to Sundays parade. The Secretary of State, the Alliance | :07:20. | :07:29. | |
Party and the SDLP say it should not go ahead. Given that so many people | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
have died in the Castlederg area, there is a lot of pain. These | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
commemorations are fine but I think a lot of people are still suffering | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
and the pain reopens when they hear of such parades as this. The DUP and | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
the UUP are also opposed to Sunday's parade. And even at this late stage, | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
Unionists hope republicans will change their mind. We have reports | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
of the victims having to go to doctors to get medication. They are | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
reliving this day in, day out, and that is totally wrong. It is wrong | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
that they are bringing this back into the forefront of the life of | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
the people of Castlederg. Sinn Fein say Sunday's parade is not a | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
celebration. It has been re-routed away from the town's war memorial. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
Deputy First Minster Martin McGuinness said it will not glorify | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
or celebrate the IRA's campaign, but will be a peaceful act of | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
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remembrance. 30 years after the murder, the IRA | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
has admitted shooting the only prison officer in the Republic to be | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
killed during the Troubles. Brian Stack was wounded as he left a | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
boxing match in Dublin and died the following year. Louise Cullen | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
reports Brian Stack was shot in the back of the head as he left a boxing | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
match in Dublin in 1983. The father of three died from his | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
injuries the following year. Two years ago, one of Mr Stack's sons | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
spoke to BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight reporter, Declan Lawn. | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
was paralysed from the neck down. He was very badly brain-damaged. We did | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
try and get on with life but it was very difficult for us. Three months | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
ago, the family met Gerry Adams to ask for help to establish if the IRA | :09:12. | :09:22. | |
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was involved. Today, Gerry Adams expressed regret for the killing. | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
met with a former IRA leader who had investigated the smarter and for the | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
first time it was made clear to the family that Republicans had been | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
involved in the killing of their father. Gardai say a superintendent | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
has been appointed to liaise with the family and it would be | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
inappropriate to comment further. Still to come... | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
The World Police and Fire Games are coming to an end. People will | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
remember this as a friendly city, a city where people have extended a | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
warm up to all the visitors, and a city we should be proud of. -- a | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
warm welcome. A County Tyrone woman has appeared | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
in court charged with having what the police believe are components to | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
trigger a type of bomb used by dissident republicans. Nuala | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Gormley, who is 36 and from Morgan Park in Dromore, was arrested after | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
a car was stopped on Tuesday. Gordon Adair was in the court for BBC | :10:27. | :10:37. | |
Newsline. Gore was driving a Nissan which was | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
stopped by the police just outside Cookstown on Tuesday evening. -- | :10:42. | :10:51. | |
Nuala Gormley was driving. They find in -- they find an oil drum wrapped | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
in black tape. They find transmitters and receivers and | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
antenna right. They believe this was to be used to detonate a bomb by | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
Ramon control. The accused told officers said she knew nothing about | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
the item. The police also found Wellington boots, some gloves and | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
two coats. A detective said Nuala Gormley had no criminal record, but | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
said this was common practice among dissident groups, to use people with | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
a clean record to transport items because they were less likely to | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
come under scrutiny from the police. Bail was refused and the accused was | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
remanded in custody to appear again next month. | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
In a separate case, a 39-year-old County Armagh man was refused bail | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
on similar charges. Gabriel Martin Mackle, from Glebe Hill Manor in | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
Tandragee, was stopped by the police while he was riding a motorbike in | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
Lurgan on Wednesday. The court was told officers found ammunition and a | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
bottle containing mercury in the rucksack he was wearing and that | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
mercury could be used as part of a trigger for an under-car booby trap | :11:57. | :12:07. | |
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bomb. Three people have been airlifted to | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
hospital after being rescued from cliffs at Fairhead near Bally half | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
-- Ballycastle. The rescue operation began at around | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
3:30pm today. A large family group or out walking and six members got | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
into some difficulty from exhaustion. The Irish Coast Guard | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
helicopter with coastguard teams from Ballycastle and Coleraine were | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
called to the scene to help. I understand that two members of the | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
group were taken by the RNLI to the lifeboat station. One member of the | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
group, a man who was presenting some hard difficulties, was airlifted to | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
Aldergrove and will be transferred to Antrim area hospital for a | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
checkup. The operation is over and the coastguard teams are pulling | :12:55. | :13:05. | |
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out. The World Police and Fire Games are | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
all but over by the closing ceremony. 7000 entrants from 64 | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
countries attended. From dodge ball to darts, it has been the friendly | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
and sociable games. It's not often you get to see this | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
on home turf... The New Zealand Haka - enough to put the opposition, in | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
this case the French, right off. A song and dance which seems to have | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
pulled in the crowds. We have been overwhelmed by the number of people | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
who have turned up. For the ice hockey we had over 40,000 people. | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
This is a tremendous success for Northern Ireland. From traditional | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
sports to events you wouldn't expect to see, but a real test of strength | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
and endurance regardless. And then there's the out of the blue | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
sports... This could be one of two sports, and | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
it is not darts, it is wrist-wrestling. That is not a | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
sport, but who is arguing? Northern Ireland takes on America. | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
friendliest ever! All very friendly, really. In the Games' 28-year | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
history, Northern Ireland has hosted the friendliest, apparently. But the | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
organisers would say that, wouldn't they? We have only said it once | :14:29. | :14:38. | |
before, to Melbourne in 1995. You have eclipsed the 1995 for the best | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
Games ever. They had the passion. We did not know very much about | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Belfast. We knew that the games were in good hands and they would never | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
let us down. Good news for business... It has been very | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
successful for the city in general. The food turnover especially has | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
been through the roof, and we have had to stay open later to | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
accommodate the athletes and their families and friends. We have been | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
serving food up to 12 o'clock at night, which has been on of. Fairfax | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
in Britain it will host the next World Police and Fire Games in two | :15:18. | :15:27. | |
years' time. It seems like it will be quite an act to follow! | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
Still to come... Tens of thousands of people descend | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
on the north-west for the biggest event of the City of Culture | :15:36. | :15:44. | |
calendar, the Fleadh. Next to an iconic plane - a VIP in | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
the skies that, weather permitting, will be at the Newcastle Festival of | :15:47. | :15:57. | |
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Flight tomorrow. It's the world's last flying Vulcan bomber. Its | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
future is still in doubt. The distinctive delta wing aircraft will | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
land at Belfast International Airport and will be open to the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
public on Sunday. BBC Newsline's Mervyn Jess has been to its base in | :16:09. | :16:18. | |
Doncaster to meet a pilot from Belfast. 5... 4-mac... 3... To... | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
1... Thunderbirds are go! It's as much an icon of the '60s as | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
Thunderbirds, and like the TV series this aircraft stirred the | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
imaginations of children and adults. Now for the first time in nearly 30 | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
years, the Vulcan bomber is returning to Northern Ireland to | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
take part in this weekend's Festival of Flight in Newcastle. And at the | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
controls, flying it home so to speak, will be north Belfast pilot | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
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Bill Perrins. When I was a schoolboy I used to like cycling a lot. I saw | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
films of the Vulcan landing, using a great parachute to slow the plane. I | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
went to the top of the Antrim Road one day with some of my friends. One | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
of the guys have a parachute with a of about six feet. I thought I would | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
emulate a Vulcan. I tied it to the back of my seat. As I was quizzing | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
down the road and deployed the parachute, the bike stopped and I | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
kept going over the handlebars. An aeroplane inspired me to do silly | :17:34. | :17:42. | |
things on my bicycle! The delta wing is the aircraft's unique feature. | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
There is nothing like this in the air today. The Vulcan's last time an | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
action was during the Falklands War in 1982, when the aircraft flew | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
thousands of miles to bomb Port Stanley airport. This weekend, it's | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
on a much friendlier mission to Northern Ireland. We heard a strong | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
rumour that the aircraft may never fly after the end of this year. It | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
seems like they have made a way of making a fly until at least 2015. | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
The story behind my enforcement is I was the last controller to speak to | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
it when it last displayed at the 25th anniversary of the airport. I | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
had to terminate the display to allow others to land behind it. | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
Apart from the Red Arrows, the Vulcan is unlikely to play second | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
fiddle to any of the other display aircraft tomorrow. It is such a | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
bizarre ship, it is a real Thunderbirds sort of shape. If you | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
give a kid a crayon to draw on aeroplane, it will come out with | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
something like a Vulcan. This aircraft will fly until 2015. After | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
that, its future depends on charity funding, Lottery grants and aero | :18:52. | :19:02. | |
engineering skills. Even a Vulcan has a drip tray! | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
The biggest festival of Irish culture will be the biggest event in | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
the City of Culture year in Londonderry and it starts this | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
Sunday. Up to 300,000 visitors are expected to take part and enjoy | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann with a week of street music sessions, | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
concerts and drama. Our North-west reporter Keiron Tourish checks out | :19:21. | :19:31. | |
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if the city is ready. A flavour of Fleadh Cheoil na | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
Eireann... -- Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann. These musicians and | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
dancers will be among a host of performers taking part in the | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
largest Irish cultural festival. There's a great buzz of excitement | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
in the city. It is a really good experience and it is quite fun as | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
well. It is really exciting. It is a big thing to be part of. | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
organisers faced a huge logistical task, recruiting up to 1,500 | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
volunteers to help sort out the thousands of people who'll need | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
accommodation and information. Most rooms have been booked out and a | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
number of temporary campsites have also been set up. The logistics of | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
possibly doubling or tripling the population of the city over five | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
days has meant major issues over accommodation, traffic management, | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
the water service, the electricity grid, all of those logistics people | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
do not think about, it has been major. We have been as well prepared | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
as we could have been. It's the first time the All-Ireland Fleadh | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
has been staged outside the Republic. The organisers say they've | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
looked at previous festivals to learn from their experience. The | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
Police admit it's a huge challenge but say Derry is ready. There'll | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
even be PSNI officers available to speak to Fleadh-goers in Irish. | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
have that skill is this now within the organisation, so we have very | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
sound operational reasons for asking our colleagues to come and help us | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
out. On street drinking over a wide area will not be permitted, though | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
some places in the city centre have been granted a temporary licence to | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
serve alcohol. The authorities have called on everyone to have an | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
enjoyable time but to act responsibly. Above all, it's about | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
the performance. This 14-year-old makes his All Ireland Fleadh debut | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
and can't wait. I can't wait. It is going to be an amazing experience. | :21:37. | :21:45. | |
The Fleadh runs until Sunday week. We will hear about the weather | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
shortly. An hour ago, Rory McIlroy looked to | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
have relinquished his grasp on Golf's US PGA Championship, but he's | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
hanging on in there...just. The curls have gone, but the | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
roller-coaster goes on. At one point today it looked like Rory would miss | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
the cut in golf's final major of the year. The defending champion, who's | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
been enduring a season of struggles, fell to four over par early in | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
today's round. But he did recover his composure to rally with four | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
birdies over the last six holes to finish the day on level par, eight | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
shots of lead. -- seven shots off the lead. Darren Clarke is two over | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
at the halfway stage and should make the cut. Graeme McDowell began his | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
second round a short time ago on level par. | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
The Irish League kicks off tomorrow and it does so under a cloud of | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
controversy. The newly formed Northern Ireland Football League, | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
which will operate independently of the IFA, has warned that it's reform | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
or bust. Earlier today, former footballer and board member Peter | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
Dornan joined us in the studio. I asked him if the local game is in | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
the last chance saloon. That is what people are saying. | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
Certainly, the takeover gives us the opportunity to look at the game and | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
to see where it is going, basically, but I wouldn't describe | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
it as a last chance. It is a game which needs a very serious overhaul | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
and review. Myself and my fellow directors in the new league are | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
determined to go ahead and deal with that. Is Sunday football the answer? | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
I do not think so. There has been a lot of debate about it, it is not | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
going to save the game. All I ask for is for the clubs to be more | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
flexible and encourage them to play a Sunday game if the opportunity | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
arises. The rules allow for Sunday football. There is nothing in the | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
rules that says you cannot play Sunday football. I would encourage | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
clubs to be flexible. Friday nights, maybe Thursday nights, and Sundays | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
if necessary. In the league of Ireland they play during the summer, | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
is that something you have looked at? I think that is a more | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
contentious issue than Sunday football. That is something we are | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
seriously looking at. In saying that, we are going to have to engage | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
with the stakeholders, the supporters, the players, the clubs, | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
everybody, to get their views. Certainly that is on the agenda for | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
discussion. For the newly formed league, independence is crucial, but | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
you are funded by the IFA. That cannot be ideal? It is something | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
that causes me concern. How can a body be totally independent if we | :24:28. | :24:37. | |
are being funded by another body? The aim is to become totally | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
independent. It is a starting point. We have no money, so we need the | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
money from the IFA to get up and running. Hopefully it will be cut in | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
the near future. It is a four-year plan. If it does not work, where | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
does that leave the ball? Back to the status quo. Maybe the | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
possibility of the likes of a glorified amateur league. Who knows? | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
If it does not work, I will not be there. | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
We will be back on Final Score tomorrow. | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
Let's return to the city centre, where there has been trouble as | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
loyalists protest against an ante internment march. | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
More trouble in the last couple of minutes. The Republican career is | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
now close. It is just a couple of minutes away. It is supposed to come | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
down Royal Avenue. Loyalists have blocked the road. The police have to | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
decide whether they clear the road and try and get the parade down | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
Royal Avenue, or re-route the parade. There is no easy answer. It | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
looks like it is going to be a long night for the police in the centre | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
of Belfast. More at this evening on the 10:25pm | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
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we go through this evening, we could see some rain overnight. It is going | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
to be quite cool with temperatures down to nine or 10 degrees | :26:07. | :26:17. | |
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overnight. It is a big weekend of golf. If you have a tee time but, | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
things should be OK for you. We have had some decent brighter spells but | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
temperatures are below what we would expect at the time of year. Saturday | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
is not a bad day with just a few showers in the afternoon. Over | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Newcastle, plenty to watch out for. It is the festival of light with a | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
Vulcan. The display begins at two o'clock. It should be a lot of fun. | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
On Saturday, more showers through the evening. It is a damp and chilly | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
night going into Sunday. We have the end of one Festival and the | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
beginning of another in Derry -Londonderry. It is the end of the | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
Maiden City Festival and the start of the flower. Both will be playing | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
dodge the shower, though it will be cooler on Sunday. We have a westerly | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
breeze coming in and that keeps temperatures down. There is more | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
rain around as well. It could be quite soggy in places. The story of | :27:25. | :27:33. |