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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline: The death of a man in West | :00:13. | :00:22. | |
Belfast is linked to drugs. I'm live with the details. | :00:22. | :00:31. | |
The police begin and attempted murder inquiry after a woman is shot | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
five times. A younger brother of Gerry Adams gives evidence in his | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
own defence at his trial. This tourist attraction is shutting its | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
doors for good. The redevelopment of the Windsor Park football stadium, | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
will it go ahead? We'll have the latest. Yet another grey, damp and | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
drizzly day today. But a change is on the way. Drier and brighter for | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
tomorrow. Join me later for the full forecast. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
First, to the news that a man has died and two others are in hospital | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
in Belfast. The local MP Paul Maskey says there are suspicions that drugs | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
may have been a factor. Our reporter Helen Jones is on the Falls Road for | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
us. Helen Jones is on the Falls Road for | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
Demand was 28 and was from this area wealth -- West Belfast. He died on | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Tuesday morning. It is believed that he and two friends were at the same | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
party. Those two friends are now stable in hospital. It is suspected | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
that drugs were linked to these -- this death, but we will not know | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
until a toxicology report. Joining me is Benny. What is the situation? | :01:44. | :01:53. | |
The family have not told me anything as yet. They have to wait for | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
results with the toxicology report. The family at this time are totally | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
devastated. He was a popular young men in this community. Anyone he | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
would speak to spoke with a smile and their face about how much of a | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
character he was. Kevin played football for a lot of clubs. He also | :02:16. | :02:27. | |
coached. Anybody else who has any uploads with drugs or drugs misuse | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
can't get back to talk to anybody on any helpline. Is there any you | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
recommend? There is 124-hour a day number. They can access -- it is | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
accessible at any time. The police are treating the shooting | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
of a woman outside her East Belfast home last night as attempted murder. | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
The 24-year-old was shot five times and a paramilitary link is one of | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
the lines of enquiry. It's the first attack of this kind on a woman in | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
more than 20 years. A bloodstained towel lies on the | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
ground outside the home of the shooting victim this morning. The | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
24-year-old woman was dragged from her house just after 10:30pm last | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
night. It is understood she was shot five times, sustaining injuries to | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
her lower abdomen, legs and left arm. People in the street were | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
reluctant to talk about what happened, but one neighbour, who did | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
not want to be identified, said she was not sure what was going on when | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
the shots rang out. I thought the shots where fireworks because the | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
kids have been going on lately with fireworks. I heard a scream. She was | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
shouting out for help. The motive for the account is still not clear, | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
but the police have still not ruled out a paramilitary punishment | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
shooting. The shooting of the woman has drawn widespread condemnation, | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
including from local politicians. The shooting of a young woman is an | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
appalling crime, and to do it in a residential area is just a | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
thoughtless and obscene act, and I think that we need people to step up | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
and support the police and the rule of law and protect the community by | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
working with the police. There will be rumours flying around the | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
community. There will be reasons given as to why it happened, but | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
nobody has the rights to carry out a punishment shooting. It is a | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
barbaric incident, but barbaric and the respect that there were other | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
incidents -- witnesses to it. One lady approached the woman but had to | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
go back because she had children with her. Incidence of this kind, | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
where women are targeted by gunmen, are relatively rare. Since 1990, | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
there have only been three female casualties all in the Belfast area, | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
including last night's shooting. casualties all in the Belfast area, | :05:03. | :05:15. | |
A younger brother of Gerry Adams on trial accused of raping and | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
assaulting his eldest daughter has been giving evidence in his defence. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
Liam Adams who, is 58 and from Bernagh Drive in Belfast, denies ten | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
offences against his daughter in more than 30 years ago. | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Liam Adams came to court today to enter the witness box, the first | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
time the jury of nine men and three women had heard his voice. Asked by | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
time the jury of nine men and three the defence barrister about the | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
charges, he consistently denied them. It emerged in court that Liam | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Adams had lied to the court in 2007 during interviews. He told them he | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
had not met his daughter and Gerry Adams in 1987 to be confronted about | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
the allegations. Today he told the court that the meeting and that | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
confrontation had indeed happened. That begs the question from counsel, | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
why did he lie to the police, ignoring clearly the advice from his | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
solicitor? He said he had a good reason, because of the way he had | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
been brought up. It was drummed into be -- me by my father that you do | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
not talk about Jerry and the barracks to the soldiers the police | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
or the media. Later he said that you did not talk about Gerry Adams. He | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
was later cross-examined by a did not talk about Gerry Adams. He | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
prosecution barrister about the meeting, and was reminded that his | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
ex-wife remembers talking to him after it. The barrister said: | :06:36. | :06:50. | |
Mr Adams told the court that family life had been normal 30 years ago | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
and that he had been a good father to his daughter. He said that she | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
did not -- he did not know why she made these allegations against him | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
as a child and as a grown woman. made these allegations against him | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
Asked about each of the nation in turn, he replied each time that he | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
was telling the truth and nothing like that ever happened. | :07:09. | :07:18. | |
Liam Adams testified in court for around three hours and have now | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
completed his evidence in the trial. Further witnesses are expected to be | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
told tomorrow when the defence completes its | :07:27. | :07:27. | |
The latest now on the Dungannon woman Michaella McCollum who's | :07:27. | :07:37. | |
charged with drug trafficking in Peru. The 20-year-old and her | :07:37. | :07:46. | |
Scottish friend Melissa Reid had pleaded guilty to having 11 kilos of | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
cocaine in their luggage at Lima Airport last month hoping that their | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
admission would get them a reduced sentence. But last night the | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
Peruvian authorities challenged their pleas. | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
What is your name? Michaela. Michaela McCollum and Melissa Reid | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
were stopped at Lima Airport last month trying to return to an area | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
where they had been working. They had hidden 11 kilograms of cocaine | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
worth around £1.5 million in their luggage. They said they had been | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
worth around £1.5 million in their forced to carry the drugs under | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
duress by an armed gang who threatened their families. They deny | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
duress by an armed gang who the charges. At a court hearing on | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
Tuesday, the pair entered guilty pleas in the hope that doing so | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
would get them a reduced sentence. A court press releases that they knew | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
they were going to transport drugs and that they regret having | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
participated in such an act. But last night, the Peruvian authorities | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
said they were not satisfied. A prosecutor said the pair had not | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
accepted for spots ability for their role in trying to smuggle cocaine | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
out of the country. -- accepted full responsibility. The pair were not | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
threatened or coerced. This is only a version of evidence to exonerate | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
themselves that is not credible, as we outlined in the pulmonary | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
hearing, and if they continue to maintain this I'm credible version | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
of events, the prosecution is not going | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
advantage of a quick conclusion of proceedings. It is expected they | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
will be asked for a second statement next month, in which they make full | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
admission of responsibility and provide more information. | :09:27. | :09:36. | |
A social worker has told BBC Newsline that young people continue | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
to be raped while the authorities continue to squabble over the sexual | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
exploitation of children. Questions have also been raised about an | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
independent inquiry into the issue announced yesterday and if that's | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
the best use of public money. For some of these young people, a | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
night out with friends could turn into something sinister. What | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
appears to be an innocent chat up line, for instance, can also lead to | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
behaviour where they are being exploited by man. With the living in | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
care or at home, the same thing can happen. One of the women that I | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
talked to told me that she felt the size of a thumbnail, that she was | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
completely surrounded by darkness, that she did not feel that she had | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
anyone or anywhere to go and the whole world became dark when she was | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
exploited. Following last week's elevations -- revelations about 30 | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
people had been arrested in an investigation of the sexual | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
exportation of teenagers, questions are being asked about what is being | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
done to protect them. In 2010, a private members Bill attempted to | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
address the problem. This evening, we can further revealed that around | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
the same time, the Department of Health produced its own document, | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
which also failed to get off the ground. Dylan macro what I can say | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
which also failed to get off the is -- I can say that this is a clear | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
situation where any woman would have wanted this to be acted on in a more | :11:05. | :11:16. | |
accurate fashion. Collectively, we have tried to take this issue | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
forward and say, this is now to be acted upon. Now there are two | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
reports, dating back to 2010, which revealed just how long ago the | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
authorities recognise this as a major problem. But three and a half | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
years is not a long time for most people, but for those being sexually | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
exploited -- sexually employs it, it can be a lifetime. It is also | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
emerged that some people who are being exported are currently waiting | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
for counselling. There is the stark warning. They have said they felt | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
very angry because everybody is squabbling and arguing who is to | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
blame, and what they are saying is, why are you arguing between | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
ourselves? We are still getting raped. The health minister had that | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
an independent inquiry will stop the squabbling, but for some health | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
professionals come it is not the appropriate way to go. Money should | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
be spent on this. A team of experts has now been established and will be | :12:25. | :12:37. | |
up and running in weeks. Interpol says the Kenyan authorities have | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
asked them to issue a red notice, its most urgent level of request, | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
for the arrest of the British woman, Samantha Lewthwaite, who was brought | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
up in Northern Ireland. She is the widow of one of the July seventh | :12:47. | :12:59. | |
London bombers. The TUV leader Jim Allister has released a letter from | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
a solicitor confirming he did not benefit from the sale of land in | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
County Fermanagh. In the Assembly this week, Peter Robinson claimed | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
that Mr Allister had been the executor of a will selling land to | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
Republicans in Fermanagh. The executor of a will selling land to | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
lawyer's letter says Mr Allister was not an executor, and that the | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster witnessed the will in her work as a | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
solicitor. In comments to the Impartial Reporter newspaper, Ms | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
Foster has said she made the will, but did not tell the First Minister | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
about it. A second sum of money has been found | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
hidden in the former Dublin home of the bankrupt developer Tom McFeely. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
Detectives discovered sixty thousand euros hidden in a bathroom | :13:37. | :13:57. | |
yesterday. While the Exploris Aquarium in Portaferry has been | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
given a temporary reprieve, another visitor attraction will definitely | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
close its doors this weekend. For 20 years the Dunluce Centre in | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
Portrush has offered indoor entertainment for holiday makers | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
when the weather is bad. But visitor numbers have dropped and the | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
Coleraine Council says it can't afford to keep it going. Here's | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
David Maxwell. It looks like a lighthouse but soon the lights will | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
go out. This was a key attraction lighthouse but soon the lights will | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
with a 2-dimensional simulator. It had a range of facilities and this | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
place was supposed to be a hub for holiday-makers. It is impossible to | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
miss the Dunluce Centre when you arrive in Portrush and many people I | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
spoke to today spoke about it as a great white elephant, a building | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
which has never achieved its full potential for tourists the local | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
community. It is a shame. It could have been put to better use. It is | :14:51. | :15:00. | |
very outdated. Since the centre was built, it has been a white elephant. | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
It is of no benefit to local people. It is closed for most of the year | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
and it is no great loss to see at closing. It was popular but it | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
started and it was for quite a while. It seemed to lose its | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
popularity which is a pity because while. It seemed to lose its | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
it was lovely. Visitor numbers have in falling sharply. In 2011 there | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
were 45,000 people visiting and over in falling sharply. In 2011 there | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
the last year that dropped to 27,000. Coleraine Borough Council | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
has had to subsidise the centre. In the last financial year it cost | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
ratepayers £187,000. The council has decided to seek outside help. IME | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
business person as well as a counsellor and I think that | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
frequently the business sector can do things that the council cannot | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
do. Coleraine Council says it has had several expressions of interest | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
and is confident this building will have a new lease of life. I will | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
guarantee this building will not lie derelict and boarded up with | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
graffiti scrawled on it. It will not knocked down and I think it has a | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
bright future. It is in a really good location at the gateway to | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
Portrush and I think that next season, hopefully, there will be | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
something more exciting for people to visit when they come here. What | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
will replace it remains to be seen but while no jobs were lost and I | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
think that next season, hopefully, there will be something more | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
exciting for people to visit when they come here. What will replace it | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
remains to be seen but while no jobs were that any new venture will | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
create much-needed employment. Games loaded onto mobile phones or | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
tablet computers provide hours of entertainment for so many children. | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
But are parents aware of how much money they are costing? Today the | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
games companies got a wrap over the knuckles from the Office of Fair | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
Trading because while some games appear to be free of charge children | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
are then pressurised to pay for extras once the game has started. | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
are then pressurised to pay for Mark Simpson looks at what we can do | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
to stop racking up big bills. Posted was teenagers making too many phone | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
calls. Then too many text messages. Lack -- first it was. Now parents | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
have something else to worry about, too many applications. Some games | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
that are free of charge but children I then asked to pay for extras and | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
it is all too easy. This teenager in England racked up a bill of £3000, | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
much to the surprise of his father. But it is a problem in Northern | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
Ireland as well. What can parents do about it? Look at your settings. If | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
you do not understand them, talk to someone who doors and make sure that | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
various settings are turned off. Make sure that a password has to be | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
entered every time you sign on all stock that is the best way. What | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
happens if it is already too late? You look at a mobile phone and | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
realise your son or daughter has racked up a huge mobile bill. What | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
happens? First of all contact your Internet provider and find out why | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
this happened and say you are not satisfied. If you do not get a | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
satisfactory answer, go to the citizens advice bureau for there is | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
redress available. It is a problem all year round, but especially after | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Christmas when many teenagers get new mobile phones or computers. The | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
message to parents is be on your guard, especially in the New Year. | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
The idea is to ensure that when it comes to applications, the cost does | :18:41. | :18:57. | |
not spoil the fun. Sport and after concerns over the | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
redevelopment of Windsor Football stadium, the Sports Minister has | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
today stressed the project remains on target. Stephen Watson is here. | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
Caral Ni Chuilin remains confident that ongoing issues about the | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
governance of the Irish football association, that threaten the | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
release of funding for the redevelopment of Windsor Park, can | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
be resolved. She also confirmed today she expects the new stadium to | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
be resolved. She also confirmed be completed on time by June 2015. | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Mark Sidebottom has been following developments in this long-running | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
saga and joins me now. Remind us of why there is a problem about why the | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
eye -- about how the IFA is run. It is all a little muddy and | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
potentially getting muddier. The is all a little muddy and | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
millions have been signed off on and things are good to go. Landing | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
permission has been signed off on but there is blockage in the system | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
which comes in the shape of David Morton, deputy President of the IFA. | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
This is him. He is the former treasurer and back in 2010 when the | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
organisation effectively dismissed and, after his role in the sacking | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
of the then Chief Executive Howard Wells, which resulted in unfair | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
dismissal and cause the Association £500,000. Stormont intervened and | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
aimed at the IFA was not fit for purpose. In order for the | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
organisation to disburse money they felt governance needed to be sorted | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
out, new competency tests, etc. What happens is the IFA meets for its AGM | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
and decides to get rid of the competency issues. David Martin runs | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
for election and is re-elected. Very briefly, decal -- DCAL is confident | :20:36. | :20:48. | |
this can be completed on time. Yes completion date is 2015. I think in | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
the stand-off the government will blink first. It appears to me that | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
David Martin will be allowed to stay on in his position. The compromise | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
will be that the government will put in new stipulations which the IFA | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
will sign up to. Is the money saved? Thank you. | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
From sport facilities still to be finished, to an impressive new | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
development that's just about complete. Tyrone gaelic football's | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
Excellence Centre will officially open this weekend, but Thomas Kane | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
has had a sneak preview around the facility today for BBC Newsline. BBC | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
Newsline in 2008 we brought you the ambitious plans of Tyrone GAA to | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
build a large facility capable of catering for all of their teams at | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
every age group, male and female, as well as housing administrative | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
county offices. Today, the finishing touches were being applied to ensure | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
that five years on, that dream is now a reality. I am not good at | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
imagining things but there were people who had the vision of what | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
should be like and they have brought together wonderfully well. There has | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
been a lot of hard work by people who supported this in every way. The | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
£7 million project received one 5p of government funding with around £3 | :22:12. | :22:20. | |
million raised by Tyrone. Croke Park as much as we know that we will pay | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
that bill. We honour our debts. It has been worthwhile taking the debt | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
to ensure we have the centre which was the focus of the local | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
community. We will be able to compete at the highest level. The 43 | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
acre site has five high quality grass pitches, a full-size 3G | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
service and a multipurpose training area, an auditorium, two gymnasiums | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
with state-of-the-art equipment, physiotherapy equipment, catering | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
facilities and a purpose-built changing room area with ice baths. | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
Right Mac it is absolutely brilliant. For the players to know | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
their training is in one place, they know how they will get there and how | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
they will get home, that every facility is there, it is great. The | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
facility will not just benefit those with in the administration. -- the | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
association. We will ensure the widest population gets to use the | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
centre and in using it it will help us to continue forequarters going to | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
be a large bill, but one we are comfortable we will meet. This | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
weekend marks the 10th anniversary comfortable we will meet. This | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
and it has the potential to be more significant. | :23:39. | :23:50. | |
The IRFU, along with its Welsh and Scottish counterparts, released | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
near-identical statements today on the future of rugby's Heinekin | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
European Cup. They insist they will not endorse any tournament that | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
doesn't have the approval of the International Rugby Board. The | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
English and French clubs recently announced plans for a new | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
competition called the Rugby Champions Cup. Tomorrow Ulster are | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
back in action in the PRO12 and Rory Best and Tommy Bowe have been | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
selected for the home game against Treviso. There are 11 Ireland | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
internationals in the starting team that sees seven changes from the | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
side that beat Connacht last Saturday. Craig Gilroy is at full | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
back, while Jared Payne moves to centre. Paul Marshall replaces Ian | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
Porter at scrum half and in the backrow, Robbie Diack is selected | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
alongside Roger Wilson and Chris Henry. Coverage on BBC Two tomorrow | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
from 7pm. John Joe Nevin's absence from the | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
Ireland boxing squad for next John Joe Nevin's absence from the | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
month's World Championships in Kazakhstan leaves the team without a | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
representative in the bantamweight slot. Nevin has declared his | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
intention to turn professional. The squad heading to Kazakhstan next | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
month contains no fewer that four Belfast fighters. They gathered in | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
Dublin today, including Heavyweight Tommy McCarthy, lightweight debutant | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
Sean McComb and double Olympic medallist Paddy Barnes who's looking | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
to make his mark in the tournament after previous disappointments. Last | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
to make his mark in the tournament time I was injured. I have no | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
injuries this time. I have trained really hard for this. I am really | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
looking forward to the Championships beginning. It is brilliant being | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
part of it, being part of this team with such people. They have made | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
history already. It is amazing to even be part of this. I am sharing | :25:10. | :25:19. | |
the same room as them, it is great. Michael Hoey is four shots off the | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
lead on the opening day of the Dunhills Links event in Scotland. | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
Darren Clarke is one shot further back. The weather here was fairly | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
miserable today although it was warm. | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
I feel like I have not seen the same in ages and it has been grey and | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
dull all week. But the good news is finally, we will start to see a | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
little bit of a change. But we will have one more grey and damp night | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
with some showery rain! All that cloud means yes, you have guessed | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
it, it is another mild night with temperatures around 12 degrees. | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
Finally, there is a change on the way and a chance to get out and chew | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
-- enjoys some of that autumn weather. We have some showery rain | :26:13. | :26:21. | |
around tomorrow morning. But it will be on improving pictures throughout | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
the day. It is mainly try in most be on improving pictures throughout | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
places with temperatures around 18 degrees. Finally, as we go into the | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
afternoon, there will be a few breaks in the crowd. -- mainly dry. | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
afternoon, there will be a few As we go into Friday evening, it is | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
a reasonably cloudy but mainly dry night. Because of those breaks in | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
cloud, temperatures will reach 11 degrees. It is a gradually improving | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
picture as we go throughout the weekend. It will turn slightly more | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
breezy. Saturday we will see more clear and bright skies. We will lose | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
the blanket of cloud. Temperatures will reach 17 degrees. There will | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
always be the risk of a slight shower. In Newtownards, the guitar | :27:11. | :27:24. | |
Festival takes place this weekend. One thing to note as we go through | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
the weekend is the breeze which gradually picks up. That's all for | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
now. That's all for now. Thanks for | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
joining us. Good evening. | :27:42. | :27:46. |