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Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
20 years on, the victims of the Shankill bomb are remembered. I | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
rushed down, looked up the Shankill and seen total carnage, total | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
carnage. A man who drugged and raped women | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
here is jailed again, this time for attacking women in Scotland. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
I'm live in Dublin with the latest on the controversy about Roma | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
children. The future of Exploris aquarium may have been in doubt, | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
today it attracted a new group of visitors, Stormont politicians. They | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
received a noisy welcome. It's been a very bad day for | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Belfast's boxers as Paddy Barnes, Michael Conlon and Tommy McCarthy | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
all miss out on medals at the World Championships. | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
Chilly but mainly dry through the next 24 hours, but beyond that | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
there's more rain on the way. 20 years ago today on the Shankill | :01:11. | :01:25. | |
Road in Belfast they were still digging in rubble, that's all that | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
was left of the fish shop where an IRA bomb exploded killing nine | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
people. Today on the Shankill, hundreds | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
gathered for a memorial service at West Kirk Church. | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
The shutters on shops were closed as a mark of respect and school | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
children laid flowers at both a memorial and the scene further up | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
the road. The service coincided with the exact | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
time of the explosion. This community has not forgotten those | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
bombs that happened in a period of a number of years in a very short | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
distance from this road, particularly the anniversary of the | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
Shankil bomb where nine people lost their lives. Community has been | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
drawing around together, supporting each other, supporting the families. | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
That is a very important thing to do -- Shankill. | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
It happened at 1.05pm in the afternoon. | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
Along with the nine killed, one of the bombers, Thomas Begley, also | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
died and more than 50 people were injured. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
The IRA claimed it was attacking a UDA meeting in an office above the | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
shop. No meeting was taking place at the | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
time. Instead men, women and children | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
died. All of them Protestant. | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Within a week, more people were killed in loyalist reprisals | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
including at Greysteel where some of the relatives of the Shankill | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
bombing attended the funerals there. BBC Newsline's Mervyn Jess has been | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
meeting a range of people affected by the bomb as they reflect on that | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
day two decades ago. I seen total carnage. Total carnage. When you get | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
attacked from outside as a community, it brings the community | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
together even more tightly. There is not a day goes past when I don't | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
think about it. There is not a day goes past when I don't think of | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
Sharon. Nine men, women and children were killed in the bombing at number | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
273 Shankill Road. They were ordinary people, out about their | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
business, on a Saturday afternoon. IRA bomber Thomas Begley was also | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
killed when the device exploded prematurely as he carried it into | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
the fish shop. Charlottely Butler lost three family members in the | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
bombing, his niece, his partner and their seven-year-old daughter. He | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
went to the scene, not knowing his loved ones were among those under | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
the rubble. It may be 20 years, whatever, it could be 20 minutes | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
ago. I rushed down, looked up the Shankill and seen total carnage. | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
Total carnage. Seen people lying about, bleeding. I started lifting | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
rubble, pulling rubble away. Within minutes he came across the body of | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
sp-year-old Leanne Murray. I called for a stretcher. We lifted Leanne | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
and put her on the stretcher and put a sheet over her and carried over to | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
some ambulances. One of the crew opened the back of the ambulance and | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
I seen other stretchers with other sheets over it. Then it started | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
hitting home, you know, this is bad. Out of the rubble came | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
peace-building inititives. Alan McBride, whose wife Sharon was | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
killed in the bombing, say these have given his life purpose and | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
meaning. Recent controversies over parades, flags and commemorations | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
have left him questioning how much progress has really been made in the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
last 20 years. The hyprocisy shown by all of our politicians, | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
particularly the DUP, Sinn Fein in terms of how they play games with | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
these type of issues. I sometimes wonder, if we moved into a society | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
that I and so many like me voted for back in 1998. Perhaps we are not | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
there the yet and we are still on that journey. I would have liked to | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
believe 20 years on after the Shankill bomb and the Good Friday | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
Agreement we would have made more progress than we have. Economic | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
progress was affected on the Shankill. It made us determined we | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
would not let it beat us. Since 1993 we've had some of the best | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
development work, I think, in the whole of Ireland or the UK happening | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
on the Shankill with community groups that have been at the cutting | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
edge of so much positive development. Clergyman David Clemens | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
comforted relatives of those killed at the time, encountering sorrow, | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
grieved and anger. The subject of support and care for victims has | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
been an issue that has hung around the edges of political debate for | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
years and years. It has been misused by people who want... They have | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
their own political agendas. They have used the victims issue, on both | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
sides, to advance their own political agendas. That has not, in | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
most cases, been to the benefit for the good of the victims themselves. | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
Every day life on the Shankill is much like anywhere else, that is | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
until an anniversary like this comes around. I just hope that the people | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
that done this, I hope they think of Michelle and what he done. I hope | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
they think of Leanne Murray and what they've done. I hope every time they | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
look at their own kids, they think about they done to the nine families | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
on the Shankill that day. The first person to be convicted of drug rape | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
here has been jailed for similar crimes in Scotland. William Fenton | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
went to live in Ayr after he was released from prison in Northern | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Ireland. Chris Page reports. This is William Fenton at the time of his | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
original conviction, 13 years ago. Fenton, who is 55 and from island | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Magee, was jailed for drugging women, then sexually assaulting them | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
he was the first person in Northern Ireland to be convicted of drug | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
rape. After he was released Fenton moved to Ayr in Scotland and | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
attacked four more women. Today, at this court in Edinburgh he was sent | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
to prison again. The court heard he laced alcohol with drugs and gave | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
the mixture to the women. He raped one of them and sexually assaulted | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
three others. The judge said the crimes were similar to Fenton's | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
previous offences. He described Fenton as a real danger to women. | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
Eileen Caulder speaks for a charity that works with rape victims. He was | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
sentenced to 12 years and served half of that. He was put on the Sex | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
Offenders Register for life. That does not seem to have helped the | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
situation at all or protected anyone. It is incredible to think he | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
was able to go and repeat his crimes in another part of the UK with, | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
obviously, no monitoring on his behaviour at all. Was jailed for at | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
least six years. When he will be released depends on what the Parole | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
Board decides on the risk he poses to women. A number of people have | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
been arrested in Scotland in an operation focused on dissident | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Republicans. They were detained in several locations. The PSNI was | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
involved. It's believed dissident Republicans were behind a pipebomb | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
attack on the police in Londonderry last night. A device was thrown at | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
two neighbourhood officers who were in a patrol car at Charlotte Street | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
near Long Tower Chapel in the Bogside. It just missed the vehicle | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
and failed to explode. Four families were moved out of their homes | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
overnight. Schools, including a nursery and a mass, were disrupted | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
this morning. They don't care who else gets dragged into that. Who | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
else might have been injured. Had this detonated and the chaos and | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
disruption it caused to families and people going around their normal | :09:39. | :09:56. | |
business today. The Public Prosecution Service has launched a | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
High Court bid to reinstate criminal proceedings against three people in | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
connection with Robert Hamill's murder. Mr Hamill was beaten by a | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
loyalist gang in Portadown in April 1997. He died 12 days later. The | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
challenge follows the decision to halt conspiracy to pervert the | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
course of justice charges faced by the two men and a woman including a | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
former RUC officer and his wife. Proceedings were stopped earlier | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
this year because a key witness was deemed unreliable. Now the PPS wants | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
that decision to be reviewed. Is what is the latest in Dublin? | :10:23. | :10:56. | |
Around this time yesterday evening took into their care and put into | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
the care of the health service here a two-and-a-half-year-old boy after | :11:02. | :11:11. | |
a member of the public contacted the gardai saying they suspected the boy | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
did not belong to the parents. The child was returned to his family | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
this morning satisfied he did belong to them. DNA tests were carried out | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
weren't proceeded with, such was the confidence that the child did belong | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
to the parents. Campaigners for Roma rights both here and abroad have | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
expressed concerns and fears about hysteria and witch-hunt and racial | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
profiling where Roma children are concerned. There are an increasing | :11:44. | :11:54. | |
number of reports from usually reliable sources but not confirmed | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
by Gardai that test results of the blonde haired blue-eyed girl showed | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
that she does belong to her parents. She has been in care since Monday | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
evening after a member of public contacted a journalist who contacted | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
Gardai to say she looked different from her parents and her other | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
siblings. The parents insisted that she is their daughter, as have their | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
siblings. It also looks very much like that the parents will be | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
reunited with their daughter very soon. They have also insisted she is | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
their daughter. They have co-operated with the authorities. A | :12:34. | :12:44. | |
43-year-old pch olish -- Polishdivorcee has collapsed in the | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
dock after being found guilty of taking part in a sham wedding in | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
County Tyrone. Mother of three Agnieszka Kobus fainted as the | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
guilty verdict was announced in Dungannon Crown Court. | :13:02. | :13:13. | |
28-year-old Zafron had been here on a three year student advice ya which | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
was due to run out. In May he pleaded guilty to his part in the | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
conspiracy. He was sentenced to 16 months in jail with the | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
recommendation he be deported on his release. Kobus insists -- accepts | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
now that the wedding was a sham. She said she didn't realise it at the | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
time. She had entered into the agreement to marry him because she | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
loved him and wanted to bhary him. This was despite the fact she had | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
only met im him on a handful occasions. Today she was found | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
guilty. Paramedics were called to the court after Kobus appeared to | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
faint. The court was cleared and she was treated in the dock before the | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
case resumed. She was released on bail and will be sentenced at later | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
date. Stormont committee Chairman has said it would be "madness" to | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
shut down Exploris aquarium in port ferry. The Chair of the Enterprise | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
Trade and Investment Committee, Patsy McGlone, was speaking after | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
visiting the aquarium today with his committee colleagues. The facility | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
will close next year unless extra funding can be found. Thousands of | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
school children visit Exploris every year. Today they came to see | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
politicians rather than fish. The politicians came to see the fish and | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
also to hear the arguments in favour of keeping open the aquarium. | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
Campaigners said that Northern Ireland couldn't afford to lose a | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
vital visitor attraction. They are coming here because it's special. | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
They are coming here because it's different. . They can see a Sea Life | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
Centre anywhere across the world. There only is one Exploris. The | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
problem is the aquarium is costing Ardz Council more than ?500,000 to | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
run every year. It's not just an aquarium, but a seal sanctuary, | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
helping those injured recover in safe surroundings. Exploris has been | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
here for 26 years. At the moment, it is home to 12 different seals and | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
more than 3,000 fish. What happens to them if this place closes? In the | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
past the council has taken turtles washed up on the shore to the bee | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
Hamas and whatever. I wouldn't say that it has to be specifically | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
somewhere. It may be difficult for us to get them rehomed. That is what | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
we would have to do. Is there any chance of a last-minute reprieve for | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
Exploris? I hope that it will be saved, great facility. Essentially, | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
it must be saved. For anyone to allow this to go down the drain, it | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
will be madness. Exploris has no shortage of supporters. The what it | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
really needs is more money. There is no sign yet that it's going to get | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
it. Work has begun on the site of | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
Northern Ireland's first shared education campus. It's being built | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
at a former army base in Omagh and will accommodate six schools with a | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
total of nearly 4,000 pupils. Julian Fowler reports. | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
It has taken six years of planning, but at last work is underway. The | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
Education Minister what is the first building was demolished, along with | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
pupils from the six schools will eventually relocate here. The | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
project has raised ?130 million. This is the biggest investment in | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
any educational project in the history of the North. This has sound | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
educational reasons for coming here. It has sound reasons for her society | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
coming year. These pupils will have left school by the time the project | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
is finished. But they are excited. There are more chances for people to | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
get together. It is a really good idea. We will get to work together | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
rather than separately. This is what the new campus will look like. Well | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
each school will retain its own identity, there will be shared areas | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
and state-of-the-art supports -- sports facilities including 19 | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
playing fields. The site is so vast it will take a year for all the old | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
army buildings to be demolished. Work will then begin on a new | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
special school but will take seven years. | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
Still to come: The latest from Kazakhstan where it has been a bad | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
day, I'm afraid, for our local boxers. | :18:01. | :18:14. | |
The Turner Prize exhibition opened to the public in Londonderry today. | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
It's the first time its been held outside England and is here as part | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
of Derry's UK City of Culture celebrations. Since 1984 the prize | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
has been presented to an artist under 50 who has been living, | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
working or born in Britain. So what's the public going to make of | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
it all? Here's our North-West reporter Keiron Tourish. | :18:32. | :18:32. | |
it all? Here's our North-West Indeed, after all the anticipation, | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
the Turner prize is finally here and open to the public. It has been | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
described as one of the greatest arts competitions in the world. | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
Every year, it provokes controversy, debate, joy, elation, and leave some | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
people scratching their heads. We will go inside and take a look. This | :18:50. | :19:02. | |
woman runs and cake making company. Will the Turner prize be a sweet | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
tasting as one of her cupcakes? This man is well-known for his green | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
fingers, he is lecturer in horticulture. Will the Turner prize | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
blossom for him? And from Londonderry College, to students and | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
their teacher who will be checking out the exhibition for BBC newsline. | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
It is a bit overhyped, that I enjoy and one of the exhibitions. I liked | :19:30. | :19:38. | |
the Gandhian ladies but I'll so think I have some an aim friends and | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
their message is way beyond the paintings. -- their personalities. | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
It's mad. There is a room with nothing in it. I don't know what to | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
make of it. I'm not sure what my overall thoughts are. I need to | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
think about what I have just seen. It is interesting. It is very | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
interactive, which I was not expecting. There has been a lot of | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
controversy about the nude man. What do make of that? It is art. Exposing | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
the human body. It is art. That is a good answer. There you have it, some | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
first impressions of the Turner prize 2013. If you want to check it | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
out, you have plenty of time. It runs until early January. | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
Certainly worth a visit. From the Turner prize to the art of boxing, | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
and it has been a disappointing day for our local men at the World | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Amateur Championships in Kazakhstan. Not a good day? No. They have been | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
routinely successful at the Olympics, but they cannot crack | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
Kazakhstan. Paddy Barnes, Michael Conlan and Tommy McCarthy have | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
failed to secure a medal at the World Amateur Championships. After | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
his debate, Paddy Barnes tweeted that he fought on with blurred | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
vision for three rounds. Fighting without headgear is good, but to do | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
it six times in ten days, is impossible, he said. | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
Belfast's trio of boxers leave Central Asia thinking about what | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
could have been. Three medals were up for grabs today, none of which | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
will be en route to Northern Ireland. Olympic bronze medallist | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
Michael Conlan started proceedings against Russia's Vladimir Nikitin | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
with a sturdy bantamweight defeating the 22-year-old Conlan. That seemed | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
to be the theme of the day, as heavyweight Tommy McCarthy also | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
failed to a unanimous decision against Argentinian Yamil Peralta. | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
If you want to know what disappointments is like, here's | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
Tommy. I can change it now, no point crying about it. I am gutted I | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
didn't get it. Can you take any positives? Not right now. I just got | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
beaten. There was better news just before the interval with Donegal's | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
European gold medallist defeating his son gay and opponent to | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
guarantee at least a bronze medal -- has Hungarian Grand Prix and. | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
In the afternoon session, Paddy Barnes was cut as early as the first | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
round. The Olympic bronze medallist had impaired vision. Both fighters | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
were deducted a point each in round two. Paddy Barnes has just been | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
issued a warning for the use of his head. His opponent boxed Barnes out | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
of the competition, ending any hope of a Northern Ireland medal in | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
Kazakhstan. Tommy McCarthy's face sums the mood | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
up there. To rugby, the threat over the future of the Heineken Cup is | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
growing. Clubs in England and France are keen to form a breakaway | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
European competition, and as of last night, Wales is also on board. | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
Secret discussions are taking place in Ireland as we speak. | :23:21. | :23:31. | |
Could the visit of Welsh teams be something we never see again after | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
this season? Perhaps. Last night for Welsh clubs decided to back a new | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
breakaway European competition with French and English clubs, putting | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
the Heineken Cup into jeopardy and the future of the Pro 12. If you | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
take these teams out of the competition, I don't know where we | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
would go or what would happen. The factors, we can't control it, it is | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
out of our hands. Today, a meeting took place between European club | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
stakeholders at a secret location in Dublin city centre. It was mediated | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
and toxic expected to continue into tomorrow. Essentially the dispute | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
comes down to power and money. Ulster's coach is hoping a | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
resolution can be reached securing both the Heineken Cup and the Pro | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
12. I think it will because it is a good competition. Look at the teams | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
in the Pro 12 having success in Europe over the weekend. It is one | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
that is challenged week in week out, and if you do not perform you will | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
get beaten. It is uncertain times for club rugby if a resolution is | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
not found. More Irish players may feel their professional careers | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
along a broad, not home. Very cloak and dagger. We will keep | :24:54. | :25:03. | |
you abreast of that one. We conclude with rugby. Joe Schmidt has revealed | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
his squad for the Autumn Internationals. There has been | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
surprise that Andrew Trimble has missed out. It Ulster men do make | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
the cut for the games against Australia, Samoa and world champions | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
New Zealand. Thank you very much. Time now for | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
the weather. I did not get wet which makes a change. You are lucky | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
because some people did. That rain was associated with a weather front | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
pulling away to the east. We have had cool air sweeping across | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
Northern Ireland from the West on brisk westerly winds. Those winds | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
did bring quite a few showers particularly across the north and | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
west. The wind managed to bring a few showers further east as well. | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
Sunshine in between, so there were a few rainbows around. This one was | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
spotted. Another further east in County Antrim. The showers are | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
easing. Still 12 in the North and West this evening. -- still one or | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
two. Cool conditions, temperatures dropping to three or four degrees. | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
There could be ground frost around and patchy mist as well. That goes | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
quite quickly in the morning, it is a mainly dry day coming up. Not huge | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
amounts of sunshine because after an initially bright start cloud will | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
spill its way in from the south. It may even threaten the odd spot of | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
rain, maybe for parts of the County Down coast. For most of us, it will | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
stay dry. There will be a few bright glances coming through from time to | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
time. The winds are lighter tomorrow but it is still cool, temperatures | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
between 11 and 13 degrees. Into tomorrow evening, at this point it | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
is mainly dry, but the changes on the way. The breeze starts to pick | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
up through tomorrow night and by the end of the night spells of rain are | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
moving into the south, but at least it is milder, with lows of nine or | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
10 degrees. This batch of rain is associated with another area of low | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
pressure bringing heavy spells of rain and brisk winds through Friday | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
morning. An early warning has been issued again for this event on | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
Friday. Eastern areas could be prone to localised fronting -- localised | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
flooding. The weekend, quite blustery and cool, another batch of | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
rain on Saturday followed by bright spells and showers. | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
Finally a brief update on that story of the Roma couple in Dublin. A | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
seven-year-old girl, removed from their care, is their daughter. It is | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
understood that the NHS have proved that she is their child. -- BNA | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
tests. | :27:47. | :27:50. |