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Newsline: Forced out as DUP leader and First Minister - the Paisleys

speak out for the first time about what they say happened. They

assassinated him with their words and the way they treated him. I

think they treated him shamefully. I'm live from Stormont where the

fallout has already begun. Also coming up on the programme - A boy

with special needs is put into an old people's home because of a lack

of foster carers. It was not right for that child at that time but they

needed an emergency placement and what else were they to do? A second

security alert in a Carrickfergus street in as many days. The new look

Ravenhill rugby ground gets ready to open with a European Cup quarter

final. And after such a gorgeous day, unfortunately, the rain clouds

are back for tomorrow. I'll be back with a look ahead to this week's

weather. 'Mount Paisley erupts' is the description of tonight's BBC

programme on the former DUP leader by the journalist who made it. Ian

Paisley was at the centre of controversy during his political

career. It seems he's no less controversial in retirement. During

the programme he attacks his one-time colleagues. They have

questioned the accuracy of his recollection. The first of two

reports is from our political correspondent Gareth Gordon. For

many, Ian Paisley was the DUP, the party he founded and led for 37

years. Today he stands accused of damaging his legacy by the people

who followed his every word. At issue, the manner of his leaving.

Was he pushed or did he jump? He was criticised for his leadership and

performance as First Minister. Ian Paisley alleges that a meeting

followed attended by Peter Robertson. Nigel Dodds said to me

that we want you to be gone by Friday. I'm more or less smoked and

said, no, no, he needs to stay in for another couple of months. I

laughed. This is the road bit -- verdict of his wife. Maggie Dodds

wants me to go by the end of this week, they said. How shocked were

you? I said he was a cheeky sod. They assassinated him with their

words and the way they treated him. I think they treated him shamefully.

As for the survey... I was furious to put it mildly. They took it and

Randy down Mr Robertson's throat. It is in contrast to what Ian Paisley

said at the time. What made you change your mind? Was it pressure

from people in your party? I do not think I can be pressured. The

Paisley 's are bitter by the way the party treated his son, Ian Paisley

Jr. They were disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful. They were

disgraceful because the man that they put in my position could not

keep his own seat in Westminster, and my son, who followed me, had a

marvellous victory and for once, we are seeing the true nature of the

beast. There was a beast here who was prepared to go forward to the

destruction of the party. Losing seats in Northern Ireland is a very

serious thing. And for East Belfast not to have a seat in the House of

Commons is a terrible blow. Ian's name was cleared by the authorities.

Everything that was set against them was supposed to be false. There was

no sleaze. His wife did not do anything wrong. There was nothing

morally wrong with his character or life. We know eventually where the

sleaze came from. It came from the man who is now leader himself, it

Peter Robertson. Ian Paisley was asked if he would ever again have

the same relationship with Peter Robertson, a man who with his deputy

for 30 years. No, I do not think so. His ways are not my ways. He has to

answer for how he works. It feels like the history of the Lord

Bannside has been rewritten. -- DUP. What does it mean for the future?

The DUP says it is saddened to see Lord Bannside harm his legacy. The

party has described some of the comments contained in tonight's

interview as bitter and untrue. Our Political Editor Mark Devenport is

at Stormont. Mark. Lord Bannside's colleagues say that in his latter

years they shield his frailty from public view to avoid embarrassment.

But it's clear Ian Paisley's nearest and dearest don't share that view.

For decades they stood shoulder to shoulder but now the divisions are

clear. DUP politicians were not giving interviews today about Lord

Bannside's broadsides, but earlier this month Peter Robinson expressed

his view. Doctor Paisley played an enormous role in the politics of

Northern Ireland. I think it is sad if we have disputes with the church

and the party, and I hope that is not the way it is going to be. In a

statement, Mr Robertson said: the North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds said:

What is being said into night's -- to night's programme:

the special adviser who used to work for Ian Paisley and now answers to

Peter Robertson, Timothy Johnson said: Mr Johnson said: for a party

that went out of its way to foster this may of one big happy family, I

think that Smith has been exploded spectacularly, and that has to be

collateral damage. There has been blood spilt and recriminations are

likely. Parties do not recover from that and this seems very serious and

sad in many respects as well. Mark, what is damaged more? The DUP or Ian

Paisley's legacy? I think it is a bit of both. Ian Paisley would like

to be seen as a giant of unionism. We had a story of him being in

opposition and having done a deal with his opponents. There was no

sweetness or light at the end and that has been a falling out with his

former comrades in the DUP over the manner of his departure. I do think

that there will be damage to him and also to his colleagues in the DUP,

and their public image of being united. This must place the sitting

DUP MP in North Antrim, Ian Paisley Junior, in a difficult position?

There is no doubt about it. The programme makers said that Ian

Paisley Jr had an initial conversation with them and then

nothing to do with the programme. It will be unimportant water cooler

moments at the DUP when he comes across these people. It is going to

be a hard one for him to manage that he is secure in North Antrim, but I

cannot imagine he will get much from the current leadership after these

comments in the documentary tonight. We will have more reaction on the

programmes tomorrow. That programme is on BBC One at 10:35pm. Still

ahead: Why some schools are banning energy drinks. A jury at the trial

of two men accused of murdering a County Down man has been shown

pictures taken shortly before he was killed. 37-year-old Philip

Strickland was shot with a shotgun at Ballydrain Road near Comber two

years ago. The CCTV images recorded 15 minutes earlier were recovered

from a garage on Killinchy Road. 56-year-old Jimmy Seales from

Hillsborough and and 26-year old Stephen McCaughey from Newtownards

both deny the charges of murder. Two brothers, Ian and Jason Weir, who

are the sons of Jimmy Seales have already pleaded guilty. A pupil at a

special needs school in Belfast had to live in an old people's home for

four months because of a lack of emergency foster carers. The

teenager, who has a learning difficulty, lived with elderly

people in what the school says was a completely inappropriate placement.

Last week we reported that 200 new foster parents are needed in

Northern Ireland. BBC Newsline's Tara Mills has more. A cuddle and a

happy start to the school day. This is a nurtured group, set up to help

primary school pupils who struggle at home. We have children who need

to develop social skills and need to learn more about personal care, as

well as children who have difficulties in school making good

choices. The children have a good breakfast and learn how to deal with

their emotions. Fostering is pretty common at this school but it is not

always straightforward. An emergency placement could not be found for one

student last year. That child had to go into a home until he was found

placement. That was very difficult, being put into a care home with

elderly people, and the provision was not right for the trial at that

time, but they needed an emergency placement and what else were they to

do? The staff think something else can be done. So much so that many

have registered as emergency foster parents. Though we know how much

love they give, they are wonderful children, and we know that we can

give them that quality of life and a family home that they deserve. Where

foster parents can be found, lives can be transformed. Stephen Carter

has a learning disability and by his own admission was quite a handful

when he arrived. When you get to know them and you get to chat to

them, they can be kind. His family have fostered 15 children in the

last eight years, something they do not regret for a second. Every child

we have fostered, it has never been their fault they are in care. It is

due to family problems. Stephen has turned into a wonderful young man.

It is so rewarding and you can just see these young people, you can

watch them growing up and watch them getting settled, and getting better

at school, and mixing better with people. It is just so rewarding.

Other children here are waiting for foster placements. Staff hope that

no other child has to live in an old people's home.

Up to 30 houses have been evacuated in Carrickfergus, yesterday a

similar number of families were moved out in the same area, as a

result of what turned out to be an lab rat hoax.

-- elaborate. For the second day in row a disposal team was brought into

Broadlands Gardens because of a security alert. The police say this

afternoon, two controlled explosions were carried out on a suspect

package. A local man caught one of the loud bangs on video as the army

robot was being unloaded. We have had a number of residents

evacuated from their home, round 20, to 30 in the area, they have had to

open the leisure centre for residents. It is important to

remember it is a well built up community the attacks are happening

in and we have four school, and children are starting to come home

from school, when parents could still be at work and the children

are being faced with difficulty not being able to get in. The resident

says the latest alerts were preceded by other incidents at the start of

the year, including setting fire to an oil tank. I heard this whoosh, I

looked out the window and all I saw was like towering inferno, the

flames travelling towards my mother's property. My mother is 81.

#14e doesn't need this. She is away down the leisure centre again, and

it really is scandalous. By late afternoon the security cordon was

being lifted as the latest alert drew to a close. No-one is clear as

to what lies behind the attacks but locals believe there is some form of

vendetta against someone who lives in the area.

Some schools are so concerned is about pupils having energy drinks,

they have banned them. A government adviser on school meals

is warning about the drinks effect on children, but as Jenny Lowry

reports their popularity is rocketing.

This school has already run running time on so-called energy drink, for

a while now it has had concerns about the impact of a ring of fizzy

beverages We have looked at the research into energy drinks in the

past and we decided as a school, that with the health fears in

relation to energy drink, and with the ill ruetion some students have

that the short-term buzz will help them in school, we encourage the

pupils to realise this is untrue, and to make sure they don't take

them into school at all. Some of the pupils also think the

move has been beneficial. If you drinking energy drinks you won't be

like at your highest point, throughout the day. If you drink

water you will be hydrated, which is good for the brain.

There is a lot of young people drinking energy drink, and I don't

think they really understand how bad they are for you. I think they think

it will give them energy when it does the opposite. We were taught

they give you a high but it is not for long. It goes from very high to

very low fast. The latest figures show sales of energy drinks have

doubled in six year, a 500ml can might contain up to 160 manager of

caffeine. The same size can could contain over 12 teaspoons of sugar.

Pupils are encouraged to take the healthier drinks option such as

water or milk. The British soft drinks association says high calf

fine content drinks are not recommended for children and must be

clearly labelled. But, with the increasing consumption

of such drinks more schools like this one are taking action and

banning them. It's Ulster versus Saracens in the

quarterfinal of the European Heineken Cup, a repeat of last year.

But could home advantage lead to a different result for Ulster this

time? Stephen Watson is here. Is there a match date yet? Well, we do

know that the match will be on the fourth, fifth or sixth of April.

Ulster will want that match on the 4th, because there is something

special about Friday night games at Ravenhill. The 18,000 new stadium

will be ready for the game with Saracens and Ulster have the added

incentive of knowing if they win, they will may a semifinal in

Ireland. Today Ravenhill remained very much an ongoing project, an

18,000 capacity sell out awaits if it is reddy I in time We are well on

schedule, and yes, we will be ready for 18,000 come the first weekend in

April. Well on track. No pressure whatsoever? That is not to say there

is no pressure, we are well on schedule. The urgency today followed

a dramatic weekend Attwelled for road. The atmosphere was

spine-tingling, and all 24,000 spectators expected a battle. There

was time for reflection and a quiet prayer. If Ulster were to win they

needed their price Philip Strickland was shot spring gobg pave the

journey. The first half was a shoot out. Toby Flood was good. But Pinaar

was better, with a 100% kicking record. Also supporters hoped for an

Irish try, but it was touchdown by an Irishman Ulster didn't want to

score. And by the time Toby Flood hit the

conventurion a European quarter-final at Rafe hill looked an

unlikely prospect. Usually Leicester didn't score again. Pinaar scored a

penalty, but for a mistake in the Leicester defence proved a costly

one. And inside Ulster's half, Ulster's

scrum-half kicked his side to victory.

Ruan Pienaar is irreplaceable. He is when he is like that, he is a world

class player. I know we get time, individuals get singled out. It is

still very much a team game. He knows that, he has say it himself,

the fact he puts the icing on the cake, but the others built that

foundation, they worked hard for him to be allowed to do the magic he can

bring. Your contract runs out at the end of the year, is there any

discussions? We are talking, so things are progressing, see how it

goes. Anything else to tell us? Nothing at this stage, no. More

scenes like the ones Attwelled for road will aid those discussion, but

for the meantime the countdown begins for April.

It was almost the perfect start to the new year for Rory McIlroy. In

his first event of 2014, he finished second in Abu Dhabi, just a shot

behind the winner of the tournament. But it could have been even better

for the 24-year-old, had he not been penalised two shots on the

penultimate day for what he called a "stupid rule". To polish things off

nicely. Sure did. He sure did. For now, tied at the top. It was

only after completing his round in the 18th green that Rory McIlroy was

informed of his possible indiscretion by one of his playing

partner's caddies who noticed following a free drop on the second

hole, his foot was touching the boundary line of a spectator

walk-way when he hit his approach shot.

After reviewing video footage and returning to the hole, Rory McIlroy

penalised himself two shots It was a disadvantage because I dropped it in

a bad line and didn't make birdie. If I had realised or known, you

know, that my foot was on the line I would have said hold on, I need to

take full leaf, it's a bad line. I might get a better one, but yeah, I

mean it is disappointing. I don't feel like I gained an advantage by

my foot being on a bit of white paint. If Rory McIlroy hadn't

conceded the rules breach he risked disqualification from the tournament

for signing the wrong score card. The significance of the shots was

highlighted 24 hours later as he was pipped to victory.

Until I finished one behind tn 18th and it started to dawn on me that if

that hadn't happened I would have won, but that is the way it go, I

was trying to win. Standing here frustrated I didn't get the rick I

have, this will be my third second place finish at this tournament. I

have had a few good finishes and not quite won it.

It has been a better week than 12 months ago. He might not have added

to his trophy cabinet but it looks like the former world number one is

Linfield are four points clear at the top of the Irish League with a

game in hand, after the weekend matches. Ballymena gave David

Jeffrey's side a bit of a scare, taking the lead with this great

strike from Ally Teggart. But Linfield battled back to win 2-1.

Jamie Mulgrew struck the winner in the second half.

Linfield's nearest challengers, Cliftonville, lost at home to

Portadown, courtesy of Gary Twigg's 18th goal of the season.

Crusader's title challenge took a dent. They are now eight points

adrift after a draw with Warrenpoint.

Glentoran also dropped points. They drew 1-1 all with Colerain, thanks

to this equaliser from Aaron Boyd. Tyrone will play Cavan in the Power

NI McKenna Cup Final this weekend. Mickey Harte's side beat Derry 2-13

to 1-13 in Omagh yesterday. They will now look to retain the trophy

they won last year, in Enniskillen this Saturday. It is a new side, we

haven't pray them for a numb pore years they are an merging team. They

have titles behind them. They did well last year, and they have

declared they would like some silverware and that is chance to get

some next Saturday night, so it should be an interesting battle.

Northern Ireland's Kris Meeke has become the first British driver to

claim a podium place at a World Rally Championship event in eleven

years. He finished third in Monte Carlo at the weekend. The last man

to achieve the feat was the late Colin McRae. Meeke, from Dungannon,

produced composed driving in Saturday's final stages to clinch

the podium place for his Citroen team.

The Belfast Giants now lead the Elite League by 17 points, after two

more wins at the weekend. They beat Edinburgh 7-2 last night, after a

fine 3-1 win at the Sheffield Steelers on Saturday.

And Aimee Fuller, the Bangor-based snowboarder, looks to have secured a

spot on the GB team heading to the Winter Olympics. She came fifth at a

World Cup event in Canada. That should secure a place on the plane

to Sochi. Next the weather. Hopefully no snow! No, not for most

of us this week. Not too many complaints about today's weather,

lots of blue sky and sunshine right across Northern Ireland, and you

have been e-mailing and tweeting yourpics not just blue sky for the

north coast but we have had pictures of snowdrops and baby lambs, in the

next 24 hours we will swap the sunshine for rain clouds, so with

rain moving in from tomorrow, not raining all week but there will be

some drier spells, I think, through Wednesday and Thursday and more wet

weather for the end of the week with strong winds likely too. At the

moment it is clear, you can see behind me this is where rain is

coming from later tonight and into tomorrow. Atlantic frontal cloud is

moving into the west of Ireland. At the moment temperatures are just

below freezing in parts of County Down, so cold with pockets of fog

for a while tonight. That lifts later on, with temperatures rising

by morning and the rain of course is in place by tomorrow morning too, so

no frost or ice tomorrow morning, but there will be a fair bit of

rain, especially through the morning, it will start to dry up in

the afternoon. So for a lot of people when you are stepping

outdoor, when your journey is by car, bus, foot or by buy, it will be

wet. No frost or ice but a fairly stiff breeze and some of the deep

areas of blue showing big areas of standing water.

We could see up to 20ml of rain. It turns drier from the west but little

sunshine to come tomorrow, although temperatures are a little above

average, tomorrow night, hopefully the frost and ice will stay away,

because there will be plenty of cloud, breeze and showers round.

Then on Wednesday, not as wet as tomorrow, but lots of cloud round,

and some showers, particularly in the west and later in the day in

eastern area, maybe our next decent day will be on Thursday, some

sunshine round, most places dry. A cold wind but it will be brighter,

the mild weather back on Friday but so is the rain.

Thank you. Our late summary is at 10.25. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.