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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline: The parents of a baby who | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
needed to be flown to England for heart surgery say their journey was | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
terrifying. Added that moment, I just thought | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
that this plane is going to go down and I am going to die. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
The court begins hearing evidence in the trial of three men accused of a | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
series of trial sex offences. The DUP again deny Ian Paisley was | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
pushed out as party leader. The awards keep coming for Tony | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
McCoy. We hear from our Champion Jockey. | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
Northern Ireland is to get a new plane as an air ambulance. The | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
aircraft, which will have a pressurised cabin, will be used to | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
transfer patients to hospitals in Britain. The news comes after we | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
were told here on BBC Newsnight about the journey of a sick Belfast | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
baby. She said she feared for their lives when the plane transporting | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
them to London made an unscheduled landing in Liverpool. Our Health | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly has the story. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Laochra McGinn was born on the September the September 27th last | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
year. Within days, he was readmitted with problems, fever with jaundice. | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
They were told their baby required life-saving surgery. Within an hour, | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
they were on an air ambulance plane to London, but it never made it as | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
the pilots had to make an unscheduled landing in Liverpool. | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
His mother says she feared the worst. I just kept looking at my | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
baby am going, "this is unreal". I was thinking of the other four kids | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
that were going to be left behind. At that moment, I thought this plane | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
is going to go down and we were going to die. According to Kate | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
McGinn, conditions on board were not what she expected. When we arrived | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
at the airport, there was a small group pain -- small blue plane | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
waiting for us. Doctor Taylor was putting blankets around us, saying | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
it was very cold and air was coming in the windows. There was a whole | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
the size of a 10-pence piece in the door, you could see outside, into | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
the clouds. I was standing on the left side, to stop the draft coming | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
in. It is unacceptable, the way they expect people to travel. Since 2006, | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
the Air Ambulance has made around 1,500 troops. According to the | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
health board which commissions the present private company, there has | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
been one other unscheduled landing. In a statement, they said it takes | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
patient safety very seriously and continued... | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
It said it was concerned to hear Mrs McGinn's description of what | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
happened, which they will be raising with the provider. According to the | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
local charity, their calls for better Air Ambulance transport have | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
been ignored. Families and parents affected by congenital heart disease | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
today are horrified by what has happened to the McGinns and feel | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
that their concerns, which we have voiced the past 18 months, have been | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
ignored. The McGinns' story raises another important question. What | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
cross-border arrangements have been put in place by Belfast and Dublin? | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
The Health Minister announced last year that before a review into | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
cardiac services, Dublin clinicians would help their colleagues in | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Belfast. Six weeks later, nothing has changed. But a spokesman said | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
that is it is suspected that surgeons from Crumlin, near Dublin, | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
will provide children's hard surgery in Belfast in the coming weeks. -- | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
heart surgery. What we want to see is a network service between Belfast | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
and Dublin and we want to see changes coming very soon. If, in | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
fact, the surgery does not get sustained in Ireland, then we are | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
looking at about 300 patients a year having to travel out of Ireland. | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Meanwhile, baby Laochra recovers at the children's Hospital in Belfast. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
A gift from the medics in Liverpool may influence what football team he | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
grows up supporting. And later in the programme, we will | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
have details about some extra money for the health service. | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
The trial has begun of three men charged with a catalogue of sex | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
offences against children, including rape. The alleged victims are a | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
brother and sister and those who stand accused are their father, | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
uncle and family friend. The jury sitting in Coleraine were told by | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
the brother that on one occasion, a card game was used to decide who | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
would carry out the abuse first. There are details in this report | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
which you may find upsetting. Here's our north-east reporter David | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Maxwell. The court heard the alleged victims | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
are a brother and sister who reported abuse to police in 2012. | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
They allege it was carried out by their father, uncle and a family | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
friend over a prolonged period. The three defendants cannot be | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
identified in order to protect their alleged victims. Outlining the case, | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
the prosecution warned the jury does during this trial, they will hear | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
harrowing details, including allegations from one of the victims | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
that on one occasion, the men used a card game to decide who would carry | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
out the abuse first. There are over 50 charges in this case, including | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
rape, gross indecency, serious sexual assault and cruelty. The | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
court also heard from one of the alleged victims. He graphically | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
described a litany of serious sexual assaults which he alleges were | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
carried out between the ages of seven and 11. He also described | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
physical assaults, including having a cigarette stubbed out on the back | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
of his hand and being forced to drink water until he couldn't | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
breathe. The case is expected to last 4-6 weeks. | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
Plenty coming up this evening, including: | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
More young people are living longer with their parents in Northern | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Ireland than anywhere else in the UK. I will have a full report. | :06:30. | :06:39. | |
The DUP have again rejected their former leader Ian Paisley's version | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
of how he stepped down from the First Minister's position. No one | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
from the party has appeared in front of cameras, but it has been a day | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
windows on the hill at storm on and elsewhere have been assessing the | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
impact of the programme last night. Eric Gordon reports -- on the hill | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
at storm on. This was Ian Paisley as the DUP | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
would like to remember him. A hard felt tribute from his then debited. | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
Speaking it is because the foundation has been built under his | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
leadership that it will not, as many of our opponents might hope, split | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
and collapse. That was then. In the here and now, | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Ian Paisley's estrangement from the party he founded seems complete. I | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
understand he may be in a far-away place. There are many members on the | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
DUP benches last night and this morning who wish they too are in a | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
far-away place. A reference to a programme in which Ian Paisley and | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
Eileen Paisley made a number of incendiary allegations which have | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
left the DUP and political observers almost lost for words. The DUP is | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
still refusing to put a penny want to interview about the Paisley | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
allegations, but following last night's programme, it did issue what | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
it called a statement of fact about the events leading to Ian Paisley's | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
departure. The programme's cheap claim is that in early 2008, Ian | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
Paisley was resented with a survey of DUP claims, questioning his | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
performance as leader and First Minister. I was told, "capnext macro | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
we want you to be gone by Friday". I just more or less smirked and they | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
said, you had to stay pro-government ones. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
The DUP statement denies that any of those named in the programme issued | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
him with any ultimatum. It says a delegation met Doctor Paisley on the | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
31st of January 2008. He requested a survey of MLAs and MPs to give a | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
general view of his standing in the party, which was carried out within | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
a few days. The survey was presented to him on the 6th of February, but | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
it was strictly confidential. The statement said that on the 4th of | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
March, Ian Paisley sought a meeting with Peter Robinson, who said he | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
intended to announce his retirement. In the Paisley Heartland Palomino | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
today, the views were mixed. -- of Ballymena. It may cause confusion | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
but his neighbour Sylvia stalwart for Unionist supporters. I was | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
surprised at him, I don't think he done right. He should have kept | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
quiet. I'm not even a supporter, I can tell you, I see things from a | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
totally different perspective and I have admiration for the man. But | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
what about the future of the town's MP, Ian Paisley Jr? He has had an | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
overwhelming victory in North Antrim, he is following in his | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
father's footsteps they're coming he has a huge backing. And if we look | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
at it from the political side, from the party's point of view, it would | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
not look in any way good for them to dispose of a man who has carried | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
them to such a huge victory in North Antrim. Ballymena will be watching | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
with interest what, if anything, happens next. | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
The Paisley documentary has laid bare tensions in the party formed | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
more than 40 years ago, but how did the interview go down in Unionist | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
heartlands and among the people who followed him through the decades? | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
In the soggy shadow of Samson and Goliath, the people of East Belfast | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
was still die jesting the Paisley documentary today. -- die jesting. | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
The cafe on the Newtownards Road, the allegations of a party leave | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
against the man who dominated a party landscape, was a big topic of | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
conversation. I wouldn't say it is sour grapes in behalf of the family | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
but he clearly had to go, I think. I really believe he was sincere in all | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
he did, even if I didn't agree with him in his way of doing it. Big | :10:56. | :11:04. | |
mistake. Because it can do no good, can't do any cause for the DUP and | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
certainly I think it backfired on them. For his traditional | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
electorate, it will have been a difficult watch. Irene Brown, | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
speaking here in a personal capacity, has been a member of the | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
DUP and the martyrs Memorial Church, for more than four decades. My first | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
reaction was total sadness and then it was bewilderment. And today, it | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
is disappointment. The church will go on, because it is Grenoble. The | :11:37. | :11:48. | |
DUP will go on and I don't think the interview has diminished the | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
popularity of the DUP in any way. I don't think the programme did | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Baroness Paisley and Lohan any favours. The Reverend Ian Paisley's | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
public life span span the decades from protests to peace. But some | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
commentators believe his refusal to accept some responsibility for what | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
happened over those years has been counter-productive. There is still | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
that sense that nothing had changed for him, and I think the people who | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
had revised their opinion in 2007 have revised it again and his legacy | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
now is like King Lear, ranting at a world he no longer controls. And in | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
many ways doesn't understand anymore. When the history of this | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
parade is written, Ian Paisley will have a huge part in it. A colourful | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
and controversial character, and, after this latest intervention, one | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
about which it is unlikely there will be much consensus. | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
The leaders of the five Executive parties have held another round of | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
discussions this afternoon on the proposals put forward by the former | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
US diplomat Richard Haass. Speaking after the meeting, the SDLP leader | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Alasdair McDonnell said he was positive about the prospects for | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
progress. I didn't believe there was the will to do a deal, I wouldn't be | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
here. I have trust and confidence in the political leaders and I believe | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
we can do a deal. We are here, as the SDLP, looking quite simply to | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
make progress on the stuff that was broadly agreed in the Richard house | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
-- Richard Haass process and much was agreed. | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
The mother of Phillip Strickland, who was shot dead near Comber two | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
years ago, has told the trial of two men accused of his murder that she | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
was aware of a UVF threat against her son. Elizabeth Dempster said her | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
37-year old son had been threatened by the loyalist paramilitaries after | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
a fight in a bar and was later told by police of another threat from | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
them. She made the claim in a statement read to Belfast Crown | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Court. Two men deny his murder and the trial continues. | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
17 men have been cleared of a charge of taking part in an un-notified | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
protest. Ten of them are from Ardoyne, in Belfast, the others are | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
from north Antrim. Eunan McConville was in the Belfast court. | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
Acquitted and walking free from court, 17 men who had been charged | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
with taking part in an un-notified protest against an Apprentice Boys | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
parade in Belfast in December 2012. This footage was played during the | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
proceedings. The prosecution's case was that this showed the men | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
protesting against the parade as it passed, and that no application had | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
been made for a protest by the Greater Ardoyne Residents | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
Collective. The defence's case was that the men were simply observing | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
the parade and that no protest application had been made because | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
this was not a protest. All 17 were acquitted. This case, had it gone | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
the way they wanted and secured a conviction, would have had | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
consequences for people right across the six counties. Speaking of the | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
fact it was even brought was a disgrace. The argument in this case | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
really came down to what constitutes a protest, and the judge said a | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
protest could be silent and that it didn't necessarily need to involve | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
large numbers of people, but that in this case, the evidence did not show | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
that there was a protest and he acquitted all 17 men. Some of those | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
men may go on to take a case against the PPS and the PSNI. | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
Still to come: we will be joined in the studio by the boxer Martin Rogan | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
to talk about this fight and how he intends to make a comeback after | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
that. The National Health Service is to | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
get an extra ?30 million to help deal with winter pressures on | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
services. The Finance Minister made the announcement in a re-allocation | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
of funds. Our business and economics editor John Campbell has more on | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
this. More money for health. How did that come about? Remember a couple | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
of weeks ago that major incident declared at the Royal Victoria | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
Hospital, a large backlog in the A department put down to the seasonal | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
pressures, winter pressures we get. The executive has, with some money. | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
-- come up with some money. It is not just going to A departments, | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
it is also going towards looking after older people and social | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
services. ?30 million will be split between those. This is how this much | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
as the Health Minister wanted, he wanted 60 million, he is getting 30 | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
million. What else is benefiting from the re-allocation? Money will | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
be spent on roads, our bus stations, the University of Ulster is going to | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
get some money. That is a loan from the executive of ?35 million. You | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
can see from these pictures, there is a big development project going | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
in Belfast. A whole new campus is being built. Some of that money is | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
going to help pay for that. The university is expected to get a very | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
large loan from the European Investment Bank, to create this new | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
campus in Belfast. Where did the money originate? The money has come | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
from other departments. It has come out of the housing budget, the bulk | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
of it, to do with continuing problems in the Housing executive | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
over maintenance contracts. The money spent on maintenance has not | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
been spent. ?18 million comes out of the Housing executive budget into | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
the central part. Thank you for those details. | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
From running public services to running a home and parents will | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
notice a drop in their financial costs when the children leave the | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
nest. But unlike other places in the UK, young people here stay put until | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
well into adulthood. The Office for National Statistics says Northern | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
Ireland talks the list with a third of them still at home when they're | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
30. BBC Newsline's Tara Mills has more. | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
The statistics will come to no surprise for many households across | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
Northern Ireland. I have come to meet one family were the youngest | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
son is still living at home, and with a house like this, why would he | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
want to leave? This woman and her son catch up after the working day. | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
James has a degree that cannot get work in that field. He works | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
part-time and unpredictable hours. I can't afford to move out, but | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
hopefully the meantime and situation improves, I will move out. Cooking | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
and cleaning for James is a hard habit to break, but she enjoys his | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
company and his crack. I wish he could get a permanent job and be | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
able to make his own way and see the future. Working part-time is very | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
difficult for him, and I feel that for him and for all young people who | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
are in the same position. We encourage them to go to university, | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
nurture their desire for learning and then there is nothing, no job | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
for them at the end. I think that is hard for them. The impact on a young | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
person's career is one thing if they cannot find a job, but is there a | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
danger young adults will become overdependent on their appearance? | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Part of leaving home is developing the skills to learn on their own. | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
Developing skills like cooking and finance. If you live at home too | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
long, perhaps you will not get the chance to develop those skills. That | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
could affect the relationship. Empty nest syndrome seems some way off for | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
now in this family unless there is a big change in house prices in the | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
job market. This could be what the future looks like for many families | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
in Northern Ireland. The comforts of home a big | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
attraction there. A few months ago one of our top | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
boxers was delivered a knock out blow. But is now considering a | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
comeback. Stephen is joined by Martin Rogan. | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Thanks very much. He joins me here in the studio. Many thought that his | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
most recent fight in Germany back in November would be his last. But the | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
Belfast heavyweight is considering a comeback. Before we hear from him | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
take a a look at the savage first round knock out. It left the former | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
Commonwealth champion hospitalised and requiring extensive surgery to | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
his jaw which was broken in two places. Martin, that is pretty | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
painful viewing. How do you feel watching that? It is just part of | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
the sport. You have to take the rough with the smooth. I have got | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
over that hurdle. Being injured is only for a short time, it's all | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
about the way you comeback. Making sure the mistakes that were made are | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
not made again. We can take a look at some of the before and after | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
pictures of your operation. Serious injuries. Why would you want to | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
contemplate a comeback after that? I have asked them, it got me down a | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
lot and myself. I love boxing, boxing is great. I asked the doctor, | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
will be be a weakness in the job? Thankfully, he says, no, your job | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
will be strong as it ever was. I have gone to get the plates removed | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
from my job. I will go in tomorrow to get them removed. Are you worried | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
about the long-term effects? No, I have made a lot of mistakes, I have | :21:56. | :22:05. | |
looked back over a lot of my fights. A lot of my opponents would not | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
fight me again, but one of them would. I would love to get it on | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
with him again, settle the score. The damage was done, I made a lot of | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
mistakes, I should never have dropped my hand, I did. They | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
should've been there I had them at the start. I should not have fixed | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
what was not broken. I have a job to do. That's what I have to do, full | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
steam ahead. What and who is next? I have been speaking to my wife and | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
family, they have been on edge about it. It has not been too good. I have | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
been offered Australia and New Zealand, a couple of fights there. I | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
am on the verge of firing something in. We're going to do that. Thank | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
you very much indeed. No doubt we will see plenty of you in the | :23:01. | :23:01. | |
future. In Irish Cup football Lisburn | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
Distillery beat PSNI 2-0 today to set up a last 16 meeting with Queens | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
University. There's coverage of all tonight's games on BBC Radio Ulster | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
including Coleraine's fifth round replay at home to Cliftonville. | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
It's still only January and the awards keep coming for Tony McCoy. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
The 18 times champion jockey last night won the Belfast Telegraph | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
Sports Star of the Year Award. It was an event attended by dozens of | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
Northern Irelands sporting heroes past and present. Thomas Kane | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
reports. Usually, on the other side of the | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
camera, David Healy was on hand to snap his dad alongside the main | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
award winner. On a night when local sporting royalty mingled, but it was | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
another former footballing great who had McCoist are struck. -- | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
starstruck. He was one of my heroes growing up as an Arsenal fan. It is | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
a great honour to come back home and get an award like this. I am very | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
grateful. The records of continued to tumble over the last 12 months, | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
but AP McCoy is as determined as ever. I think I will get to achieve | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
a little bit more. No matter how much you win, there is always going | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
to be someone who will win more than you, you have got to keep going as | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
long as possible. His man management skills, everything about them. It | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
was also a special night for the Hall of Fame inductee. It is an | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
absolute honour, particularly for the sport I represent. It is not | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
just about our own sport, it is across all the sports in this part | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
of the world. I am delighted and chuffed for everybody. Just | :24:49. | :24:59. | |
brilliant, Mickey. Well done. AP McCoy was delighted that it was Pat | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
Jennings who presented. Even those at the top of the game have their | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
own sporting idols. It was a great night. That's it from | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
Martin and me. Great to see Martin Rogan in the | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
studio. It was not a great day to have a puncture. A terrible day for | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
most of us. It was rotten, it is looking a | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
little bit better over the next couple of days. I am going to start | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
with a picture of Derry. They are enjoying the rainbow laser | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
Festival. Last night, conditions were perfect. Tonight it is not so | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
good at the moment. There are showers over the Northwest, they are | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
moving away so we should see clear skies moving in from the west later. | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
Most of us have a dry night compared to today. There will still be | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
showers, particularly in the West. Temperatures get quite low in parts | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
of the South East, there could be a bit of ice and fog around. Overall, | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
it is going to be a better day tomorrow. There will still be some | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
rain, rain drops clinging to the bushes through the morning. Most of | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
the showers are going to be tomorrow morning. When you leave the house | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
over County Antrim, it should be fairly dry, temperatures of about | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
five degrees. Calderdale towards County Down and Armagh. -- colder | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
down towards County Down and Armagh. The showers will come eastwards into | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
the early afternoon. Turning drier and brighter again later in the day | :26:38. | :26:39. | |
in most places. You will need the umbrella in the morning. It will not | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
be as windy as it was this morning. Tomorrow night, wintry nest will be | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
in the showers. It could be a little bit icy. On Thursday, cold but | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
bright in many places. A few snow showers around, but most places will | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
avoid them. Over to the other side of the Atlantic, this is where our | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
weather is coming from on Friday, another snow area of low pressure. | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
It winds its way over towards us, through the Atlantic in the next | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
couple of days. It will not be as cold when it gets to us, but there | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
will be plenty of rain around through Friday and fairly strong | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
winds as well. We might get a little bit of snow briefly over the hills. | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
Once that moves through, a wet end to the week. Brightening up again | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
for the weekend. Very mixed, you will always need that umbrella. And | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
that raincoat. Hopefully no punctures tomorrow. | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
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