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Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline. | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
Bill Clinton tells local politicians to finish the job - to resolve | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
remaining issues in the peace process as he pays tribute to John | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
Hume. I'll have more on the visit of the former US President. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Also on the programme... The Chief Constable rejects claims | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
that letters sent to so called On The Runs amounted to an amnesty. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Planners reject a Tesco store for Ballycastle and accuse the | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
supermarket chain of damaging the town. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
Remembering the Vietnamese boat people who came to Northern Ireland | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
to begin a new life 35 years on. One night in Nicosia - we'll have | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
the latest from Northern Ireland's friendly international away to | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
Cyprus. Wet tonight, even wetter tomorrow. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Thank goodness it gets a bit brighter by Friday! | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
The Former US President Bill Clinton has arrived at Queen's University in | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Belfast for a special event on what is his fifth visit to Northern | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Ireland. -- is due to arrive shortly at Queens University in Belfast. He | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
started the day in Londonderry and had a meeting with the First and | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Deputy First Ministers at Stormont this afternoon. Let's go first to | :01:31. | :01:40. | |
Donna, who's live in south Belfast. We are waiting for the arrival of | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Bill Clinton here at redoubt hall here in south Belfast, where once | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
again, Queens University is celebrating the former president. In | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
2001 he was awarded an honorary degree. Tonight, an institute | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
concentrating on leadership will be named after him. His job tonight is | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
to give the inaugural lecture. Earlier today, he told local | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
political leaders that they had to finish their job - to resolve the | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
outstanding issues in peace process. This afternoon he met the First and | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Deputy First Minister at Stormont, where they discussed the challenges | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
facing power-sharing just a few days after the threatened resignation of | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
Peter Robinson. His schedule has been put back because of that | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
meeting and we are still waiting for his arrival here. The day started in | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
Londonderry, where thousands of people turned out to see and hear | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
the former president. His focus was very much on peace. And on the Nobel | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
Peace Prize winner John Hume. Our North-West reporter Keiron Tourish | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
has more. President Clinton used this visit to | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
Derry to honour the contribution to the political process of former SDLP | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
leader John Hume and his wife Pat. Symbolically, all three walked | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
across the city's iconic Peace Bridge. It links both sides of the | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
Foyle and underlined the former President's message of | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
reconciliation. Bill Clinton, with John Hume. President Clinton was | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
warmly welcomed in Guild Hall Square and in his speech paid tribute to | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
John Hume. He also urged politicians here to find the resolve and | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
determination to overcome any difficulties in the peace process. | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
You can't resolve the parades, the flags, the history issues. We can't | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
resolve all the other issues. -- you can resolve a grades. You have to be | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
free. These children have to have a future. I don't really care, it's | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
not for me to say what the details should be. You have inspired the | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
world. You have to finish this. President Clinton was here at the | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
invitation of the University of Ulster and helped launch a book | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
entitled Peacemaking In The 21st Century. The Peace lectures include | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
contributions from himself and his wife Hillary, as well as John Hume. | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
It was a great visit and very good of him to come here. It was very | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
interesting that the man of his international status has come to | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Derry. Looking at all the young people who were there today, I | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
thought the message was so right for them and I dearly would love the | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
message to be taken to heart by everyone. Although President Clinton | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
was heckled briefly over Iraq, for the overwhelming majority, this was | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
a memorable experience. We are visiting from Qatar. We happen to be | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
here delay and we thought, what a great chance to see the president. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
We got a salute from President Clinton. It felt great. Before | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
leaving, President Clinton said this was a visit that had given him "one | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
more day in Derry I will never forget." | :04:58. | :05:10. | |
We are waiting here at Queens University in south Belfast for the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
arrival of the former US president. Tonight, and Institute of leadership | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
will be named after him. Queen's Vice-Chancellor Professor Patrick | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
Johnston is with me. Why choose Bill Clinton for the name of the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Institute? It is a very important evening and a real pleasure to have | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
President Clinton here. He has shown global leadership, when he was | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
president, and since, after he stepped down, particularly here in | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Northern Ireland. He has made a huge impact on our society and to be able | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
to name our institute that embodies his spirit of passion and | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
commitment, making a difference to people and societies, particularly | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
in Northern Ireland but also in other parts of the world, is an | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
honour and privilege for us. You have recently become vice | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
chancellor, a leader in your own right. What inspiration do you get | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
from President Clinton? I was working in the United States when he | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
became president. During that time he doubled the culture budget and | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
look at the impact that has had. -- the cancer budget. He has done the | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
same thing with anything else he has taken forward, particularly in | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
Northern Ireland. We will have the William J Clinton Leadership | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Institute at Queens. We can begin to shape leaders in culture and arts | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
and network them with other foundations like the Kennedy | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
Foundation in Boston. It will bring enormous benefits to our society. He | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
is a great speech-maker. What do you expect from today's lecture. I think | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
it will be a real inspiration, I have no doubt. It will inspire | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
everybody in the room and hopefully inspire beyond Queens. Thank you for | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
joining us. We have cameras inside to hear a lecture this evening as we | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
await Bill Clinton's arrival. He is a little bit behind schedule because | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
of the meeting at Stormont. We will have the latest on his visit on BBC | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
One at 10:25pm on the late BBC Newsline. | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
You're watching BBC Newsline, still to come... Tesco's plan for a store | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
in Ballycastle is rejected as planners hit out at the supermarket | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
chain for damaging the Northampton Town. -- North Antrim town. | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at Westminster is to | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
conduct an inquiry into the letters sent to republican fugitives. The | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
Committee chair, Laurence Robertson, says the terms of reference of the | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
judge-led inquiry announced by the Government last week are too narrow. | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
The Chief Constable has rejected claims that the letters amounted to | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
get out of jail free cards or an amnesty. Our home affairs | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
correspondent Vincent Kearney reports. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Matt Baggott arrived to face questions about a scheme set up by | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
the government and republicans but was greeted by loyalist protestors. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
The Progressive Unionist Party claims the scheme proves that | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
republicans have been given preferential treatment. It says the | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
police should now suspend investigations by the Historical | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
Enquiries Team, many of which have focused on the activities of the | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
UVF. Cameras were allowed to record his arrival at a specially convened | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
private meeting of the Policing Board to discuss the issue. But | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
there were no cameras present to witness what sources described as 90 | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
heated minutes of debate. Afterwards, the Chief Constable | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
defended the PSNI's role in the process. Are legal advice is that we | :08:51. | :09:00. | |
had a duty to clarify someone's status. That is under existing | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
legislation and a responsibility the police have. This meeting was the | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
result of a ruling by a judge at the Old Bailey last week that John | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
Downey would not stand trial for the murders of four soldiers because | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
he'd been sent a so-called "letter of assurance" by the Northern | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Ireland Office, saying he would not be prosecuted. It was revealed that | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
more than 180 other On The Runs had been sent similar letters. The court | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
judgement revealed that the letters contained caveats, stating that they | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
had been sent based on "evidence currently available" and that the | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
issue may be reconsidered if fresh evidence became available. But the | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
First Minister reacted angrily. There are people going around with | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
letters stuffed in their pockets which say that even if somebody | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
fingers you, you cannot go to jail. That is an outrage, I think, in any | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
democratic state. Matt Baggott today made it clear he doesn't share that | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
view. As far as we are concerned, and there is nothing in the | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
judgement that contradicts us, there are no get out of jail cards, no | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
amnesties, and there are no letters of immunity. If new evidence emerges | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
then it will be investigated and we will send reports to the Public | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Prosecution Service. I wanted to make that clear. Afterwards, the DUP | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
said it wasn't satisfied with the answers provided by the Chief | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
Constable and accused the NIO of a cover up. I think it is quite clear | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
that there was a conspiracy to withhold the information about the | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
letters. It was stated time and time again that that was an issue for the | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
Northern Ireland Office and others and was not part of the PSNI's | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
remit. I think anybody with a bit of sense can see that this information | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
was withheld from politicians. The debate that took place behind closed | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
doors today is likely to be repeated when the board holds its next public | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
meeting. Its members won't have long to wait - that meeting will take | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
place here tomorrow afternoon. Sean Hackett, the 19-year-old who | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
shot his father Aloysius, is either a dangerous manipulative murderer or | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
a mentally disturbed teen on the possible verge of schizophrenia, | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
caught up in one of the most extraordinary and complex criminal | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
cases ever. The conflicting descriptions came from prosecuting | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
and defence lawyers in their closing submissions to the jury. Julian | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
Fowler was at Dungannon Crown Court. A gifted footballer, a good | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
sportsman with a good life given to him by a good family, but the | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
prosecution say Sean Hackett was a dangerous man. The prosecution | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
lawyer said underneath Sean Hackett's smiling face was a wicked, | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
and a plate of Keller. He said the meticulously planned and executed | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
slaughter of his father was a brutally selfish act in order to get | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
over whatever problems he had in his life. He said Sean Hackett was not | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
suffering from depression and that feeling a bit down after a break-up | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
with his girlfriend was not an excuse for murder. His defence claim | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
he was little more than a child and two convicted of murder would create | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
another injustice for the family. The defence lawyers said the central | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
question was how an 18-year-old of impeccable character with everything | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
to live forward on to develop the bizarre notion that it would help | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
him if he killed one of his parents. He asked the jury, do you really | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
need be a psychiatrist to know that something inside this young man's | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
head was badly wrong? He said a finding of manslaughter on the | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
grounds of diminished responsibility would be the right verdict, a just | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
verdict, and the proper verdict. The jury is expected to retire to | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
consider its verdict tomorrow. The Planning Appeals Commission has | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
said that Tesco has caused "significant loss of investment" to | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
a County Antrim town by pursuing a development plan. The retail chain | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
wanted to build a supermarket on the edge of Ballycastle, but that was | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
rejected by planners. Here's our business and economics editor John | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Campbell. A review of the six further | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
education colleges here has -- to date Mark the end of a long | :13:02. | :13:13. | |
battle for traders in this seaside resort. The Chamber of Commerce says | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
there is a sense of relief. There is a sense of relief that this has | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
passed. It had been gone going -- on going for ten years and had put a | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
negative shadow over local businesses. Hopefully we can go | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
forward. The Planning Appeals Commission agreed that allowing a | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
Tesco development on the outskirts of Ballycastle would have caused | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
unacceptable damage to the town centre. The commission went | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
further. It says Tesco has already caused a problem. The ruling refers | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
to a Tesco cloud hanging over the time. By that it means existing | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
retailers were reluctant to spend money on their businesses while | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
waiting on the outcome of the planning process. It means there was | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
a significant loss of investment to the town centre. That is a view | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
echoed by one local businessman. There is a bank building across the | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
street that nobody was prepared to buy, despite it being very very | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
cheap as a consequence of the cloud hanging over the town centre. Not | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
everyone opposed the plan. In a statement, Tesco said, this would be | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
extremely disappointing to the local people who wanted our investment. | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
Dot. -- wanted our investment... Tesco has slowed the space of no -- | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
piece of new openings. It could mean that this sort of planning battle is | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
increasingly a thing of the past. It is hard not to be moved by some | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
of the images which have been broadcast from Syria in recent | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
months. 2.5 million refugees are fleeing the war-torn country. 35 | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
years ago, it was a crisis in Vietnam that was making the | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
headlines and some of those granted refugee status ended up here in | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
Northern Ireland. Our reporter Julie McCullough has been to meet a couple | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
of them. 1979, and these were some of the | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
pictures being beamed around the world. Vietnamese refugees, crammed | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
into small fishing boats, fleeing their home country in fear of | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
persecution. Many didn't make it, but Saychan Lau and Amui Lay were | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
among the 295 people packed into this 15 metre long boat when they | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
were picked up by a British ship. There were also some of the first to | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
make Northern Ireland their new home. TRANSLATION: The leader of the | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
refugees told them that there were not enough jobs in London, but in | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
Northern Ireland, there is a lot of work and good housing and they would | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
like us to go over to Northern Ireland to start a new life. Here in | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
the Public Records Office, you can read some of the recently made | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
public government files that give you more details about the | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
Vietnamese boat people coming here. For example, most of them, around 19 | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
families, were settled in Craigavon. And it wasn't always easy | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
for them. They had problems adapting to their new home and, of course, | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
had to be warned about the Troubles. The first time we came it was really | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
scary, because there was a soldier. We had to be checked before you got | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
into a shop. I saw the soldier had I gone and -- had a gun and it was | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
really scary. Because we came from Vietnam it was really bad. I had | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
just come to Northern Ireland and it was really scary, and I nearly | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
cried. Alan Locke, who was Maier of Craigavon at the time, has a better | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
memory of their arrival. -- the Mayor of Craigavon. I have a lot of | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
very pleasant memories. The boat people were wonderful, I must say. | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
It felt wonderful that we were doing what we could do for people that | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
were less fortunate than ourselves. I was very proud of, generally, the | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
people of Craigavon. But there was also disappointment, because many of | :17:28. | :17:39. | |
the boat people, including one of these women, went back to England. | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
TRANSLATION: When they went out to work at night and in the daytime | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
came back, they discovered that other communities had broken into | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
their house and taken the TV and thereby got -- their belongings. | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
They weren't even worried about coming in broad daylight and they | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
robbed the place. Despite the problems, these women and their | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
families did return to Northern Ireland and they have no intention | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
of leaving again. Still to come on the programme | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
before seven... We continue our series commemorating | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and how a cargo ship | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
landing in Larne Harbour would shape history in Ireland. | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
There are more people who need organ transplants than donor organs | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
available. One couple from County Down have been telling how they took | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
part in a UK-wide scheme which pairs donors and recipients and it's made | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
a huge difference. Chris Page has more. | :18:43. | :18:52. | |
The science of transplant surgery is advancing all the time, but the need | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
for donors remains a big issue. Seamus Kenny needed a kidney | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
transplant. His wife, Pauline, was willing to donate, but her kidney | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
was not suitable, so they entered a new way -- UK wide scheme which | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
matches donors and recipients. They were matched with another couple. | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
Respective partners donated their kidneys. It all took place on the | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
same date nine months ago. When the Kennys got news of the match, it was | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
a great relief. We were shocked because we were not expecting the | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
news that day. Over a period of time, it was sinking in. We had lots | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
of contact with the hospital to keep us informed. It gave us time to come | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
to terms with it and gave us time to plan. I expected I would have to go | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
onto dialysis. To get the news that you are going to get a kidney was | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
like a miracle. I could not believe it was going to happen and all of | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
the time, I kept thinking it would not happen. It was like a dream. | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
They are an amazing advert for all that is good about kidney | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
transplantation. Both of them look so good and so healthy now. Shimmers | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
and Pauling wanted to give something back to the staff at City Hospital. | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
With the help of Seamus's employers, they have raised ?100,000 for the | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
renal unit. Now we continue our series | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of World War One. Tonight, | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
Mervyn Jess reports from Larne, where local school children are | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
remembering the UVF gun-running episode at the harbour. It happened | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
just months before the outbreak of war in Europe. | :20:41. | :20:52. | |
Larne in the early part of the twentieth century was a busy | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
commercial port. But what was brought into the harbour by day was | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
far removed from what was landed one night in April 1914. The Clyde | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
Valley, loaded with 200 tonnes of guns and ammunition from Hamburg in | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
Germany sailed into port to be met by teams of UVF men ready to receive | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
a cargo that would shape history in Ireland. A massive operation, | :21:13. | :21:26. | |
involving 600 cars, dispersing guns to places like Tyrone, Fermanagh, | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
Cavan, and suddenly the UVF had military supremacy in Ireland. This | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
brought Ireland to the brink of civil war. Some young people in | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
Larne are currently involved in project retelling the story of the | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
Clyde Valley. Because I go to school in Ballymena, it was good that it | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
was happening locally. It has brought us a better understanding of | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
the town and something that happened helped to shape events taking place | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
in a more global scale as well. It is one of those events, like 1912 | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
other 1916 rising, which shape this island North and South. The more | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
understanding we have, the more we can't escape our past. -- the more | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
we can escape. The story has lasted longer than the ship. The Clyde | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
Valley was sold for scrap in the mid '70s. | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
There will be more on that story on BBC Radio Ulster tonight at 11:50pm. | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
BBC Newsline and Good Morning Ulster will have another World War One | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
story tomorrow. Northern Ireland's footballers | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
haven't won a friendly game home or away in 18 attempts. So how are they | :22:31. | :22:42. | |
faring tonight against Cyprus? George Best way back in 1971 is the | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
last Northern Irish man to score a goal in Nicosia and that remains the | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
case. Martin Paterson had a great opportunity to end that run early | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
on. His header was well saved, though. And at the other end, the | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
hosts exerted pressure. Late in the half, Manus produced a fine save. At | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
half-time there is no score. We will bring you any goals in the late | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
bulletin. There's a 7.45 kick off in Dublin, | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
where the Republic face a tough test in a home friendly against Serbia. | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
Ahead of this evening's game, Martin O'Neill's number two, Roy Keane, | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
who'd been quite scathing of Manchester United's performance in | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
Europe last week. - was asked if the international team was bad against | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
Serbia tonight would he be critical? I would hope that my comments have | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
always been fair and I hope that will continue. If we did put in a | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
bad performance I probably will not speak to the media! He is developing | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
a sense of humour, as is this man. It's 31 trophies and counting for | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
David Jeffrey. The Linfield boss, who's set to quit Windsor Park at | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
the end of this season, has just drawn level with Roy Coyle's record. | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
Last night's County Antrim Shield win over Crusaders was decided on | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
penalties. David Jefferies' 31st trophy as | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
Linfield manager had to be won on penalties after a scoreless final. | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
The goalkeeper was the Linfield hero as he saved two. Billy Joe Bones | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
converted the winner. David Jeffrey was accepting none of the praise. My | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
focus for tonight was to make sure that the focus was on the players | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
and on the club winning another trophy. If you put things in the | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
right order, then a lot of the time things come out in the right way. | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
Eight more cup finals lie ahead for a Linfield as they aim to win the | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
league and claim a historic 32nd trophy for David Jeffrey as manager. | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
Finally, following recent tests, British Horseracing Authority has | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
confirmed that Irish trainer Philip Fenton's horses are clear to run at | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
the Cheltenham Festival. He's been charged with possessing banned | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
anabolic steroids in Ireland. The Cheltenham Festival starts next | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
Tuesday. These are live pictures from Queens University. The former | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
US President Bill Clinton, here on a one-day visit. He has arrived for a | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
special event at the University. This is his fifth visit to Northern | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
Ireland. He is being welcomed by Professor Patrick Johnson. Tonight, | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
Mr Clinton will give a lecture on leadership at a new institute which | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
is being named after him. We will have a special report on that story | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
on our 10:25pm bulletin. Time for the weather. | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
Has there been a dry basis the start of this year? There have not been | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
many and today was not one. The president was complaining about | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
the rain earlier and it has been coming down through the day. Showers | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
will persist this evening and through the early part of the night | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
as well. The skies will dry across the north and west just before dawn. | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
As we head into tomorrow, it is going to be another wet day. | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
Gradually, the rain starts to work its way north, spreading to all | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
parts. The rainfall totals are not big. 15-20 millimetres. Given the | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
amount of water in some rivers, there is a yellow warning in place | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
across County Fermanagh through the day tomorrow. It is a pretty wet | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
picture wherever you are. The cloud cover means that temperatures stay | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
reasonable, ten or 11 degrees as we go through the day. It is pretty | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
well wherever you look. Gradually through Thursday evening and into | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
Friday, the skies clear. And when that happens, temperatures drop away | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
markedly. A chilly night on Thursday going into Friday. Friday will have | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
a different field. Brighter and colder as a high pressure comes into | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
force. Seven or eight degrees, but she a much more usable day. You can | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
see high pressure trying to keep us safe from the low pressure systems. | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
It will not be strong enough to do that on Saturday and guess what | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
happens - the rain is on its way back. It will be a soggy start to | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
the weekend but at least temperatures are going up. It is a | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
reasonably unsettled picture as we look through the weekend. Rain still | :27:40. | :27:43. |