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Yard's handling of the case. That's all from the BBC News at | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline The County Tyrone teenager | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
Sean Hackett is convicted of his father's manslaughter Four brothers | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
are jailed for up to 11 years each for killing a couple in their County | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
Armagh home. Angry exchanges at the Policing Board between the DUP and | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
the Chief Constable over the On the Runs issue. The police begin a hate | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
crime investigation after a bullet is sent to Tobermore Primary School. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Paul McGinley announces his vice-captains for this year's Ryder | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Cup in Scotland and offers advice to Rory McIlroy. Another grey and wet | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
day today but much better tomorrow. Not as warm but dry, bright and | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
breezy. Sean Hackett had always admitted | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
shooting his father at their family home last year but his defence said | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
he was mentally disturbed at the time, possibly on the verge of | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
schizophrenia. Today, a jury cleared him of murder and found him guilty | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. The | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
19-year-old from Augher will be sentenced later. Julian Fowler was | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
in the court for BBC Newsline. Sean Hacketts's family arrived in court | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
this morning with their solicitor. His legal team had argued that the | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
teenager had killed his father in the irrational belief that he would | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
become his guardian in heaven and resolve his unhappiness and problems | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
in life following the break-up with his girlfriend. The prosecution | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
argued that he was a cold, calculating, manipulative killer who | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
was not suffering from a recognised mental disorder. The Tyrone manager, | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Mickey Harte, had given evidence of Sean Hackett's promising future as a | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
talented Gaelic footballer. He described him as a quiet, | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
unassuming, lovely young gentleman. The trial heard conflicting expert | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
evidence about the state of Sean Hackett's mind at the time of the | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
killing. In his summing up, the judge had told the jury that all | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
killings are abhorrent, all killings are truly horrific. People act | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
abnormally but that does not mean they suffer from an abnormality of | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
mental functioning or have a recognised mental condition. Sean | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Hackett's lawyer had argued that you didn't need to be a psychiatrist to | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
know that something in this young man's head was badly wrong. And that | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
a finding of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
would be the right verdict, a just verdict and the proper verdict. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
After 2.5 hours of deliberation, the jury unanimously agreed. Sean | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
Hackett showed little emotion as he was found not guilty of murder but | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
guilty of manslaughter. On the grounds of diminished | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
responsibility. Behind him, in the public gallery, his family cried and | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
hugged each other with relief. As he was led from the courtroom, his | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
mother Eilish gave him the thumbs up, and said, I love you. Sean | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Hackett will be sentenced for manslaughter and two counts of | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
possessing a gun and ammunition with intent to endanger life next month. | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
Four brothers have been jailed for up to 11 years each for killing a | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
couple in County Armagh. Thomas O'Hare and Lisa McClatchey died in a | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
fire at the remote cottage they shared near Tassagh in 2006. Here's | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
Gordon Adair. Thomas O'Hare and Lisa McClatchey died from the horrific | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
injuries they received in the fire which destroyed this cottage. The | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
fire, which was started by four brothers, Nile, Martin, Christopher | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
and Stephen Smith. In December they were found guilty of manslaughter | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
and today, their mother and other relatives wept in the public gallery | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
as Niall Smith was jailed for ten years, his brother 's 11 years each. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
Niall Smith's sentence was reduced because he had effectively pleaded | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
guilty to manslaughter. One by one, the lawyers said I'd please, | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
focusing on the motivation. The sexual assault of Stephen Smith by | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
Thomas O'Hare many years earlier. A lawyer for Stephen Smith spoke of | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
his client's shame and said he accepted that what happened to him | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
could never justify the attack. Referring to the time that had | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
elapsed between the abuse, when Stephen Smith was eight years old, | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
and the time he felt able to tell others, the lawyer said it was | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
important to reflect on those seven lonely years. He said his client had | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
tried to do without -- with what happened by ignoring it. A lawyer | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
for Martin Smith accepted that his client was the one who had planned | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
the attack but said fire to this, he had been a model citizen and we make | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
up of Martin Smith was that of the Big Brother. He said we have a deep | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
sense of guilt and what happened to his little brother and he had been | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
unaware of it and had been unable to protect him. Sentencing, the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
judgement of fear there could be no excuse. He said that all we give | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
birth to is anarchy by resorting to our own means. As they have done, | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
the victims families to comment. Their impact statements were at | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
their own request not read out in court and the only insight into how | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
the killings have affected their lives was when the judge said it was | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
clear that many of them were simply never get over what had happened. -- | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
would simply. The police have started an investigation into who | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
sent a bullet in the post to a school in Tobermore in County | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Londonderry. The incident is being treated as a hate crime. Louise | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Cullen reports. The investigation began this morning after the letter | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
was received at the primary school on the outskirts of the village of | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Tobermore. Prince recalled to the primary school this afternoon for an | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
emergency meeting and they were told what had happened. The school says | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
the incident is in the hands of the police. It's understood the target | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
may have been the family of a child at the school, rather than the child | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
itself. This afternoon, the police confirmed they were treating the | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
incident as a hate crime. A school is a place where we sent children to | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
be educated and they should not be discriminative against for their | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
colour, creed or religion. And for this act to have happened this week | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
in Tobermore is absolute madness. The investigation is continuing. | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
There is a security alert at Green to change in Londonderry. The alarm | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
was raised after the discovery of a suspicious package. An army bomb | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
disposal team is up a scene. Coming up... Find out how locally brewed | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
beers are whetting taste buds at home and abroad. There were angry | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
exchanges between the DUP and the Chief Constable over the issue of On | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
the Runs at the Policing Board today. Matt Baggott insisted the | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
board had been fully briefed about the police's role in the scheme and | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
reacted angrily to a claim that he had not been fully honest with the | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
board. Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Vincent Kearney, | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
reports. There were smiles and pleasantries as the Deputy Chief | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Constable attended last Policing Board meeting before retiring at the | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
end this month. You happy here for over 100 meetings suffer that you | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
deserve a medal. But the gloves came off on the issue of the On the Runs | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
scheme was discussed. The PSNI called the process by checking the | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
legal status of On the Runs operation rapid. DUP members | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
questioned by the name of that operation was never mentioned by | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
police and said they had never been told that letters of assurance were | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
being sent to people, telling them they were not wanted for | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
prosecution. The operation seems to be the only operation that could not | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
be mentioned. You cannot expect me to comment on the last ten years of | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
briefing to a different Policing Board, before devolution, to people | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
who were no longer present. Quite frankly, you are being disingenuous. | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
This is the only operation that has never been named. He does not have | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
any right to question the integrity of members of the command team. It | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
did not finish there. This operation, which goes to the heart | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
of our justice system, and the integrity of that system, why were | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
we not briefed on that? I have been asked these questions for or five | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
times and is a role for politicians to make the point. But it is not for | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
me to comment on anything around the politics of that process, how it | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
came to be and let me be clear - the Policing Board was briefed. In 2010, | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
it was briefly about the existence of the process. Where the | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
information came from, it was followed up by letter with specific | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
numbers of those involved. It is not right to say that you were not | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
briefed. You were briefed. Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly, who was involved | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
in submitting the names of On the Runs to the police for checking, | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
agreed. To sit here and talk sent me because you never heard the word | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
rapid, that you did not get any information, is utter nonsense. The | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
police told the board that the first heard about the letters of assurance | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
after John Downie was arrested at Gatwick Airport last May. The judge | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
said last week that he would not stand trial for the murder of four | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
soldiers because of such a letter. The PSNI said it immediately | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
suspended the operation. The BBC has obtained a copy of figures submitted | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
to the board, illustrating the extent of the scheme and the fact | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
that not every on the run was told they would not be prosecuted if they | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
returned to Northern Ireland. They revealed that the PSNI was asked to | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
clarify the legal studies of 228 people. Of those, 192 were told they | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
were not wanted for questioning or arrest. 15 were actively wanted by | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
the police. Eight of them were told they would be returned to prison but | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
released immediately under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. Checks | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
on six people were suspended after John Downie's arrest. Three of those | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
named were later arrested and one of them convicted. Two of them are the | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
subject of ongoing investigative reviews by the police. While files | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
on the remaining to have been sent to the Public Prosecution Service. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
The Justice Committee announced that it will mind its own investigation | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
into the operation of the On the Runs scheme. The Belfast taxi firm | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
Fonacab has apologised to a gay couple who say they were thrown out | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
of one of its taxis for kissing. It happened on Tuesday night when the | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
driver was taking a group of students to a gay nightclub in the | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
city centre. The firm is one of city's biggest taxi companies and | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
has recently sponsored Belfast Pride, a LGBT festival. One of the | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
passengers in the taxi, Mark McLoughlin, explained to the | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
Talkback radio programme what happened. We were driving down the | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
Malone Road and Stewart leaned over and kissed me on the cheek. The taxi | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
driver could see this through his mirror and he told us to stop and he | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
pulled over and he said, get out. I mean, we were stunned. Are you | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
serious? He said I am not having that in the car. Fonacab says it is | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
aware of an alleged incident and has apologised to the customer. The firm | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
says it is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and limited in | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
discrimination and has started an internal investigation. What does | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
this say about attitudes towards homosexuality? Gavin Boyd is from | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
the Rainbow Project, the largest LGBT organisation here. What sort of | :12:25. | :12:37. | |
reaction have you been getting? On social media we have seen people | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
expressing a lot of anger at how the young men were treated. LJ BT people | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
across Northern Ireland can experience this across Northern | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Ireland and I think the young men here can be commended in terms of | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
standing up for their rights. There has been a lot of communication to | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
try to raise awareness especially in regard to discrimination. Has that | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
not improve matters? I think it has on the effort taken by the equality | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
commission and the PSNI to educate the public about rights has been | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
good, but we are still lacking in educating young people about these | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
issues, especially in schools and universities. You mentioned social | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
media. Our social media page has had a lot of comments today. Some people | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
say they would side with the driver, they don't want to see | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
people being openly affectionate. That is everyone's right, but you | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
cannot just say that when it is two men were two women in a taxi who | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
were kissing, but that is beyond the pale whereas if it is a young man | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
and a young woman in a taxi, that is not treated the same. Thank you for | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
joining us. Coming up on BBC Newsline before | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
7pm: Continuing our series on the centenary of the start of World War | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
One - tonight, how recruitment posters were used to get young men | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
to sign up. New, locally-brewed specialist beers | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
are whetting the taste buds, not just here but in a growing number of | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
foreign markets. Seven micro-breweries are now firmly | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
established, with more in the pipeline. Our business correspondent | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
Julian O'Neill reports on a sales boom. Craft beer is a niche market. | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
The production lines have never been busier. Sales are rising and this | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
old farm in Kilkeel turns out 300 bottles of specialist brew each | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
year. We have seen the rise of craft beer at the whole island of Ireland | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
and we are trying to ride that wave at the moment. A lot of people are | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
asking for a different choice of beer, more than they used to be. | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
It's one of seven local micro-breweries. A few others are | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
planned as demand increases in Europe and further afield. Some | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
bars, particularly in Belfast, are also on the supply list. The pub | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
industry is still dominated by the big names, who control about 90% of | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
the market. But the recent arrivals are squeezing in. This is launch | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
night for another of the small breweries. Beautiful what the | :15:29. | :15:40. | |
undoing. These boys did this a happy and now look at them. The flavour is | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
next to none. The larger breweries cannot put the detail that we can | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
because we are brewing in small bottles. But the lower sales volumes | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
can mean higher prices. You pay ?4 or 454 a bottle of beer. A lot of | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
places now charge similar for standard like so I don't have a | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
problem with that. It is great used the someone at home doing so well. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Rather than bringing in something from a different country. Back in | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
Kilkeel, this business is planning new premises. And as it aims to take | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
a local name even further afield, it also hopes to add to its small | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
staff. More now in our series commemorating | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. This evening, our | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison looks at how and why recruitment | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
posters were used to get young men to sign up on this side of the Irish | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
Sea. Ireland has always been a place | :16:41. | :16:58. | |
apart from the rest of the UK, and the First World War was no | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
different. Because of political sensitivity, conscription, despite | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
plans, was not introduced here. So any soldier wanting to fight had to | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
be persuaded to volunteer to do so, and over 200,000 were. Not far from | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
the referee can bash Mike the River Liffey, these are the memorial or | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
gardens. Until recently they were overgrown with the new state | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
reluctant to acknowledge the 30,000 men who died in the First World | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
War, meant the history books largely forgot. Some believed they were | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
fighting for the Crown, others for the promise of home rule and the | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
rights of small nations. Recruitment posters like these persuaded tens of | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
thousands to volunteer for the trenches. Increasingly sophisticated | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
messages were reduced that appeals to different audiences. The use of | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
peer group pressure, defending women and family, and celebrating the | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
bravery of Irish men. One of them got AVC and survived the experience. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
An attempt was made to recruit his father to act as an informal | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
recruiting agency -- agent but apparently the father got drunk at a | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
rally and started singing Irish nationalist songs, spawning the | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
effect. Politics was never far away. Many of the posters were printed at | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
this block, a place now associated with Trinity College students. | :18:31. | :18:31. | |
Changed times indeed. There will be more on that story on | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
BBC Radio Ulster tonight at 11:50pm. Tomorrow here on BBC Newsline and on | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
Good Morning Ulster, there'll be another World War One at Home story | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
Stephen Watson is next, and he has Ryder Cup golf news. | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
Yes, Paul McGinley has named some of his backroom team and he has gone | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
for experience, selecting Irish veteran Des Smyth and Scotsman Sam | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
Torrance as two of his vice captains for this year's tournament in | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Scotland. And he also had words of encouragement for Rory McIlroy, as | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
the Holywood golfer shows signs of rediscovering his best form. I spoke | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
to Paul McGinley today in Dublin - firstly, about those vice-captain | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
picks. I got the job in January last year. They were the two first people | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
who came to mind. Debt has been a mentor and friend over the years and | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
has been proved right in many occasions, and Sam is a guy who we | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
have a strong bond over what happened in 2002, and he impressed | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
me behind-the-scenes when he was captain. As the first Irish Ryder | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
Cup captain, how many Irish golfers can we get on the team? The group -- | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
the group the bookies say we will have to with Graham and Rory, and | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Paul has a record as a Ryder Cup winner in the past. He showed form | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
in the summer and would be at the top of a list of potential picks but | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
I don't want the players to think too much about the Ryder Cup now. It | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
is important for Rory and Graham to focus on winning in my army now. How | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
pleased have you been to see Rory McIlroy return to his best form? | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
Please, but not surprised. Golf is a long road and he will win the | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
series, no doubt, and he has proven he has the ability to win and he | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
will win more major championships, but golf is full of twists and turns | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
and good days and bad days, and Rory will be no different. | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
Rory has come close to winning and he is currently tied for second | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
place at the world golf championship in Miami. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
Ulster's Iain Henderson will win his ninth cap when he starts for Ireland | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
in Saturday's Six Nations clash against Italy in Dublin. His | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
inclusion at the expense of the injured Peter O'Mahony is the one | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
change from the side which lost to England. Thomas Niblock reports. | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
Versatility can be a good or a bad thing. Some see Iain Henderson as a | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
second row forward. Others think he should play in the back row. The | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
latter is where he will start for Ireland this weekend, so what does | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
the Irish coach think? I was talking to Paul earlier anti-confirmed he | :21:24. | :21:32. | |
doesn't want him competing with him so it might be part of | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
self-preservation, the selection tool. I think he is athletic enough | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
to play in the background but he is strong enough to play in the second | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
row. I think Oster are still trying to solve it and so are we, so we may | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
see a bit of him in both positions on Sunday. -- on Saturday. It will | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
be Henderson's first start in the Six Nations, putting a frustrating | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
beginning to the season behind him. I was frustrated at the start of the | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
season with two injuries, putting me out for longer than I expected. I | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
had to play my way back in and ended up getting some game time against | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
Munster and showing what I could do. Henderson's Ulster team-mate Paddy | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
Jackson will start on the bench. That's because Jonny Sexton has | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
recovered from a thumb injury, and will start fly half in the must-win | :22:23. | :22:32. | |
game against the Italians. This year's Schools Cup Final in | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
rugby will see Sullivan Upper play Methodist College Belfast. Today | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
Sullivan beat Coleraine Academical Institution 27-14 in the second | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
semifinal. Tries from Charlie McEwan, Mark Crockford and Josh | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
Davidson helped the Holywood School to their first ever appearance in | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
the 137 year history of the Schools' Cup. You can see the final of the | :22:49. | :23:01. | |
competition on BBC Two on St Patrick's Day. | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
Northern Ireland's goal drought in away friendlies has now stretched to | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
ten games. The match against Cyprus ended 0-0 last night with only ten | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
men on the pitch. Meanwhile, in Dublin, Martin O'Neill suffered his | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
first defeat as Republic's manager, losing 2-1 to Serbia. Nial Foster | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
reports. It was Northern Ireland's two showed the early initiative, but | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Martin Paterson's header was saved. The visitors' blushes were saved by | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
the quick thinking and athleticism of Alan Manas. To compound Michael | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
O'Neill's misery, Gareth McAuley were shown a straight red card for | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
this challenge. Created a couple of half chances, we maybe could have | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
done better, and then we had to play the game out with ten men. But the | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
spirit and the workrate were good and we have to commend the players | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
on that. The fact we got 17 players on the pitch and got game time was | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
important, but the level of performance was disappointing. We | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
need to learn from that. There's no mugs in international football. | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
We've got some tough games in the group where we can't invite pressure | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
playing the wrong places and give them that opportunity to get on the | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
front foot. At the Abbey the stadium, Shane Long took advantage | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
of some dodgy Serbian defending to fire the hosts into the lead, but | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
they own goal from the unfortunate James McCarthy drew the sides level. | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
Then after an hour, this goal gave Martin O'Neill something to think | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
about ahead of the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign. | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
Not a good night for our international foot honours, north | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
and south. As long as they win the important games when the qualifiers | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
start, that is all that is important. | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
The weather is next, and there has been a warning for County Fermanagh. | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
Geoff Maskell is here Our late summary is at 10:25pm. | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
been a warning for County Fermanagh. Geoff Maskell is here Our late It | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
has been a miserable day, grey and rainy everywhere and that yellow | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
warning for heavy rain remains in place across Fermanagh until | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
midnight. It is not so much the volume of water, or the impact it is | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
having on swollen rivers and lakes. This evening and tonight, the rain | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
gradually works its way east. We get some clearer skies behind. | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Temperatures dipped to four or five degrees but tomorrow will be a much | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
better day. It will be drier and brighter, if a little chilly. This | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
is the picture you will wake up to. We have a few showers are around but | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
then the sky is dark to clear, it brightens up a little. We might even | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
see some sunshine. Some showers could fall as sleet or snow because | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
it is a colder air mass coming in so that is reflected by the | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
temperatures, highs of six or seven degrees. Stay out of the wind and in | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
the sunshine and it won't feel too bad. Those dry conditions continue | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
in the first part of Friday night and into Saturday morning before a | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
little rain edges in. It is a cold night because of those clear skies, | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
temperatures close to freezing. A change at the weekend, a more | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
unsettled picture because of a low pressure system. Here it is tracking | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
up the West Coast of Ireland. That will bring rain and cloud and some | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
quite strong winds as we go through the weekend. So starting Saturday, | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
which will be the welter of the two days, plenty of rain to begin with, | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
things pick up a little as we go through the day, and temperatures | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
have recovered to highs of 11 or 12 degrees. On Sunday another similar | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
picture is that front moves northwards. We start with a bit of | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
rain but Sunday gets a lot better. Things brighten up towards the end | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
of the day and next week the high pressure exert its influence, | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
whether settled down and things get a good bit brighter. | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
Finally a reminder of our main stories. Sean Hackett, accused of | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
murdering his father, has been found guilty of manslaughter on the | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
grounds of diminished responsibility. | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
And for brothers have been jailed for up to 11 years age for killing a | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
couple in a fire at their cottage in County Armagh. Our late summary is | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
at 10:25pm. I keep watching. Enjoy the rest of your evening. | :27:44. | :27:53. | |
Ireland lead the way but could Italy cause an upset? | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
Scotland host France, aiming for back-to-back victories, and will | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
flourishing England or holders Wales stay in contention at Twickenham? | :28:02. | :28:06. |