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Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline... | :00:00. | :00:24. | |
One of the biggest ever property deals in Northern Ireland sees a New | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
York investment firm take control of business and land. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Martin McGuinness says Peter Robinson "crossed the line" by | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
saying they'd agreed a welfare reform deal. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Cyber bullying - an international problem that's now in some of our | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
primary schools. A new bridge over the Connswater | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
River links two parts of east Belfast. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Ravenhill is ready for the biggest Ulster rugby game of the year. | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
And a mixed couple of days but there should be some decent spells! I'll | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
have the weekend weather. A New York investment firm has | :00:55. | :01:04. | |
completed the biggest ever Northern Ireland property deal. It | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
completed the biggest ever Northern control office blocks, hotels, | :01:10. | :01:10. | |
building sites, pubs and shopping centres which had, until now, been | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
in the Irish government's bad debt bank NAMA. The sale means there's a | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
better chance that unfinished building projects will be developed | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
offering the prospect of work for local construction. Our economics | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
and business editor John Campbell has more on this. We're talking a | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
lot of money in this deal. Yes, this deal is for more than ?1 | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
billion. It looks at 800 separate properties, including the office | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
block behind me. The money that is raised will go back to the Irish | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
state, because that is what NAMA has been about, recovering as much money | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
as possible from bad loans that were part of the Irish banking and | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
property crisis. Peter Robinson has said that this is good news for the | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
Northern Ireland economy. This deal is huge, one that alters | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
the landscape in terms of commercial property. Out goes a major player, | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
the so-called bad bank, NAMA, that managed to portfolio of loans, or as | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
it hit by the crash. What is being sold here and not just buildings, | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
but parcels of undeveloped land. In all, we're talking more than 1000 | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
property assets that are now under the control of new owners. A New | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
York investment firm. NAMA had been funding the completion of this | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
office block in Belfast, but a lot of other less attractive projects on | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
the books are sitting idle. Experts are predicting that this New York | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
company will change things. To a large extent, NAMA's hands were | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
tied. A lot of this was in cold storage for a few years, but now, | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
these projects can come out of cold storage and can work with local | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
developers to bring these projects through to completion. The price | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
paid to NAMA has not been disclosed, but is expected to have been more | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
than ?1.3 billion. NAMA said this transaction represents a significant | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
achievement and the sale was the best possible result for the Irish | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
taxpayer. The fact in international investment firm sees an opportunity | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
here is something viewed as encouraging. It is fantastic for the | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
local property market. It is great news for the commercial construction | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
sector, and if we can get more of these projects off the ground, then | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
sector, and if we can get more of we can see jobs for people on these | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
projects. The deal comes with the blessing of the first Minister who | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
recently criticised NAMA for not doing enough to help the local | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
economy. Now, it is all up to this new player. | :03:59. | :04:10. | |
What happens next, John? We need to understand what happens with the | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
purchasing of these loans, this company will want to be editor | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
within about seven years after getting a good profit, and to do | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
that, it will have to actively manage its portfolio, so it'll have | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
to do deals with borrowers, form joint ventures with local builders, | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
finished projects in cold storage that have not gone off the ground. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Ultimately, it needs to be about selling, they want to sell off a lot | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
of this as quickly as possible, so that means that the market, which | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
has been flat for you years, would be much more active. The prospect of | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
benefits for local workers? Yes, it will be things like solicitors, | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
commercial property agents, hopefully this work will spill out | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
into the overall economy and help to grow the overall economy, and that | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
is the kind of line that Peter Robinson has been putting out. He | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
said this can unlock a lot of value and good things for the local | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
economy. The Secretary of State says it's | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
unrealistic to suggest the government could take back powers to | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
legislate for welfare changes. Last night the First Minister Peter | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
Robinson told the BBC it might have to be one of the options explored if | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
the logjam over welfare reform continues. Meanwhile Martin | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
McGuinness has accused Mr Robinson of "crossing the line" | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
McGuinness has accused Mr Robinson he'd agreed to try and sell a deal | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
on introducing changes to the welfare system. This report from our | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
political correspondent Gareth Gordon. | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
Bridge building, not bridge burning was on Peter Robinson's minds today | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
as he tried to open a new one in east Belfast, accompanied by the | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Sinn Fein Lord Mayor. Good morning, I am the welcoming committee! Less | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
of a welcome for his government partners, but the DUP said they had | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
an agreement with the debited first Minister over the subject of welfare | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
reform. It is your belief that he took that agreements to the wider | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
party and they said no? It is not my belief, it is my knowledge. They | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
party and they said no? It is not my informed me that was the case. That | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
was 11 months ago in May. Martin McGuinness does not agree. I think | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
you cross a line that he should not have crossed, in terms of his | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
interpretation of the government that took place between his party | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
and my party over the whole issue of welfare cuts. What he said to the | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
programme board for no reality to the outcome. The suggestion that I | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
had said that I would go to my party to seek the sanction of my party, | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
the supported by party, for the discussions, the outcome of these | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
discussions that we had, was that the DUP is not true. I made it clear | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
that no deal is done until we get the support of our parties, but we | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
were all comfortable enough to go with the package to our parties. | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
That was the position that I outlined, it is a | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
That was the position that I over. But Mr Robinson's claimed that | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
without an agreement, all forms of power could be handed back to | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
Westminster, this could be a nonstarter. I do not think it is | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
realistic to bring powers back to Westminster. They are very clearly | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
in the devolution settlement. It is the approach of the current | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
government that any changes to this settlement have to be broadly | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
supported across the political parties, across the community. So | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
these men have to sort it out themselves. We see them going | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
abroad, they present a different narrative they are all happy, they | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
put the best foot forward for Northern Ireland, we want to see | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
that continued at home, good leadership. Here, they put it | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
another way. If any couple knows how to make up after a row, it is Peter | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
another way. If any couple knows how Robinson and Martin McGuinness. This | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
dispute must be resolved, or it is unlikely to happen ahead of the | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
elections in May. -- but it is unlikely. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Still to come on the programme... Reaction from workers to the loss of | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
around 50 jobs at the Fivemiletown Creamery factory. A lot of angry | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
employees here, 50 workers here, 50 families are losing their jobs very | :08:32. | :08:43. | |
shortly. Pensioners in Londonderry had to | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
flee their homes this morning when arsonists set fire to an oil tank. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
It happened at the Caen Hill estate. The forehead rescue service say it | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
is likely that nobody was hurt. -- it was lucky. I ran across the front | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
lawn when I saw it, that is basically what happened. The fire | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
brigade came, the lights are flashing, the sirens were roaring, | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
they were jumping off, even before the fire brigades had stopped. They | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
were on rolling the fire hoses. I can laugh about it now, but I was | :09:16. | :09:30. | |
not laughing about it now. 50 staff at Fivemiletown Creamery are to | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
begin talks over redundancy. While it has won many awards for its | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
cheeses, in recent years the firm has also been making large losses | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
and the decision was made yesterday to sell the factory. Our south-west | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
reporter Julian Fowler reports on the end of more than a century of | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
milk processing in the Clogher Valley. | :09:47. | :09:47. | |
After 116 years, the factory gates here at the creamery will soon be | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
closed. Shareholders met into the early hours last night. 35 voted to | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
agree the sale, just seven voted against. The new owners have bought | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
the milk supply from the farmers and the cheese brand, but production in | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
the town will end. The staff have begun a 30 day consultation process | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
to discuss the terms of their redundancy. A lot of angry employees | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
here, 50 workers here. 50 families will lose their jobs very shortly. | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
It is not a great atmosphere around here. We might be a small factory, | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
but we have a big heart. Only last year, half a mile down the road, and | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
of the creamery closed that I also worked in. 80 to 100 jobs inside a | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
year. There is recognition for the amount of hard work in the | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
redundancy packages. The amount of pride that some of the workers are | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
put into producing this award-winning cheese, it is terrible | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
that it is all gummy to an end. The enterprise minister is concerned | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
about the closure and will meet workers next weekend. I want to find | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
out if we have lost the brands to Northern Ireland. I want to find out | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
what their plans are for the brand, will they use it? Will they make it | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
elsewhere? Following the closure last year, the decision to stop | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
cheesemaking marks the end of an era of milk processing in the Cocker | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Valley. -- Clara Valley. A police officer has been acquitted | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
of fraud and misconduct. Keith Andrew Davidson, whose address was | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
given as Bangor station, was accused of making a fraudulent application | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
for the sale of his home under the Housing Executive scheme which buys | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
properties from owners who face intimidation or threat. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
A prison officer has pleaded guilty to misconduct in public life after a | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
prisoner he was supposed to be monitoring took his own life at | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Maghaberry Jail six years ago. The court heard that CCTV footage showed | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
the officer, Daniel Barclay, making food, watching TV and trying to | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
sleep while the prisoner, Colin Bell, made repeated attempts to kill | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
himself. Barclay will be sentenced next week. | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
The Vatican is to investigate claims of sexual misconduct which led to | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
the resignation of Cardinal Keith O'Brien who is originally from | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
Ballycastle. The Cardinal resigned from his position in St Andrews and | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
Edinburgh last year following allegations of improper conduct in | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
the 1980s. He acknowledged at the time that his behaviour had fallen | :12:24. | :12:33. | |
short of what was expected of him. Still ahead on BBC Newsline... | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
I'm live at Ravenhill to look ahead to the busiest sporting weekend of | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
the year. With the rise in the number of | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
tablets and mobile phones among children and young people comes a | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
rise in cyber-bullying. And That's been shown in a new survey carried | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
out among teachers at dozens of schools across Ireland. As Kevin | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
Sharkey reports, many schools are already taking action to create a | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
greater awareness of the problem. Hands up if you have a tablet of any | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
description? Hands up if you have a mobile phone! Mobile communication | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
technology becoming increasingly popular among schoolchildren. More | :13:27. | :13:27. | |
and more pupils popular among schoolchildren. More | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
mobile phones and tablet computers. Small to carry around and easy to | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
communicate from instantly. But this also means that other people can | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
contact them, whether they want to hear from them or not, and it is | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
leading to an increase in cyberbullying. According to this new | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
report, one third of primary school principals see cyberbullying as a | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
growing problem in their own schools. Overall, more than 90% of | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
school leaders want more guidance from the education authorities on | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
tackling online bullying. Because when it happens, it hurts. This was | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
sent to a 13-year-old in another part of Northern Ireland. Is that | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
all you have got, you spoiled brat? Why are you so worthless? You are | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
such a drama queen. Worthless, ungrateful and selfish, grew up and | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
get a life, I do not care of your friends again, I do not want junior | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
me. Cyberbullying is not a problem in this class, and the school wanted | :14:29. | :14:40. | |
to stay that way. It is beginning to emerge. It is not crisis mode by any | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
means, but we're finding evidence of children that have exposure to this | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
technology beginning to miss use it. To this primary schoolers | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
highlighting the dangers and trying to get the children to stay focused. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
But it is not just a problem in primary schools. According to this | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
report, three quarters of postprimary schools principals agree | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
that cyberbullying was a problem in their schools. This school does not | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
have a cyberbullying problem, but it does have a strategy just in case. | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
And helping in the does have a strategy just in case. | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
campaign, pupils themselves. I know it is a growing issue. I've decided | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
is almost more common than physical bullying, especially with so much | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
technology available. There are restrictions on when and how the | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
pupils use their mobile phones and tablet is that they bring to school. | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
These people stick to the guidelines. Cyberbullying only | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
begins to become a problem when others break the rules inside and | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
outside of the school. A bridge, officially opened today, is named | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
after the writer who penned the play, Over The Bridge. | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
Sam Thompson was an east Belfast man and the new bridge is in that part | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
of the city linking the Harbour Estate and the Titanic Quarter to | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
Victoria Park. Will Leitch reports. Five, four, three, two, one. Sam | :16:03. | :16:15. | |
Thompson's family helped open the new bridge bearing his name and | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
connect to East Belfast to the high above the state. The bridge has been | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
officially opened and people are streaming across. Because it is | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
2014, they are hoping that 2014 people will cross it on its first | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
day. But did not seem to be a problem. Lots of people can see | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
Victoria Park from the Harbour estate but very few people know how | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
to get in there, so it is important for us to make the connection. For | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
people to get over to East Belfast and vice versa. Over 3000 people | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
have used the bridge already and they are very excited about using it | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
in lunchtimes and as a way to get to work. A lot of pride and really very | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
honoured that the whole event has happened. The bridge is a great | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
tribute to my Uncle Sam and the family are delighted. The name of | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
Sam Thompson, trade union and -- trade unionist and playwright, was | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
chosen by public vote. The moment has come and it is a very | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
appropriate tribute to Sam. I could not think of a more appropriate one. | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
This great link between the park and the heartland of the industry of | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
Belfast. With this bridge, that link will be hard to forget. | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
An update for you now on Will's reports earlier this week on the | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
rare film footage of an RAF squadron at Aldergrove in the early days of | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
the Second World War. We were looking for names to | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
the Second World War. We were faces and have learned that this is | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
Sergeant Menzies Paterson. He's living in Edinburgh and due to | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
celebrate his 99th birthday in a couple of weeks time! | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
We've so much sport to look ahead to this weekend. Joining us from | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
Ravenhill is Stephen Watson. It looks a bit empty there at the | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
moment. It does, but it will be packed to capacity tomorrow. We are | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
here tonight because all Star have allowed us in to give everyone a | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
sneak preview of the almost finished Ravenhill. There is still some work | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
going on behind me. Just putting the finishing touches to this new stand | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
which will open tomorrow night for the Heineken cup European final. | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
This time tomorrow night, Ravenhill will no doubt be the noisiest place | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
in Belfast as Ulster face Saracens in the Heineken Cup. It's a rematch | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
of last year's quarterfinal when Saracens prevailed at Twickenham. | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
But this time, Ulster are hosts and, with the added the boost of a key | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
player back from injury, could home advantage be a key factor in the | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
outcome? Gavin Andrews reports. That famous Ravenhill raw is waiting for | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
England's most famous side. The energy they get behind their team is | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
different to other places. I like that. If they don't like me, then I | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
am doing my job well. It is going to be great. I am sure emotionally it | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
will be good for them. It is a great rugby playing stadium. That will | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
mean a lot to them, and for us, it is another memory we can make if we | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
win there. That is what we are ready for. But Saracens are also at full | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
strength and a force to be reckoned with. There are not many weaknesses | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
in their squad. They do the basics and they do it all well. They will | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
be a difficult team to break down. If you look at the few games they do | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
lose, they probably struggle a bit in terms of their physicality at the | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
breakdown, so if we want to have any kind of chance of winning, that is | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
where we will have two target. We have some very experienced players | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
here who know what it is like to play in big games, big crowds, so | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
the important thing is for us to start well. We know if we can do | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
that and get momentum, the crowd will be electric. We need to start | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
well and give the crowd something to get behind. Ravenhill was rebuilt | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
for nights such as this, with a full house and a clash to savour. | :20:45. | :20:55. | |
And tomorrow's match is live on our radio station. As is tonight's | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
boxing. Tonight, Carl Frampton faces the | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
last opponent between him and a potential world title shot when he | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
faces two-time former champion Mexican Hugo Cazares at a sold-out | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Odyssey in Belfast. The winner of should fight the WBC champion, Leo | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
Santa Cruz, later this year. With a warning of flash photography, I | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
spoke to Carl earlier about his mood ahead of the bout. I am very | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
excited. It is the toughest fight of my career against a very good | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
fighter. I am very, my career against a very good | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
need to win this and I intend to do that. Barry says this needs to be a | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
dynamic performance. Does that put you under pressure again? No, I | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
understand that. I got a bit of stick before and people thought my | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
fighting was boring. It is important, especially for American | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
television, to look good, to look impressive, try your best and that | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
is what I intend to do. How tough all this opponent be? He hasn't been | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
stopped in a long time. He is a hardened veteran. It will be the | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
toughest fight of my career. But, I believe I am improving with every | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
bite and I think there will be no different this time. I | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
hard enough and I have all the moves to beat him. That is a sell-out this | :22:17. | :22:32. | |
evening. The Irish cup fairy tale continues | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
for Queens University tomorrow. 90 minutes football and Ballymena | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
United stand in the way of the Belfast-based students and a | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
first-ever appearance in the cup final - Mark Sidebottom reports. | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
This is the brains behind the students on the old success. This is | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
the bunch of boys looking for victory. And this is the goal that | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
booked the final. It is like a fairy tale. We are a unique club. The | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
first thing I have to ask a player is, did you study at Queen 's use of | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
adversity or do you study at Queens University? That is one of our | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
policies and it is what makes the club what it is. It makes us work | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
harder. Be under no illusion. We have got good players at this club | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
and we have good coaches and facilities. The future is bright. A | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
lot of people say, why don't we bring players from out side and a | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
lot of people I know would like to play here, but it gives you that | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
special atmosphere and when we progress, that makes it that bit | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
more special. If it is a big game for the University, it is a big, big | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
game for one player in particular. His father and grandfather both | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
played the ball for the same club, winning the cup. People say, you are | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
not as good as your dad, and he is not as good as your grandfather | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
was, so I know where I am in the pecking order! My grandad won a lot | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
of medals. And that was fairly handle -- handy too. So, Ballymena | :24:17. | :24:31. | |
United, you have been warned. Come prepared for one tough examination. | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
Jockey Barry Geraghty rode a treble of winner's at Aintree today but AP | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
McCoy is also warming up nicely ahead of tomorrow's Grand National. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
The champion jockey rode the seven-to-two priced Holywell to win | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
today's Novices Chase. The Moneyglass man rides the well backed | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
Double Seven in tomorrow's big race, which he won for the first time four | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
years ago on Don't Push It. In Gaelic games, this weekend's | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
final round of Allianz National Football League games see Tyrone | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
chasing a Division One semifinal spot. Mickey Harte's men take on | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
Dublin in Omagh. Derry are already assured a semifinal place And the | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
Belfast Giants face the Fife Flyers in the semifinal of the | :25:12. | :25:12. | |
end-of-season play-offs that is it from us. I told you it | :25:13. | :25:33. | |
was a busy weekend. Before we go to the weather, a | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
question you can put to your friends and family this weekend. What do you | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
get if you cross a goat with a sheep? The answer - a geep and I'm | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
not kidding you when I say it's a real animal. A farmer in County | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
Kildare is the proud owner of the rare cross-breed. The little fella | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
was born about a fortnight ago on Paddy Murphy's sheep farm in | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
Ballymore Eustace and is the unexpected offspring of a goat and | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
one of the farmer's ewes. The geep has been become an internet hit and | :25:59. | :25:59. | |
you can read more about him on our Now here's Angie with your weekend | :26:00. | :26:09. | |
weather forecast. The weekend is upon us and it is | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
mixed fortune. I read some rain in the broadcast, easy and blustery at | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
times, but Di gaps in between rain and the breeze lifts the gloom from | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
recent days. That is how we started off earlier, gloomy with mist and | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
fog, but the cloud has lifted and we are seeing breaks in the cloud. This | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
evening, the best part of the day. It will not stay that way all night, | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
evening, the best part of the day. because we have a band of cloud | :26:41. | :26:42. | |
edging its way in and that will bring spells of rain. Initially, | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
this rain will be patchy and a mild night as well, temperatures no lower | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
than six or seven degrees. Into tomorrow, we will see some | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
improvement eventually, but a not -- not a good start to the day with the | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
rain becoming more persistent. Probably clearing the East Coast | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
made to late morning and drier weather as you can see starts to | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
move into the West. Hopefully some bright intervals with temperatures | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
of 13 or 14 degrees. One or two showers scattered around. As we head | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
into the evening, there are signs of showers starting to return from the | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
South full. Hopefully avoiding Belfast, so it looks as though it | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
should stay dry at Ravenhill tomorrow evening. There will be some | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
showers coming in tomorrow evening though, lingering on into Sunday, | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
but at least it should writing up into the afternoon. Feeling a little | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
fresher. Have a great weekend. | :27:46. | :27:47. |