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Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Flawed, but not unlawful and not an amnesty - Lady Justice Hallett's | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
At Stormont - both the DUP and Sinn Fein find reasons to take heart from | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
But here at Westminster some doubt the Government's claim | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
that it can now remove barriers to future prosecutions. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Refunds begin for the Garth Brooks concert, but not everyone is happy. | :00:38. | :01:02. | |
We have to wait 21 days to get our money back. Ridiculous. | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
On the first day of the Open, Rory McIlroy goes to the top of | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
And the warm weather continues tonight | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
but we can expect some thundery showers over the next day or two. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
I'll have more weather for you later in the programme. | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
Five months ago it emerged that letters had been sent to more than | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
200 Republicans who were on the run - telling them they were | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
It was news that almost brought down the Assembly when the First Minister | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Today a judge who was investigating why and how the scheme was run | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
And this is what Lady Justice Hallett had to say in her report. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
She found that the letters did not amount to an amnesty. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Her report however did say that the scheme was flawed but not unlawful. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
And Lady Justice Hallet also highlighted that | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
the process operated below the radar - but was not secret. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
We?ll have political reaction from both Westminster and Stormont | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
and we'll hear from a woman whose uncle was killed by IRA. | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
But first our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney has | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
The IRA brought carnage to the streets of London. Four soldiers | :02:22. | :02:40. | |
from the household care were killed when a large bomb exploded as they | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
passed Hyde Park. Seven horses also died. 20 Three Anthony Daly was one | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
of the soldier is killed. His brother today recalled hearing the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
news. Complete disbelief and then shock and sadness. My mother was | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
waiting for my brother at -- and when he did not arrive she knew | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
something drastic had gone on. They were very eager to call me before I | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
saw it on the news. I heard the news on the telephone. Last | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
detectives hunting the killers arrested one | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
detectives hunting the killers involved. John Downey produced a | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
letter his lawyers say was a legally binding insurance that he was not | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
wanted by police for any offence. A judge ruled that he could not stand | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
trial. What started as a story about the collapse of the trial soon | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
became a story about the possible collapse of the storm of Assembly. I | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
am not prepared to be the head of the governments that was kept in the | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
dark in this way. I was there to be full disclosure, for the people to | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
know what has gone on. Lady Justice Hallett was appointed to conduct a | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
review that involved Republicans being told they were not wanted by | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
the police. In her report, she said the scheme is unprecedented and | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
flawed but was not unlawful and did not give terrorist suspects an | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
amnesty. That point was reinforced by the Secretary of State in the | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
House of Commons. I repeat again today to the people | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
holding these letters, they will not protect you from arrest or | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
prosecution. Should the police succeed in gathering sufficient | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
evidence, you will be subject to due process of law. | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
The judge also rejects allegations that the scheme at a secret deal. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Reports say the scheme was kept below the radar duty with little | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
sensitivity, but it would be wrong to characterise it as secrets. The | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
report says dozens of police officers, prison officers and | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
politicians must have known that some kind of scheme was operating. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
It adds that an interested party had kept a close eye on developments in | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Westminster and the press, they may have appreciated that there was some | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
kind of scheme is not the precise details. | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
John Downey's trial collapsed because he was wrongly told he was | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
not wanted by the police. The report says the PSNI was to blame for that | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
mistake and for not rectifying it when it later became aware that he | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
was wanted in connection -- in connection with the Hyde Park | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
bombing. The judge says nothing in law or logic explains these | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
dealings. There is no logical explanation. It | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
was a catastrophic error, that is how Justice Sweeney described it. It | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
was unacceptable and we have put measures in place to ensure that the | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
review mechanisms have the right degree of professionalism required | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
to prevent this happening again. Report said that at least two other | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
letters were sent by mistake. The PSNI is reviewing all other letters | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
sent to check if there were other mistakes. That process is expected | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
to take a number of years. While Lady Justice Hallett said clearly | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
that the scheme was not unlawful, she does not offer a view on whether | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
the letters sent should now be rescinded. She said that decision | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
should be taken by the Secretary of State. | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
Shelly Gilfillan's uncle Lexie Cummings was murdered | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
A man suspected of involvement received one of the letters saying | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
I spoke to her just before we came on air and asked her | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
You said he welcomed the report earlier but had a change of heart. | :06:25. | :06:39. | |
Can you hear me? We understand that you welcomed the report earlier but | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
have had a change of heart. Yes. Why was that change of heart? We will | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
try to come back to that interview later. It was the political | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
institutions at Stormont as Peter Robinson threatened to bring down. | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Our political editor is there for us this evening. One Stormont | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
politician describes the halogen reports to me as a curate 's egg. It | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
was a lengthy reports with differing conclusions. That gave the different | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
parties different aspects from which to take some satisfaction. Back in | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
February, he threatened to resign if a judge was not appointed to get to | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
the bottom of the on-the-runs scandal. Now the judge's report is | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
complete, is Peter Robinson satisfied? There is a heavy | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
criticism of the Northern Ireland office, for the systemic failures. I | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
conclude, very readily, from my point of view, that this scheme was | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
wrong in principle and shambolic in practice. Both unionist leaders | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
claimed that the report confirms their review that the on-the-runs | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
scheme was a grubby and clandestine manoeuvres by the government. Sinn | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Fein point out that the judge concluded the scheme was neither | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
secret nor unlawful. Lady Justice Hallett said the scheme was very | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
lawful, Donna through the process of the British Attorney General and the | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
bps. Far from it being secrets, she also noted that Sinn Fein have | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
pushed for a public manifestation of dealing with the issue of | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
on-the-runs that was raised on a continual basis. Both main Unionist | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
parties insisted that they would not negotiate about the legacy of the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
Troubles until after the report was published. Since then, they have | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
both walked out of interparty talks over the parading issue. Even though | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
we have this report, it's not clear by any means which way the political | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
process will go in the coming by any means which way the political | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
and months. Whatever happens from the select committee reports, | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
and months. Whatever happens from is still a possibility -- | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
responsibility to deal with the three key outstanding issues. We | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
cannot move forward unless we resolve issues dealing with flags | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
and parades, and most particularly dealing with issues of the past. | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
and parades, and most particularly Until we do that, we will not be in | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
a position to take this society forward. | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
a position to take this society Alliance and the Nationalists want | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
interparty talks to resume as soon as possible, but Peter Robinson says | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
that if negotiations ever recommence, | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
attempt to browbeat unit into accepting the Haass proposals they | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
have already rejected. Did Peter Robinson get all that he | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
wanted? Not quite. When he called for this | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
enquiry, he talks about the names being made public. We do have a list | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
at the back of this report, but it is a list of acronyms and numbers, | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
not names. The reason the government is giving for that is that it's | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
could potentially prejudice future proceedings, if they were to be | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
taken against any of those people. He has not got that but he has got a | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
report which, I suppose, helped to assuage some of the immediate anger | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
on the part of the Unionist community and on the part of victims | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
at the time that the Downey case broke. That gave a sense that | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
something was being done and took us past the European and local | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
elections now into a situation in which things have calmed. Where do | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
we go from here? I think the focus will be on what the Secretary of | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
State does in terms of her promise that she will ensure that the | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
barrier to prosecution, which was obviously what created the problem | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
in the Downey case, because he lived in Devon at N error, that any | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
barriers to prosecution will be taken down. Does that mean she | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
formally presented these latter is? She will not say that because she | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
says she is taking legal bias. Unionists will still want some | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
assurance on that score. What progress has served? I think at | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
least it has shown that there has been a response the system. Some | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
victims that we have heard from, for instance, the relatives of some of | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
those killed on my part, say they believe that victims concerns are | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
now being taken more seriously than they were at the time that this | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
scheme is operating. On a political level, at least it's helped us have | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
those elections and put the Unionist leadership little bit more in the | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
driving seat. Now they're asking for a different enquiry, this time the | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
parading issue. Thank you. Let's get political reaction from London. The | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Secretary of State admitted that this is a difficult day for hire? | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
No politician likes saying sorry, but it is a word that trees are | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
bilious found herself using a lot today. She says she was profoundly | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
sorry to the victims of terrorism for the hurt that she said this | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
whole on-the-runs episode has caused Bam. She was also sorry to Peter | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
Robinson and the Justice Minister David Ford for not informing him | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
about the scheme beforehand. As Mark was saying, perhaps to offset some | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
of this, she was promising that the government will do all it can to | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
remove any barriers to future prosecutions, but not everyone at | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Westminster is convinced. Here is the conservative Lawrence Robson, | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
who chairs the Northern Ireland affairs committee, which is carrying | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
out its own enquiry into what happens. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
If we go into the reports, below the headlines, if you look at the | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
detail, Lady Justice Hallett did say that she does not know what that | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
means, the new evidence. She also said that whether it would bring | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
about new circumstances. Literally quite worrying, and that is the | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
point I raised this afternoon. Where do we go from here? It is a legal | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
matter. Another member of that Northern | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
Ireland affairs committee is the Northern Ireland 's born Labour MP, | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
Kate Howie. She says that far from the plane being put on the police | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
what happened in the John Downey case, the real blame lies with the | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
former prime minister and her former party leader, Tony Blair. | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
The real blame have to lie at the hands of the Northern Ireland | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
office. They seem to have been almost inconstant in what they have | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
done. And, of course, write to the top in terms of the former prime | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
Minister, Tony Blair. He is the one that the evidence we are seeing, he | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
is the one that is actually, was writing letters, telling the police | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
and the Northern Ireland office to speed things up. | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
Does the committee intend to speak to Tony Blair? | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
It certainly does. It has been in touch with him on a number of | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
occasions. So far they have been unable to arrange a date. That | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
appearance by Tony Blair in front of the committee, they say, will | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
happen. Before that, Jonathan Powell, the prime Minister's former | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
chief of staff, will appear before the committee in September. | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
Thank you. We return to Shelly Gilfillan, whose | :13:47. | :13:55. | |
relatives was murdered by the IRA in Strabane. | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
We were wanting to know your reaction to today's report? | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
I'm very disappointed. I'm disappointed that the victims have | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
not been given something, to give a little hope to perhaps put some | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
closure into these murders. What do you hope happens next? | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
I do not know. No one seems to know what will happen next. Would you | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
like to see the latter rescinded? Absolutely, the letters should be | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
rescinded. Absolutely. What about your feelings when the | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
on-the-runs letters first came to light? What effect that having your | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
family? On all the victims, in and around | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
castle dirt, we were all totally devastated. I found it very hard to | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
take in that Tony Blair had actually done this dirty deeds behind backs | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
and under tables. We were all very devastated. | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
Thank you. Apologies for the sound problems earlier. | :15:10. | :15:19. | |
Coming up, diet and breakfast owners are being targeted in what they | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
believe is an international down. It's wretches all the way from here | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
in the grounds of Antrim to Nigeria in West Africa. | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
A leading MP says the Kincora case should be included in a UK | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
government inquiry into child abuse - and an expert from Northern | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
Keith Vaz, chair of Westminster's Home Affairs Committee, | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
said allegations of a cover-up at the Belfast children's home were | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
I think it needs settling. It has been around for so long, caused so | :15:46. | :15:59. | |
much concern to individual MPs from Northern Ireland that we need to, | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
once and for all, deal with this problem. We need a big enquiry such | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
as the one that Theresa May has been -- has suggested, it is important | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
that someone from Northern Ireland sits on the panel of experts. | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
People running tourist accommodation are being targeted in what they | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
believe is an international scam that stretches from here to Nigeria | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
They're being warned not to send money abroad. | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
Our investigations reporter Kevin Magee has more. | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
The owners of this B in County Antrim are used to receiving | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
bookings by e-mail. But not like the one that recently arrived from a | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
couple calling themselves Mr and Mrs Anderson. Because of the way it was | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
written, the owner became suspicious. | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
I told them I had no availability for that week, so they asked if they | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
could have a different dates. I thought when they started to do | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
that, there was something odd about it. I thought the e-mail was a lot | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
anyway. TA Mel also contains what resembled | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
a local phone number. The number given me look like a UK phone | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
number, but here is what happens when I call it. The numbers you | :17:10. | :17:25. | |
called is not responding. That recording mentions the currency in | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
Nigeria. It actually links through to a Nigerian answering service. It | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
the BNP was part of what is known as an overpayment down. B owner is | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
asked to accept a Eurocheque for more than the cost of the building | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
and sent back the difference from their own bank accounts. | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
These checks unfortunately take more than 21 days to clear. It shows as a | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
credit on your account but it is uncleared funds. You withdraw the | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
money that is over and above your rental fee and you follow their | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
instructions and send it back to wherever it is to go. | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
The B partnership is urging caution. | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
Please do not give out your credit card details to any of these | :18:09. | :18:09. | |
e-mails, details. | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
It is understood that the same scam was tried in another -- in a number | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
of other countries before trying here. | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
Final confirmation that the five Garth Brooks concerts | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
in Dublin will not take place came today as ticket refunds began. | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
400,000 people bought tickets but as Mark Simpson reports, | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
it could take three weeks for everyone to get their money back. | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
One by one, they came to give back their tickets and claimed refunds. | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
For all Garth Brooks fans, it was a painful process. Including this | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
family from North Belfast. We camped outside here for two days. | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
family from North Belfast. You have to wait 21 days to get your | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
money back, ridiculous. We have lost our coach fares for coming down | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
here. I just think it's outrageous. One of the most successful music | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
stars in the world, and not letting him play? Unbelievable. Bring him to | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
Belfast. I would go up and have a singsong! | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
Ticketmaster are giving full refunds including the service charge. After | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
all five concerts quickly sold out, some fans got tickets on the black | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
market or from an official website. For them, getting their money back | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
may not be so straightforward. For some ticket holders, the Croke Park | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
fiasco is not over yet. Coming up: We have an exclusive | :19:34. | :19:44. | |
interview with bronze medal winner Alan Campbell. He has been dropped | :19:45. | :19:45. | |
from the Great Britain squad. It's been a good opening day | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
for Rory McIlroy at the Open at Hoylake - Stephen Watson is at | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Royal Liverpool for BBC Newsline. A lovely evening here, tarot. | :19:52. | :20:06. | |
Earlier this week, Rory McIlroy told us that he hoped his preparation at | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
home should set him up for a big challenge here this week. He has | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
certainly delivered on his promise because he leads the Open | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
Championship after a fabulous opening round of the six under par. | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
His challenge tomorrow is to try and end a string of disappointing | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
performances on the Friday -- delighted with his day's works, Rory | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
McIlroy headed to the clubhouse after a memorable opening round. He | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
had produced a near flawless exhibition of golf. Showing some of | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
the forum that has already helped him captured two major | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
championships. The Hollywood man has his eyes firmly fixed on another. He | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
rolled in six effortless birdie -- birdie. Even when he found trouble, | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
his magical touch did not let him down. | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
Any time you can shoot a bogey free round in The Open, you have to take | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
it. I'm really happy with that and it sets me up for a great week. You | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
looked as if you are enjoying yourself? | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
Yes. What is not to enjoy? Great weather, great golf course, | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
fantastic crowd. You have to... I'm not going to play in this | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
championship forever. You have to enjoy it while it lasts. Whenever | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
you aren't shooting scores like that, it makes it even easier to | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
enjoy. Second rounds this year have not | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
been kind to you. I'm trying to approach tomorrow like | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
I approach tomorrow like I approached. I'm just trying to take | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
it one shot at a time. If I can do that, hopefully, that ends up adding | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
up to a good number at the end of the day. | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
Aaron Clark is six shots behind Rory McIlroy. -- Darren Clarke. Brain the | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
door has work to do tomorrow after a disappointing brand of two over par. | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
-- Graeme McDowell. He is eight shots behind Rory McIlroy. Michael | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
Hoey is one shot further back. The Coleraine rower Alan Campbell | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
will not compete in next month's world championship. The Olympic | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
bronze medallist was devastated to learn that he had been dropped from | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
the GB rowing team, for the first time in a decade. Now? Hang over his | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
participation in the next Olympics in Rio. He has been speaking | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
exclusively to us. Two years ago, the tears flowed when | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
Alan Campbell clinched Olympic bronze medal in London. But his | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
hopes of going to a fourth games in Rio have been dealt a serious blow | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
when he was told, this week, that he had been dropped from the GB squad. | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
I'm pretty devastated. The chief coach took me aside and said that my | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
performance was not, did not meet criteria, was not good enough to be | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
selected and, therefore, I would not be going to the world Championships. | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
That sends a message to me that you have to do well at this race in | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
order to be able to do that race. The races I want to do other | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
Championships. Trying to qualify to go to the Olympic Games -- I'm | :23:37. | :23:45. | |
trying. And then ultimately Rio. He knows his recent results have not | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
been good enough, including failing to make the semifinals of last | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
week's Lucerne World Cup. Now he has -- now faces the risk of having his | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
funding cuts. It was just me, I would probably choose to live here | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
at the club. I still have that ambition, that desire. But I have to | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
consider other people in my decision-making. That would make it | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
tough is funding was to be cut. It would make it incredibly tough for | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
me to actually go, I will just keep going. | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
But despite this setback, the dream of competing at another Olympics is | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
not dead. I can come back from this -- if I can come back from this, I | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
will give myself a really good chance of going forward to Rio. This | :24:36. | :24:45. | |
decision shows the ruthlessness of sport at the highest level, but if | :24:46. | :24:47. | |
they challenged he seems ready to accept. | :24:48. | :24:58. | |
In tonight's Europa League football, Crusaders are 2-0 away to | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
We'll have the fulltimes from that and Linfield's and Derry's | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
That it's from The Open golf championship where Rory McIlroy | :25:05. | :25:22. | |
bleeds. -- is in the lead. Here is the | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
More warm weather over the next few days but more unsettled, with the | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
risk of showers and underlining. It has been a warm day. Some people | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
took advantage of the warm weather, this is Portstewart this lunch time. | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
Not quite so busy outside, today, but I'm sure it was a beautiful art | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
for a picnic. This evening, there is still some sunshine around. The best | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
of it across the East. More cloud of the West but hopefully that should | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
break up. Staying dry tonight and also fairly warm. Savage in Belfast | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
tonight may not struck much lower than 15 degrees. We are expecting | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
things to feel more human. More of a breeze picking up. There will be | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
some showers. Not to begin with, some sunshine to start with. Showers | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
moving up from the eve. Some will be on the heavy side and is the risk of | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
undermining. It will not be raining all the time and will be sent dry | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
gaps and sunshine at times. Because the air is warm, it means when the | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
sun comes out territories will easily reach the low 20s, | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
particularly across parts of the West. It was all humans despite | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
breeze. Eventually, showers start to edge away. There should be some fine | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
weather around tomorrow evening. A lot of places will become fairly dry | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
tomorrow night. Very warm and misty with the risk of extensive sea fog | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
across parts of the East Coast. with the risk of extensive sea fog | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
Saturday, we are expecting intense thundery downpours. It could mean | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
that there is some disruption to play, for instance, at the Open | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
Championship. Things across Northern Ireland this weekend, not quite so | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
bad with dry weather, warm weather but also some showers. Sunday will | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
also bring some sharp showers, but a much smaller risk of thunder. | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
Eventually things are settling down again on Monday. | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
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