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A big job loss for the Belfast aerospace company Bombardier. | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
MLAs meet behind closed doors to discuss a report on the conduct of | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
How real are the fears of a Stormont collapse - another crisis or | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
Plus, the ordeal of a woman taxi driver | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
He thought he might never play in the new Ravenhill, | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
but Ulster rugby's Stuart Olding is raring to go again. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
And there may be a few visibility issues in the morning, but it | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
The aerospace company Bombardier is cutting almost 400 jobs. | :00:51. | :01:05. | |
The job losses are part of a major reorganisation which will see the | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Canadian-owned firm shedding 1,800 staff across its global operations. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Bombardier has been under pressure because of a series of delays | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
The C-Series began flight tests again on Sunday after being grounded | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
for more than three months following an engine failure. | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
Our economics and business editor John Campbell reports. | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
Bombardier is our biggest engineering employer. Around 6000 | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
people work across its four factories in greater Belfast. It | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
supports many more jobs through the supply chain. But now it is getting | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
a bit smaller as part of cost-cutting exercises. 390 jobs | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
will be lost. The job losses are equivalent to about 6.5% of | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
Bombardier's local workforce. 300 of the jobs lost and among temporary or | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
contract staff. Over 90 will come from the permanent salvaged our. My | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
understanding is those 90 jobs are maiming management roles and The | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
company hopes to lose them through voluntary redundancy. The | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
engineering union says there will be a knock-on effect. It is horrible | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
for individuals who will lose jobs in the next couple of months. A | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
devastating blow for them and their families. But for the economy, it is | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
devastating also with the loss of so many good manufacturing jobs. | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
Bombardier is shaking up operations. It is organising the Eagles make -- | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
aerospace business to become more focused and efficient. One local | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
politician says The company still likes what it sees here. We met with | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
senior management in the company and number of weeks ago. They indicated | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
that it is an excellent plant and the type they want to open it out | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
globally. But The company does have some big challenges, mainly to do | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
with this, the C-Series. This jet is supposed to take on Boeing and | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Airbus but it has been hit with a series of expensive delays. The | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
uncertainty around Bombardier will continue until this aeroplane gets | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
into service and is ordered by more airlines. | :03:28. | :03:28. | |
Joining me now from Westminster is the East Belfast MP Naomi Long. | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
Deeply concerning news in your constituency this evening. Yes, | :03:36. | :03:44. | |
absolutely. I am very concerned, particularly for the few hundred 90 | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
individuals facing redundancy. The first thing I did after speaking | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
with Bombardier this morning was to contact my colleague, and he has | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
spoken directly to senior management. -- 390 individuals. | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
There will be 30 days of consultation to minimise the | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
redundancies and find alternative employment for those facing | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
redundancy. You say that you spoken to management. Did they give you | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
reassurances of the future of the ten Mac to? They are very confident | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
of the future, not just the C-Series but what they are working on it more | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
generally. There were 1800 jobs in total that will be affected by this. | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
This is the part affecting Northern Ireland. However, Bombardier are | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
taking on new apprentices later in the autumn and that is a good sign | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
in terms of planning for the medium to future. It is not alleviate the | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
pain for those facing redundancy today but for remaining staff, | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
there's a degree of optimism around the stability of the company and its | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
investment in Northern Ireland. A major employer. A dependent are we | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
on companies like Bombardier? When you look at Bombardier, even shared | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
the jobs they are talking about losing today, they will still employ | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
5800 people. Not directly, but also through contracts and so on. That is | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
the tip of the iceberg in terms of the economy and the supply chain and | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
also in terms of those who benefit from the economic outcome of that in | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
local communities and so on. It is a very significant employer and we are | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
relying on them. They are important to the economy and it is important | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
we work with them to minimise the impact but also to make sure The | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
company is fit for this and is competitive. So that it offers the | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
kind of high-end, advanced manufacturing jobs that Northern | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Ireland really needs. Thank you for joining us. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
The Stormont Standards and Privileges Committee met | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
behind closed doors this afternoon to discuss a report into | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
the conduct of the First Minister Peter Robinson and his wife, Iris. | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Our political editor Mark Devenport is at Stormont now. | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
Well, the Standards Commissioner has been investigating the issues raised | :06:02. | :06:11. | |
in the Spotlight programme you might remember from four years ago. Full | :06:12. | :06:26. | |
of -- four years ago. The BBC's Spotlight revealed | :06:27. | :06:35. | |
sensational details about Iris Robinson 's actions with her | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
19-year-old lover. Shortly afterwards, the Standards Committee | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
ordered an investigation into the conduct of both Iris Robinson and | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
her husband Peter. The report was delayed whilst police investigated | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
the matter before deciding not to press charges. Last November, the | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Assembly Standards Commissioner completed his report. Its | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
publication was delayed after a lawyer acting for Iris Robinson | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
raise concerns that publishing some material might damage her health. My | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
investigation was actually finished last year, but publication of the | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
report submission of the report to the committee been delayed because | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
of legal issues. Earlier this week, Standards Committee members were | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
given a chance to examine the report on condition they did not take | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
copies away from the Reading room. Stormont sources indicated clears | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
the DUP leader, Peter Robinson, of any breach of the MLA code of | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
conduct. However, it is suggested by this Robinson is found to have | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
broken a rule by not declaring receiving the cash from developers | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
and therefore risking a perception of a conflict of interest. No | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
further details will emerge to from behind the closed doors meeting | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
today. It is my understanding MLAs are considering taking legal advice | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
about the publication of the report and whether that material which Iris | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Robinson's lawyer things could damage your health will be excised | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
from any edition of the report made public. It is not the only story | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
involving a BBC Spotlight investigation today. | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
Yes, the programme is looking at the whole issue of expenses. We expect | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
that to go to ear in the coming weeks. It is significant that the | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
speaker here has issued a statement just late this afternoon. In this | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
statement, he says what he says is fraud in his constituency office. He | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
says the regular trend of payments involving his office cost | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
expenditure have been brought to his attention and that he has the | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
police. He says he has suspended a member of his constituency office | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
staff pending the outcome of investigations. He does not identify | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
any individual, so no-one should jump to any conclusion about | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
wrongdoing on the part of any particular individual. The Assembly | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
say they had been notified and will not make further comment about this. | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
We know that he is cooperating with police and the investigation into | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
these matters are at an early stage. The speaker says the system here | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
will have to be examined in the future and that he takes | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
responsibility for the fact that in his management of the affairs of his | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
constituency office, he did not uncover what was happening at an | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
earlier point. In spite of | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
the political wrangling at Stormont, The First Minister Peter Robinson | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
said yesterday it's "not fit for purpose" | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
but his ministers remain in office. So just how fragile is | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
power-sharing at the moment? Agreement at Stormont is rare these | :09:39. | :09:58. | |
days. All those in favour, say yes. Now the Mac no... -- no... It has | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
become a political pantomime, say some. After yesterday when the First | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
Minister said Stormont was not fit for purpose, he was side-by-side | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
with Martin McGuinness in the jobs announcement. Even though all talks | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
on parades and flags have failed, this summer was the quietest | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
marching season in years. The parties might be split on several | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
issues but they managed agreement yesterday on a new education | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
authority. Crisis, what crisis? This academic says Stormont was back | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
troubles need to be put into context. The dysfunctional politics | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
we have now might be seen as a good result. 20 years ago, F we had said | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
we are where we are now, most have the Mac people would think it is a | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
tremendous advance. The question is whether the kind of power-sharing | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
arrangement we have is as good as it gets. That is a discussion for | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
political unity is itself. What a talent as an available? The party | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
could go straight into negotiations or call an election and then have | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
negotiations. Other could admit defeat and go back to direct rule. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
There is no shortage of options and no shortage of advice on the street. | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
Find agreement, work. If you're in business, you work with people you | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
do not like. That is a fact of life. I did not think they are performing | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
at all. None of them. It is just party politics every time. Stop | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
fighting, get on with things. I feel that the politicians are not | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
listening to the people. It is a joke there, all the pills are | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
politicians. -- all the politicians. The rest of the UK succeeded with | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
what is happening in Scotland. Over there, the question is, how much | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
power to Scotland want? Over here, the issue is whether Stormont can't | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
successfully function with the powers it has already. -- can | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
successfully function. The Historical Institutional Abuse | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
Inquiry has heard that the fallout from a | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
Child Migrant Scheme from Northern Ireland to Australia in the last | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
century could have repercussions for In the final testimony to the | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
inquiry, a woman made an emotional plea for help to trace her family's | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
medical records in Northern Ireland. She said she has lost two | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
of her children to unexplained The woman told the enquiry that | :12:39. | :12:54. | |
heart quest to find her past continues although she has | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
discovered some information. She was born in the 1950s under the age of | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
eight months was taken into care. At four and a half years of age, she | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
was put on a board to Australia. The women, no 60s, was eventually given | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
her mother 's identity but has never been able to trace her father. Her | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
relatives alter he was a positive -- Protestant landowner. One of four | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
daughters died as a baby and a 26 and son died suddenly in 2005. -- | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
one of her daughters. The women said the scheme defined her past and has | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
potential to threaten the future of her family. After losing two | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
children, she said, it is still important to find the medical | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
records for her children and grandchildren. The enquiry heard | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
more about what the state knew about the Child Migrant Scheme. The senior | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
consul to the enquiry presented details of the letter from 1955 from | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
the Stormont Department of home affairs. It was written after | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
departmental inspector visited Nazareth house in Belfast. The | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
inspector was called that another children's home could not cope with | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
numbers sent there from Belfast. The alternative, according to the | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
letter, was to send children to Australia. Referring to children, | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
she wrote, this is how they will be disposed of. | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
The move to reduce the number of education boards here has wasted | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
millions of pounds, according to trade unions. | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
Attempts to create the Education and Skills Authority failed. | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
Instead, a single board will replace the five current boards | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
Our education correspondent Maggie Taggart explains. | :14:38. | :14:46. | |
The grand plan was to bring education under one umbrella to | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
offer equal treatment to pupils across Northern Ireland and also to | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
streamline the bureaucracy which duplicated key services in five | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
different boards. The original idea of the meat of the range of | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
education authorities, including the five boards, the Council for | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
Catholic education, and particularly the exams body. They would form one | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
body. Now instead, only some boards will be merged and they will be | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
absorbed into one giant education board. This follows years of | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
political wrangling over a perceived threat to some schools and | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
representation for the controlled schools sector. Board staffs have | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
suffered a freeze on recruitment during the stalemate and no unions | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
are worried about job security. They will be issues about moving from a 1 | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
board to five boards in annual. At senior levels, they will be issues. | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
For other staff, it is the location of the jobs in relation to | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
particular services. Teachers point to the millions spent on preparation | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
for BSE, money which could have paid for many jobs and equipment. I get | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
very frustrated about it. Unfortunately, the unions have taken | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
the brunt of it. There is not the support they are in the boards for | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
the schools because the money is not there for that. Now the Executive | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
has agreed a single board, senior department officials will have to | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
construct legislation which can be approved in time for the launch of a | :16:27. | :16:27. | |
single board within six months. A female taxi driver in Londonderry | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
says she was left terrified after a youth put a knife to her throat | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
during an attempting hijacking During the ordeal, | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
he also put his hand over her mouth She refused to hand over her car | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
and the youth ran off. Here's our Northwest reporter, | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
Keiron Tourish. Linda Brady has been driving a taxi | :16:51. | :17:00. | |
for around seven years. But now she is having second thoughts as to | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
whether she should continue in the job. She was doing a night shift | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
when she got a booking on screen. She picked up a young man at the | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
junction of this road around 2am. He asked her to drive to Abercorn Road | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
when he entered a house and then came out before going on to a | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
different location. He put his hand... I felt his hand coming | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
around me with a knife. He said, keep driving straightforward. I | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
said, right, no problem. He shouted, keep driving straight. I thought, | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
what is going on here? I can't go on and try to talk to him. I said, calm | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
down. Can you please take your hand away from my mouth? I cannot | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
breathe. Linda believes the gift wanted her car for joyriding but she | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
did not know that at the time. Her family are de Boer upset at what | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
happened to her and want other drivers, especially women, to be | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
vigilant. -- her family are very upset. It is terrible that people | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
are doing things like this. All women taxi drivers should be | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
careful. I honestly did not know what he would do. I was not sure at | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
the time why he was doing it. Then I thought, this young man is going to | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
take me somewhere. When he asks me to pull over and get out of the car | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
and given him the keys, I realised he must be a joyrider. Frightening, | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
though? Very frightening. The police have issued a description. They | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
believe the man could be around 17 years of age, five foot five and | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
height, with short black hair. He was said to have been wearing a dark | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
Anglers in County Tyrone say they're not satisfied with | :18:46. | :19:03. | |
the official explanation of what caused a huge fish-kill | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
The incident happened at Brantry Lough at the end of June, | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
but as our reporter in the area has been finding out, | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
the fishermen believe the lough is not recovering as it should. | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
If I put that camera in, these fish, which normally would go away like a | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
rocket, they are very refined chick. -- Lafarge it. In all my years of | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
fishing, I have never seen the likes of that. Never. Something has gone | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
wrong here, and these anglers want to know exactly what. The trouble | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
began in June when huge numbers of trout and perch suddenly died. I | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
could not believe the amount. Eight men and a bolt the Mac boat -- boat | :19:43. | :19:54. | |
picked up a massive amount of fish. Many angles are not convinced about | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
what happened here. They want for their investigations into an | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
incident they say has devastated one of Northern Ireland's premier | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
fisheries. Two months later, we appear two -- we see other fish | :20:09. | :20:18. | |
affected. What killed these fish? Signs have cautioned against eating | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
any fish when certain algae has been found. People want to know, is this | :20:25. | :20:33. | |
lake safer mod? There is a health warning to say not to consume | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
anything in the lake. It is a place when people are frequently walking | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
here. If that is a health warning, those people should not be in the | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
vicinity of the loss. Someone has to address the problem and the sooner | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
the better. The signs are put up anywhere there is a suspicion of | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
algae being present. But tests have so far proved negative. | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
We will keep you up-to-date on that. Now, a pile of bricks has caused | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
some excitement in County Fermanagh. The bricks in question are the first | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
to be hand-made in the fields near Our Southwest reporter Julian Fowler | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
has been following the project to rediscover | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
a once thriving rural industry. And all but forgotten tradition. | :21:17. | :21:27. | |
Brickmaking would once have been a common sight in the fields around | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
Fermanagh. Arney brick was used to build many old buildings in | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
Enniskillen. It was backbreaking work, supplementing the family | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
income. You were looking at 3000 bricks being made every day. These | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
were big structures in the fields, taking a lot of effort for very | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
little income. But it was part of that cash income they could not have | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
got anywhere else. Back then, they did not have washing machines, but | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
getting covered in play these days is all part of the fun. Islamist | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
down -- you put it down and it comes out there. What do you like about | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
it? Getting dirty! Although much of the local brickmaking knowledge has | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
been loll -- lost, some have been continuing a family tradition. Of | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
course, it was hard work. In the 1920s, each firm would produce about | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
25,000 bricks a year. A man remembers seeing the last kiln here | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
as a young boy. I was brought from the classroom by the master to see | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
what he said he thought would be the last of this information at. -- in | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
County Fermanagh. And he was right. It has not happened since then. | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
Having been paid for three days and then cooled down, it was time to see | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
if the bricks would fire. And this is the finished brick. They might | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
not be good enough to build houses with, but the community here have | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
heard a lot of fun reconnecting with their past. | :23:27. | :23:26. | |
Great to see that revival. We all love story in which someone | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
battles back from the brink. Stephen Watson is here with | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
this evening's sport. Less than a year ago, Stuart Olding, | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
one of our brightest rugby prospects, | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
feared his career might be over. Capped once for Ireland, | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
his cruciate ligament snapped while representing Ulster Ravens | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
last November. But as Nikki Gregg reports, | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
he's back with a bang and pushing to hold on to his shirt | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
for this Friday's opening home match He spent ten months on the sidelines | :23:50. | :24:05. | |
but the elusive running skills, composure on the ball and strength | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
shown little sign of rustiness. Stuart Olding is eager to make up | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
for lost time. His return has demanded patients. The main thing | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
was to make sure I kicked all the boxes with the staff under Sergeant. | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
I did that and everything went smoothly through rehab. I am really | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
happy physically how I am performing at the minute. He needs to be at the | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
top of his game. The midfielder is one of Ulster's strongest areas in | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
terms of options, with internationals Luke Marshall and | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
Darren Cave competing for selection, along with another player | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
who is qualified for Irish duty. They started in the game against | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
Leinster. This could be a partnership that pays for club and | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
country. Amtrak to pick his brain as much so camelid as much as I can. -- | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
I am trying to. He is a great talent and it is great to play with him. | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
One thing he has yet to experiences playing at the redeveloped stadium. | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
I have been a couple of times and it has been packed. The atmosphere is | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
brilliant. It will be even better when I am on the pitch. Back doing | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
what he does best. He is playing well. | :25:24. | :25:24. | |
After a second stint in charge, Liam Bradley has today stepped | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
down as Antrim County senior football manager. | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
It's understood Bradley, who has previously steered the county to an | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
Ulster provincial final in 2009, was open to staying on in the post but | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
was reluctant to be reinterviewed for the job and opted to walk away. | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
Under-21 manager Frank Fitzsimmons is to succeed him. | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
Rory McIlroy tees off tomorrow in the Tour Players Championship | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
If he wins the tournament, he will pocket a $1.5 million first | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
prize, and gets a bonus of an amazing $10 million for | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
Angie is here with the weather forecast. | :25:52. | :26:06. | |
Another glorious day of course and although the figures are not in yet, | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
we have seen temperatures of around 20 Celsius in some spots. Once we | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
get the final figures, some spots will be even higher than that. It | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
has been a glorious day. 20 of sunshine in Ireland and Britain. | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Patchy cloud in the Eastern counties at times, hill fog clinging onto the | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
top of some spots there. That will clear away and we will have a fine | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
evening. Plenty of sunshine to end the day. We will hold onto the clear | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
spills through the night. Temperatures generally between 7-9 | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
Celsius although we could get the odd approval spot that gets close to | :26:38. | :26:46. | |
freezing with some ground frost. In some areas, maybe around Fermanagh, | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
we could see some missed. The dryness continues into tomorrow. | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
Perhaps more variable cloud than today. A murky starred in some | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
places with the mist and fog in low-lying areas. But could cause | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
some visibility issues early on. Eventually it will break up and we | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
will see sunny spells coming through. If you're on the Antrim | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
coast, it is a bit fresh with that onshore easterly breeze. They do not | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
have to come far inland to feel the warmth, particularly in the west and | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
north-west. That is where we will see the highest temperatures at | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
around 21 Celsius. As for Freddie, misty and murky in places, | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
particularly in the East. But another fine day with spells of | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
sunshine. Into the weekend, still try, with some bright spells. | :27:41. | :27:44. |