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It's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Good evening. On BBC Newsline this evening: | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
A major reshuffle in the DUP's senior men at Stormont. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Out goes Health Minister Edwin Poots. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Also out is Nelson McCausland, the Social Development Minister. | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
This is how the DUP team will look, a picture taken this afternoon. | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster and Finance Minister Simon Hamilton | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Let's blow to Stormont and Mark Devenport. It has been a dramatic | :00:42. | :01:01. | |
few hours. -- let's go. When was the first hint of a reshuffle? About the | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
middle of the afternoon when local reporters noticed some activity in | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
the great Hall, some senior DUP figures were being summoned in the | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
direction of the Minister's office. Civil servants had phones clamped to | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
their ears and it was evident something was afoot. This being the | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
new age of social media, it was on Twitter that the First Minister | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
confirmed he was engaged in a major reshuffle, and it was via Twitter he | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
started sending out photos of himself, his new ministers, Nelson | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
McCausland being replaced by Mervyn Storey, and Edwin Poots giving way | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
to Jim Wells. Then a series of other announcements in relation to | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
committee chairs. What has Peter Robinson been saying? He came out to | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
confirm these moves within the last hour. He said the moves were no | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
criticism of any of the outgoing ministers, he would have happily | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
reappointed them to senior jobs, but in the way of politics, he felt the | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
time was right to refresh his team. I think one would see this as | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
potentially stamping his authority on the party. We have heard that | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
some of them have been questioning his leadership, instead Mr Robinson | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
said when he talked to us when in the last hour that he is going | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
nowhere. This is a party that is not about one person. When I started, I | :02:29. | :02:38. | |
talked to my party officers and they had been aware I was going to make | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
changes. I have spoken to date with the party Chairman Andy Deputy | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Leader. We act as a party, we have always had that of relationship. | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
There was no bitterness in the people who were standing down, they | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
recognised the need to continue to churn things around to get the best | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
out of the team. So, I am here and I will continue to be here for as long | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
as the party want me to be here. Later we will have more on the | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
reshuffle and we will hear from Mervyn Storey, the new Social | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
Development Minister. The health Department has also been | :03:15. | :03:31. | |
the most controversial in recent months over its budget. This | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
decision to replace Edwin Poots with Jim Wells will therefore be under | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
close scrutiny. We look at the man taking the job and the man he is | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
replacing. Edwin Poots has previously been | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
Minister for culture and for the environment. But, the three years he | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
has held arguably the biggest and most challenging of portfolios, as | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Health Minister, he presided over difficult times. It included a night | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
last January when the Royal Victoria Hospital declared a major incident | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
due to a backlog of patients. He has also crossed swords with Northern | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
Ireland's most senior judge. Their public exchanges centring on the | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
decision by Mr Coutts to continue a ban on gay men giving blood here. | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
With Debbie a circling of the wagons? I would be concerned that | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
this may not be the case. More recently, he said that heart | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
apartment faces a shortfall of ?140 million despite being spared the | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
worst of recent cuts, he said there would not be enough to maintain so | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
-- safe health services. Coming into the job is the new Minister of | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
health, Jim Wells. It is a job he had been tipped for in the past. I | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
have been vice chair for five years so I know what is going on behind | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
the scenes and I know it is a difficult task. I am under no | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
illusion as to the problems. Tonight, Mr Wells has sent Mr puts | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
his best wishes in what he calls a hugely challenging but rewarding | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
job. The other Minister to lose his job | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
in the reshuffle is Nelson McCausland, who is being replaced by | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
Mervyn Storey. Mr McAusland has come under pressure over the awarding of | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Housing Executive contracts. He has repeatedly denied any suggestion | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
that he had misled and Assembly committee. | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
Nelson McCausland was appointed as Minister for social development in | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
2011. He quickly became one of the most controversial ministers. Over | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
the course of his three and a half years, he had numerous run-ins with | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
other MLAs on social development. Committee members question him | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
following a BBC Spotlight investigation into the allocation of | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Housing Executive maintenance contracts to specific -- to a | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
specific company. Then came revelations he had met with an | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
alleged DUP donor company. Mr McAusland had insisted he had met | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
with the Glass and glazing Federation, but that meeting had | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
been with a difficult company. In the light of recent documents | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
discovered, I had knowledge I inadvertently misinformed the | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
committee in this letter. But let me assure you that this was not in any | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
way delivering. The committee concluded he had misled it. | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
Something Mr McAusland strenuously denied. This is the man who is | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
replacing him, Mervyn Storey, elected to the SM from North Antrim, | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
he has been Chairman of the education committee since 2011. As | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
well as sitting on the committee on standards and privileges. Among the | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
responsibilities he will have our housing, social security benefits, | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
patients, child support and urban regeneration. | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
One of the issues Edwin Poots had to deal with during his three years as | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Health Minister was the future of children's cardiac surgery in | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
Belfast. The latest on that is an international team has recommended | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
the surgery should move to Dublin. Our health correspondent is at the | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Royal Victoria Hospital. Good evening. I am here at the Royal | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Victoria Hospital, where the children's cardiac service is based, | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
and hundreds of families across Northern Ireland have been following | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
this story extremely closely for almost three years. This afternoon, | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
there was another development will stop -- development A star -- | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
development. . It seems the fight has been lost. Over two years, they | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
took to the streets with one clear message, children's heart services | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
should be retained the Royal Victoria Hospital. But during a | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
semi-Mac questions, Edwin Poots delivered this blow. -- during | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
Assembly questions. The overall model for delivering children and | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
adult heart services in Ireland would not allow Belfast to sustain | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
surgery at that site. Families and the surgical team have been in limbo | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
ever since a review in 2012 concluded that while safe, the unit | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
at Belfast is not sustainable, partly due to too few operations | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
being performed. A separate local review and consultation recommended | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
the service be moved to Dublin, and the surgical model was favoured by | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
ministers. This is not the news that local families will have wanted to | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
hear. It now means that three separate reviews have recommended | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
that Belfast as a paediatric cardiac surgical centre is not realistic. | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
The health minister says he remains hopeful that surgery will transfer | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
to Dublin. I am optimistic that we retain the excellence of the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
cardiology service in Belfast, and that if we move, we will move it to | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
the same landmass as ourselves. Dublin, essentially. A local charity | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
says parents deserve more clarity. It is frustrating, we have been | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
involved in this process for three years and it does feel that there | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
are some more questions and answers. What is good to happen, how will it | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
happen? Dublin did not have capacity to take children's heart services | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
from Belfast. What kind of timeline are they planning? How will that | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
impact on the service for our children and families? Parents will | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
be disappointed but should be encouraged that two years ago, all | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
surgery was moving to England. Edwin Poots has now been replaced by Jim | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
Wells, how do you see that appointment? It is change, but | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
change in name only. When you think of some of the most contentious and | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
emotive issues that Edwin Poots has had to deal with, some of those | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
decisions which ended up in the High Court, including blood been donated | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
by men in the gay community and abortion, it must be said that Jim | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
Wells has equally entrenched views. I have been in contact with the | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
former Health Minister, who says some very big decision have now been | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
taken from him and passed on to what he has described as his very good | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
friend, Jim Wells. A man has been jailed for 18 years | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
for raping a woman after beating Darius Porcikas, with an address at | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Upper Edward Street in Newry, was one of two men | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
charged with a range of offences You may find some of the detail | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
in our next report upsetting. It's from Gordon Adair at | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
Craigavon Crown Court. It was in this Lurgan housing estate | :11:25. | :11:37. | |
in the early hours of July the 13th of 11 that the victim's ordeal | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
began. Her boyfriend was involved in an altercation with Porcikas and two | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
other men. The trio smashed her door in and set about her boyfriend with | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
a cricket bat. They beat him unconscious before turning their | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
attention to her. She was also brutally beaten, but this was to be | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
only the start. Over the next 12 hours, she was subjected to rape, | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
violence and deliberate humiliation, the details of which | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
are too horrifying to be broadcast. The trial here lasted three weeks | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
and it took the jury just over two hours to find Porcikas guilty of a | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
total of 12 offences. During the trial, they heard how he had | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
committed the shocking crimes, and then gone on the run. After a series | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
of appeals to the public, Porcikas was eventually found. He was living | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
in this wooded area, a matter of yards away. Here -- he had built a | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
temporary shelter. Incredibly, he had lived here for up to a month | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
with his pregnant girlfriend. I am really pleased that the court have | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
reflected on the severity of the sentences and I hope this sends a | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
message that we will not tolerate this in our society. The judge said | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
Porcikas would not even be considered for release until it was | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
felt safe to do so. His co-accused was found guilty of a single charge | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
of assault on the woman's boyfriend. There was a third man present that | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
morning, he has never been named in court but it is believed he is back | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
in Lithuania. The hunt for him will continue. | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
The traditional Irish musician Francis McPeake has branded | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
as "lies" allegations of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
The Belfastman has been giving evidence at his trial | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
Francis McPeake arrives in court today to give evidence at his trial, | :13:34. | :13:48. | |
seen here accompanied by his wife. He denies 12 counts of sexual | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
activity with a girl who was 15 years old at the time. The alleged | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
victim sat in the public gallery along with her friends and family, | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
listening to the evidence. Every allegation of sexual activity put to | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
the evidence. Every allegation of sexual activity Sunday morning in | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
his school of music in Belfast, that is alive, said. That is where you | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
first had sex with the alleged victim? That is a lie, he said. The | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
prosecution outlined that the defendant turned up at the | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
teenager's school to talk to her teachers. It was put to him he was | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
getting cocky. I had an interest in her work, he said. The prosecution | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
said, you had an interest for her, for sex. No, he said, that is alive. | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
Mr McPeak said he had problems having sex with his wife after | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
receiving treatment for cancer. The trial continues. | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Some have predicted that changes to the welfare system | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
Here on BBC Newsline we're taking another | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
closer look at what's proposed and we'll be speaking to people who | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
In the first in a series of reports over the next few weeks, | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
Tara Mills talks to young mothers in East and West Belfast. | :15:08. | :15:19. | |
On the outskirts of West Belfast, almost half the children are cost of | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
living in poverty. The Centre provides a crash and drop-in centre | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
for mums like Leanne, who has four children and receives multiple | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
benefits. Her youngest is eight months old. You try to find money if | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
they need new shoes or clothes, but by the time you get the money, you | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
spend it on food and bills, you have nothing left. So, I just hope that | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
the change does not affect us. Cutting the total made of money one | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
family can receive on benefits is one of the changes. It is ?26,000 a | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
year. In England it applies mostly to people living in homes with high | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
rents, but here it is different. Those on more than ?26,000 are | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
mostly lone parents with four children or more. The average family | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
stands to lose ?50 a week. Those with very large families will lose | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
?135 a week. Staff at this centre believe that will leave some | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
families desperately poor. There will be kids not getting a decent | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
meal, but if they come here they will get through, they will get | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
something decent during the day. You cannot go into a home where there | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
are a lot of children and just cut the money away. People have | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
devastating impact on the children. Across time, mums at this centre are | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
in the same boat. This woman had a job until she had her children and | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
hopes to get back to work eventually. These mothers have been | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
accused of having children to get benefits. This 22-year-old says life | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
has not to notice she expected. I would have to burrow money some | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
weeks. It depends how the week is going. What about people who think | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
that people on benefits are lazy? There is no choice. If I had a | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
choice, I would not be on them. It is not like it is great money, you | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
struggle on benefits. Why do that if you could have a full-time job? So | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
that is ultimately what you are aiming for? Yes. You get to that | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
point and you cannot manage and you want to get stuff but you can't. How | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
do you manage? It is really stressful. None of the mothers we | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
spoke to was aware that the welfare system could be changing. The | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
political row at Stormont seems far removed from the reality of life on | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
benefits. And if you will be affected by the | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
changes, would we would like to hear your views. | :18:08. | :18:21. | |
Welfare reform remains at the eye of the political storm and another | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
issue is parading. This evening, the Northern Ireland office says it has | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
no comment on speculation that draft proposals have been sent to any | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
political party in relation to parading in North Belfast. Mark | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
Devenport is at Stormont. Have you heard anything about this? Here, one | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
senior Orange man was telling me he got there could be an announcement | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
before the end of the week on the parade enquiry for North Belfast. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
Clearly this was a demand from the joint Unionist parties, they wanted | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
it to look specifically into the Ardoyne issue. But if the Government | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
presses ahead with that, it risks incurring the wrath of nationalists, | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
who are concerned that such an enquiry would do the Parades | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
Commission out of business and might undermine that. So it will look at | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
that space during the course of the next few days. In relation to | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
welfare reform, it is not just the young mothers we have been hearing | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
from, who are concerned about that, it has been a point of contention at | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
Stormont today. I am joined by one of our new ministers who will have | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
responsibility for welfare reform. It is really a hot topic, do you | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
think it could end up that the Executive is brought down in | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
relation to this? I think the First Minister has made it clear that | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
there are choices that have to be made. We empathise with those | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
parents who have genuine concerns about changes to the current | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
system. However, let us be under no illusion that if there is no | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
agreement on this particular issue in relation to welfare reform, what | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
is coming down the road in terms of the lost to the Northern Ireland | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
budget is greater than what the changes would be in relation to the | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
package that was negotiated by my predecessor. I would pay tribute to | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Nelson for the way in which he dealt with this issue during her very | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
difficult and challenging time. Letters be under no illusion, I am | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
under no illusion as to the enormity of this challenge and I believe that | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
if people want to see progress, they have to face up to reality that | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
there is an agreement that has to be reached on this issue so the | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
Northern Ireland ensures we can move forward and continue to be | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
prosperous in the way that we have been to date. Could you end up being | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
a very short lived Minister? There is no sign of any common ground | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
between the major parties. History will be the judge of that, it is not | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
my intention to be the shortest lived Minister. The DUP want to get | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
a resolution for the benefit of the people of Northern Ireland and | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
those, Sinn Fein, the SDLP and those who have opposed this process need | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
to realise they are going to bring about a situation which will bring | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
greater burden and distress to the people of Northern Ireland, and that | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
is not what I want to see happen. Is this Peter Robinson stabbing his | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
authority on the party? This is my party leader making decisions. He | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
will make those decisions because he is party leader. I am honoured by | :21:21. | :21:29. | |
the responsibility that he has placed on my shoulders and I trust | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
by the grace of God that I will be able to do the job. Mervyn Storey on | :21:33. | :21:41. | |
the first evening of his new job. To Scotland, and practice started | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
today for the Ryder Cup, the match between Europe and America. Steven | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
Watson has been reporting from Gleneagles. | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
Northern Ireland's two players, Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy, | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
have partnered each other six times in the last couple of Ryder cups, | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
but this year it appears they will be slipped up. Today, Graeme | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
McDowell stressed that things may have changed, but there are not only | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
problems between the two men. It is hello to a fourth consecutive Ryder | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
Cup for Graeme McDowell. A player who excels when he steps into the | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
world's golfing player. His relationship with Rory McIlroy is | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
the focus for many this week. The issue is Rory McIlroy's legal battle | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
with his former management company. But he is adamant that all is well | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
on and off the course. Our personal issues have been well documented. We | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
both have come through that and that of the other side better friends | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
than we ever were. From a golf point of view, the dynamic has changed | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
from the Big Brother role I had in 2009, 2010, when Rory was green | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
behind the ears and needed someone like myself to have that protective | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
influence on the golf course. Now he is the number one player in the | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
world. We are not writing of the fact we might play together this | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
weekend, but I think we will not play every match together like we | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
have in the past. That will be done to personal reasons but the fact | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
that captain believes we are better used elsewhere. Four years ago, | :23:21. | :23:31. | |
Graeme McDowell was the hero. He wants a repeat performance in | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
Scotland. I couldn't imagine sitting at home watching it on TV. I want to | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
be here in Scotland, trying to make it eight from ten. We are the | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
favourites. It is not a label the European team are used to. We are | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
trying to realise that this is going to be a tough week, it will be | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
close, and we have to knuckle down and play hard. Graeme McDowell will | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
have huge home backing this week, but two of his biggest supporters | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
are missing. I am feeling very fresh. I have had sleepless nights | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
with the baby, but I have got to grips with that. Disappointed my | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
wife and baby couldn't make it this week, but they will be watching from | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
afar and they will be supporting the team from Florida. As he tries to | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
help Europe successfully defend the title. Now to another international | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
competition, this time in darts. Northern Ireland has sent men and | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
women's teams to the Europe cup, which gets underway tomorrow. | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
Northern Ireland will be stepping up to the hockey and aiming high in | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
international dollars. -- International darts. It is played | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
along the lines of the European cup. You go into groups, you qualify | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
first or second in the group. The -- you accumulate points per win. There | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
are also appears and individuals. The women's team includes a veteran | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
who has seen off plenty of competition for her place on the | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
aeroplane to Romania. It is hard work every year trying to get into | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
the top three. Everybody fights all year round to get a place. And there | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
is a quiet confidence that Northern Ireland will emerge from the group | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
stages and do well. A good bunch of lads and girls going over, we have a | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
good chance, we are all play -- all playing well at the moment and it is | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
a privilege to be here. We just have a feeling that the team is going to | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
gel, they will play well. They are all good players. This team, there | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
is just something special. The competition starts tomorrow with the | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
finals on Saturday. Good luck to both the teams. That's | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
it from Gleneagles, I will be back with more from the Ryder Cup | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
tomorrow. The weather forecast is next. | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
Good evening. The autumn equinox has brought some autumn rain, good news | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
for the gardens. That rain came along in a couple of bands. One last | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
night which moved away. We now have the next band, that weather front | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
sitting over us at the moment. Fragmenting a little bit, still damp | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
evening for many. But it moves away East, and in behind, we will get a | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
few showers following. Some of those to be quite heavy for the first part | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
of the night but they will start to ease away later, tapering off. So we | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
are looking at more in a whiff of dry weather and clear spells, | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
temperatures settling around 80 to ten. Tomorrow, are much more cheery | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
day. A brighter and drier day. One or two showers around first thing. | :27:01. | :27:09. | |
Maybe done towards parts of County Down as well. But they will be light | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
and fairly isolated. By the afternoon, generally, all parts are | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
dry. Some cloud coming and going, but some bright and sunny spells | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
coming through as well. It will still feel quite fresh, but the | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
breeze coming in from the North to Northwest. Temperatures from 14 to | :27:28. | :27:36. | |
16. It could be quite a cool evening tomorrow. Probably a bright enough | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
end to the day. Through tomorrow night, things start to change | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
again, more cloud starting to roll in off the Atlantic. With that | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
cloud, quite damp weather. Rain and drizzle in parts of the North and | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
West, but a mild night with temperatures no lower than ten or | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
11. Thursday looks as though we will hold onto the grey skies, but it | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
will be mild, with temperatures up to around 18. | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
We will have the latest on the big reshuffle at Stormont on our latest | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
news at 10.25. Goodbye for now. | :28:10. | :28:12. |