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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me and on | :00:00. | :00:25. | |
Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline The former Finance Minister | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Sammy Wilson criticises Stormont's investigation into the NAMA sale A | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Had I not made the promise, I doubt I would have come along to grace the | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
Mickey Mouse exercise which has been undertaken. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
A man in his 50s dies in a house fire. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
This man is found guilty for the second time of murdering his former | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
partner, who was pertinent. Exclusive details on the new | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
abortion guidelines. Confirmation that they'd all the tall abnormality | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
cannot be grounds for a termination. Also coming up: | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
We focus on the problem of debt in the run-up to Christmas. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
We look back to this time five years ago, when December turned into the | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
big freeze. And after a cool day for many, there | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
is more light but also windy weather in the forecast. Warnings have been | :01:17. | :01:17. | |
issued. The former Finance Minister | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
Sammy Wilson has described Stormont's NAMA inquiry | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
as "a Mickey Mouse exercise" which has shown incompetence | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
and bias. The Assembly's Finance committee | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
is investigating a claim that a politician or party was to | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
receive ?7 million with the sale of the Northern | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
Ireland property loan portfolio Our Economics and | :01:37. | :01:48. | |
Business Editor John Campbell has been listening to Mr Wilson | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
at a meeting of the committee. Sammy will thin stood down from the | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
Assembly in August. Today, he was back and in fighting form. I said I | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
was quite happy to come along in August to give evidence to the | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
committee. Had I known subsequently the way in which this mighty was | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
going, and had I not made the promise, I doubt very much if I | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
would have come along to grace the Mickey Mouse exercise which has been | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
undertaken. He was finance minister when the | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
organisation was set up by the double Durrant in 2010. Its job was | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
to take control of property loans made by the struggling Dublin banks. | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
He recommended this businessman should advise them on Northern | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
Ireland matters. In 2013, he arranged a meeting with the US | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
company Penn Corps, which wanted to buy the Northern Ireland loans. -- | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
Pimco. Later, he went to work for Pimco and stood to gain ?5 million | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
if the deal went through. The committee chairmen wanted to know | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
more about that meeting in 2013. Was appropriate for him to be at that | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
meeting? Stay, of course. Why were NAMA not informed? Day wear. Later | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
on, I wrote a letter to NAMA telling them I had had this meeting and | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
outlining the discussions taken at the meeting. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Then he went on the attack, accusing one committee member of having his | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
own conflict of interest because the paper he controls has taken adverts | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
from a company connected to a critic of the NAMA deal. Did you make a | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
declaration that on a weekly basis Gareth Graham takes a 2-page spread | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
in a paper which you're a director of and pays you money, because I | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
assume you do not do it for nothing. Can I get back to this question, Mr | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
Wilson, or will we play games all day? Throughout his evidence, Sammy | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
stuck firmly to the view that no wrongdoing has been shown by | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
politicians or anyone else, and he believes the NAMA deal has been good | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
for Northern Ireland. The next major witness the committee wants to hear | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
from is another former finance minister, Simon Hamilton. | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
A man in his 50s has died in a fire at a house in Enniskillen. | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
His body was found inside the property in Drumgay Close | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
in the Kilmacormick area of the town. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
Our reporter in the south west, Julian Fowler, | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
has been to the scene and has more details. | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
The Fire Brigade received a call at around 8:30am this morning. Crews | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
went into the house and used breathing apparatus and damn imaging | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
cameras and discovered the man dead in an upstairs bedroom. The only | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
visible signs of the fire from outside are the blackened upstairs | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
windows. The victim of the fire had lived in the street for many years | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
and his family live nearby. Neighbours had been preparing for | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Christmas and the sudden death has come as a terrible shock. Those I | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
spoke to were too upset to be interviewed. 1 resident told me she | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
could not have asked for a better neighbour. Firefighters returned to | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
the scene this afternoon to assist with the investigation and the | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
removal of his remains, as family, friends and neighbours and stood | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
nearby. The police and forensic scientists had been carrying out an | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
investigation to try to establish what caused the fire. At the moment, | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
it is unexplained. There is nothing to suggest this as anything other | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
than a tragic accident. charged with the attempted murder of | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
a police officer seven years ago. Gavin Coyle was arrested yesterday | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
in connection with -- it is alleged he had been | :05:48. | :06:01. | |
secretly recorded in connection with the attack. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
Gavin Coyle was arrested yesterday in connection with | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
the booby trap car bombing near Castlederg in 2008. | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
An off-duty officer suffered serious leg injuries in the attack. | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
The defendant is charged with attempted murder, | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
causing an explosion, and membership of the IRA. | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
The 38-year-old, who is currently serving a sentence in Maghaberry, | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
during the hearing at Strabane Magistrates court this morning. | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
A man has been found guilty for the second time | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
of murdering his former partner, | :06:24. | :06:24. | |
who was pregnant and the mother of four children. | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
Stephen Cahoon from Londonderry had three trials. | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
He successfully appealed a conviction several years ago. | :06:29. | :06:42. | |
Today a new jury found him guilty by a unanimous verdict. | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
You may find some images in Helen Jones's report disturbing. | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
Stephen, guilty for a second time. A jury at the Central criminal Court | :06:48. | :06:57. | |
in Dublin took just under four RS to reach their verdict and the woman he | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
murdered, a pregnant mother of four, his ex-partner. This CCTV footage | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
shows the last images of her before she was killed. She was 30 years old | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
and ten weeks pregnant with Stephen's child. Her body was found | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
naked and bruised at her home in Derry in 2008. He has a history of | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
violence against women. This is an image of the then 18-year-old Lin | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
McCall. He beat her beyond recognition in 1997. Describing | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
events leading up to miss quickly's death, he told the jury that he saw | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
red when she told him the baby she was expecting was not his. So he | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
said he grabbed and pushed her and put his hand on her throat he | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
admitted strangling her button not murder. There was evidence of | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
violence and beginning to end at the scene. There was evidence heard or | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
had been broken and under were defensive injuries and bruising to | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
her arms scalp and head, which were utterly inconsistent with his | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
version of events. Arrested in the Republic, he opted for a trial in | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Dublin. The first jury failed to reach a verdict. A subsequent | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
conviction was quashed on appeal because of a technicality. Today, | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
another jury, the third, found him guilty. He has been sentenced to | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
life in prison, backdated to his arrest in 2008. | :08:20. | :08:20. | |
New draft guidelines on abortion drawn up by the Health Minister | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
continue to advise doctors that fatal foetal abnormality | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
is not in itself grounds for a lawful termination. | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
The guidelines have been circulated to the Executive | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
and a copy has been seen by the BBC's The View programme. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
Our Political Editor Mark Devenport is with me. | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
a High Court judge ruled that the current abortion law | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
is a breach of European human rights legislation. | :08:47. | :08:47. | |
Explain what these draft guidelines mean in relation to that judgement. | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
Well, this was a ruling by the High Court judge at the start of this | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
week and he said that particularly in cases where women have | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
pregnancies with cetyl foetal abnormalities or pregnancies which | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
were the result of sexual crime, that the current law is in breach of | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
the European Convention on Human Rights. Whilst these headlands from | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
the Health Minister were circulated around the same time as that | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
judgment came out, they have obviously been prepared prior to | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
that. They do not necessarily reflect that judgment. In fact, this | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
is the outcome of a long process going back to the guidelines of | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
years ago and fresh advice when Edwin Poots was the minister. This | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
is a long-running story where medical professionals have been | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
looking for better advised on clarifying the law. | :09:39. | :09:39. | |
What do the guidelines seen by the BBC actually say? | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
Just like advice issued two years ago, they repeat that in Northern | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
Ireland, for an abortion or termination to be lawful it must be | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
necessary to preserve the life of a woman or doctors must judge that | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
there is a serious long-term or permanent risk to her physical or | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
mental health. Two years ago, when advice was issued, there was a | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
fairly bald statement that foetal abnormalities were not grounds for | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
termination. In this latest advice, it clarifies that the impact of such | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
a foetal abnormality on a woman's physical or mental health may be a | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
factor to be taken into account when health professionals recommend | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
options for her clinical care. So it is essentially saying but still | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
there must be a fear of long-term damage, potentially, to a woman's | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
mental health but that may be taken into account. | :10:31. | :10:30. | |
So ultimately, changing the law would be up to the the Assembly. | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
What do you think is going to happen? | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
It is quite complex because first of all, the judge who ruled that the | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
current law is in breach of the European Convention is going to | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
decide whether he will read down his judgment to change the law, or | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
simply say that the current law is incompatible. But that particular | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
judgment may well go to appeal, which, given the way the courts | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
work, could last for some time. If it does come back to the | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
politicians, even though we have these guidelines, abortion remains a | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
very controversial topic and one can imagine they will argue about it for | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
some time to come. Separately, there is another legal case where a woman | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
is seeking to get a copy of these guidelines, which so far has only | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
been circulated to Executive ministers. | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
More discussion on this issue at 10:35pm. 90. -- thank you. | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
A man from Londonderry has pleaded guilty | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
to a number of terrorism offences, | :11:29. | :11:29. | |
including involvement in the murder of a police officer | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
He will be sentenced later in the month. | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
This from our north west reporter, Keiron Tourish. | :11:35. | :11:44. | |
Christopher Paul, seen here on a previous court appearance, was due | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
to stand trial today on a total of 17 Provisional IRA related offences. | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
He has now admitted five of those charges. He pleaded guilty to | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
assisting offenders in the murder of 21-year-old constable Michael | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
Ferguson. He was shot dead by they are in the city centre whilst on | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
foot patrol on January the 23rd 1993. The defendant accepted he | :12:08. | :12:22. | |
impeded the capture of the perpetrators by ensuring there were | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
no fingerprint on a vehicle he believed he had touched directly | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
after the murder. Deals are pleaded guilty to firing mortar bomb at a | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
police vehicle in 1993 and planting a bomb at the railway line at | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
barracks two-month letter. He also admitted placing a bomb in February | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
1994 on the windowsill of the home of an assistant chief on there. The | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
final charge, he admitted, was planting a bomb at an army base, | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
likely to endanger life or damage property. 12 remaining charges are | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
to be left on the books and will not be pursued without the leave of the | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
court. Before the trial was due to get underway, there was told that | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
rest of the changing his plea. -- Christopher or cane. He was | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
rearranged for by the fences and -- rearranged for five offences. | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
And a motorcyclist has been killed in a crash in County Down. | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
It happened at Lisbane near Killinchy this morning. | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
A mother and her adult daughter have been held hostage | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
during an abduction and robbery in Dublin. | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
Three masked gunmen forced their way into a house in Artane, | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
in the north of the city, early this morning. | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
The woman's husband, who is a cash in transit employee, | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
and then hand over almost 200,000 euros | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
near a business park at Dublin Airport. | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
A legal case challenging the ban on same-sex marriage here | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
It's being brought by two gay couples, who were | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
the first to enter into civil partnerships ten years ago. | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
the ban was having a corrosive effect on society. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
The money loaned to students to pay for university tuition fees | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
But it's not putting them off applying for higher education. | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
Our education correspondent Robbie Meredith has been looking at | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
new figures from the Student Loans Company, | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
the government body which distributes funding. | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
These sixth formers in west Belfast are currently deciding whether and | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
where to go to university. But costs are rising. New figures show more | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
than students were lent a total of ?173 million for tuition fees alone | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
last year. An average of ?4350 per person. I want to study law in | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
Queens and I certainly have had to consider tuition fees. I am | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
determined to do further education so whilst it has always been a | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
factor, I have always wanted to put onto it and I have always had the | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
support of my family. One of the big factors for me and my family was | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
money and moderately wanted to go to Edinburgh, but costs and other | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
things, it is not going to sit. Tuition fees are ?3805 per year in | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
Northern Ireland. But in England, Scotland and Wales, they can rise to | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
?9,000 per year. Despite this, around one third of Northern Ireland | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
students will to universities elsewhere in the UK and pay the | :15:32. | :15:32. | |
students will to universities elsewhere in the UK and pay the | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
higher fees. I am looking to go to Glasgow to study medicine. It has | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
always been a name for me and I believe that you will always be in | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
debt, no matter where you go. Their teacher is worried. The bigger | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
challenges those who have to travel because they cannot get a place here | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
and those fees will escalate and it will deter a number of students from | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
travelling. Student leaders say that given higher education's importance | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
to our economy, ratepayers should be putting more of the bill. It is | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
important that we recognise the public value that our education | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
system has and we need to make sure that we reflect that and is some | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
kind of levy that those who earn the most and benefit of higher education | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
later in life that they pay into a system that ensures our education | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
system is funded in the way it should be. There is no evidence so | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
far that these have put young people of taking a degree but with | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
universities cutting places, more may have to look elsewhere in | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
future, despite the cost. Debt is something most | :16:32. | :16:32. | |
of us live with all year round. But Christmas shopping | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
can push some to a level Research commissioned by the | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
Irish League of Credit Unions shows about half of shoppers in | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
Northern Ireland expect to borrow to get through | :16:42. | :16:50. | |
the festive season. it's a time when many people | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
feel under pressure. This Christmas, more and more of as | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
will use different forms of credit to pay for presence and food. But | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
for those who are already struggling with their finances, the pressure of | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
the festive season drives many even deeper into debt. For the | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
youngsters, it must be terrible. The youngsters on benefits, it must be a | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
nightmare because you want to be able to get your youngsters things | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
and if you have not got it, you have not got it. That is the people I | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
would feel sorry for. That would be under terrible pressure I would | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
imagine. In our day, you didn't... You didn't go into that. But now | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
they presume they have to. Not then all but I would say a lot of them | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
have to do it today. The first thing I would be thinking as whether I | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
could afford it because some people buy things that they cannot afford. | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
And Christmas is just one day, when you think on it. It is when the | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
bills come in in January that people realise they cannot afford to pay | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
back what they have agreed to because often the most accessible | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
forms of credit are also the most expensive, from store cards to | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
payday loans. If you were looking for ?500 over a three-month period, | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
you could go to a payday lenders and you might end up paying an extra | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
?350 on top of the 500. You could go and get an overdraft and pay an | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
extra ?70. You could use your credit card and pay ?40, or indeed you | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
could go to your credit union and it might only cost you ?10. You can see | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
there is a wide variety of different paybacks. | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
Shopping around for a burger that Christmas is second nature to many | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
of ours but no finance experts say we should apply that same principle | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
to any borrowing we do to ensure we get the cheapest rates . | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
With me everywhere presented of of a credit union. How bad do you think | :18:54. | :19:02. | |
the debt problem is? The results of a survey showed that 270,000 people | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
in Northern Ireland have used moneylenders, to date. A staggering | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
84% of them did not realise the charges, the interest charges, being | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
applied. Even worse, 11% have had the threat of physical violence | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
shown to them as a result of dealing with moneylenders. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
For many people, a payday loan, going into a money lender, is an | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
easy, quick access to money. If they pay it back, surely it is not a bad | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
then. The loans are instantly available and that is what people | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
fall into the cycle of the problem. But if you go beyond the terms of | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
the agreement that you made with the payday lenders, that is where the | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
problems start. If you go to a credit union, we offer instant | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
loans... Or a bank or other financial institutions. Readily | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
accessible but we do not pray on the form above. We can offer reasonable | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
rates of interest capped by the law. What responsibility do you think the | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
retail sector has at this time of year? They are offering store cards | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
and people can pay the debt, that is fine, but what is the danger? | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
Whenever time passes by and the debt is not cleared in time, the | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
temptation is so high for people to just readily take the credit that is | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
their, often the instant credit is the most expensive kind. | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
People feel under pressure to buy from their friends, from family to | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
stop what advice would you give them, those who are under quite a | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
bit of financial pressure at this time of year? We would say to make a | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
list, look at what you can afford to spend and then plan your Christmas | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
shopping according to that, rather than shop and then worry. Make a | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
list, when you go shopping stick to it... It is easier said than done. | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
Of course, but discipline has to be there. The other thing to remember | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
is that Christmas is more than just buying presents, it is about | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
spending time with friends and family. | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
Thank you for joining us. On BBC Radio Ulster's On Your Behalf | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
programme, they are getting more debt advice at 9:45am on Saturday | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
morning. The DUP says a Culture Arts | :21:15. | :21:15. | |
and Leisure Committee hearing today Hundreds of mourners have attended | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
a funeral mass for Father Gerry Reynolds | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
in wet Belfast. The 82-year-old Redemptorist priest | :21:24. | :21:24. | |
was at Clonard Monastery Among the congregation, the | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
First Minister Martin McGuinness, the Republic's Foreign Affairs | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
Minister Charlie Flanagan, representatives | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
of Protestant churches alongside family, | :21:32. | :21:32. | |
friends and parishioners. They were there to pay | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
their respects to a man who had championed the cause | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
of peace and reconciliation. During the homily, | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
Father Gerry was described both as an idealist | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
and a visionary. Of course there was the 80 minute | :21:47. | :21:56. | |
call one. And his Redemptorist brothers can testify that he missed | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
no opportunity to talk about his dream for unity. Indeed, from | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
suspected that he was secretly a Protestant! Ken said last night that | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
no Catholic priest in Ireland was in so many Protestant churches. | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
The DUP says a Culture Arts and Leisure Committee hearing today | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
at Stormont has vindicated safety expert Paul Scott, | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
who first raised concerns about Casement Park. | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
Mr Scott told a Stormont committee in April that | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
the emergency-exiting arrangements in the proposed design were flawed. | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
Representatives from the Sports Ground Safety Authority today | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
gave evidence to the committee and said the organisation, | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
which regulates stadia in England and Wales, | :22:40. | :22:40. | |
are willing to work with developers in a consultative role. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
Afterwards, DUP MLA William Humphrey | :22:45. | :22:45. | |
said Paul Scott had provided a huge service to the public | :22:46. | :22:55. | |
In a few minutes, we will have the latest weather forecast | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
But before that, we head back five years ago | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
to the coldest December on record. | :23:05. | :23:05. | |
The temperature plummeted to a low of 19 degrees Celsius. | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
Many inland areas experienced a seven day period | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
when it didn't get above zero during the day. | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
Our weather presenter, Barra Best, looks at the big freeze of 2010. | :23:14. | :23:28. | |
The first hint came around this time when temperatures wanted to eight | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
chilly minus 10 degrees. Over the next month, we would see disruption | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
to our lives. Roads and pavements became treacherous. This morning, we | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
paced ourselves when we were walking because of the icy conditions. When | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
you are carrying a child to school, it is a bit harder. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
Your reports and public transport -based disruption. Schools were | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
closed, rural families were cut off and sports clubs had to, but | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
inventive ways to clear their pictures. It is probably a very | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
large canvas sheet which covers the entire rugby pitch, which is lifted | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
up a few feet and then hot air is pumped into it for 48 hours. | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
Leaks froze over and proved life-threatening for I man when he | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
tried to save his two dogs. The cold left my legs and arms and I just | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
stopped feeling it, and that was worrying me, because without feeling | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
it, I knew my body was closing down. There was a brief respite from | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
biting temperatures early in December, but the arctic conditions | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
returned by the middle of the month. And it was to get worse. For some, | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
it was a case of the show must go on. We wished for a white wedding | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
but this is pushing it a bit too far! It was just days before | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
Christmas and on the 22nd of December, Northern Ireland recorded | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
its lowest temperature. It reached a finger numbing minus 18.7 degrees in | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
County Tyrone. In fact, for a whole week, the town did not get above the | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
law by day. Of course, a big thaw forward, bringing upon problems with | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
burst pipes. Many people had to queue every day for water for simple | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
things like renting and washing. There is no suggestion that we are | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
about to have things like this in the near future, but the | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
unpredictability of Irish weather in the long term means we cannot say | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
for certain if we will avoid them all winter. | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
Thankfully, those temperatures did not come along very often, certainly | :25:32. | :25:41. | |
not in the next five days. We did have some contrasting weather today, | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
depending on where you are, or where. I Weather Watchers captured | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
nicely. Lashing down, cold as well, some snow over the higher ground. | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
But completely different in this picture. A lovely sunset a couple of | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
years ago. It will depend on where you were as to how much horrible, | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
wet, cold weather you so. Thankfully, the rain is moving away | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
and tonight looks quiet. A few showers, and a breeze, but it could | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
still it quite chilly and temperatures could drop low enough | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
for one or two icy patches. And temperatures could drop low enough | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
for one or two icy patches. I knew not too much rain during the day. | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
The wind is the 1st thing we will notice. It is down to a deep area of | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
low pressure, both of lines together telling us it is going to be windy | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
and the main ring system comes in after dark tomorrow from the | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Atlantic. We have warnings that have been issued for both wind and rain | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
across Northern Ireland. The rain itself will continue into Saturday, | :26:43. | :26:44. | |
and the build-up could lead to flooding. First thing tomorrow, | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
fairly dry in most places. Just one or two showers around. Not too cold | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
either. The breeze will pick up but the air is getting milder because | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
the wind is coming in from the south-west. Not too bad weather wise | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
during the day. Just bits and pieces of rain, maybe even some glances of | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
brightness towards the East Coast. The wind kicks in in the afternoon. | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
Peak gusts of 60 mph, it could cause damage and destruction. There is the | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
rain sweeping and and a very wet and windy evening and night. Pretty | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
horrible if you're heading out for Christmas parties, although on the | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
plus side temperatures will be on the rise. That rain continues into | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
Saturday, still some lively winds around. The rain paling up to give | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
two inches worth in the hills and West. Thankfully, it is looking | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
drier on Sunday. Rain or snow, what would you prefer? | :27:36. | :27:38. |