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Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: A woman's in court charged

Martin McGuinness is to fight the coming election

The man behind the loyalist flag protests says he no

Also tonight: An emotional reunion for a young cancer survivor

and the man who saved her life The beauty of a bird in flight -

how the battle continues to save this special breed.

Ulster must try and qualify for the knock out stages of Europe

And a bright start to the weekend before rain later

A 29-year-old woman has appeared in court charged with the murder

The 67-year-old's body was found at his home in Greenisland

The court heard that Eddie Girvan's murder on Monday and the police

revealed they found his body by chance and it had had been stabbed.

Today connection between his alleged murder and is addressed in Belfast's

city centre. Margaret Henderson's address was given as this straight.

The accused were used to some friends in the public gallery and

when asked if she understood the charge, she replied, I. A barrister

said Margaret Henderson is an extremely honourable lady, fragile

and is susceptible to others. The lawyers said she would need

immediate care in custody. During her brief appearance, the accused

woman gestured a number of times towards friends in the court. As she

left the dock, a man in the public gallery shouted support. Yet used

was remanded in custody and will appear again next month.

A 33-year-old man has been charged in relation to a murder on the 13th

of the month. The man is also charged with other offences in

relation to the incident. He is due in court tomorrow morning.

While the Assembly election is four months away,

one of its most intriguing contests is already taking shape.

Sinn Fein sources say the deputy first minister Martin McGuinness

is moving from Mid Ulster to his home constituency of Foyle.

That will put him directly up against the new SDLP leader Colum

Our political correspondent Gareth Gordon has spent the day

in Londonderry assessing the possible impact.

For more than 40 years, this city with its famous walls has

Now the party 's defences are about to be tested

I declared that Mike Magennis has been elected to serve in Parliament

that the Mid Ulster constituency. For almost two decades,

Martin McGuinness has been Now he is coming home

and that is a major challenge for another Derry

man, Colum Eastwood. He has just become the SDLP 's

youngest leader and now he must In last year 's General Election,

the SDLP comfortably held Foyle with almost 40% of

the vote against Sinn But a better comparison may be

the last assembly election when the SDLP's lead

could hardly have been narrower, Mr McGuinness will make a major

speech in the city tomorrow but the party hopes his introduction

will be enough giving it is a huge The move was front-page

news today, though opinion is divided

over what may happen. I do believe Martin McGuinness will

pull very well in his home city. I do believe he will help carry his

two partners back into the assembly in May. This might be a reason for

more unionists to come out and vote to bolster the SDLP. They maybe

don't want to see the constituency falling into Sinn Fein hands.

On the streets, reaction was largely positive.

I don't know if he will do any good, but if he does, Fairplay. He is just

a local politician back to where he started. Normally I am not Sinn Fein

supporter but I think it's a good idea. He might get something done

about this town. It is dreadful. But the SDLP has questioned

Sinn Fein's motives. This is about trying to deliver a

third seat for Sinn Fein. I haven't heard anything but this is about to

deliver a more ordinary. It is the people of dairy who say that Sinn

Fein, while being the biggest nationalist party in government,

they had not delivered for Derry. The election campaign has not even

officially begun but already it is clear that this city, which has

known many battles in the past, is set for another big one.

A new round of funding from the European Union worth around

It'll go towards supporting peace and reconciliation, cross-border

The announcement comes as the debate over the UK's future in the EU

is heating up, ahead of a referendum which may come this year.

It wasn't surprising that there was an international feel

It was made at the Skainos Centre in east Belfast which was itself

One is called Peace IV and is aimed at

There's about 100 million towards shared education.

But if the UK votes to leave the EU, this

will be the last round of European funding.

David Cameron is currently negotiating on the UK's relationship

Then there will be a referendum asking people if the UK

As things stand, the DUP would campaign to leave.

We see the influence of Europe in the everyday lives of people and

business, not in a positive way. Therefore we believe that

fundamental reform was necessary. We have to say that we believe the

Her as if he is not pitching high enough.

He said the new money would leave a lasting legacy.

So would he worry about losing EU funding?

The money would stay in the exchequer, would stay in the

financial arrangements as far as it is concerned and clearly that money

would be used to benefit communities.

The issue was discussed on last night's

Sinn Fein think a British exit would have

My concern would be the implications it would have the North of Ireland.

I think it would have found indications for economic growth

prosperity. Eurosceptic wing of

the Conservative Party. Everyone has a choice. The choice is

going to be massive. When you have had this case of how vital it is to

stay in, it matters what you think this important thing is that the

people of this country will get the right to vote in a referendum on our

relationship with Europe. The interest of the people will be

better served by Europe or not? We need to await the outcome of the

negotiation. about the prospect of

an EU without the UK. Because it will have a big impact on

us in the Republic, we have a clear view as a government. We obviously

want the United Kingdom to remain part of the United Kingdom --

European Union. This debate is already one of the big political

issues of our time and it will only become more intense. A referendum

must be held by the end of next year. There is a chance it will come

this summer. Coming up later in the programme,

we meet the singer from west Belfast A loyalist who helped to organise

flag protests at Belfast City Hall has said he no longer

supports the demonstrations. Jamie Bryson has said it's time

to use politics rather than street At the height of the flag protests,

no one had a higher profile He insisted the protests

would and should go on and on. But on BBC review Ulster 's

Talkback programme today, We need to change our tactics, we

need to think about the way forward. I am raised enough to say that.

People will say, you told us to stand here until the flag was back

up. I recognise that was a mistake and tactics have to change. I am

brave enough to tell people the truth and I will come in for a lot

of abuse from people within my own committee. He was right, as collars

come in. I think you have stabbed us all in the back. You do all the talk

but you won't do the walk. You sold everybody up the river. I think he

needs credit for what he is trying to do. Do you not feel any guilt now

that people have lost jobs for having criminal convictions? No

guilt or any apologies to make to those people? I didn't drag anybody

out or force anybody to protest. It did not belong to me. It would be

easy for me to sit here today and say, let's keep protesting, but the

longer you protest and as the numbers dwindle, you lose any

beverage you have. It was back in 2012 but City Hall stopped flying

the union flag every day. Three years on, there are still protests

but they are very small. The issue remains controversial but it's not

quite what it used to be. The two teenagers who died in a car

crash in county Armagh yesterday were Andrew Gass and Mark Hutcheson

from the Markethill area. The 17-year-olds were on their way

to college when their car left They were the driver

and front seat passenger. Another young man in the rear

of the car survived A woman is in a critical condition

in hospital after two car crash She was walking along

the Dundrum Road, close to the entrance of Murlough Nature

reserve, shortly before 8pm last night when she was hit by a car

after it had been in collision The woman, who is in her 30s,

was taken to the Royal Victoria It's understood the final report

of the Republic's banking inquiry is strongly critical

of the financial regulators. The banking sector had to be almost

entirely nationalised in 2009 when a property crash coincided

with a global downturn. RTE says the inquiry has concluded

that the Financial Regulator and the Central Bank had sufficient

powers to intervene to protect financial stability,

but neither acted decisively. Our next story is a special reunion

involving a young woman from Limavady and a doctor her

family believe helped save her life At 18 months old, Amy Patterson's

parents took her home from hospital But almost 20 years on,

she's planning a bright future. It was an emotional reunion at the

family home in Limavady this afternoon. Neurosurgeon Gerry

O'Reilly meeting the girl he helped save when she was just 18 months

old. Gorgeous! I did a good job! Amy Patterson was brought home from the

Royal Victoria Hospital after being told she had H on her spinal cord.

She had been left paralysed from the neck down and given no hope of

survival. My husband always had more help than I have because I am a

nurse and I thought, I have been told by professionals that that is

it and I thought my daughter was to die. But Amy Bosman case was taken

up by leading surgeons in Birmingham boss Mike doctors and among them,

the Northern Ireland Doctor Who played a pivotal role in the 11 hour

operation to re-moved the jaw. It's an amazing story and to see any

today and watch it has achieved in life is unbelievable. To see a child

with a difficult malignancy who was not expected to live, to do so well

and to be here and for me to be here with her, it is surreal. The

21-year-old is now studying linguist and is it joins town and hopes to

teach special-needs children in the future. She says words cannot

describe her gratitude. I cannot put into words what they have done for

us, especially my parents because they went through it all. There are

no words for it. It is scary to think that I was like that at one

stage. I am just so lucky to be where I am today. The family paid

tribute to Gerry O'Reilly and all his colleagues. A they will be

forever grateful for what he has done for the family, giving their

young daughter the gift of life. It's a crucial time for a key

conservation project involving The Red Kite was reintroduced

to County Down some years ago. As the birds prepare to mate

and breed, volunteers are out identifying potential nest sites

so that they can check for chicks This is Red Kite country,

the drumlins of County Down, a perfect hunting ground

for these majestic scavengers, soaring on the thermals

to spot carrion in the fields Here are the people who keep watch

on these protected birds of prey, monitoring the population

and reporting back on the success of the programme to

reintroduce the Red Kite which has been hunted

to extinction here. We have a fabulous view of the

moorings and the landscape and perfect Red Kite habitat.

and it is important that nest sites are identified now so more work can

The birds keep quite low in the trees. They don't want to show where

they are nesting so it is difficult to keep an eye on them. Once we know

where they are nesting, we can get somebody in to bring the birds so we

can now how successful we have been. 80 Welsh birds were

introduced to Northern Ireland over two years and some

have successfully bred, But the programme has had setbacks,

a number of birds have been poisoned, probably

due to the mistaken belief For the volunteers who monitor

the Red Kites, the work has become It depends on the day and on the

weather. You could spend three hours Sunday but if the weather is good,

it's nice to be out. One very cold November night, we had 21 flying

over. It was like a festival of Red Kite. So many they could hardly come

At So many they could hardly come them.

the Red Kite roost together, partly for safety and partly

to communicate information on hunting grounds.

If you listen carefully, you can hear them mewing

There is nothing that spooks a flock of passing starlings

and prompts a sharp right turn out like three huge birds of prey

Those starlings, it turns out, are on their

way to their own winter roost at the foot of Slieve Croob.

We caught up with them just in time to watch their nightly display

Tens of thousands of birds in coordinated flight until,

as if on command and in unison, they landed.

This teenager is someone to take note of!

Nadine Megaw is a hairdresser by day but it's her singing that's

Our arts correspondent Robbie Meredith went

to meet her at home in Belfast and be warned there's flash

photography at the beginning of his report.

He is the superstar singer Justin Bieber.

Whereas she is a teenager from West Belfast but this week

their worlds collided a little when Nadine Megaw put a video

of herself singing his latest hit on Facebook.

A friend had shared it on their Facebook page and then a big chat

show from America got in contact with me and I did a Skype call with

him. They wanted to find out more about myself and I sent him a couple

of cover versions I had done. Along with a transatlantic interest,

there's also been plenty You are studying to be a

hairdresser, what is the reaction from people you work with? A client

came in the other day and she said, had you been on Facebook, the wee

girl from West Belfast was like I started laughing. I said, that is

me! She sat up and said, I don't believe it!

At the moment Nadine is singing around her work but for how

I am going to do a few auditions this year so I am hoping that goes

well and I just want to keep going until I get where I want to be.

Duetting with Justin Bieber? Imagine! That would be crazy.

Ulster's rugby players must try to qualify for the knock out

stages of the European Champions Cup tomorrow without their star player.

Stephen Watson is here - it's a tough task for them.

South African Ruan Pienaar is out of the crucial European game

with French side Oyannax at the Kingspan stadium.

New Ireland captain, Rory Best starts

Ulster need a bonus-point win to have any chance of qualifying -

and probably two other teams to lose.

Through the years, he has been asked's talismanic but tomorrow,

they must qualify without him. Returning from injury to or Nick

Williams and Darren Cave who is concentrating on matters on the

pitch and not results elsewhere. It's important that we don't worry

about who is doing what and I have always felt, you don't worry about

what anyone else is doing. If we do get a bonus point, that might not be

enough but if we don't get a bonus point or lose, we will definitely

not be in the quarterfinal. The important thing is to make sure we

are there. Unlike the first half performance against Oyannax a couple

of weeks ago, the Ulsterman will have to stand up for a PET minutes

tomorrow. They said if we are not on our game, they to pieces so it is

good, it keeps us are tools. Anything less, we will not be alive

in Europe on Monday. A bonus point, when and cross their fingers that

other results go their way. Kris Meeke has made an impressive

start to the season. He lies second in the Monte Carlo

Rally after eight stages. The Dungannon driver

had left the defending World Rally Champion Sebastien Ogier

in his wake in the early stages, opening up a lead

of over six seconds. But the Frenchman has since taken

over in first place, with Meeke now second heading

into the weekend with a strong The Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup

Final sees Mickey Harte's Tyrone They take on a Derry side

that they will face at least two more times this year in other

competitions. These two sides have already

met in the competition in the competition's stages

when four Derry goals were still were not enough to avoid

defeat by a point to Tyrone. Now the fierce rivals meet again

to battle for silverware. It's a real occasion when you play

them, you really enjoy it because they are a formidable opponent. You

are only going to get better after playing them. We take every game

competitively. There are many who don't take the competition seriously

as others but no body wants to go on the field to get beat so on

Saturday, we want to make a positive impact. We want to make sure we come

away with a victory and the cup. in the National League

and Ulster Championship, are the two managers

looking beyond this final? You want to win every game you can,

that is the challenge. That is what I want to do, when every game I

play. If I meet Derry on a number of occasions, I want to beat Derry. I

am sure their manager is the same. That should make for a good final.

If we are at this level and we want to play at the top level, we are

going to play the two rooms and other teams as well. Tyrone are a

benchmark for everyone. We are there or thereabouts and we hope to be in

the contest. Throw in at the Athletic Grounds

in Armagh is at seven tomorrow. Now - Rory McIlroy has been

struggling to find his best form in the second round of the Abu Dhabi

Championship. After a three hour delay

because of fog, he was level par through eight holes before this

errant drive at the ninth. He found the water and

eventually dropped a shot. McIlroy is currently five under-par,

five shots off the lead held The Belfast Giants are back

in action tonight at the SSE Arena in the first of two games

against the Coventry Blaze. After four straight losses

in the League, they are hoping We had a good run and then we walked

into the other teams and the speed caught us off guard. We couldn't get

any traction to get points but now I think it was a good test and now we

are going to Coventry to get some confidence. We have to take care of

We have to take care of that first.

lead in the Danskebank Irish Premiership tomorrow when they visit

The weather is next. Not too bad day today. As we go

through this evening we have some high pressure building and that

should turn off those showers. High pressure at this time of year

overnight normally means a frost but I think we avoid that tonight. What

it owes to is set us up for a rather lovely start to the weekend. It

should be dry and bright for most through Saturday morning but if

you're planning a walk in the moorings or you have some outside

jobs, I wouldn't hang onto long because there will be a change

through the afternoon. For the rugby at Ravenhill, we should get away

with a dry game there but by the time it gets to the football and

those 3pm kick-offs, by the second half, most places will see some rain

because that green is going to start pushing and will move slowly north

and east as we go through the day and spreading into all parts.

Reasonably mild with top temperatures of eight or 9 degrees.

We keep that grey, many feel to the weather overnight another front

coming through later on on Sunday night. While on Saturday we see some

bright skies, a different picture on Sunday. A lot more cloud around but

there is a little bit of compensation. While we keep that

blanket of cloud through the day on Sunday, we are also drawing in some

mild air from the south. If you can find some shelter from the breeze,

you could well see temperatures of the team degrees, which is very mild

for this time of year. As we head into the start of the next working

week, you can see from the charge that strong winds are going to be a

feature of the weather but before that, not a bad weekend. Some decent

conditions to start the day on Saturday and then the compensation

of some very mild weather indeed for this time of year. Enjoy it!

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