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Good evening. from the BBC News at six, | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
The headlines on BBC Newsline: The ashes of the child killer | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Robert Black are scattered at sea without ceremony after his | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
I'm at the border to hear the views of businesses on both sides | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
and we'll also have a range of voices on a potential Brexit. | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
It cost us too much. We should be staying in because of our markets. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
An Orange Hall in County Tyrone is attacked for the second time | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
The Ireland injury crisis mounts for Joe Schmidt. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Three more players are out of the Six Nations. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
And it doesn't look like one for the sunglasses. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
I'll have the forecast for the weekend. | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
The serial child killer Robert Black died in Maghaberry | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Today it emerged his ashes were disposed of at sea. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
The family of one of his victims, nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
from Ballinderry, say it was the right thing to do. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
The name Robert Black struck dread into the hearts of the families of | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
his young victims for years. Among the parents of Jennifer khadi, the | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
nine-year-old was cycling the home when she was abducted and murdered | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
by black in 1981. The delivery driver from London based company was | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
also convicted of the murders of three other children across the UK. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
We died of natural causes in prison last month. In a statement today the | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
prison service confirmed that since his death no one had come forward to | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
claim his remains. As a result and in-line with legal requirements for | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
disposal of a body in such circumstances the department of | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Justice had dealt with it. In a statement, his victims family | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
expressed their feelings and how this has been dealt with. He said | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
that he and his wife were pleased as a family that it was handled in a | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
dignified manner. He said... The local MP also praised the | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
department of justice for its handling of such a sensitive | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
situation. It must be such a relief for the family to have reached this | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
point. Nothing will ever bring Jennifer back to them and their | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
grief will be with them but they are remarkable people and I think in | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
fairness to the prison service, this is the best way to have handled it. | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
This is a dam near Hillsborough where his victims body was found in | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
1981. She was buried a few miles from here by a family. Now nearly 35 | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
years later the killer's ashes have been disposal by the government at | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
an unknown location. In the words of the prison service, they were | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
scattered at sea without ceremony beyond these shores. | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
Police investigating the murder of Lisa Dorrian are continuing | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
to search land outside Comber in County Down and say a number | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
She was last seen at a caravan site in Ballyhalbert in February 2005. | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
This latest search for her remains began on Monday. | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Police said it was launched after new information | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
Still to come on the programme: The family of the second victim | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
of a suspected Dublin gangland feud ask for no retaliation | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
All eyes are on Brussels tonight as the negotiations continue over | :03:53. | :04:04. | |
a new deal for the UK in the European Union. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
The Prime Minister is seeking to re-shape Britian's relationship | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
with the EU and then hold a referendum in the summer. | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
That could have a profound effect here. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Shortly, we'll get the view from the farming community | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
We'll also be speaking to our Economics | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
But first BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson has been gauging the opinion | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Deal or no Deal? Whatever the eventually deciding Brussels, 500 | :04:29. | :04:42. | |
miles away in Belfast, people will soon have a say on whether or not to | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
stay in the European Union. It seems many people here have already made | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
up their minds. I think we should go. It costs us too much. The UK has | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
been a net contributor to the UN is hard to see what we get back. I | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
think we deftly should stay in Europe because of how much trade and | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
for travelling because of the Republic, getting up and down is | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
given to be a nightmare. Will it affect me that much? Not really. Do | :05:15. | :05:24. | |
you care? I don't care. I'm not staying here. There's a reason why | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
many people do careful stop money. This new innovation Centre in west | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
Belfast will be opening soon to kick-start the local economy. It | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
cost ?9 million but the majority of it came from the European regional | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
development fund. The question is Dashwood acre project like this be | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
impossible without European funding? Some very much doubt it. Others say | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
of course it would have been possible, the UK would save so much | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
money by not having to pay into the EE it would be plenty left over for | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
initiatives like this so who's right and who's wrong? The DUP remain | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
sceptical about the EU, they say the numbers just don't add up. For | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
everyone pound we get in Northern Ireland and projects like that, | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
where paying in ?1 50. It isn't a great deal. Some Unionists are more | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
positive about Europe. Quite a lot of parties so they don't want to | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
pull out but I think it would be a mistake. So in Belfast as in | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
Brussels opinion is divided. The debate is only just beginning. | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
Northern Ireland's farmers will have a huge interest | :06:36. | :06:36. | |
They get around ?250 million a year in subsidy payments from Europe. | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
But eurosceptics say, if the UK left, there'd be even more | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Our agriculture correspondent Conor Macauley reports. | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
The daily demands of farming means this man hasn't been able to devote | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
as much time to the Brexit of a dusty might like. With a big dairy | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
unit to run, he hasn't heard anything so far that would persuade | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
him to get out of Europe. The subsidies farmers receive are not | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
the main reason he is reluctant to leave. That feeling at present would | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
be we should be staying in the EU because of our markets and the | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
situation where any Northern Ireland, we rely so heavily on | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
export produce. Also the border, it would get tighter for us if we were | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
out of the EU. Alan is one of 30,000 farmers in Northern Ireland, 12,000 | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
of them are members of the Ulster Farmers' Union. It doesn't have a | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
position yet and Brexit because it's not sure what the invocations of | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
coming out might be. It's working on a piece of research at the moment | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
with other farm unions around the UK and when that's done the pros and | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
cons will be presented to members so they can make up their own minds. By | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
contrast, the agriculture minister has taken a defensive stance. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Leaving would be a catastrophe for Northern Ireland with its reliance | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
on exports. While there might be a support scheme for UK farmers run | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
from London, there is no certainty about its scope or scale. The | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
subsidies passes and a benefit to the consumer because we get cheaper | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
food. The subsidy they rely on needs to be in place. I would not have | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
confidence in the British government having interest in replacing that. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
For Eurosceptics, it's pretty black-and-white. The UK puts 20 | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
billion a year into Europe and gets 10 million out. For them, that's 10 | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
million of dead money that could be going to UK farmers and other | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
British interests. Anyway, they say, EU subsidy money is being spread | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
further and thinner as the union expands. Agriculture spending in the | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
EU is falling. It is going to decline further will stop they will | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
move eastwards so the present level of Cap support is on a downward | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
spiral and so it's not as if it's a guarantee for the future, it's not. | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
For now, Alan will farm as efficiently as possible and hope the | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Brexit outcome doesn't affect his finances. Is releasing the slump in | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
milk prices bigger chunk out of his earnings. Like many farmers, you'll | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
be happy. The whatever the result of the referendum. | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
Our reporter Ita Dungan joins us live from the Armagh Louth | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
The issues surrounding a Brexit debate are very different depending | :09:34. | :09:49. | |
on what part of the UK you live in. Here in Northern Ireland, one of the | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
influencing factors is the border which literally is one field away | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
from where I'm standing now. What sort of an impact would leaving the | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
EU have on places like Neary and Dundalk? Here is to people, someone | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
from the Neary Chamber of Commerce and Paddy Malone from Dundalk | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
Chamber of Commerce. What businesses in your rethinking of perhaps | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
leaving the EU? We have the qualified business in the area is a | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
small business. Hundreds of those small enterprises and thousands of | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
self-employed. Last October, we ran a conference to gauge views in the | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
area and when we came to the 92% voted to remain as inside Europe. | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
Why is that? I think it is closest to the border. It is unique in, if | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
Britain were to leave and not remain this would be the only land border | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
with Europe inside the United Kingdom. As the issue is | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
immigration, you can imagine that there would be very strict controls | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
right along the 300 miles of the Northern Ireland Irish Republic | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
border and we would be in the middle of it. What about commuters,? | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
Personal experience, when I came here first, it was to marry a lady | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
who was teaching in Dundalk and she came to the North and luckily a few | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
months later borders disappeared. It is estimated by the border studies | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
that 24,000 people commute across the border each day and we would | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
reckon that is about 10,000 across as border behind us now. It will be | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
very disruptive. A similar thought on the other side of the border? We | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
are looking at this economy in the area working together and we would | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
think it will work together because if it works together it will be | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
bigger than its component parts. In the tourist industry, we would like | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
to see a better flexibility with visas. If we have Chinese people | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
from outside the EU visiting the island they want to see the | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
mountains and unlocks and if they're being told they concede half of it | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
but you need a different visit to cross into the other half it becomes | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
ridiculous and Torres would be up to sell the area. From a commercial | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
point of view, it makes sense for both sides be working together. If | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
both sides are working together and you talk about tourism, what are the | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
other worries people might have? It would slow down industry and | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
business. You're talking about customs and the bad old days of | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
container traffic queueing up in Dundalk for hours waiting to Claire. | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
I delay, that as to costs, it makes small businesses uncompetitive. It | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
makes life difficult for everyone. It has been proved time and time | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
again that the border area both north and south is the most deprived | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
part of the island and that is not a coincidence. Thank you. As the talks | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
continue, the one certainty is I think that uncertainty continues to | :13:03. | :13:03. | |
reign. Our Economics and Business Editor | :13:04. | :13:04. | |
John Campell is with me now. John, we've heard a lot | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
there about the supposed benefits Fundamentally, the case for leaving | :13:08. | :13:19. | |
is to say that the UK makes a net contribution of around ?10 billion a | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
year into the EU. If we were a keep that money frost selves that would | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
act as a boost to the economy. If we look at the things they were saying, | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
the people in favour of us leaving the EU say that is scaremongering, | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
it there will be no interest to reckon barriers -- Rex barriers. | :13:36. | :13:44. | |
Nobody wants to see a hard border between North and South, the idea of | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
customs is fanciable full. Because they are such big trading partners | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
it's simply not in anybody's rational interest to interfere with | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
that relationship. They say another thing which is will have a good | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
relationship with the EU in terms of trade, that will remain, but we will | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
be free to negotiate agreements around the world with other | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
countries which will give us better trading relationships than we have | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
moment. The fundamental point they are making is that we would have | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
more freedom to do what we like with our economy. Looks like the campaign | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
for the referendum has effectively begun. What were the key economic | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
arguments be? It will be around the issue of the terms of trade. What | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
the Leeds side had to explain is how that system would work. If there | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
would be any barriers to trade, tariffs, that would damage our | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
economy so that is the question. What will replace the EU in terms of | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
how we trade and farm subsidies as raised earlier. What farmers and the | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
agricultural community want to know is what will replace a system? Who | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
will pay for it? Will Stormont pay more into the pot? What will the | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
responsibilities be for farmers? Those people convincing us to leave | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
the EU, they will have to set out a case for how farming will be better | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
outside. How is the business community lining up? Most of the | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
organisations haven't set a firm position. They want to see what sort | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
of deal David Cameron gets in Brussels. There was a survey by the | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
Chamber of Commerce this week that said 80% of their members favoured | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
staying within the EU. A majority in favour but it's not unanimous and | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
business leaders will play a key role in this campaign. Just as a | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
ditch in the Scottish referendum. Thank you. | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
Still to come on the programme before seven: Three Ireland players | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
are out of the rest of the Six Nations championship | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
The First Minister Arlene Foster says that people in the community | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
need to show a level of tolerance and respect to difference. | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
She was speaking in County Tyrone after visiting an Orange Hall that | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
had been targeted on two consecutive nights. | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
She said sometimes people use language to demonise | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
Here's our North-West reporter Keiron Tourish. | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
The First Minister visited Newton Stewart this afternoon to underline | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
her disgust at the attack on the Orange Hall. It was the second night | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
running that the Orange Hall was smashed. Damage was also cause to | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
door panels. The institution has been here forever long time, its | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
members are part of the community and people need to show a level of | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
tolerance and respect to difference and that is what I was saying when I | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
was in Dublin this week. I'm trying to create that tolerance and respect | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
for all communities and for all histories in this place. I condemn | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
these acts of violence and this vulnerable building. We start off | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
earlier in the week, on Wednesday, we discovered the first attack and | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
they came back to attack it a second time. It was a hate, crime and now | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
it is a hate campaign. It's important to the community because | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
the hall is used by young farmers clubs and other church groups. And | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
the local lords and pipe band. The attacks were described as deplorable | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
by the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. One local Catholic | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
priest said there was no place in society for them. Everyone in the | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
community is upset by it because there's no sense to it. Vandalism is | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
not a Christian act and all right-thinking people will condemn | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
this activity. I would say it's not clear who has done this and nor is a | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
characteristic of the people of this area. Police investigating these | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
attacks have appealed for an formation, they want to hear from | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
anyone who noticed any suspicious activity on the road in recent | :18:03. | :18:03. | |
nights to get in touch. Four senior partners at the Belfast | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
office of KPMG have left the firm months after being arrested | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
in connection with suspected tax In a statement, KPMG said the four | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
men have retired following a period The firm said it has co-operated | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
with a Revenue and Customs investigation, adding that it | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
relates solely to the men's The funeral has taken place | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
in Dublin of a man murdered Eddie Hutch Sr was shot dead | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
at his home in the city's It's widely believed he was killed | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
in retaliation for the murder of another man at a boxing | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
weigh-in a few days earlier. Our Dublin correspondent | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
Shane Harrison has more. A family and a community morning. | :18:49. | :19:02. | |
Eddie Hutch Sr known locally as Eddie was a taxi driver and a father | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
of five. He was murdered many believing retaliation just days | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
after David Byrne a senior figure in a drugs gang was shot dead at the | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
boxing way in. The suspicion is that Eddie senior was killed because of | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
his surname. His brother Jerry was once a notorious criminal known as | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
the monk. He says he has since retired from crime. As with the | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
funeral of David Byrne on Monday, there was a heavy security presence | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
but today's was a much more normal and low-key event. Unlike Mondays | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
which many saw as a gangland show of defiance and strength. The | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
congregation heard that Eddie Hutch was a good man and that the hutch | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
family wants no retaliation and for the cycle of violence to end. It was | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
the murder of his nephew Gary in Spain last attender that's believed | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
to have prompted this latest rising killings. As the courtside left for | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
the cemetery, the police service was confirming that it has raided a | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
house in Strabane and taken away a number of items. It has been alleged | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
and reported here that God believe a dissident republican in county | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Tyrone might have been a gunman at the boxing way and murder. The | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
police have declined to say if the raid is linked to the gangland | :20:26. | :20:26. | |
investigation. Other news now: A protest | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
is continuing at the site of a proposed exploratory | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
oil well in Co Antrim. Work was to have started at | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Woodburn Forest near Carrickfergus this week but campaigners | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
are objecting, saying it's near a reservoir and could impact | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
on the water supply A Stormont committee has dismissed | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
a complaint made against MLA Jim Sinn Fein had complained | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
to the Assembly Commissioner for Standards following an incident | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
involving the DUP politician and Sinn Fein's Megan Fearon | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
in the Assembly chamber last week. And the First and Deputy First | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
Ministers have intervened to oppose a sex worker's legal challenge | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
against a new law criminalising those who pay for sex | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
in Northern Ireland. Laura Lee issued judicial review | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
proceedings challenging the legislation which came | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
into force last year. Now Gavin Andrews is here | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
with the sport, with news of more Yes, the Ireland squad trained today | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
in front of the public in Mullingar, Coach Joe Schmidt was returning | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
to where he first played But he was putting on a brave face | :21:35. | :21:43. | |
on a day three more players were ruled out of the rest | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
of the Six Nations. The Ireland team were all smiles as | :21:49. | :21:57. | |
they arrive for training this morning in front of an enthusiastic | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
crowd at this rugby club. The Irish team's resources have been stretched | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
as of late with the coach still counting the cost of their bruising | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
encounter against France last weekend. We're going to be short of | :22:11. | :22:20. | |
Mike McCarthy, I don't think ill be back, we have lost Dave can't and | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Sean O'Brien so we had a toll from last week and it means we have the | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
go to the broader squad and have confidence in them. Not training | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
today with Ireland, but captaining Ulster for the first time on Sunday | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
against the Scarlet is 24-year-old out of Paddy Jackson. What a kick by | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
Jackson! The league so competitive now up the top with one point | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
separating it that the scholars know if they come here and leapfrog as if | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
they win and if we win it keeps is ahead so that 90 to play for and the | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
run-in will be massive in terms of the final eight games. Results are | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
crucial in terms of maintaining top for status and first or second. You | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
haven't been playing very well, within winning games but not playing | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
well so be nice to get some form but we need to keep plugging away, we | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
talk around six Nations when Ireland internationals are away to build up | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
points and we are doing just that and it's been good but there's more | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
rugby to happen and it starts on Sunday. There is live coverage of | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
the top four clash one to 20 5pm on BBC Two this Sunday. -- to 20 5pm. | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
Rory McIlroy got off to an impressive start in his first | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
tournament of the season on the PGA Tour. | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
The world number three is tied for fifth at | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
the Northern Trust Open in California. | :23:44. | :23:44. | |
His opening round of 67 leaves him four under par, | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
The 26-year-old has added the event to his schedule as he bids to return | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
Mark Allen is through to the quarter-finals of the Welsh | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
The Antrim man will now take on Michael White shortly in a bid | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
Last night, Allen beat Barry Hawkins in a tense battle that | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
went to the final frame in a best-of-seven contest. | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
And he now goes into tonight's game against the Welshman White | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
I know my game is in good shape and that's what I'm worried about. I | :24:10. | :24:19. | |
wasn't enjoying the last month or six weeks of my snooker, I wasn't | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
playing well. I came with a different approach, just go for my | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
shots and try and speed up. I was getting bogged down in other | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
people's games and letting them dictate so I have come here with the | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
aptitude to get my shots. The Belfast Giants play | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
Nottingham Panthers tonight, a game they must win to maintain any | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
interest in the league title race. But this year they have struggled | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
against the other top sides We've made it tough on ourselves. We | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
know we can play with them, we had leads in the third period, it's | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
something as a group we have to be committed. When you get to the third | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
period in the lead, it becomes ping-pong. You put it in, up wait | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
for the team to make a mistake and capitalise. You don't want to give | :25:01. | :25:01. | |
them easy goals. Finally, there's one game tonight | :25:02. | :25:02. | |
in the Danskebank Premiership A win for Warrenpoint Town over | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
Carrick Rangers would move them off the bottom of the table | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
for the first time this season. It's not a cheery weekend. Not much | :25:09. | :25:24. | |
sunshine in the forecast. That's because we have a weather front | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
sitting across the centre of the country, we have warm air coming in | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
from the south and cold air from the North. We are more or less | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
sandwiched in between, more or less the Neath the weather front. | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
Occasional spells of rain and often breezy and windy. Gigli in the north | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
coast, just three winds which will feel cold. A bit milder today, eight | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
or 9 degrees in many places but not pleasant, drizzle, that fizzles away | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
for a time ceiling. We may get clear intervals but generally a fair and | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
of cloud and through the night that wind will bring more showers across | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
part of the north and west. There is a risk they could turn wintry and | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
the hills as temperatures dipped to 34 degrees but most places will be | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
frost free. Tomorrow, the winds are still a feature. It will be wet | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
afraid time, we will find the showers merging into a long spell of | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
rain through the morning and a risk of wintering is over the hills. | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Still persist and at times into the afternoon, that rain across parts of | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
the manor, the Rhone and Londonderry. The further east and | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
south-east the rain turns patchy so there will be drier slots but a | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
cooler day, six or 7 degrees on the breeze will feel colder. That breeze | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
still with us as we head into tomorrow night. More showers | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
rattling through, plenty of cloud. It should be frost free and for 5 | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
degrees. That takes us into Sunday and we will see some drier weather | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
with in the North. That weather front in the south pushing northward | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
at times so there is a risk of rain so if you are heading to the stadium | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
on Sunday afternoon, wrap up warm and be prepared that there might be | :27:14. | :27:14. | |
rain. A reminder of our top story, Robert | :27:15. | :27:25. | |
Black's Ashes have been disposed of at sea. The family of one victim say | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
it was the right thing to do. You can | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
also keep in contact with usvia | :27:34. | :27:41. |