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day around 5 Celsius. That's it from us. Huw Edwards will | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
You us. Huw Edwards will be here at | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
this game and that had gone on before the vote, it wasn't just Fal | :00:15. | :00:34. | |
how we were treated. -- it was foul. was like a "pied piper" for young | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
people in Castlederg, Basil McCrea is cleared | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
of all misconduct allegations by the Assembly Standards | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
Commissioner but criticised by MLAs Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
unveils his airlines new routes Could the call of the corncrake ring | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
out over Rathlin once again? We'll look at efforts to bring | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
the much-loved bird back The news that Northern Ireland fans | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
were dreading, Chris Brunt will miss Rio 2016. | :01:15. | :01:15. | |
Warnings have been issued for both snow and ice across NI. | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Good evening and welcome to the programme. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
The Director of the Royal College of Nursing has told the BBC she's | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
furious about the lack of progress in setting up a group to look | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
at the issue of abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality. | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
The Health Minister said he would set up a working group | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Meanwhile, Sarah Ewart, the woman who brought this issue | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
to the public's attention, says she believes it was | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
Our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly has the story. | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
This is the letter we sent out to all 108 MLAs. Sarah Ewart continues | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
to lobby politicians around the issue of Northern Ireland's abortion | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
guidelines. It is just asking if they have set up their working | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
group. It's almost two and a half years since she went public about | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
travelling to England for an abortion after being told her baby | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
had severe brain malformation and no chance of survival. She says she is | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
frustrated about the lack of progress in setting up a working | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
group on the issue of fatal faecal abnormalities which was announced | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
last month by the DUP. It was all to do with the election and to make | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
them look good, but they're not doing anything, are they? In my | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
letter, I said the treatment I had was filed. The scaremongering that | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
had gone on before the vote, it was just file how we were treated. But | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Sarah isn't the only one putting pen to paper. The director of the Royal | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
College of Nursing has also written to the Health Minister venting their | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
anger. I am livid. I think this is a way of fobbing off a because single | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
day that the Northern Ireland executive and the wider Assembly | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
deliberate, consider, think and work their way through this issue, a | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
woman somewhere in Northern Ireland is being given devastating news. | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Other medical professionals who work at the very heart of this issue and | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
said they are also awaiting contacts from the Department. We have been in | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
touch with the minister over the past six months to a year on this | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
matter and I have found the most engaging on the issue, but now, | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
there is a sense of urgency. But the Health Minister has defended his | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
actions. In a statement to the BBC, Simon Hamilton said... | :03:49. | :04:03. | |
He also said he remains fully determined to commit to the group | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
reporting back in six months. In another development, MLAs could | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
receive advice from academics from the local universities as they also | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
plan to set up their own working group on abortion. It is understood | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
they are also frustrated by the lack of progress. | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
Child killer Robert Howard was like a pied piper to young | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
people in Castlederg, the Arlene Arkinson inquest | :04:28. | :04:28. | |
The claim was made by Heather Moore, a former district nurse who said | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
there was a constant stream of them to Howard's flat. | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
He was acquitted of the 15-year-old's murder | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
Arlene Arkinson was well known to Heather Moore. A district nurse, she | :04:38. | :04:51. | |
knew most of the young people in the Castlederg area and live next door | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
to Robert Howard's flats. Heather Moore told the inquest there was a | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
constant stream of young people entering the fly, especially | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
weekends. They included Arlene Arkinson and to -- her slightly | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
older friend, Donna Quinn. It was almost always children in groups, | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
though she is so wanting each girl enter a loner, a girl who Howard was | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
later charged with assaulting. Of the groups, she said there were so | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
many at times it was like the Pied Piper on a Saturday. It must have | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
been the place to go on Saturday for the young ones. This is Patricia | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Quinn arriving for the inquest recently. Heather Moore said she | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
once saw Quinn arrived at Howard's flat early one morning, already | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
discovering her Donna Van tracking of the premises. Patricia Quinn | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
denies bin Howard's girlfriend, though other witnesses have insisted | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
she was. -- denies being. Later, three are first cousins of | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
Arlene Arkinson are described and being in Howard's flat with others. | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
One called him a strange, creepy sort of mana. Another said that all | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
been had confessed to her she had fallen pregnant and had a | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
miscarriage in the summer of 1994, but she added that she never really | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
believed., meanwhile, the Ark in some's legal team has expressed | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
dismay that key documents have not been shown to them by the. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
The Assembly Standards Commissioner Douglas Bain has dismissed | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
all complaints brought against the Lagan Valley MLA | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
Basil McCrea, alleging he had engaged in inappropriate behaviour | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
or sexual misconduct towards his staff. | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
Our political editor, Mark Devenport, reports. | :06:33. | :06:46. | |
NI 21 was launched by former Ulster Unionists Basil McCrea and John | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
McAllister. But the party imploded spectacularly on the eve of the | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
European elections in 2014, with the two politicians divided over whether | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
they should define themselves as Unionists. Allegations also surfaced | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
that Mr McRae had involved himself in bullying of sexual misconduct | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
towards his stuff. The Stormont standards Commissioner, Douglas | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Bain, has investigated and dismissed 12 separate comp against us | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
complaints against Mr MacRae. He finds the Lagan Valley MLA was not | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
guilty of breaking any Stormont rules. In relations one Cramer that | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
McCrea took voyeuristic photographs, the standards commission expresses | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
his view that some photographs shown to him had been heavily doctored by | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
a person and an owner and none of these photographs was voyeuristic. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
I'm pleased I've been exonerated, totally exonerated. It has been a | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
long time in coming, almost two years. One of the things I'm not so | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
happy about is that some has been redacted. I did not want it | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
redacted, I wanted it all out, but there is enough out to clear my | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
name. MLAs on the storm Micro Standards committee believe he is | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
not beyond criticism and in a report they say he exercised poor judgment | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
in allowing young women into his hotel rooms and criticised how we | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
spoke to his stuff on occasions. The committee has agreed with the | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Commissioner that the code of conduct strictly applied has not | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
been breached by Mr MacRae. There are a number of complaints, however, | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
where the number -- committee has expressed its concern in respect his | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
conduct or judgment towards his stuff. Those are areas he needs to | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
reflect upon lessons should be learned going forward. The NI 21 | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
leader thanked the committee for its advice and noted one incident have | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
been resolved to his and his staff members mutual satisfaction. As | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
MacRae says he is fighting was no intention of running away from | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
politics. -- Basil McCrea. He is expected to defend his seat here in | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
Lagan Valley in the Assembly elections in May. | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
You're watching BBC Newsline, still to come on the programme: | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
In the battle against so-called legal highs, | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
scientists at Queens University develop a new test to rapidly | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
identify the substances in the drugs. | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
The Culture Arts and Leisure Minister Caral Ni Chuilin has walked | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
out of an Assembly committee hearing where she was expected to answer | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
questions over the Casement Park redevelopment project. | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
The Minister objected to being questioned under oath | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
while other's hadn't been sworn in before doing so. | :09:25. | :09:34. | |
Mervyn Jess's report begins with the moment the Minister | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
finished her 80-minute-long reading of a prepared text. | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
I look forward to hearing from the committee. Thank you. If the | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
minister going to answer any questions? Sorry, sorry, sorrow | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
minister! This is how the minister brought her appearance in front of | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
the committed to a close, more than an hour after she began reading her | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
opening statement. Some had expected it, but others were left | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
dumbfounded. The culture arts and leisure Minister took exception to | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
being sworn an oath to answer questions on safety issues about the | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
Casement Park development in west Belfast while others had. I swear by | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
Almighty God, that the evidence... She went ahead with her opening | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
statements while questioning the committee's fairness. I will be | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
happy to take questions in the future, but after the committee has | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
decided that all the winners has will be questions on oath or that no | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
witnesses will be questioned under those conditions. It is only then | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
that I will return to this committee to answer questions as soon as | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
clarity has been achieved. I look forward to hearing from the | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
committee. Thank you very much. Thank you. Is the minister going and | :10:49. | :10:57. | |
any questions? Sorry, sorry, sorry minister! Police said an answer the | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
questions. I think I have made it clear I'm not come by to answer | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
questions unless you come fly with my position. Thank you. The minister | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
relieves -- leaves this and I think it is unprecedented and I think it | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
is discourteous. It is the latest in a string of discourtesy is extended | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
to this committee. The ongoing saga over Casement Park continues. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
The last of Stormont's double jobbing politicians is to stand down | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
The DUP's Gregory Campbell says he won't be fighting the Assembly | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Instead, he will concentrate on his role as MP for East Londonderry, | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
A court has allowed the Attorney General to become | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
involved in the Ashers Bakery's appeal against a discrimination | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
It was ordered to pay ?500 for refusing to make a cake | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
John Larkin raised an issue with the lawfulness | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
of the legislation at the centre of the case. | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
For the first time in five years, Northern Ireland will have an air | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
Berlin is back on the schedule of Belfast International, | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
Its boss Michael O'Leary was here today, not only promoting | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
the routes but also the campaign for the UK to stay in Europe. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Here's our business correspondent Julian O'Neill. | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
Michael only a report on a bit of a show, I'd kind of come fly with me | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
routine on the roof of a Belfast hotel. But on a ledge for the | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
cameras, to publicise an news of seven routes launching out of | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
Belfast. Pick of the destinations on Berlin and Milan, both have | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
potential to help inbound tourism. The other five routes are already | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
served by rivals and mostly to sunshine spots. Politicians talk the | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
talk, but when it comes to walking the walk, they do nothing. The | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
airport is receiving no support from the executive despite the fact that | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
these are two of the routes that have been identified from a Northern | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Ireland perspective that they wanted to see developed. Ryan thinks it can | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
make a go or three times a week service to Berlin, a route easyJet | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
ended years ago and the airport is buoyant at this announcement. This | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
time, we see it's been a real success. Michael's is already | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
talking about increasing frequency going forward. They are only putting | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
in three aircraft, only, and Michael's already talking about four | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
or five. If that comes off, it will be fantastic for us. Mr Leary also | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
used the trip to spell out his views on Europe. He was keynote speaker at | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
the business event and back on the foot on the roof was waving a | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
placard supporting the Yes campaign. Boris Johnson will not use -- lose | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
his job if you leave the EU. But ordinary workers in transport and | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
tourism could. Jobs will be lost of the UK leads the European Union. | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
Reiner begins operations from the International next month with the | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
Gatwick service. The other routes take off in September and October. | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
A Presbyterian minister well-known for her cross community work | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
is to stand for the Ulster Unionist Party in north Belfast | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
Lesley Carroll has stepped aside from her church role | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
until the election on the 5th of May. | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
She says she wants to represent Nationalists and Republicans | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
I have always been a unionist and people have perceived to me, even in | :14:31. | :14:41. | |
cross community contexts, to be a unionist. It is a different | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
situation of course to stand with a party, but I want to stand inside at | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
Unionism but also to stand for everyone. | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
A major regeneration scheme in Belfast has been bought been | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
Castlebrooke Investments has taken control of Royal Exchange, | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
a swathe of properties between Royal Avenue | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
It was sold by the Cerberus investment fund, which had control | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
of the loans underlying those properties. | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
The battle against so-called legal highs has been boosted | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
following the development of a new test which can quickly | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
identify the substances within the drugs. | :15:15. | :15:15. | |
Scientists at Queen's University have come up with a new screening | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
method which will help the authorities issue prompt | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
Our reporter Rick Faragher has been at the science lab at Queen's School | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
I'm here in one of the laboratories away massive part of this research | :15:26. | :15:38. | |
has taken place using everything from the larger machines you see | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
behind me too much smaller hand-held devices. The leading academic in | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
this research is Professor Stephen Bell. What is this all about? What's | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
we are interested in are things that come in these packages. They are | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
so-called legal highs or normal psychoactive substances. We want to | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
find a way of determining what the chemical structures of these | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
compounds actually is and we've been using these small, hand-held laser | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
-based devices. If we want to detect what is present in these samples, we | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
take the device, pointed at the sample, press the button, a laser | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
comes out and then we detect it. We get a series of bands that tell us | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
what the composition likely is. Every compound has a different | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
signature. Who is making these substances and how are they made and | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
where are they coming from? It must be a skilled chemist. Where these | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
people are, we do not know. It is a global problem and I guess they are | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
being produced all over the world, they certainly been sold | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
internationally. Are newer on the different types of legal -- | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
so-called legal highs all the time, it must be difficult to keep up | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
with. Our bid defeated ultimately? In the end, we will have two defeat | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
it through education. Prohibition helps, but education is the way | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
forward really. Thank you, Professor. The issue of so-called | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
legal highs, a serious problem in Northern Ireland in recent years, | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
but today, a breakthrough in the war against them. | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
A generation ago, it was a sound that heralded the start of summer. | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
The distinctive call of the corncrake was often heard | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
But changes in farming meant they've all but died out. | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
Now conservationists think they may be able to bring them back | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
by hoodwinking some of their Scottish cousins. | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
Our Agriculture and Environment Correspondent Conor Macauley | :17:32. | :17:32. | |
On a fresh spring morning, a group of intrepid conservationists are | :17:33. | :17:47. | |
heading out onto the water. They want to entice back a bird that was | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
once common in our meadows but has been all but wiped out by the switch | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
to silage. The corncrake is the secret bird that likes cover. His | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
numbers declined rapidly in the 1980s. Silage cutting and the way it | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
was harvested, from the edges of fields to the middle, meant loss of | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
habitat and the birds themselves. This little ball down here, that is | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
perfect corncrake habitats. That is because they are he meadows and if | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
corncrakes were to come here and a nest, it will be cut late in the | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
season and the birds would have a chance to hatch and rear their | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
chicks. When the time came to cut those fields, it will be done in a | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
way to let the corncrakes escape into the field margins. And those | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
margins are what the conservationists are here to work | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
on. This is a good place to try and bring the corncrake back, the land | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
is managed less intensively and is slap bang in the flight path for | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
corncrake heading from Africa to somewhere in the Scottish islands. | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
To draw them in, they are planting nettles dug up weeks ago in County | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
Down. They grow early and provide cover for calling males in late | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
April. We are trying to almost fulfil their happy days and | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
potentially, they will start here, breed, and we will have the | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
corncrakes turn here to the Ireland. The last calling males was heard | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
here in 2014. He stayed for a few weeks until a helicopter landed in | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
the same field and scared him off. The conservationists will be hoping | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
their work pays off and any calling corncrake which lands the Shia will | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
not face such noisy competition. -- which lands this year. | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
Now sport and some grim news confirmed today | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
for the Northern Ireland football team ahead of this summer's European | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
Yes, the news fans and management were dreading. | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
Midfielder Chris Brunt requires knee surgery and will miss Euro 2016. | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
Northern Ireland manager Michael O' Neill's immediate reaction | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
was: "I'm devastated for him and I'm devastated for the team." | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
Scanners had shown that Chris Brunt ruptured the interior of the | :20:06. | :20:17. | |
ligament in his right knee and underwent surgery in France today to | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
repair the damage. But he will now miss the rest of the season as well | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
as this summer's European Championships. That robs Northern | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
Ireland manager Baikal O'Neill of the services of one of his most | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
experienced players. Brunt featured in eight of Northern Ireland's Euro | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
qualifying matches and amassed 54 caps during his international | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
career. The news also concrete initial fortnights for the player | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
after he was hit by a coin thrown from one of his club's older | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
supporters cheering West Bromwich's defeat at Reading. | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
In last night's only Danskebank Premiership fixture, | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
Carrick Rangers beat Dungannon one-nil to move off the foot | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
Meanwhile, Derry City's new season kicks off tomorrow with a tasty | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Jenny Shields is relishing his first season in charge of Derry City. He | :21:02. | :21:16. | |
has lost 11 players in the season and brought in half a dozen new | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
faces. It is a youth will be given a chance to shine. You want to get | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
started and get under competitors stuff and that is what we have been | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
preparing for these last 3-4 months. The first game and as it transpires, | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
it is a local derby, which adds more to it. There's going to be quite a | :21:36. | :21:44. | |
game, I'm sure. After a spell in Australia, former top scorer Rory | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
Patterson is back and says there is a good blend of youth and experience | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
and the opener against Finn Harps will be uncompromising. It will be | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
an absolute battle. They are back in the league and a big crowd is | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
expected and it is going to be a lot of blood and thunder. Former city | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
striker is now back at the club where he made his name as a young | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
striker. He says the new -- newly promoted on ago side have won a | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
priority. It is a big season for us, we are stepping up there and under | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
no illusions. Derry has different ambitions, whereas with we survive | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
in the Premier division, it will be a massive achievement for us. Kenny | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Shields is making a bold predictions about the season ahead that he will | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
want to start with a good result and maintain that momentum. And a match | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
is live on BBC Radio four from 7:30pm tomorrow evening. | :22:41. | :22:41. | |
Golf and Rory Mcilroy has teed off at the World Golf Championship event | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
alongside the only two men above him in the rankings, | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
After 8 holes, Rory is 3 under in his first round. | :22:50. | :23:04. | |
These are prosperous times for netball in Northern Ireland. | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
The women's senior team exceeded expectations | :23:08. | :23:08. | |
in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow two years ago and now the next | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
generation is looking emulate their success. | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
The take on England in tomorrow's European Under-17 | :23:14. | :23:14. | |
What a debut for Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth Games. They | :23:15. | :23:25. | |
haven't been making up numbers, they have come and delivered! Exceeding | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
expectations. The Northern Ireland netball team, seventh finish at the | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
Glasgow games helped to lay foundations for the next generation | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
of stars. We have a talented pool here and over the last couple of | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
years, getting good recognition with our seniors through different | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
competition has given us the funding and platform to evolve for these | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
younger players to bring them forward. The under 17 is travelled | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
to Travolta today for the European Championships this weekend and they | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
are well prepared. Six sessions on Saturday mornings and the | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
fundraising as well, everyone has put in so much work. It is a great | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
group of girls, we came together with a few new faces, but they have | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
been chosen for a reason and we hope we will do ourselves justice. And if | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
they do, it is another step in the right direction for Northern Ireland | :24:20. | :24:20. | |
netball. The Dave McCullagh Memorial Meet | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
begins at the Bangor Aurora Complex Over thee weekend, just shy of 400 | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
swimmers will compete in 32 individual and six team events | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
across three days of competition. Several of Ireland's senior swimmers | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
will be seeking Olympic qualifiying times for Rio, alongside some | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
international stars. It is great to have Bethany on the | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
team and she has been with us a couple of years and it is great for | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
her to go towards London with us. She's a lovely girl to work with. | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
Finally, Gaelic football, and Gareth O'Neill is | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
O'Neill was joint manager alongside Tony McEntee previously and helped | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
the Armagh club to two all-Ireland titles. | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
Oisin McConville and John McEntee stepped down this week. | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
Now for the weather, with Cecilia Daly. | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
It is a bit grim out there this evening. Cecilia is here to tell us | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
if he will get better. It has ended up pretty wet. More wintry weather | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
in the forecast tonight I'm afraid. There were hints of spring earlier | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
in this cheeky chappie looked like he was enjoying the morning | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
sunshine. He has probably run for cover now, because the clouds piled | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
in against the low pressure sitting in the Atlantic. We have had rain, | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
but behind the weather system, the air will get colder. Warning this | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
will come into effect for so and ice across Northern Ireland. We will see | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
more snow in places. This is how the north coast looked this day last | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
year, so it is not unusual to get snow at this time of year. The last | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
of the rain should be clearing quite soon, dry for a while, but Richards | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
will fall and lead to a risk of ice were roads have not been treated and | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
wrote -- rain returns and where it is heavy, it will turn to snow quite | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
readily. So tomorrow, that rain and snow will gradually move southwards | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
through the commute to work or school. It will be a dirty mix of | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
rain, sleet, snow and ice in places. Disruptive snow will be above 200 | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
metres or 600 feet, but there could be a bit just about anywhere for a | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
time tomorrow morning, probably more likely in Eastern counties, so by | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
the time many people heading onto roads, County Down for instance, | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
especially the high ground, could have significant snow. Probably more | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
a mix of rain and sleet, but there will be patches of snow elsewhere | :26:43. | :26:44. | |
and it will feel cold. Moves away, the wind picks up from | :26:45. | :27:11. | |
the North Northeast. With it, brighter skies tomorrow afternoon | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
and lots of dry weather, but it will feel cold about biting wind and that | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
continues to be a feature of the weather tomorrow night. Into | :27:17. | :27:17. | |
Saturday, temperatures will stay just above freezing, one of two | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
places in liable job close to freezing. There could be some ice | :27:21. | :27:22. | |
and frost on Saturday morning. The AV wintry showers of the week, dry | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
and bright weather, very cold. The wind is as of on Sunday, quite a | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
nice, summer sunshine, more rain later in the day. Overall, cold and | :27:29. | :27:29. | |
generally unsettled. You can also keep in contact with us | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
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