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The headlines this Thursday evening: Police, politicians and universities

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condemn last night's trouble in the Holyland

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You have thousands of junk people highly in toxic heated, drinking for

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three days, writing that place, making people's lives impossible --

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young people. And this afternoon, even larger

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groups of young people were out drinking on the streets

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in south Belfast. One of the Syrian refugee families

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who came here in December speak publicly for the first

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time about life here. We are so happy and pleased here in

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Belfast and we love our new home in Belfast.

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Murdered prison officer Adrian Ismay is described by a family friend

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as a "gentle giant" who helped others.

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Also tonight: Thousands turn out for colourful St Patrick's Day

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parades and celebrations in towns and cities across Northern Ireland.

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We've all the St Patrick's Day sport, including celebrations

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at Cheltenham, disappointment for Cushendall's hurlers

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and a round-up of the schools finals.

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And we couldn't have asked for better weather

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I'll be taking a look at the weekend's forecast

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Images no-one wanted to see on St Patrick's Day.

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Disturbances in the Holyland area of South Belfast lasted well

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into the early hours of this morning.

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Three men have been charged after the police were called

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to a party that spilled onto the street.

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Missiles were thrown and one police officer was injured.

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In a moment, we'll be looking at the response of the universities

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to the violence and hearing from the residents.

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But first, BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson reports

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It started as a street party, loud but largely good-natured,

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The police spent more than two hours trying to clear the streets.

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This morning, the clear-up, and questions asked

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Although it was the early hours of the morning, the crowd got bigger as

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the night went on as news spread on social media. The more people

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publicised it, the more people came out and it turned into a big

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shindig. It escalated a lot. There was a lot of damage to vehicles. My

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car got damaged, you can see that. It was after 3am when order was

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restored. This morning,

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the clear-up, and questions asked about the behaviour of many

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students who live here. I just feel like it's ruined

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the fun for everybody else. It got took too far,

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bottles were being thrown You were all young

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once, weren't you? I was enjoying the festivities

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until it got nasty but I fell asleep in a friend's

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front room and woke up like this. Many residents say they didn't sleep

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at all because of the noise. Every St Patrick's Day we have had

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something along these lines. Seven years ago was dreadful. I don't know

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what the answer will be. I see what you mean about the noise, we cannot

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even do the interview then please. You cannot get a nights sleep every

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week of the year, this goes on except for holidays. There has been

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a police presence. We are making arrests but that is a sign of defeat

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for us because we would rather we didn't have to make them. As St

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Patrick's day turns tonight, all eyes are on this corner of South

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Belfast. Crowds of young people

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gathered in the Holyland Many, although not all,

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are students at Queen's Our Education Correspondent Robbie

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Meredith spent the afternoon in the area with staff

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from both, who are trying A first St Patrick's Fun Day

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for some Holyland residents. The students are here to have a good

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time on their own property, they are trying to have fun like anywhere

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else in the world but here in the Holylands the place have been given

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a dad name down to people who have come from outside the area. -- a bad

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name. The same things happen on the Twelfth of July, the same height is

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made by the media and the media are jumping on the bandwagon.

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Between them, Queen's and Ulster University have around 20

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They've been planning for this day for three months.

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We are very disappointed that we have the amount of people we have

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around the Holylands after a coordinated strategy working with

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the PSNI, City Council, University of Ulster and Belfast met. From what

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we have seen the strategy isn't working. Queens would condemn what

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happened last night, I don't think any students would endorse what

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happened last bite, we will have to go back to the drawing board.

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Five students were suspended after Saint Patrick's Day last year.

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But the universities feel the finger of blame is often

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We hear reports of people being brought in from the country,

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bus-loads of people, so it points to the fact that this is a wider

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societal problem. This is the place to be, up in Belfast is where we

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come to party. The Holylands is just St Patrick's day. I have been there

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for a couple of hours. There are thousands of young people partying

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in the streets, it has been good-natured so far but it makes you

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wonder what tonight may bring. All agencies are hoping these people

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drink themselves into stupidity and drop them asleep in the street, that

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is the best outcome and residents are saying this year has been the

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worst, they say they cannot stay here tonight and will stay

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elsewhere. The party, and the problems,

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show no sign of ending. Well, as we saw there,

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there are hundreds of students still on the streets

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of the Holyland this evening. Let's get the latest

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from Mark Simpson, who's been back Everything seems to be under control

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in this part of the Holyland. Let's take a closer look at what is going

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on down the street. Hundreds if not thousands of people were on the

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streets, the two parallel streets with just as many people if not

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more. You may be not see many police but they are here in numbers and

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seem to be taking more of a softly softly approach. The atmosphere

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isn't sinister but a moment. People are drinking but the police are

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trying to assure them inside but it is virtually impossible given the

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numbers. So far so good in terms of the security operation but there

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will be a long night ahead. When 50 Syrian refugees came

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to Belfast just before Christmas there was tight security

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surrounding their arrival. The five families had been living

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in Beirut after fleeing the conflict I've been to meet one

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of the families to see how they've A new home in a new country, one

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they knew nothing about before December. It was only when they

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arrived at the airport in Beirut they were told which city would be

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their final destination. What was the journey like? It is very long

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and hard, both the journey, and strange and new. But we must get

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used to living there. The family are from Holme 's, one of the Syrian

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cities most affected by the war. Their father passed away in August.

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Their own explained what happened. TRANSLATION: He was held for one

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year and tortured and then left prison after one year because he is

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being hit hard on his head, he developed some diseases. Aisha and

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her younger brother are settled in the new school and it is there they

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have had no support. Also different from schools in Lebanon and Syria

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but nice, beautiful and teachers are lovely and I made friends. Beautiful

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and people very good and teaching maths, English very good. Have you

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made friends? Yeah. English and Arabic friends. Me and my sister.

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You miss your Big Sister? There is another sadness for this family.

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Their elder sister is still in Lebanon. TRANSLATION: Very hard for

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us to live out their step she talked to me every day and she is crying,

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she wants to be with us. She has a husband and two young children and

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they were not included in the list of refugees. I hope the government

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will help us to bring my sister and her husband and their children. Are

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they in a difficult place? Yes, a very difficult place, they are

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delivering their, very bad. It is not clear if that were so be

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granted. For now the rest of the family are very grateful to be

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living here. He was known by his family

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and colleagues as Izzy, Today a lifelong friend of murdered

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prison officer Adrian Ismay spoke on behalf of his family

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and described a man who did his best to help others in need, regardless

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of their religion or politics. Ian Simpson of the Prison Service

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Benevolent Fund was a colleague of the murdered officer

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for nearly 30 years. We called him the gentle giant. A

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better friend you couldn't find. Izzy was one of those people, no

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matter who asked help of him, he never asked who you were, what you

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did, your religion, anything about you, he would have given you the

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health unions and his family would have wanted the people of Northern

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Ireland to know he died as a result of the injuries he sustained in the

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bomb attack -- he would have given you the help you needed. It is a

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very difficult time for his family, after the blast on Friday we had

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helped him through the week, we expected that he would make a full

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recovery given time and obviously Tuesday's events were totally

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unexpected and as you can appreciate totally devastated the family. They

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have a big sorrow in their heart. A wonderful husband, a loving father,

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a friendly, gentle grandfather. He has been taken out of all our lives.

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Still to come on the programme: A big day for schools' sports -

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we'll have a full report on the winners and losers in both

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the Belfast Senior Football Cup and the GAA McCrory Cup.

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The US Secret Service has said it regrets that the Sinn Fein leader

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Gerry Adams was unable to enter a St Patrick's Day event

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Mr Adams said he was subject to unacceptable

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From Washington DC, here's our Economics

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Gerry Adams had no trouble hitting into this event, one of Irish

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America's bigot charitable lights. The Sinn Fein president had also

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been invited to the White House but when he arrived he was told a

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security issue had arisen. After wishing for more than an hour, he

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left. It is the right of any country to have security and I can be

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glitches but this is not that time to be treating Sinn Fein and fairly

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recruiting anyone unfairly, so I put it to the State Department today

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that we want this sort out. The Irish American elite comes out in

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force for this event. Congressman, union bosses, business executives

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mingle with local politicians. Michael Flatley was honoured for his

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cultural contribution. Nights like tonight, they are hugely important

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to raise awareness,, robbery, bring the people of Ireland together --

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camaraderie. These people go away with a great feeling. They don't get

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this in normal Washington years. Nights like this demonstrates the

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enduring strength of Irish American links but that political

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significance of these trips has diminished over time. It is now more

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about maintaining and enhancing networks built up over the years.

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This trip by executive ministers faced its difficulties, not least a

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paramilitary murder at home, but its focus on the economy will be

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dividends, something that will not become clear for some time.

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St Patrick's Day Parades have been taking place across Ireland

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Thousands took advantage of the good weather to take part

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in festivities in Downpatrick, Armagh, Londonderry,

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Enniskillen and Dublin among other places.

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Our first report is from Colletta Smith at the Belfast parade.

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Today wasn't just a sea of green, it was all things Bright and beautiful.

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From the traditional to the more contemporary. The parade snaked its

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way through the central streets of Belfast. Making its way from City

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Hall to custom house Square. What was your favourite? The snake that

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squirted water of -- at us. It was me doing some dancing. My favourite

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part was Star Wars. Mine were shaking the Lord Mayor's hand.

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Visitors from around the world got into the atmosphere. I have never

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been here on St Patrick's Day. Interesting, I like it. I am from

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China. Thousands of people have turned up here today basking in the

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sunshine, hoping to enjoy the music and the dancing for St Patrick's

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Day. The theme this year

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was Feasts and Wild Beasts. As for the beasts, there

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were plenty on the ground. Not to be outdone by the big boys,

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this wee one may have been biting Today is all about this man, Saint

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Patrick. He was visited by God in aviation

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and told to go back to Ireland and free the people, so he went back to

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Ireland, freed the people and became the patron saint of Ireland. How old

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are you to know all that? 12. Tell me about his fascination with

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snakes. He is meant to be the one who'd drove the snakes out of

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Ireland, more likely it was a community effort that stories are

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stories. And he's been drawing

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the crowds here in Downpatrick The parade is fantastic, and to

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support Patrick and 1400 years of Christianity, we are very proud of

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that in Ireland. Beautiful. It is good to see everyone working

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together and enjoying the day. Another thumbs up for what has

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become a safe, family fun One of the first parades outside of

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fast place in Omagh, where there was a multicultural procession through

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the town. The main theme were sharing heritage and tradition. The

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man himself was pulled along the street by a tractor. He was followed

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by local sporting community groups. It is not Brazil, its Enniskillen,

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as the sound of samba filled the streets for a Mardi Gras themed

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parade. Many people got into the spirit. Thousands lined the streets

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as the colourful spectacle made its way through the town, although one

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vintage car needed a hand to get up the hill. The procession began just

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after lunch in Armagh and weaved through the city. Here they are

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looking at how to make it more inclusive. There is a lot of hard

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work behind-the-scenes in terms of building community relations around

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the same Patrick's Day parade and it is well coming that people of all

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walks of life are dissipated because Saint Patrick is about unifying

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people. The largest parade in the Republic is in Dublin. Locals and

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tourists lined the streets. In Londonderry thousands lined the

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route of the carnival parade. This year's theme was the land of the

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little people. It made its way along the banks of the Foyle. Locals and

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visitors were impressed by the floats and costumes on display. The

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Apprentice Boys of Derry have also been parade. The local No Surrender

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Arrant Club marched around the diamond before attending a religious

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service in the cathedral. In Newry the theme was seized and weld beats,

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with events taking place all week, and some of the world's most famous

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landmarks went green for Saint Patrick.

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It's been am extremely busy day of St Patrick's Day sport.

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St Patrick's Day, traditionally a big occasion for schools sport,

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and we'll round up all the action shortly.

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But we start with news of another great day for the Irish

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at Cheltenham, and another hat-trick of wins for

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the Ruby Walsh/Willie Mullins jockey-trainer combination.

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Walsh romped home on Black Hercules in the first race of the day,

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the novices chase, becoming the first post-war jockey to win 50

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And then he had a beautifully controlled ride here

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in the Ryanair Chase on Vautour, another Mullins mount.

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He would go on to repeat his feat of Tuesday, completing another

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hat-trick of wins, with a first place on Limini with his last ride

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of an impressive day's work at the festival.

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There was no fairy tale ending at Croke Park today for Cushendall

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in the All-Ireland club hurling final.

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The Ruairi Ogs from Antrim were beaten by 11 points

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by Na Piarseee of Limerick, after the worst possible start.

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They conceded a goal after just 30 seconds of the match and went

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on to fall further behind in the first half,

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But the men from the Glens did restore some pride in the second

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half despite the heartbreak of defeat in the showpiece final.

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Rugby, and captain Rory Best has been deemed fit to lead Ireland

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in their final RBS Six Nations game against Scotland on Saturday.

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There's one change to the side that beat Italy.

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Munster flanker Tommy O'Donnell comes in for Josh Van Der Flier.

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The team want to end a disappointing championship on a positive note.

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We never felt like we were drowning but we were struggling to stay on

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the surface and now that we have our head above the surface, we want to

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try to capitalise on that and produce something that we finish off

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this weekend to give us a positive outcome on the table and also a

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positive that formed to look ahead to.

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Some our possible future Ireland rugby stars were on show today

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in Belfast in the final of the Schools Cup.

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And there was a dramatic finish to the game.

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Royal Belfast Academical Institution, leading 6-3

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and besieged by Campbell College for most of the second half,

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broke away with this interception try by centre James Hume in the last

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few seconds of the match at the Kingspan Stadium.

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It clinched a 13-3 victory and meant RBAI retained the trophy.

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Fair play to Campbell, that was an unbelievable force, they put us

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under pressure, we felt them coming but our boys defended strong, my

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heart goes out to the Campbell lads, I know how much that would have

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meant to them but we back our day. I knew we would have to work harder

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but that would be no problem for us. In schools football, De La Salle won

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the Belfast Senior Cup played They beat St Malachy's 3-1

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in the final. Midfielder Donal Rocks scored

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the first goal of the game and then this effort from

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Nathan Fox made it 3-0. That meant the trophy returned

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to the West Belfast school Armagh was the venue for the final

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of Gaelic football's MacRory Cup, A four-goal blitz in the first 18

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minutes helped the Derry school to a comfortable victory over

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St Paul's Bessbrook. Shane McGuigan fired

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in the opening two goals. Francis Kearney and Paddy Quigg

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netted two more in quick succession to give St Pat's what proved to be

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an unassailable half-time lead. And they sealed an easy 5-7 to 9

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points win for their third MacRory I experienced the whole journey and

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today I tried to absorb all the support, it is an unbeaten double

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experience. The last couple of games didn't start well, the final day is

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the biggest date to pull off so a good start for us.

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And in the last of the schoolboy finals, Banbridge Academy beat

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The match had finished 1-1 after extra-time and

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Banbridge goalkeeper Luke Roleston was the hero,

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making two saves in the shoot out, before the clinching stroke

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The Belfast Giants had a big win last night at the SSC arena. They

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beat Cardiff 5-2 in the Elite League. They cannot win the title

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but the result put a dent in the world's side's hoax. They next day

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the Flyers in back-to-back games on Friday and Saturday.

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Rory McIlroy is just starting out at the Arnold Palmer Invitational

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He is two over par after five holes. Graeme McDowell has finished his

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round four shots of the early lead, so a busy day of sport continues.

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Let's get the weather now. No complaints. A cracker day and we are

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starting off with a picture of slow march because it was reportedly the

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first place same Patrick lived in Ireland and it has been a beautiful

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same Patrick stay. Temperatures have not been high today, but the sun is

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getting strong and we will go from one contrast to another as tonight

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will get cold with clear skies and temperatures will fall below

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freezing, so pockets of frost and fog by the end of the night, -24

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minus three degrees in parts of Fermanagh and Tyrone, so if it is

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back to work or school, a frosty start, maybe some fog but the sun is

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up earlier this morning at 6:30am and maybe the fog will hang around

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for longer and temperatures will start to pick up in the early part

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of the morning. We expect decent sunshine to come again, maybe some

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low cloud, mist and greyness, not as sunny as today with the best

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sunshine in the South West. The onshore breeze may bring some

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clothes to the east coast and later that may sink act against but

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temperatures hitting up to 11 degrees. The cloud will hang around

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tomorrow night, it will not be as cold and it will be cloudy this

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weekend but looking dry into the early part of next week. The sun

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makes all the different so it will feel cool in the breeze, on Saturday

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most of the cloud in the north and possibly the East Coast with the

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best chance of Sunday Frakes across eastern counties. -- sunny breaks.

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Then on Sunday we should see temperatures getting into double

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figures, so more dry weather to come and more sunshine, especially

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tomorrow. Our late summary is at 10:30pm.You

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