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The headlines this Thursday evening: workers for | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
The Irish President pulls out of a Belfast civic dinner to mark | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
There are calls for an inquiry into why this doctor continued | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
working in Belfast in the 1970s, after a conviction for child abuse. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
Fans of the pop band Little Mix are left heartbroken. | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
It cancels two Belfast shows at the last minute. | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
I'm a huge fan and I'm just devastated. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
All five of our health trusts here have failed to meet target | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
times for suspected cancer referrals. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
It might be the school holidays, but some pupils have been hitting | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Rory returns for Ulster rugby, to try and save their season. | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
If sunshine and showers have been the story of the week so far, | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Wet and windy for the next couple of days. | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
The Irish President Michael D Higgins has pulled out of attending | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
a dinner at Belfast City Hall to mark the centenary of | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
He said he did not want to become "embroiled | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
This is a copy of the invitation that's been sent out for the event. | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
It from the Lord Mayor and City Council, with the president of | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Ireland as the guest of honour. The DUP has been accused | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
of scuppering the event by refusing to attend, but the party say | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
they have no objection to the event going ahead, they simply | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
will not be there. Michael D Higgins was at the centre | :01:52. | :02:07. | |
of Easter Rising commemorations in Dublin at the weekend. Next week, | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
the Irish president was due to come to Belfast as guest of honour at a | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
City Hall dinner to mark the Rising. Unionists didn't oppose the idea of | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
the dinner, it was included in a cross-party agreement which allowed | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
events like the Ulster covenant and battle of the Somme centenary is to | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
go ahead also. But the DUP recently announced they would not be | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
attending next week's Easter Rising dinner and today Michael D Higgins | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
pulled out. The SDLP and the Alliance party accused the DUP of | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
breaking the agreement. Support meant that people would attend, for | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
none of them to is disrespectful to a significant proportion of the | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
population of Belfast. So this is a breach of the deal? The spirit of | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
the deal, if not the technicality. Think it's very dispiriting and I | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
think politics in the upcoming election is playing a part. In a | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
statement this afternoon, a spokesperson for Michael D Higgins | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
said that the president accepted the invitation on the bases there was | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
cross-party support for the invitation. This no longer the case. | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
The president has no option other than to withdraw. He doesn't want to | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
become embroiled in matters of political controversy. So what do | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
the DUPs say? The accusation is that you have gone back on a cross-party | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
deal. Did you? No, we did not. There was an absolutely no obligation for | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
people to go to an event. You can't force people to go to an event they | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
don't want to. Do you blame the DUP for the Irish president Michael D | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
Higgins pulling out? No, I think he has to make his own decision but I | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
think it's disappointing. This is the room where next week's dinner is | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
supposed to take place, and inside of the controversy over who is going | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
and who is not going, organisers it will still go ahead. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Our Dublin correspondent, Shane Harrison, joins me. | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
What's been in action in Dublin to all of this? This isn't as big a | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
story south of the border as it is in Northern Ireland and that may be | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
because the president, like the Queen, is known to be above daily | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
politics. Mark Higgins office has given the statement that it was not | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
the basis of cross-party obligations. He had no other option | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
other than to withdraw. I understand from other sources that the | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
president Road to the Lord Mayor of Belfast earlier this week expressing | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
his disappointment as it had been his intention to give a talk | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
speaking about the Easter Rising and is wider significance, which | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
presumably would have included the Ulster volunteer Force is landing of | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
guns in opposition to Irish home rule, the mutiny by British officers | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
in support of the Ulster Unionist Party and of course the First World | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
War, in which tens of thousands of Irish men from north and south died | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
fighting. And of course we have these scenery of the Somme in July | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
of this year. Many people at presidential level will be involved | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
in others ceremonies, how do you think what has happened here in | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
Belfast city has affected those? The centenary of the Somme and World War | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
I offence will go ahead. It had been the case in the past that those | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Irishmen who had died fighting for the Crown were largely written out | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
of history, but that hasn't been the case for several decades and I | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
wouldn't expect there to be any change to the programme because of | :05:58. | :05:58. | |
what has happened in Belfast. There are calls for a national | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
inquiry into child sexual abuse to consider the case of a Belfast | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
doctor who continued to practise, despite convictions | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
for abusing children. Dr Morris Fraser was the senior | :06:09. | :06:09. | |
psychiatric registrar at the Royal Victoria | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
Hospital in the 1970s. He continued to practice despite | :06:13. | :06:25. | |
convictions for abusing children. A new study said that failures by the | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
authority should be investigated by the Gothard inquiry, which is | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
looking at sex abuse cases in England and Wales. This report by | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
David Maxwell begins by a recording of the Doctor in 1973. | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
I think one must look at the way these children have fallen to grown | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
up, been socialised into different ideologies. | :06:54. | :07:05. | |
Doctor Morris Fraser was an expert in his field, | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
a senior psychiatrist at the Royal Victoria Hospital. | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
He published works on the impact of the | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
One of his victims now lives in Texas. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Doctor Morris Fraser was an expert in his field, | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
a senior psychiatrist at the Royal Victoria Hospital. | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
of abusing a 13-year-old boy from Belfast and London. | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
He was barred from working with children but his | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
conviction was not reported to his employees in Belfast. | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
In 1973, he was arrested in New York and later | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
pleaded guilty to sexually abusing several children in the US. | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
Case made headlines this time and he was suspended from his Belfast post. | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
The new study, published today, calls into question why it took so | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
long for the authorities to act. Doctor Morris Fraser was left in his | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
post for a whole year after he was convicted of child abuse. They did | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
not inform the hospital he worked out that he was a child abuser. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Reality did children to a number of different institutions. This man was | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
a serial paedophile and this was well known to the authorities. | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
Fraser was also involved in sending boys to a home where abuse took | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
place. Today, a law firm says they plan to use the information in a | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
study into the notorious East Belfast institution. The General | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
medical Council investigated Fraser between 1973 and 1975. Despite the | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
publicity around his conviction, had allowed him to continue practising | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
with no stated restrictions. Today they said 40 years ago at the GMC | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
was a very different organisation. It is inconceivable that today we | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
would conclude such a case with no action. The key question in all of | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
this is why was he allowed to continue practising, even though he | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
had been convicted of child abuse. Was he being protected by the | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
authorities there some reason. This new study suggest that the case | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
requires further examination. If they call backed by others. Even at | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
this stage, we would appeal for victims of sexual abuse to come | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
forward. They will have suffered for many years in silence but we would | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
urge them to come forward. Fraser continued to practice medicine for | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
several decades. In 1994, he featured in a BBC documentary about | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
abuse. I am saying absolutely nothing more with the past behind | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
me. In 1982, she was convicted of having child pornography. He was | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
last believed to be living in Europe. The BBC hasn't been able to | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
contact him today. Still to come on the | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
programme before 7:00... We visit the school where some of | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
the pupils are still studying harder during the Easter holidays. | :10:11. | :10:21. | |
Thousands of fans of Little Mix were left disappointed today when there | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
are concerts in Belfast were cancelled today. Organisers say that | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
one of the band were to unwell to perform. | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
The girl band were due to play a matinee and evening show | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
The cancellation was announced just minutes after the doors opened | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
When news broke, it spread quickly. Some had travelled quite a distance | :10:40. | :10:52. | |
to see the girl band. The children are all devastated. We paid by the | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
bus and hotel and tickets so... How much are you out of pocket? Probably | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
a couple of hundred pounds. They were crying all day. What has | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
management said to you about this? We got a text ad to 15 PM to say it | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
was cancelled. It was too late to cancel their hotel. And what was | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
there a reason to cancel? Jesse was sick and they had to cancel and we | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
all had to go home. Were you angry? Yes, I was upset because it was my | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
first concert. This is what they are missing and here is Jesse. | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
I couldn't stop crying earlier on, I was devastated. It's your 16th | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
birthday. What are you planning on doing this evening? Our plan was to | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
come and see Little Mix and then stay in a hotel and that was meant | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
to be for my birthday, so basically it's not going to happen. Because | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Jessie is sick. I think they could have announced earlier then 1:20pm | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
at the concert was going to go ahead. There are thousands of other | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
fans standing outside that Odyssey today and every single one were | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
devastated and they were very angry parents. They must be something in | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
the water. It's not the first time a band has cancelled at the last | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
minute. Who could forget the scenes when one direction pulled the plug | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
when the try one of them are fooled Dee pulled -- fell ill. | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
The First Minister Arlene Foster says it is right that politicians | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
ask questions about policing, but that there is no two-tier | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
The DUP leader's comments follow criticism by the Police Federation | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
of some politicians for what it called "inflammatory remarks" | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
around a CS spray incident at a Junior Orange parade on Monday. | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
The First Minister was in touch with the Chief Constable at a Tuesday | :12:50. | :13:03. | |
evening's CS spray incident. Since then, other Unionist politicians | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
have question and criticise the police actions during the junior | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
Orange parade. I think the boys have a very difficult job to do, but I do | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
think it is right that as politicians and is we ask questions. | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
If we weren't able to ask questions, they answer those questions in | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
return and they are monitored. I don't think there was a two tier | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
policing system but I think there are concerns out there. Therefore, | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
for the police and myself we need to get the bottom of those issues. | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
Meanwhile, the Police Federation have condemned those who posted | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
photographs and personal details of one of the policemen on the parade | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
on a loyalist social media site. They also voiced concern about some | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
of the political reaction to the incident. It has been blown | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
completely out of proportion. I'm not demeaning barriers people | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
affected by the CS spray. A lot of opinion needs to be put out there | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
and politicians need to combat these issues, but I think they need to be | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
very careful with their tone. The police are also compiling reports | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
about suspected breach of parade, the Deputy First Minister says that | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
these types of commemorative displays should be confined to the | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
pasta. I think these circumstances where people are coming onto the | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
streets with full uniform and masks, that's obviously an attempt to send | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
a statement, alongside the threatening statements that some of | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
them did make during the course of the contributions that their | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
spokespeople made out of those parades. Remy, that is unacceptable. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Meanwhile, the lease investigation into what happened at the junior | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
Orange parade is continuing. 40 people are set to lose their jobs | :14:53. | :15:09. | |
in Antrim. The company Fujitsu are closing their doors. They employ 800 | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
people in Northern Ireland and they say their work in Antrim will be | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
transferred to Belfast. They will offer reader pointed opportunities | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
to the workers. -- redeployment opportunities. | :15:29. | :15:29. | |
Northern Ireland has failed to meet its target times | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
for treating patients urgently referred for suspected cancer. | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
The target is for 95% of patients to be seen within 62 days. | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
But Department of Health figures for the final quarter of last year | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
show just over 70% of patients started treatment | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
No-one from the Department or the Health and Social Care Board | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
was available for interview on BBC Newsline. | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
Joining me is Margaret Carr from the charity Cancer Research UK. | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
What is your reaction to these figures? | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
Well, there very disappointing. All of the target times were missed. | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
There were three and all three were missed in the report today. Very | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
unfortunate, because it means that the people that have already | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
received the diagnosis of cancer, which is devastating at any time, it | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
means that they didn't start their treatment quickly enough and that | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
can only make their disappointment and their nervousness worse over | :16:26. | :16:26. | |
that period of time. You speak to patients | :16:27. | :16:27. | |
and their families as they go In general, Northern Ireland's | :16:28. | :16:39. | |
cancer system is actually pretty good, but there are glitches in the | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
system and the waiting times have been really not meeting target for | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
some time. The specific target that you would virtue, the 62 day target, | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
has not been met since March 2009, which means that people who receive | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
a diagnosis or receive an urgent referral from their GP, its 62 days | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
or more than two months, before they begin their treatment. You can well | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
imagine how difficult that is for people. They all say that they just | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
want to get on with it when they had a diagnosis. | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
The board sent us a statement on breast cancer stats only. | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
The increase in waiting times can be linked to an increase in referrals | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
with more awareness and has put in measures to reduce the wait. | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
What needs to be done to address these waiting times? | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
We believe the Cancer Research UK, believes that Northern Ireland | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
requires a composite Cancer plan. We are the only part of the United | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
Kingdom that doesn't have one or isn't planning to release one in the | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
next 60 days. Our last one was from 2008, so it's quite outdated. We | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
believe that a comprehensive Cancer plan would allow the Department and | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
the board etc to define the specifics that they want to tackle, | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
identify how to go about doing that, but money against that and have all | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
of that laid out clearly over a five-year period, rather than just | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
reacting to things when there is a problem. Thank you for your time. | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Many school pupils and teachers are enjoying two weeks off | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
Our Education Correspondent Robbie Meredith has been finding out why | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
250 young people in Belfast, and some of their teachers, | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
are spending their Easter break in the classroom. | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
In school during the holidays with the sun shining outside. But this | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
could be make or break for these pupils with their GCSEs looming. | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
They are getting extra help with English and maths. Education is | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
important and I want to pass and I want to get a good job when I'm | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
older. In maths I was doing trigonometry and Pythagoras. I | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
didn't understand before but now I do. The Easter school is held and | :19:01. | :19:11. | |
local schools stand pupils at risk of Beale in believing that they can | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
make a real difference. Ultimately, the purpose of the Easter school is | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
that the people who attend achieve at least a grade C in maths and | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
English. This year we have 250 pupils coming from the local schools | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
from the west of the city. We also have pupils from Shankill Road and | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
Donegal Road, also newcomers to Belfast. Last year, 86% of pupils | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
who attended got grades from a star to see in maths and 70% in English. | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
That is above the average in Northern Ireland. A lot of teachers | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
also work for the week. While the focus is mainly on those important | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
GCSE English and maths exams coming in a few weeks, but many of the 250 | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
young people here, it'll be the first time they have set that inside | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
a university building. The school aims to ensure it won't be the last. | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
It aims to raise the aspirations of young people, in terms of furthering | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
their education and looking towards a good job in the future. It also | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
helps the students to attain the qualifications that they need to | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
realise those ambitions. And it seems to be rubbing off. I'm hoping | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
to become a music teacher and come back to Saint Mary 's and I need at | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
least a grade C in English and maths to come back. So ambitions are | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
rising in West Belfast this Easter. Stephen Watson has | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
the sport this evening. Today, the chairman and vice | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
chairman of Sport NI stood down Chairman Brian Henning resigned | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
after just over three The Sports Minister Caral Ni Chuilin | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
today appointed their interim replacements, Brian Delaney | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
and Dr Catherine O'Mullan. The move comes after an internal | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
investigation of Sport NI after concerns were | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
raised by its employees. A third of staff said they had | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
to been subjected to bullying, Last year, nine members of the board | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
resigned, and the Chief Executive Antoinette McKeown remains | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
suspended. Ulster Rugby have named their three | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
returning Irish Internationals in the starting line-up | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
for tomorrow's crucial Pro12 Captain Rory Best, Jared Payne | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
and Andrew Trimble are named If Ulster are to qualify | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
for the play off's, they must beat this season's surprise | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
league leaders. It was once a time in the topside of | :21:43. | :22:00. | |
Irish rugby came from three teams. Connacht were very much the poorer | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
relation, not any more though. At the weekend they defeated Leicester. | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Not only are they the best team in Ireland, but best in Wales and | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
Scotland and England. They are confident of a win tomorrow night. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
They haven't won a match in Belfast since November 19 16. We've got | :22:22. | :22:30. | |
Connacht on Friday who are off the back of a really good win against | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Leinster. We are after a really tough loss against Glasgow. We have | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
a bit of a point to prove after the weekend and we need to look forward | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
to the challenge of Connacht. They have had a fantastic season and they | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
are the top of the league for a reason. It'll be a huge match. It | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
would be really positive to get a good outcome towards the end of the | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
season. A lot of the top teams need to play each other, so I don't think | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
it's all doom and gloom. It be tough weekend against Connacht and they | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
are full of confidence at the minute but we always enjoy playing against | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
a home crowd and hopefully we will have a good performance. A good | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
performance and a good result, Ulster's season simply depends on | :23:18. | :23:18. | |
it. The first Major of the year | :23:19. | :23:19. | |
in women's golf started this Leona Maguire tees off just before | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
nine o'clock tonight, but Stephanie Meadow | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
started her round just before five She now lives in the United States | :23:29. | :23:41. | |
and hopes to take part in real big games later this summer. She is now | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
level par, seven shots off the lead. Derry City travel to Dundalk to take | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
on the champions tomorrow night Kenny Shiels is up against a former | :23:49. | :24:06. | |
brandy well. The club's top scorer with four and | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
five games says they are ready to face the champions. Is the biggest | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
match of the week, a fantastic squad, most of the best players in | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
the country and the team. They have a good manager there as well and are | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
busy that's where you wanted to be out. Former Derry City boss has | :24:27. | :24:37. | |
certainly not the good times back to Dundalk. He has brought back in the | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
best, including Patrick Mickel Lenny. He has done a marvellous job, | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
earned the right to have a big budget and he deserves credit for | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
that. It's a pity he wasn't just at the start of that and was building | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
towards that big budget, but he has done remarkably to get into that | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
position and he deserves nothing but credit. They travel to Dundalk for a | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
fascinating tussle. Conor McGregor will | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
headline UFC 200 in July. The Dublin fighter is the current | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
bantamweight champion, but lost to Nate Diaz at a higher | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
weight earlier this year. McGregor will fight the American | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
in a rematch in Las Vegas on July It was a really chilly night last | :25:22. | :25:53. | |
night and this viewer was out early capturing the sunshine, with the | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
mist on the lake and a little bit of sunshine on the grass also. Tomorrow | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
will not be like that at all because we have a little change happening | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
overnight tonight. A weather front will move in, all been driven by | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
this area of low pressure are spreading some rain into Ireland for | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
the day, much of Friday and into Saturday also. Let's put a little | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
bit of detail into that forecast. Overnight tonight we will see the | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
sky is clouding over, the winds will pick up and gradually the rain will | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
move in from the west overnight tonight. The last few days have been | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
pretty perfect for a spot in rainbows. I think tomorrow will be | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
altogether duller affair. That band of rain is really going to sit over | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
us through much of the daylight hours. It's going to be wet, windy. | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
Top temperatures as we go through the day, maybe 9 degrees or so, so | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
feeling very different to the rather lovely weather we have enjoyed from | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
much of the Easter week. That rain is eventually going to clear out of | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
the way, but it is not at the overnight period that the skies will | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
begin to clear. The respite bill is only going to be temporary because | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
while we start Saturday on a dry note, it won't take long to that | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
rain to return, because that front is good to push north. It's going to | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
gradually advance as we go through the day, moving first into County | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
Down and then Antrim. I think the west is going to stay dry is the | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
longest as we go through the day and much of the day will stay dry to the | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
north and the west. I'm afraid that the first half of the weekend at | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
least is looking pretty soggy. It does improve by the time again to | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
Sunday and the start of next week will be drier and just a little bit | :27:38. | :27:39. | |
warmer. Something to look forward to. | :27:40. | :27:43. |