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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
Tonight's top stories: It's smiles all round the table | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
as ministers meet for the first day of the new Executive at Stormont. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
But at Westminster, Strangford MP Jim Shannon is told to pay back | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
A lone protestor at an Easter Rising event in Dublin gets a shock | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
when he's tackled by the Canadian ambassador to Ireland. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
As the countdown continues to the Euros, we hear from both | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
I'm on board HMS Caroline, Al Fat's latest visitor attraction. Find out | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
what impact it may have on our tourism figures. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
As the countdown continues to the Euros, we hear from both Michael and | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Martin O'Neill. And it'll eventually warm up | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
over the next few days, The new Northern Ireland Executive | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
has agreed a draft framework The 12 new ministers met | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
for the first time today. Afterwards, the First Minister | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
Arlene Foster said the framework represented a new way | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
of doing politics here. Here's our political | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
correspondent, Enda McClafferty. Today was all about the future | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
at Stormont as the new Executive And no, this not how the new team | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
of ministers arrived. Their less impressive fleet | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
was lined up outside They all pulled up with their | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
drivers just before 11am. The last one through the door | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
was the new Justice Inside the new ministerial team | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
posed for the cameras around the Executive table, | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
while some of them joked about what football teams | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
they all supported. Then the door was closed | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
and they got down to business. There was only one | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
item on the agenda - the programme for government, | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
and within 20 minutes they had signed off on a draft framework | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
and the meeting was over. We are looking forward to engaging | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
with wider society as to how we engage in that programme | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
for government and looking at targets and actions, | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
so it is a new start and we are looking forward to it | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
and we hope it is a time for more thoughtful politics | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
in Northern Ireland and look forward to the engagement | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
about to take place. But the engagement so far | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
about the framework document has been far from positive, | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
with some of the other parties at Stormont claiming it | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
lacks detail and targets, comparing it to motherhood | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
and apple pie. We are putting out a draft | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
framework for government. Those people who describe that | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
as apple pie ignore the purpose of what we are trying to do, | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
even though they signed up to it in November last year | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
and the purpose of what we are trying to do is evolve that | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
programme for government Tomorrow, the public will get | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
a chance to pass their verdict on the new programme for government | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
draft framework when it's published. The document runs to over 100 pages | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
and it will be out for public consultation | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
for the next few months. After that, the programme will be | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
finalised and a budget agreed. And all that is to happen before | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
the end of the year. And later in the programme we'll be | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
looking at some of the issues facing our new Health and Education | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
Ministers. The Strangford MP Jim Shannon | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
has been ordered to pay the parliamentary authorities back | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
nearly ?14,000 after they found some of his staff's mileage claims broke | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
the House of Commons rules. An investigation found that | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Mr Shannon's staff mileage claims were 37 times greater than those | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
of the average MP. However, it concluded that there | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
was no dishonesty involved. Our political editor | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
Mark Devenport joins us now -- from Newtownards, and Mark, the | :04:02. | :04:16. | |
comparison between his claims and MPs is staggering. That's right, 37 | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
times greater than that of the average MP. Jim Shannon's staff | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
racked up more than 121,000 miles in the financial year to 2015. He is | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
one of 650 MPs but in terms of vintage winces staff manage, his | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
claims counted for more than a quarter of all claims for the House | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
of Commons. He didn't get accused of dishonesty although he broke the | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
rules. What happened is that there was no dishonesty, investigators | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
found all the claims were genuine but he was claiming for things that | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
were beyond the bounds of normal Westminster business, for instance | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
his staff delivering fruit from a local feedback to integer once, | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
commander ball but not something you can claim for, I'm going to meetings | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
beyond the boundaries -- from food banks to constituents. An | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
investigator said he found it to be a hive of industry bordering on | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
manic, telephones ringing and people coming at such great rates it remind | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
the town of a hospital more than an office. What has Mr Shannon had to | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
say? He hasn't been available for interview but in a statement he said | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
he was glad no dishonesty had been found and that his integrity has | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
been upheld. He says he will be back the ?14,000 in full and take on | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
board recommendations from the parliamentary standards authority | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
for reorganising his business. One local figure was quoted as saying he | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
still doesn't realise he is no longer a local councillor and he | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
just needs to let go. There have been dramatic scenes at a | :06:15. | :06:15. | |
1916 commemoration event in Dublin. A protestor tried to disrupt | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
an event to remember British soldiers killed | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
in the Easter Rising, but was tackled by the Canadian | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
ambassador to Ireland. Nearly two years ago, | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
before he became ambassador, Kevin Vickers helped end a gun | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
attack on the Canadian parliament. Our Dublin correspondent | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Shane Harrison joins us now. The Canadian ambassador to Ireland, | :06:32. | :06:46. | |
Kevin Vickers, was at a state, narration for British soldiers who | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
lost their lives in the 1916 rebellion. The event was attended by | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
Irish government figures, the British ambassador and by Mike | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Nesbitt and Danny Kinahan. A protester claiming to be from the | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
Republican welfare Association interrupted it to say it was a | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
disgrace to honour soldiers who put down the rebellion, and he shouted | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
support from what he called the Craigavon two. The Canadian | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
ambassador, a former Mountie, tackled the man and led him away | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
until he was arrested by detectives who reboot him from the scene. The | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
Canadian ambassador is a former Sergeant at arms at Parliament | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Buildings in Ottawa and was in charge of security when and Islamist | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
gunman attacked the buildings and murdered a soldier. He and another | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
officer then engaged in need gun battle in which the Islamist were | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
shot dead. The sergeant at arms was widely regarded in Canada as a hero | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
and part of his reward was a posting to Ireland as ambassador to the land | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
of his forefathers. Still to come before 7pm: With just | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
over two weeks to go to Euros, Michael O'Neill talks of his hopes | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
for Northern Ireland success. A cross-party group of MLAs has | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
warned that leaving the EU Sinn Fein, the SDLP, | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
Ulster unionists, Alliance and the Green Party all spoke | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
at the launch of the local campaign Here's our Economics | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
and Business Editor, John Campbell. The Stronger in Europe campaign has | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
set up shop in central Belfast. Appropriately, it's right next door | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
to a deli which extols The campaign is selling | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
a similar message. It says the economic case for | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
remaining in the EU is overwhelming. And it accuses the Leave | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
campaign of playing roulette Every fact and every figure given to | :08:51. | :09:04. | |
you by the Leave campaign has been proven by reality checks to be | :09:05. | :09:05. | |
wrong. But the opinion polls suggest that | :09:06. | :09:06. | |
while a big majority of nationalists are in favour of remaining, most | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
unionists would prefer to leave. So are the Ulster Unionists out | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
of touch on this issue? I don't think we are. A poll today | :09:15. | :09:24. | |
showed that that mood is changing and I think people are listening to | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
the arguments coming across from the media and great Britain and the | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
threat to the economy is starting to focus people's minds. | :09:35. | :09:35. | |
The SDLP has been the most pro-European | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
Its leader warned that leaving could lead to a hardening of the border. | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
I grew up about a mile from the border, I remember a physical border | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
and I think people remember it well. I'm about breaking down borders and | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
bringing people to gather, community can, businesses and families, we are | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
not about putting up more borders across this continent. | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
A report from a group of MPs today has also said that identity checks | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
at borders between the island of Ireland and Great Britain | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
could be beefed up if the UK does vote to leave. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
The local campaigns for relief and remain have both been fairly low-key | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
until now but with the Assembly elections out of the way, political | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
attention is turning to the referendum. Expect to debate to | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
become more intense over the next few weeks. | :10:32. | :10:32. | |
Back now to the new Executive at Stormont, and for the first time | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
since the Assembly was established, there's a DUP rather | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
Peter Weir will have to make big decisions over budgets, | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
transfer tests and whether to close some small schools. | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
Our education correspondent Robbie Meredith spent some time | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
with him in his first full day in the job. | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
The new man, back where it all began at Bangor Grammar School. | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Money is on his mind, but Peter Weir says he'll take time | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
In the immediate future and there is the issue about budget, especially | :11:00. | :11:11. | |
for schools and what we can do to help them. People are looking for | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
immediate aid banks but I want to be thoughtful and try to provide a big | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
way forward and people will judge me why my actions. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
The new minister likes academic selection, but isn't keen to bring | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
He says he wants to make the current transfer process better - | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
Even though the previous minister was anti-selection, selection has | :11:32. | :11:42. | |
remained and we have been able to work our way through that to gather | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
as a group of schools, but yes, I do think that there will be a little | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
more sympathy and possibly support. This is a big job. Peter Weir is | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
responsible for hundreds of thousands of pupils, tens of | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
thousands of teachers and thousands of schools, and diverse ones from | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
voluntary grammar like this too small Irish language primary | :12:09. | :12:09. | |
schools. Like Belfast's Scoil an Droichid, | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
which made a short but significant journey to the Skainos centre | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
in the heart of East Belfast today. There were maybe some concerns but | :12:15. | :12:29. | |
it was such a positive event them being here this morning was another | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
bridge in moving Ford. The 160-pupil school is set to get | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
a new building soon, and they'd like the new Education Minister | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
and his party leader to visit. I would say there is a learning | :12:37. | :12:46. | |
curve, if maybe the DUP are not as aware that it is a brand-new | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
experience for anyone. I would love to welcome Arlene Foster here to see | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
our children and families. It is such a fantastic welcome. | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
There was some good news about rising GCSE | :12:59. | :12:59. | |
Big tests for the new minister will come quickly. | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
On her first full day in the job, Health Minister Michelle O'Neill | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
told journalists that she is well up for the challenge, including | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
Our health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly has been | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
taking a look at the major issues in the minister's in-tray. | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
Ricky Watson has a serious heart condition. He's been waiting so long | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
to be seen, his hospital scans are out of date. It's been going on for | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
two years, it's put our lives on hold, it's been devastating for my | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
family. It's made my wife ill, she is on tablets, and it's had a bad | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
effect on me. He is not alone. Figures out today show there are | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
over 376,000 people on hospital lifts, while that is down from | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
400,000 in November it remains eight challenge for the new Health | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Minister, so what is the problem, lack of money or how it is managed? | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
The health budget seems huge, at ?5 billion per year, half the | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
Executive's total expenditure, but pray that don't and that means 13 | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
million pounds is needed each day to keep the health service running, but | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
that drip of spending does not help older story. To tackle hospital | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
within this, last November Simon Hamilton announced an additional ?40 | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
million. While every penny of that should have gone on tackling waiting | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
lists, according to sources in the health service, just over half of | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
that was actually spent on tackling operations. Due to bureaucracy and | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
lack of planning, the others ?17 million had to go back into the | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
system, and some of it cannot even be accounted for. Those working on | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
the front line hopes politicians will accept the recommendations in | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
the new health review due in June and expected to suggest major | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
reform. We have too many structures, too many interests in buildings, too | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
many people in silos protecting their fiefdoms when we should be | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
looking at a holistic approach. The new Health Minister says she is up | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
for the challenge. There has been a lot of good work done in the health | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
service trying to support things but for me there is a big job to do. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
There certainly is, including tackling the lack of GPs and | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
expanding mental health services. Perhaps the biggest headache will be | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
around abortion. The working group announced by the DUP in Fairbridge | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
to look at fatal fatal abnormality has never even met. The new Health | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
Minister's leadership skills are about to be put to the test. | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
And executive ministers with them in their programme for government plans | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
with official opposition parties on the view tonight. | :16:07. | :16:07. | |
At the age of 29 and after just two years as an MLA, | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
the new Justice Minister Claire Sugden is one of the lesser | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
Our North East reporter Sara Girvin went to Coleraine to find | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
Castlerock - the picturesque north coast town, and now home | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
And as Claire Sugden took up post at Stormont, | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
it was a case of business as usual at her constituency | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
She's been an independent unionist MLA for East Londonderry since 2014, | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
when she was co-opted following David McClarty's death. | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
Her appointment to Justice Minister at the age of just 29 | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
has surprised many, but not her old politics teacher. | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
He says Claire Sugden has the right qualities for the post. | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
It is her independent mindedness and the fact she has always | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
been true to herself, she also has a good sense of humour | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
It's important to remember where you're from and she has done that. | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
Back in Castlerock, at a meeting of the local community association, | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
She is a very mature person and I had dealings with her | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
and personally I am getting on a bit but I welcome the fact | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
that the average age now of ministers has | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
come down considerably, and it's to be welcomed. | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
She is very much, no matter who you are or what your religion | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
is, if you have a problem she deals with it. | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Much has been made of Claire Sugden's age and relative | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
inexperience an an MLA but in her first statement | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
as Justice Minister, she said she did not underestimate | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
the challenges ahead but added that she was ready for them. | :17:46. | :17:54. | |
New tourism figures suggest Northern Ireland had its highest | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
ever number of outside visitors in 2015 - with the Giant's Causeway | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Growth was largely down to visitors from Britain. | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
But the Republic of Ireland market continues to struggle. | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
For more on that, Donna visited our latest maritime | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
attraction, HMS Caroline, in Belfast docks this afternoon. | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
The last time I was on HMS Caroline in January, it was a rusty warship, | :18:20. | :18:31. | |
102 years of history had taken its toll, but after ?11.5 million | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
refurbishment, it is fast's latest museum. First, the tourism figures, | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
good and bad. The good side is that in terms of external visitor numbers | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
here, 2015 was a record year. We're talking about the external market, | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
outside the nesters coming here, 2.3 million overnight, a 5% increase on | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
2014. The downside is the domestic market, people who take breaks | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
within Northern Ireland, that market did not grow and there was a further | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
decline in people from the Republic of Ireland visiting Northern | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
Ireland. That has been stagnating for years and tourism Northern | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Ireland have set up a tourism recovery task force to address the | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
problems in that market. HMS Caroline is beautifully transformed. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
How did it fit into our tourism showcase? What we also got today | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
with the top ten visitor attractions. It HMS Caroline wants | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
to break in, it will have to do something like 200,000 visitors a | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
year, roughly on a par with Stuart. Number one is the Giant's Causeway, | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
just up the road Titanic Belfast at number two does about 600,000 | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
visitors a year, and given the proximity of HMS Caroline, they will | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
hope they get an overspill and that will jet off to a flying start. This | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
ship has been transformed from a relic of the world wars. The project | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
manager told me about what is on offer for visitors. This will be a | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
world-class visitor attraction with interact games, they can see how the | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
crew would have lived in caverns, experience life on board, we have an | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
interactive suite at the front of the ship for you can explore the | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
areas and facts about their lives, so it is something incredible. | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
People will be amazed at the transformation of the vessel with | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
the guns being installed on the outside, it's been Philippe painted, | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
the interactive stuff on the inside and you don't realise how big it is | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
when you get on board and the size and scale of the ship, so I think it | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
will be very popular. Finishing touches are being put to the warship | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
here. It's due to open to the public on June one, next Wednesday, and the | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
day before that there is a commemoration event remembering the | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
iris sailors who died in World War I. We will have filled coverage on | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
BBC Newsline. Now sport, and the countdown | :21:23. | :21:23. | |
to the Euros continues. Northern Ireland lay their last home | :21:24. | :21:35. | |
game tomorrow before the Euro Championships with Belarus providing | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
the opposition. Mark Sidebottom reports from Windsor Park. It is an | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
indication of how much Euro fever has gripped that this match has sold | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
out for tomorrow night. Any late Nichols? No niggles, everyone has | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
trained great, we're blessed by good fortune everyone has come through | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
unscathed. Is there still time tomorrow for somebody to put a hand | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
up and get into that 23 man squad? Of course there is, I have to | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
finalise the squad in terms of announcing it on Saturday, one or | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
two boys have trained consistently so we give them a little time away, | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
but tomorrow night there are one were two things, a chance for | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
someone I am fairly fixed in my mind what I will bring to France but we | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
have to prepare for every eventuality, there was always the | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
risk of an injury and Shane Ferguson is still with his club and won a | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
final at the weekend. It'll be quite an occasion for fans to give that | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
sendoff. How much are you looking forward to it? We have seen with the | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
players how they train and it's nice for us to come here and play and to | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
recognise the support we have had. We know we will have fantastic | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
support when we go to France with the objective is to put on a show. | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
We wish you well in France and it will all be live on BBC Two. | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
Martin O'Neill's Republic of Ireland face the Netherlands | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
tomorrow night in Dublin in a friendly international. | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
The squad for the Euros will be finalised in five days' time. | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
So the game is a late chance for players to stake | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
The mood in camp outside Dublin has been relaxed, | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
but the players are well aware that the rush is on to | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
The two games, there will be a mixture of players that I've think | :23:37. | :23:46. | |
we might need the first game, but we will play at IE, we have the two | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
games and I think it will be a combination of things that will | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
start the game, hoping other people get involved. | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
One of those fringe players | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
is Blackburn Rovers defender Shane Duffy. | :24:05. | :24:05. | |
The 24-year-old from Derry suffered a lacerated liver | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
Now fit again, he's hoping to grasp his opportunity to be | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
Been six years since it happened and to be back in the fold is a proud | :24:12. | :24:24. | |
thing for me and my family, didn't have much football under my belt | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
before the last two seasons and needed it the way I play, learn from | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
a feud mistakes and I have learned from playing a lot of that ball and | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
I'm just trying to improve every day and everyone still trying to impress | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
the manager, so still going to give it everything. | :24:44. | :24:44. | |
Martin O'Neill will reduce his squad on Saturday before naming his final | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
23 after Tuesday's friendly in Cork against Belarus. | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
Katie Taylor has lost her semifinal at the Women's World | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
She was defeated by Estelle Mosely of France on a controversial | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
Two of the three judges scored the fight as a tie, | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
but, on countback, gave it to the Frenchwoman. | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
Taylor had held the World Title for a decade. | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
It was her first defeat at a World Championships in 11 years | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
Finally, Graeme McDowell shot a 3-under-par 69 on the first day | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
of the PGA Championship at Wentworth in Surrey. | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
Let's get the weather now, and what's in store for the bank holiday | :25:23. | :25:37. | |
weekend? It will be a bit brighter so we should get more photos like | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
this but this evening it is still cloudy and there is further damp | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
weather overnight, some low cloud and mist tomorrow morning but it | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
will not be too chilly, temperatures for most of us around nine or 10 | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
degrees so tomorrow will have a mild start at will be low cloud to watch | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
out for. Otherwise may need dry and eventually it will improve with | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
sunshine later in the day, the two begin with will be a lot of cloud, | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
the odd spot of drizzle but by lunchtime sunshine will come in off | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
the east coast. With an easterly breeze it will feel cool along the | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
coast, inland temperatures could reach 18 or 19, so not bad if you | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
are out doors. If you are travelling there will be a few scattered | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
showers for the Irish Midlands, down to the south-east, for Wales and the | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
West Midlands some showers could be done very, east and north of that a | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
drier picture and temperatures will be normal or above average. Tomorrow | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
evening plenty of dry weather so we shouldn't need the umbrellas and if | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
you are heading to Dublin for Bruce Springsteen it should be dry, a | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
small risk of showers, clear skies mean it should be a cooler night, | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
most of us around six or seven, maybe cooler in the countryside. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
There will be some scattered showers, especially in western | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
counties, some of those could be heavy with under and lightning, | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
drier towards the east. Inland temperatures will climb up to the | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
high teens. Over the weekend if you have any outdoor activities, prepare | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
for scattered showers but also sunshine. Bank Holiday Monday look | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
set to be dry with good amounts of sunshine. | :27:34. | :27:34. | |
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