31/07/2016 BBC Newsline

That is it from us. There is more throughout the evening on the BBC

News The first and deputy

first ministers have congratulated Carl Frampton

after the Belfast boxer won his WBA featherweight title

against the Mexican Leo Santa Cruz in New York

in the early hours of this morning. Having stepped up from

Super Bantam-weight the victory means he's become the first boxer

from Northern Ireland to win Carl Frampton made history here in

Brooklyn, becoming the first ever Northern Ireland boxer to become a

two weight world champion Carl, how is that feel? Feels good, I don't

really know what to say that it feels good, you sunk in yet. It's an

great feeling. How big a statement is this for the boxing worlds? I

think the huge lemon, puts meet close to the top ?10 for pound, and

you know, I don't want to be big headed or anything, but I think this

puts me close to being a superstar in the boxing world, and I'm over

the moon, really. Would you say this is the biggest challenge of urea,

but it will also change your life, how can it do that? They will put me

down into history, I was the first ever Northern Ireland meant to win

two different weight classes, so that's a big deal, but I'm in the

driving seat now, so big names want this title that I have, and they

will come for me and visit financially it will be rewarding,

and when I have two kids and a young wife to look after, it will help me,

and I have credited my legacy. What is next? Maybe a rematch with Santa

Cruz, it doesn't matter, I'm ready for anyone. I just wants to be

involved in big fights from here on in. Thank you very much in Brooklyn,

from the new featherweight champion of the world. Many celebrities on

the side, a feisty remember in the Big Apple.

Manager Barry McGuigan said he'd never had any doubt that

I need this fight would be a barnstormer and this is the fight of

the year, the definite fight of the year, and if they get a better one

than that I would be very surprised, and the kid is amazing, I've said

for a long, long time, he is an amazing kid, and he could go down as

the greatest Irish fighter that has ever been, that's tally good years,

he's 29 years old, hasn't much more time to prove that, but a lot of

talent and what a performance tonight.

Golfer Rory McIlroy was ringside for the fight.

What a fantastic fight, I mean to go in there and that toe to toe with

Santa Cruz, I mean, it was just... Unbelievable, I've never been as

nervous at a sporting event in my life, I haven't been able to see

Carl Boxleitner for, so it's the first fighter bring being too and

busy worth the wait! A motorcyclist has died

following a crash in It happened on the Belfast Road

close to the junction The police say a suspicious object

found in Lisburn city centre yesterday was a bomb and that it may

have fallen off a car. A controlled explosion

was carried out on the device Part of the city centre was closed

off for several hours. In a follow up operation last night

police took a car away for examination from Lagmore

on the outskirts of West Belfast. The funerals have taken place

of the three young people killed in a head-on crash in County Donegal

on Thursday. It happened on a stretch of road

between letter Kennedy near John Keane, two cars involved. It was the

second fatal crash in two days in the area.

Finally let's get a look at the weather forecast, here's Geoff.

Hello, good evening. It has been a day of sunshine and showers, dry for

most people, but if you got caught under those showers, particularly in

the north, it was actually pretty disappointing today. This is the

story as we go through the evening, gradually those remaining showers.

The fizzle out, temperatures dropping away, and last night we saw

temperatures down to 4 degrees, I don't think it will be a sculptor as

that's tonight, but we'll pretty chilly for the time being. As we had

to tomorrow, at the start of the working week will be a cool and

cloudy day, they mostly dry, which is pretty fortunate actually

considering the weather that is heading in our direction, this

system looking like it will track away to the south of us before we

get the trailing front bringing rain through during the day on Tuesday.

So, this is how it is going to play out for us tomorrow. We stay dry and

pride to begin with this particularly in the north and east,

for a time, and the cloud will gradually encroached as the rain

gets closer to us and if we take the wider view can see just how lucky we

are in terms of the track of that next weather system, pushing in as

it does across the Republic, across South Wales and then the south-west

of England, bringing cloud and rain with it. The best of the brightness

is across the western parts of Scotland at the north-east perhaps

of England, for us perhaps we stayed dry through the morning, but by the

afternoon cloud cover thickens up, and we see rain moving in later.

That's the story for Monday. Tuesday, well, hold onto your hats

for a little bit more in the way of rain, that associated fronts moving

north and east, spreading rain into more paths, temperatures very

similar to what we have seen through the last few days. 16, 17, 18

degrees, things unsettled by the middle of the

Hello. If you were lucky enough to see the sunshine today, I'm sure it

made