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This is BBC Newsline. The headlines this Thursday evening: | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
The First Minister Arlene Foster rejects a call by Martin McGuinness | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
We've always been very clear that the National crime agency is the | :00:18. | :00:29. | |
appropriate organisation to deal with any allegations. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
A man is critically ill after an incident involving police | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
More than half of people here don't want a border poll, | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
according to a survey commissioned for the BBC. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
A woman abused as a child by her foster father urges other | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
I really feel sad for him but he took my childhood away. | :00:45. | :00:59. | |
After getting your exam results, what's next? I'm at a college in | :01:00. | :01:11. | |
banker, a stepping stone to further education or employment. | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
County down Paralympian Bethany Firth breaks her won world record | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
in Rio she goes for gold in the pool tonight. | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
And despite a dry start to Friday, it promises to be a wet and windy | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
The First Minister Arlene Foster has rejected a call by Martin McGuinness | :01:23. | :01:35. | |
for a cross-border NAMA inquiry saying it's "not appropriate." | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
She said the National Crime Agency is the correct organisation | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
to investigate revelations on the BBC Spotlight | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
programme this week, when the Belfast | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
businessman, Frank Cushnahan, was recorded accepting | :01:52. | :01:52. | |
?40,000 in cash from a property developer | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
who was a NAMA borrower at a time when Mr Cushnahan was working | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Here's our political correspondent Stephen Walker. | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
Tuesday night Spotlight programme investigated Frank Cushnahan who | :02:06. | :02:18. | |
was... The committee's job was to advise on NAMA's ?1 million | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
portfolio here. An experienced businessman and former banker, he | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
was praised by DUP ministers during Stormont committee meetings last | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
year. Spotlight obtained at recording of Frank Cushnahan doing | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
his own cash deal with developer John Miskelly. In return for his | :02:34. | :02:47. | |
?40,000, John Miskelly was hoping Frank Cushnahan could help him with | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
the deal to refinance his loans, get out of NAMA and retake control of | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
his properties. This would represent a serious conflict of interest. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Frank Cushnahan has consistently denied any wrongdoing. Any | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
statement, John Miskelly said... Today, there was a call for the | :03:04. | :03:21. | |
affair be investigated on an all Ireland basis. What we need is | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
obviously the police investigations whether it be the American ones are | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
not, investigated as soon as possible so we can have all the | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
information about what was actually going on and I think we need an all | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
Ireland investigation. The First Minister has rejected the call for | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
an all Ireland enquiry. The National Crime Agency will continue with | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
their investigation and ones that investigation is over, then we can | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
look to see if there are any other consequential investigations that | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
will have to take place. We have always been very clear that the | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
National Crime Agency is the appropriate and professional | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
organisation to deal with any allegations. This is a story that | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
has many strands to it. There's a fear is being investigated by | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
political committees in Dublin and Belfast and the number of law | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
enforcement agencies. NAMA may no longer have a in Northern Ireland, | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
what remains is a long list of unanswered questions. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
A man is in a critical condition in hospital after an incident | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
involving police officers in Belfast city centre this morning. | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
The Police Ombudsman's office is investigating what happened | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
on Great Victoria Street, as Michael Fitzpatrick reports. | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
One of Belfast's busiest roads were sealed off this morning as a police | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
ombudsman investigation into what happened here got underway. Police | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
were called to greet Victoria Street shortly before 5am after a report | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
that a man had become violent. It is understood the man dressed only in | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
his underwear was involved in an altercation with a number of taxi | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
drivers. This taxi, sitting within recording, appeared to sustain some | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
damage. During the man's arrest, spray was used and who later became | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
unwell. He was taken to hospital where he is now any critical | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
condition. The staff are in the process of photographing the scene | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
and there are a number of items that are potentially relevant to the | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
investigations, we've also conducted CCTV enquiries. We've secured some | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
CCTV material and fitted and there will be further CCTV enquiries to be | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
carried out. We've obtained a number of witness statements as well and | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
there will be further witness statements in the next couple of | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
days. The police ombudsman 's office has also said that restraint used by | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
police. The investigation will seek to establish whether officers | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
employed any other devices. Great Victoria Street was reopened this | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
afternoon after forensic officers completed their friends at | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
investigation of the scene. Well some statements have been gathered | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
from witnesses, the police ombudsman's office has appealed for | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
anyone else who has witnessed what has happened to contact them. | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
More than half of people here do not want the government | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
to call a border poll, according to a new survey | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
carried out for the BBC's political programme The View. | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
In the wake of June's referendum result, which saw the UK | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
opting to leave the EU, Sinn Fein called on the Secretary | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
of State to hold a border poll under the terms | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
However, as our political editor Mark Devenport explains, | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Between the mid-August and early September, we interviewed more than | :06:29. | :06:44. | |
1000 people face-to-face at locations across Northern Ireland. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
There are questions for the BBC were designed to shed some light on | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Northern Ireland after Brexit. In the immediate aftermath of June's | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
referendum, Sinn Fein call her a border poll to decide Northern | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Ireland's constitutional status. Only one third of those interviewed | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
agreed with them whilst more than half don't want a border poll. A | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
further 15% didn't know whether they wanted one not. Predictably, | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
enthusiasm for a border poll is greater amongst people with a | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
catholic background than those with the Protestant background. More than | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
half of the Catholics interviewed backed holding a border poll whilst | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
more than seven out of ten of the president interviewed opposed such a | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
move. Not surprisingly, because you live to the border, the more likely | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
you seem to be in favour of a referendum. This shows the highest | :07:33. | :07:42. | |
level of support with 47% in favour of holding a border poll whilst | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
greater Belfast appears to be the most sceptical -- sceptical with 60% | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
against the idea. Having established whether people want a border poll, | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
they then went on to ask the key questions. How would you vote and | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
has the UK's decision to leave the European Union change to your view? | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
We will have the answers to those questions on it tonight's edition of | :08:06. | :08:06. | |
the View. And to learn the full results | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
of that opinion poll, don't forget to watch The View | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
on BBC One at 10.45pm You're watching BBC Newsline. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
Still to come on the programme: An institution of the airwaves, | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
Talkback celebrates its 30th year. A woman who was sexually abused | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
as a child by her foster father has waived her right to anonymity | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
to urge other victims Jackie O'Connor's foster | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
father, Brian Gregory was jailed after pleading | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
guilty to several I went to meet Jackie this afternoon | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
at her home in Bangor. A secret kept for almost 30 years | :08:45. | :08:58. | |
has finally been revealed. Abused from the age of five until she was | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
11, Jackie O'Connor says she always knew it was wrong. Her abuser | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
admitted the charges and was jailed for four years. Jackie has two small | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
children and it was their birth that finally gave her the courage to go | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
to the police. I want my children to know that they can always come to me | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
and tell me anything, they will never be any secrets in my house. | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
When they are old enough, they will be told. She says the four-year | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
sentence has given her release and the strength to go on with her life. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
It impacted on my entire life until I went to the police. It's only now | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
that I feel I can be the person that I want to be. I feel strong. How do | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
she feel now about the only father she had ever known? I feel sad for | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
him. I really feel sad for him that he... He took my childhood away. He | :09:56. | :10:07. | |
ruins a father daughter relationship. I feel sad that way. | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
Although advised against going public, she says she wants to tell | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
other people who have been abused to have the confidence to come forward. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
I think it's really sad to know there are so many out there and they | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
feel they don't have support really don't have anybody. To go forward | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
and go to the police to report this. They must do it. There is so much | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
support out there, there's a whole big network and you will have full | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
support. And it will make a difference? Of course, a huge | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
difference. How do you feel about life and I'm looking forward? | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
Amazing, honestly, it's amazing. I have life name, it's a week there | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
has been lifted off me. Jackie O'Connor speaking to me earlier. | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
The charity, Childline, says it carried out nearly 350 | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
suicide counselling sessions with children | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
According to the NSPCC, who runs the service, girls are far more | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
likely to make the call and talk to a counsellor than boys. | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
Ita Dungan has been finding out more. | :11:08. | :11:16. | |
Thoughts of taking your own life means feeling of despair, darkness | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
and utter loneliness. That is the situation each child in Northern | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
Ireland found themselves in nearly every day of last year. For the | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
first time, ChildLine has been able to break down some of its National | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
statistics. The figures show almost 350 children each year contact the | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
charity and mentioned suicidal thoughts or plans. Girls, the | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
figures suggest, are six times more likely to share those suicidal | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
feelings with a ChildLine volunteer than boys. According to the | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
statistics, it is children between the ages of 12 and 15 who are most | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
at risk. And across the UK, the number of children talking to the | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
charity about taking their own lives has increased by 120% since 2011. | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
The reasons why children have such a difficult time vary greatly. Some | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
children at a very early age we do notice suffer from depression and | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
that will make it very difficult for them to make friends and maintain | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
friends. They may not have a good family background, it could be | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
abusive, a whole variety of issues that will link into this. Being told | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
that someone to talk to is very much part of youngster's lives. Every | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
year we will deliver the programme to approximately 435 private schools | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
reaching more than -- many children. Hopefully through their journey | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
through school, they will get is really important messages reinforced | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
many times throughout their education. Speaking out and staying | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
safe, a simple but effective message. | :12:58. | :12:58. | |
It's the start of the academic year and a busy time for our colleges | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
For the school leavers who got their GCSE and A-level | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
results last month, a college can be a pathway to employment | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Donna Traynor visited the South Eastern Regional | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
This is the space building in the Bangor, a ?12 million facility that | :13:13. | :13:29. | |
opened just last year for students in performing arts, competing and | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
engineering. It has industry grade facilities and the emphasis here is | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
very much on matching the students with skills that are necessary to | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
get a job in industry ought to make them entrepreneurs of the future. | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
This really is a melting pot for education from A-levels to | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
apprenticeships, two foundation degrees. With me are two people | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
who've been to this college. You left school when you had your GCSEs. | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
What was your journey after that? I continued on to the level three | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
extended programme which is the equivalent to three A-levels. I then | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
progressed straight through the foundation degree. What subject did | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
you study? Engineering. It was a mixture between manufacturing | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
engineering and my degree was Mecca try, that is basically mechanical | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
and electronic engineering. I like both aspects of engineering which | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
was decent. Why do you think this was the best course for you to do? I | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
always wondered whether or not it was going to be the job I wanted, | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
like engineering. With this course, I was able to do my placement within | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
the second year and it was only three months but three months is | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
easy enough to know whether you are going to like what you're going to | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
do and I very much enjoyed it. Best of luck in the future. You did go to | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
university to start off with but then it changed your course and | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
education. What happened? I had been studying medical science at | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
University and didn't like it and dropped out and moved home. I wasn't | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
finding any opportunities that I wanted so that I began looking | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
education again and looked at the open University. I thought the | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
competing degree would give me the best chance of employment. How | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
important is it to have those practical skills in the workshops | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
here? It's been very valuable for myself. Without it, I wouldn't have | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
the practical experience I need in my day-to-day job now. Good luck in | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
the future. It is a melting pot of education and is lots of students on | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
this campus, this man is in charge of the curriculum. How important is | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
that linking education with employment? It's absolutely vital | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
for us. We need to ensure that we are supporting the local economy in | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
Northern Ireland and part of that is the skill level of our staff so we | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
invest a lot of time and effort into the professional development and | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
ensuring that our staff have the right skills to deliver practical | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
experience of students require. What makes you different from the | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
University? One of the main differences is the focus is on the | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
practical skills, we have smaller class sizes and the student loan to | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
support each other and learn from each other. A big focus for us... We | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
send staff over to Germany to train up on skills that we can then bring | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
back and deliver to our students. We have attendance rates of 90% and 90% | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
of the students who complete go on to either further study or | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
employment. Those statistics speak for themselves. -- 98%. We have | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
sustained a performance over a number of years. Some strings will | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
come to this college and others who have completed their GCSEs and then | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
out of the school environment which can be quite a shock. How do you | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
help them in the transition? During the first two weeks of time, we have | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
an induction to the college and the purpose of that is to develop the | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
team-building exercises with our students. Students will inevitably | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
learn from each other as much as learning from the tutor. They will | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
get that support throughout the year from their peers. We want to make | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
sure that the very happy in the college and can settle in quickly | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
and become accustomed to the freedom that they wouldn't have at a normal | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
or a school environment. Thank you. It is the start of the new academic | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
career, the start of an exciting and new challenge for so many of the | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
students here in the Bangor and elsewhere. If you'd like to share | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
your experience of going to college, look at the conversation on our | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
Facebook page. Coming up on the programme before seven, the | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Paralympian Bethany Firth breaks her own world record in Rio. | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
A Londonderry woman who died after trekking in Indonesia last | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
year is being remembered by a project in her name | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
The young physio helped save the lives of several people | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
The Lisa Orsi Foundation will also sponsor young people | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
Here's our north-west reporter, Keiron Tourish. | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
Lisa died in March last year after suffering extreme altitude sickness. | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
Although only 22, she'd have travelled the world and lived life | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
to be filled. She was working as a physio in Singapore hospital was | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
part of this team which won the 24 Asian games in Kuala Lumpur. A | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
foundation has been set up in her name. The aim is to give youngsters | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
a chance to travel and experience new cultures. But they have to earn | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
their chance to take part in the Asian games in China later this year | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
by coaching younger members at their local clubs around the county. The | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
last couple of years in the summer camps here I've been helping out and | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
just trying to get the club up and going and get the most out of the | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
games because they are always overlooked in the sport. The | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
foundation also promotes organ donation. After her death, Lisa | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
helped save more than five live as well as having several others. The | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
more we keep Lisa's memory alive, the more people will decide, first | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
of all, to take sport seriously, willing to donate their organs if | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
the worst thing happens. The more Lisa's memory is alive, the more | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
people will be inspired. We miss Lisa terribly bad but this is the | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
one thing that is really keeping us going in life. The teenagers | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
involved have enjoyed the challenge of coaching the children but for | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
Lisa's family, it was also another important aspect to all of this | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
highlighting the benefits of organ donation and how that can give | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
precious life to many others. A lasting legacy. | :20:24. | :20:24. | |
A special birthday was celebrated today - | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme has been | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
A party was thrown in its honour here at Broadcasting house and BBC | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
Newsline got an invitation. Helen Jones reports. | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
30 years and going strong in an ever-changing industry, that is | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
something to celebrate. Balloons, cake and party food, lots of guests | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
and listeners who have been tuning in from the very start. I've been | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
listening to Prugh from day one. -- Prugh. Prugh almost didn't get a | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
slot back in the day when the BBC took a chance. 2015 National | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review it broke | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
the mould in those days 30 years ago. Top back, the programme that | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
gets people talking and not only on air that fear. Lots of interesting | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
public affairs in Northern Ireland and we are better for it. | :21:23. | :21:53. | |
I thought Ian Paisley was going to jump into the roof when he heard it. | :21:54. | :22:02. | |
But he kept his composure and his professionalism shone through. I | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
thought it was a very balanced programme, didn't trivialise issues | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
or sensationalise them. Another 30 years for Talkback, crazy? She | :22:15. | :22:27. | |
thinks David looks a bit like Noel Thompson. Yes, have a look over | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
there. There is plenty of life in Talkback. Many happy returns. | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
Now sport with Mark Sidebottom and here's hoping for a gold medal | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
for a Northern Irish Paralympian at the Games tonight. | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
She shone in the pool at the London Paralympics four years ago and | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Bethany Firth looked very impressive in Rio this afternoon, | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
winning her 100 metres backstroke heat in spectacular fashion. | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
The 20-year-old from Seaforde goes for gold later tonight. | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
The highlight of the spectacular opening ceremony last night saw an | :22:55. | :23:09. | |
extraordinary wheelchair athlete propelling himself to any sex story | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
high ramp and through a hoop, an amazing start in front of the 70,000 | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
strong crowd. Swimmer Bethany Firth from County Down and then made her | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
own spectacular entrance to this game as the competition got | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
underway. She is the reigning champion, winning gold as a member | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
of the Ireland team in London four years ago. Since then, she has opted | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
to swim for Paralympics at GD which has meant missing out on a number of | :23:39. | :23:39. | |
major championships while also recovering from a broken wrist. She | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
showed them what they were up against today. She broke her own | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
world record in the process. It is a world-record Bethany Firth | :23:49. | :24:07. | |
of Great Britain. She will go for gold tonight just after 11 UK time. | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
Here's hoping she doesn't. She is due back in the pool at a roundabout | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
ten past 11 this evening. Firth's final is at around 11.10pm | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
tonight, with Eglinton sprinter Jason Smyth opening the defence | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
of his 100 metres gold The venue is the appropriately named | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
Crooked Stick Carmel Indiana. The goal - to get | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
the ball in the hole. And the omens are good | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
for Rory McIlroy, currently fourth in | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
the Fedex Cup standings. Four years ago, when the BMW | :24:33. | :24:33. | |
Championship was last Every time I stepped on the tee box | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
this morning, it all came back to me so that can only be of benefit. You | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
look at the leaderboard four years ago and Adam was up there, Phil was | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
up there, Dustin was up there. There's a lot of guys that have | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
played this course and played well. I'm in that group and I feel like | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
having experienced on it will definitely help. Graeme McDowell is | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
level par through 11 holes. Finally, Ulster's new star signing | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
Charles Piutau is out of Saturday's Pro12 match away | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
to Treviso due to a thumb Paul Marshall and Craig Gilroy | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
are also out injured. We had some decent spells of bright | :25:21. | :25:35. | |
and sunny weather to this afternoon with the chance of the odd shower. | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
This evening, there are still a couple of moderate showers to make | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
their journey across Northern Ireland. Temperatures are staying in | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
double figures. Quite mild but not as muddy as they have been over | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
recent nights. Don't be fooled by the view out of your window tomorrow | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
morning because while our weather starts off on a decent note, it is | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
going downhill throughout the day which is all going to this area of | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
low pressure and the associated weather front bringing heavy rain | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
and strong winds. We start off on a dry, quite bright note across the | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
east goes but it will not take long for the skies to cloud over and | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
agrees to back up. That rain will work its way in. The breeze will be | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
a real feature as we go through the day. It will pick up to the south | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
and we will see some heavy downpours to throughout the day at that front | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
moves slowly in. We could also see gale force gusts in the north | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
channel close tomorrow afternoon. The good news is that as the front | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
leaves and goes to the east, there is some chance of some late evening | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
brightness across western counties and sets is up for a decent start of | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
the weekend, mostly dry. In the main, they are not coming through to | :26:49. | :26:57. | |
the action in those showers. Temperatures on Saturday are quite | :26:58. | :26:59. | |
respectable for the time of year staying in the mid teens. Good news | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
if you're heading to the BBC Proms in Belfast, it should be staying dry | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
as we go through performance time on Saturday evening. In fact, if you do | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
have any outside jobs plan for the weekend, Saturday is the day to | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
crack on with them because it does look pretty much set fair. Sunday, a | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
bit more to play for. Plenty of whether out in the Atlantic and we | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
will keep a close eye on the detail over the next few days. | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
Our late summary is at half past ten. | :27:31. | :27:32. | |
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