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Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
Clearly talks to not ease the RHI crisis as the Finance Minister warns | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
about the Executive's future. If Arlene Foster does not stand aside, | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
there will not be an Executive, there will not be institutions. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
A former DUP MLA says current members | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
We have had enough of this. We have had enough of not being heard from | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
the grassroots and we now need a party hierarchy to listen to us and | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
come out and speak out, because those that do not are culpable in | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
all of this. surgery from closure, | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
but could others still be at risk? I've been inside the emergency | :01:03. | :01:14. | |
department here at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast to talk | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
to the medical staff about how they cope with patients who have had an | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
excess of drink or drugs. One mother describes the vandals who | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
did this to some life-saving equipment as vandals. -- | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
It'll tell you later in the programme. | :01:34. | :01:48. | |
the Finance Minister has said there will be no Executive unless Arlene | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
Foster sets aside temporarily as First Minister. | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
He was speaking after what were meant to be cleared the talks with | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
his Executive colleague, the DUP minister. He also described a DUP | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
plan to deal with the crisis as a sticking plaster. Our business | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
correspondent is at the Department of Finance. So, this plan to reduce | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
the overall spend 20, what did the Finance Minister makeover? | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
-- who zero. Last night, the DUP revealed it had a plan involving | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
emergency legislation and the possible recall of the Assembly, the | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
attention to totally wipe out a ?490 million projected RHI overspend. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
Last night, the Finance Minister said he was sceptical. Today, he saw | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
the colour of the DUP 's money, he did not like it and totally | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
dismissed as planned, he said it was not a plan at all, it was an interim | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
measure, one, he said, which was full of hype and would be laughed | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
out of a called Assembly. He said it was nothing more than a sticking | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
plaster designed to see if the political skin -- save the political | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
skin of the First Minister. We met at the front meeting, but also | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
bitterly disappointing because they were left without a plan in my hand | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
and additionally on hold when the plan arrives, despite the Hague in | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
the media, it is not actually going to be a conference of plan to close | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
down RHI. It is going to be an interim solution, a sticking | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
plaster. In my view, this is not the time for a sticking plasters. What | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
assessment did he give of the crisis facing Stormont? | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
A pretty bleak one. This crisis shows no signs of easing whatsoever. | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
It is turning into a very long poker game of who will blink first. The | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Finance Minister could not have been any clearer when I asked him what | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
about the future of the Executive, will there be a negotiator the way | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
out of this? He said, quite bluntly, the future of the Executive rests | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
with Arlene Foster. Be clear on this, if Arlene Foster does not step | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
aside, there will not be an Executive, they will not be | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
institutions for us to work to build, and all of the work, and some | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
of us have been working very hard to build the peace and institutions, | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
but they cannot exist if Arlene Foster continues to play fast and | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
loose with the rules and the DUP continued disrespect the | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
institutions and if corruption remains at the heart of what the | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
public deserve more, I think the DUP, for Alder Hey, understand that. | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
Can there be a fudge? Can there be a negotiated way out of this would | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
seize Arlene Foster remain as First Minister? No. He also has a budget | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
to deal with. Is this crisis overshadowing everything? | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
It has blown the budget completely out of the water. As you say, the | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Finance Minister was meant to be preparing next financial year's | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
budget to present to the Assembly. The RHI crisis is completely | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
overshadowed it. I understand also that no ministerial dates are being | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
fixed in his diary beyond next week. That gives you a sense of what he | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
thinks might happen. He says the collapse of the Executive is not | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
inevitable, however his assessment is pretty bleak. | :05:11. | :05:10. | |
Thank you. Senior DUP figures have criticised | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
one of their former MLAs who says Arlene Foster's | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
handling of the RHI scheme David McIlveen, who was once a DUP | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
MLA in North Antrim, also says Mrs Foster is unlikely to lead | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
the party into the next election. His comments came | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
in today's Newsletter and were | :05:27. | :05:27. | |
repeated on Radio Ulster. Senior DUP figures say | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
Mr McIlveen does not represent | :05:31. | :05:31. | |
the views of the party. Here is our Political | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
Correspondent Stephen Walker. Once, they were political | :05:34. | :05:47. | |
team-mates, but now David McIlveen has split ranks and he told the | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Newsletter Arlene Foster has misjudged the public mood over the | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
RHI scheme. He said the scandal has become a Omnishambles and claims she | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
will not lead the party into the next election. There is a deep | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
misunderstanding at the minute, within the party, around the | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
definition of humiliation and humility. And I think those two | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
words are being mixed up, in that there seems to be some feeling that | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
to show any form of contract this -- contrition around this issue is a | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
sense of humiliation. That is not what it is. That is not what people | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
want. People want humility, not evolution. But David McIlveen's | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
analysis is not shared by senior party figures. The groundswell of | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
support within the DUP is for Arlene Foster and indeed that she is not an | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
electoral liability, that she has been an electoral advantage to us on | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
the DUP strongly support Arlene Foster in a role as First Minister | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
and leader, and will get the absolute support in continuing to do | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
so. David McIlveen is not the first DUP member to criticise the party's | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
leadership. Last month, Johnathan Bell gave a dramatic interview to | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Stephen Nolan, and today, a former DUP councillor appealed to | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
disgruntled party members to go public. They need now to come out | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
and if they feel that this is not going the way it should for | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
unionism, and it is not good for unionism, please come out and speak | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
out against it. Even internally, in their own party, say something. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Because to say nothing is going to get us nowhere. So, is the rating on | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
the wall for the DUP leader? There is much political pressure on Arlene | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Foster, and today the Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, wrote in the | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
Andersonstown news... Arlene Foster says she will not step | :07:38. | :07:52. | |
aside, but her political party has no consensus on what a fresh inquiry | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
into RHI would look like. So, the New Year has begun the way the old | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
one ended, with a story that every day brings fresh developments and | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
the political stalemate that shows little sign of ending. | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Last night, we brought you the story of a Portadown GP surgery | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
that could close after its last remaining doctor resigned. | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
This evening, the Health Minister announced that a new contractor | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
has been found to take over the practice. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
However, the doctors union, the BMA, | :08:24. | :08:24. | |
says surgeries across Northern Ireland | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
are struggling to recruit and retain GPs. | :08:31. | :08:31. | |
With three children and elderly relatives to help care for, Claire | :08:32. | :08:43. | |
McConville- Walker is a fairly regular visitor to her doctor 's | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
surgery in Portadown. This morning, she told me her fears that the | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
medical practice could close after it lost its last doctor. Pretty much | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
my whole family use the surgery and some are dependent on medication, | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
and they need a regular GP in order to be given that medication to make | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
sure that it is right. But I think a lot of it for peace of mind, to know | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
that there is a GP there who is knowledgeable of their conditions, | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
who knows them, who understands them. But this evening, some good | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
news for Claire and her family, and 5000 other patients. A new GP | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
contract provider has been found to take over Banview from early March. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
But recruiting GPs, particularly in rural areas, is a growing problem | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
and in Northern Ireland- wide one. In County Antrim, the lone GP access | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
medical practice outside Glenarm is retiring. The health and Social Care | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
Act board says negotiations is still going to find a replacement. GP | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
practices are busier than ever and as the work load increases, it | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
becomes harder to attract younger doctors to train as GP. We have a | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
situation were particularly in the West End in the south, we do not | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
have enough doctors. We do not have enough GPs. So we are going to see | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
an awful lot of practices calls in the West, particularly in the manner | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
and Armagh. This will probably move forward to affect other counties | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
such as Tyrone in the future. -- particularly in County Fermanagh and | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
County Armagh. It will be rural areas and small towns will lose | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
their GP practice and who will be consolidating down on far fewer | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
sites. Last autumn, their health minister promised more funding for | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
GP services, including watering places for GPs. But it will be years | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
before those voters are ready to go and work in the communities. -- | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
including more training places. That still leaves some practices in the | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
short-term facing an uncertain time ahead. | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
Also coming up: It is not everyday a World Cup | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
winning coach gets on the maiden city Flyer. We will be out what big | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
Phil Scolari got up to in County Kerry. -- in Londonderry. | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
From Christmas Eve to the 3rd of January, | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
more people attended emergency departments at our local hospitals | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
compared to the same period last year, | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
according to the Health and Social Care Board. | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
The pressure was most acute at Antrim Area Hospital, | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
In Belfast's Royal Victoria, 53 people waited for 12 hours. | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
Staff there believe the new assessment unit | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
in the emergency department has helped reduce waiting times. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
People being admitted to wards has gone down by 1,500 in the past year. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
However, like other hospitals, the Royal's emergency department | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
saw an increase in alcohol and drug related cases over Christmas. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Donna Traynor has been speaking to some of the medics. | :11:34. | :11:43. | |
Emergency departments in all of our hospitals across Northern Ireland | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
had more patients this Christmas than last Christmas. There was an | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
increase of 9%. Medical staff on the front line have had to deal with all | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
sorts of cases. Let's talk to some of that stuff. Brendan is a | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
consultant in emergency medicine. Brendan, drink and be merry, that is | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
normally the case at Christmas. What sort of difficulty did that bring to | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
your doorstep at a hospital? First of all, it has increased the number | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
of people coming into the Department with alcohol related drinks injury, | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
and that increases our workload. Some of these people are quite | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
aggressive, some people are just happy drunk. The aggressive drunk | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
demands of security and put from other staff and ties up a lot of | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
resources. How prevalent, this year, where patients coming in with opiate | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
overdoses? People have taken drugs? Well, the normal run of the mill we | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
would see about somewhere between 10-30% of our workload is to do with | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
alcohol-related injuries and drug overdoses and opiate overdoses. What | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
we have seen recently is an increase in opiate overdoses. Those patients | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
coming in with opiate overdoses tend to come through and emergency | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
ambulance. We meet them at the front door, some of them are in extremist | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
situations, where we have to take them into the resuscitation room and | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
provide life-support treasures. Taking a walk through your emergency | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
department here, I have seen quite a bit of categorisation, triage, | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
prioritising, is that a new system, and if so how does that help? What | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
it does is tell us whether or not we have to deal with eBay should | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
immediately or in ten minutes or within an hour, and we can let them | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
wait. -- whether we should deal with. Because of the radio what we | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
need to do immediately and over a period of time with the patient. -- | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
it gives us an idea what we need to do. Nursing staff are certainly on | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
the front line. They have had to deal with a lot of patience, some | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
not very pleasant. Lindsay, your team works every single day. How | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
busy has Christmas been in particular for you? Christmas has | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
been a challenging time for our staff and emergency department, but | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
they are working tirelessly and really had to provide the best care | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
they can for their patients. Unfortunately, at 9010, we have a | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
consistent presence of security staff within the emergency | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
department. The reality is that some of our staff have been punched, they | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
have spat at and that is the reality of how challenging times can be for | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
staff in the emergency department. Is there a zero tolerance for that | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
sort of a fault or abuse of staff? We have a zero tolerance policy | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
however some situations can become very challenging, and unfortunately | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
patients and their relatives sometimes actually can become | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
violent towards staff. Again, we reliably on security presence within | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
the emergency department, as well as our colleagues in the police | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
service. Lindsay, thank you. Well, this is a busy emergency department | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
at the Royal Victoria Hospital, like other departments across Northern | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
Ireland. They are accepting patients every hour of every day throughout | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
the year, Christmas or no Christmas. Donna reporting. | :15:23. | :15:23. | |
who lost her teenage son and five-year-old brother | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
says those who're destroying life-saving | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
Local search and rescue organisations are also concerned | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
at the ongoing vandalism and have called for it to stop. | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
Here's our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish. | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
Over recent months, there has been concern here about the level of | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
vandalism to life-saving equipment along the banks of the river. Local | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
search and rescue organisations say there were around a dozen life belt | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
installed, as well as several fuel lines, but now some of them have | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
either been burned or removed. Lorraine Loft two members of her | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
family in drowning tragedies. Her five-year-old brother Adie in 1972, | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
and on maybe 28th 2012, her 17-year-old son died in an accident | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
in a quarry in the town. She cannot understand why anybody would tamper | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
with such valuable equipment. These people that are doing this our | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
members and are not thinking. Now it is the start of the new year and in | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
the next five months, it will be even warmer weather. And... God | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
forbid somebody, you know, in the warm weather, what happened to my | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
son, the water is very appealing and God forbid somebody get into trouble | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
and, you know, they might need these and they will not be there. | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Marketers' brother drowned in the river in nine months ago. He now his | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
title to help one of the local and rescue charities. -- he now gives up | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
his time. It was very upsetting for everybody, the family, every family | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
to go through something like this. You do not know how it hurts unless | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
you go through what we have went through and to see things like this | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
happening, it is just unacceptable. Those who have lost loved ones to | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
the river and the emergency services have stressed that this equipment is | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
vital, especially when people are in a vulnerable position. They have | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
urged those behind the vandalism to stop and stop immediately. | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
30 dogs were stopped from boarding ferries | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
as part of an operation to prevent puppy trafficking | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
The animals were turned back from ferries at Larne and Belfast. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
Several investigations are now underway. | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
Some of the animals were voluntarily surrendered | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
Others were returned to the premises they had come from. | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
The local economy passed an important milestone in 2016 - | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
the number of people in work finally returned to pre-recession levels. | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
But why did it take so long and what does the future hold? | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
Our Economics and Business Editor John Campbell reports. | :18:09. | :18:19. | |
26 team got off to a grim start, as bombard here, our biggest | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
manufacturer employer, and instead was going to cut more than 1000 | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
jobs. But away from headlines like this, the employment picture | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
continued to improve. One of the most important statistics in our | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
economy is the employment rate. It tells of the percentage of the adult | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
population in work. Back in the spring of 2007, the economy was | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
booming and the rate stood at a record 69.3%. Then, as the 2008 | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
recession kicked in, the rate fell sharply, hitting a low of just over | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
64% in the summer of 2009. Our weak economic recovery means it has taken | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
a long, long time to claim back from that, but in the spring of 2016, | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
almost a decade on, we have finally passed the 2007 record as the rate | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
almost hit 70%. This person is one of those who entered the workforce | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
in 2016. He landed a job at the SSC arena, with the help of a project | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
run by business in the community and Include Youth. It is brilliant. Get | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
out and meet the public, serving customers, I enjoy that side of the | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
job. And also it is just grown my confidence and made me be more | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
outgoing. The recovery in the jobs market has had lots of real positive | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
human consequences. But the rate of job creation is now slowing right | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
down and there is even some evidence that male unemployment is starting | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
to rise again. So, 2016 may prove to be the high water mark when it comes | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
to jobs. He's a man more at home | :20:03. | :20:03. | |
in a packed football stadium than on an Ulsterbus, but, | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
this week, the former World-Cup-winning | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
Brazil manager Luiz Felipe Scolari was spotted | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
onboard the 212 service Big Phil, as he's affectionately | :20:11. | :20:11. | |
known, has been seen strolling around the two cities | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
in recent days. Posing for a picture with the man | :20:15. | :20:32. | |
who drove him from Londonderry to Belfast, Scolari was a bit of a stir | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
when those on board Monday's 212 servers realised a World Cup winning | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
coach was amongst them. One of the passengers as the former Brazil | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
manager for a bottle when they got off the bus together. It is | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
understand he was in Northern Ireland to visit his son, who is | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
studying at a local university. The former Portugal and Chelsea boss led | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
his nomination to glory in the 2002 World Cup. He is currently in charge | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
at most valuable football team in China, as well as the bus station he | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
was also spotted in Londonderry and at the Richmond shopping centre. | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
Whilst it is not clear if Excel has plans to return to Northern Ireland, | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
the users of the 212 service will be keeping a keen eye out for the World | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
Cup winning start. -- big Phil. Now sport, and Ulster | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
have rung the changes Les Kiss has named | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
a strong-looking Ulster side to face Scarlets away tomorrow | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
night in the Pro 12, to keep in touch with the play-off | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
spots in the table. The Ireland international quartet | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
of Rory Best, Paddy Jackson, Luke Marshall and Iain Henderson | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
all return, while Chris Henry | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
starts in the back row. Louis Ludik, seen here scoring | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
against Scarlets at the Kingspan earlier this season, | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
comes into the back three alongside Jacob Stockdale | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
and captain Andrew Trimble, with Charles Pietau | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
rested for this one. The game is live on BBC Two | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
tomorrow night from 7:30. the strength of Northern Ireland's | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
male golfers in recent years, with our three major winners, | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
McIlroy, McDowell and Clarke. But it could well be that | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
our next big star in the sport Olivia Mehaffey from Banbridge, | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
County Down, is currently ranked number three | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
in the World amateur rankings, Since September, she's been | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
a student at university in Arizona, but is already set on making it | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
as a professional. Aiming for the very top. But since | :22:30. | :22:46. | |
she began studying in the United States, Olivia has found it is a | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
tough route through academia to the professional ranks. It is pretty | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
intense. I mean, most of my days will start at 6am and I will not be | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
finished until 11pm. I will get up early, work-out, practice, go to | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
class, we might have team practice in the afternoon or qualifying for a | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
tournament, and then I will go to the library and do some studying. It | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
is a pretty long day. How difficult is it combining the studies and | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
golf? It sounds like a jam-packed schedule. It is really intense. We | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
are on the road and you have to do everything on the road, I mean, it | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
just makes you really prioritise your time. It is a good skill to | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
have, especially when you will be so busy on tour and it sets you up | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
really nicely to learn how to develop yourself as a person and | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
everything, before making that step. Currently the world number three in | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
the women's' amateur ranks, her next ambition is clear. I want to be | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
world number one ideally before going pro, it will guarantee a lot | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
of starts and it is something to care for and hopefully if I play | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
some good golf this year and will have a chance. And after she | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
finishes her degree in Arizona, a promising career on the LPGA tour | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
beckons. Certainly a talented young woman. | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
The 2017 Gaelic Football Season gets underway this weekend | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
It is a competition that has been dominated by Tyrone in recent | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
seasons, with Mickey Harte's side aiming to win the silverware | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
Traditionally, the McKenna cup provides an opportunity for young, | :24:13. | :24:27. | |
up-and-coming talent trying to break into established county panels ahead | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
of the league and championship. But there is also a new rule to contend | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
with the side rent. The Aussie rules still introduced for the coming | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
year. I would not be a fan of the mark, I think that is well known, | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
but it is what it is. It is in there now, we are going to have to live | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
with that. I do not think it will serve the published it has been | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
introduced for, increasing the incidence of high feeling. Ideal to | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
see how that can happen if you can catch the ball with your knees and | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
make a mark, but we have to play with it, it is part of the rules | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
now. McLean is in charge, having taken over of Terry Howland. Terry | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
has left me a positive situation. The work he has done in building | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
this team over the last few years has been class. We were not 1 | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
million miles away from Tyrone in the championship last year. I am | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
going to work hard to try to develop what he has done and if I can add | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
one or two, we are going to have a good year's fun. And his remote | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
start with the home clash against the holders. -- his run will start. | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
Finally, the County Antrim Shield final | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
will be held at a neutral venue | :25:36. | :25:36. | |
after Linfield successfully appealed against a decision | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
the home ground of their opponents in the final, Crusaders. | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
A new venue and date will now be arranged by organisers. | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
Thank you. Let's have a look at the weather. | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
That is some picture by Jude night. Absolutely. A lot of cloud recently | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
but please keep sending your photograph in. As we make our way | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
through this evening and overnight, a lot of cloud rolls on. Patchy | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
rain, especially for Western areas, at first. It will turn drier for a | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
while but earlier on Friday, the next bulk of rain comes our way. No | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
frost tonight. Five or 6 degrees below is, well above last night. | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
Tomorrow, it will be a rather cloudy, overcast day. But it will be | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
milder than it should be for a time of year. Some windy conditions to | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
begin, outbreaks of rain. That will eventually clear away for the East | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
Coast. Behind it, grey, misty, murky conditions and the odd spot of light | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
rain or drizzle. A good deal of dry weather as well for the afternoon. | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
11, maybe 12 degrees, well above average for a time of year. If you | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
are travelling tomorrow, a lot of cloud, is similar picture almost | :26:49. | :26:58. | |
anywhere. Maybe the best of any glimpses towards the West. | :26:59. | :26:59. | |
Everywhere, temperatures above normal. Those winds coming in from | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
the South West will ease as we make our way through the day as well. | :27:03. | :27:04. | |
Into tomorrow evening, very little is going to change, with the | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
exception of the wet weather. That will give way to drier conditions | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
and it will be another amalgamate as we make our way overnight into | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
Saturday. Temperatures should settle at about six or maybe 7 degrees. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
Temperatures we normally see bad at this time of year. As a result, that | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
really will be milder day. Temperatures likely to reach of | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
year. As a result, that really will be milder day. Temperatures likely | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
to reach nine the odd spot of light rain or drizzle but not a complete | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
wash-out. Good dry gaps to get out and enjoy under those winds will be | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
like coming from the south. A look ahead towards Fundy and next week, | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
very little will change. A lot of cloud, wet weather from to time but | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
dry gaps as well. It is not going to be a wash-out. | :27:45. | :27:45. | |
Good news, Barry. History is our adventure | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
through time. It's a ferocious, | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
heartbreaking story. | :27:55. | :27:58. |