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These are the headlines this Friday evening...

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The DUP reveal how they got over ?400,000 for their Brexit

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We examine the background of the Scottish businessman

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A lorry driver who killed this man while on the wrong side of the road

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We're knocking on doors in County Tyrone to find out

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what people think of politicians with less than a week

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Exploding some preconceptions about career choices for schoolgirls.

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When I started secondary school it was sent the girls were two domestic

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science and the boys would do science. No questions.

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Ireland take on the French in Dublin in a crucial battle in this year's

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And Saturday afternoon looks like the pick of the weekend.

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After pressure to reveal details about the Brexit campaign, the DUP

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has confirmed its pet a donation of over ?400,000, the donor was the

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Constitutional Research Council. A little-known group of pro-union

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business people. Led by a Scottish Conservative, Richard Cook. The

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Electoral Commission published a much parties promoting leave and

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remain spent on the referendum campaign. Stephen Walker reports.

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Scottish Conservative Richard Cook is the man behind

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the Constitutional Research Council - a group that has attracted little

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A former Tory parliamentary candidate, he has a pro-union

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This organisation made a decision that it thought that Brexit would be

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better for the union and because of that it decided it wanted to invest

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in the Brexit campaign, it had a lot of money, more than ?400,000, and it

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started to look at where it could put that.

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The breakdown of the DUP's spending provided by the Electoral Commission

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shows that the party spent a total of ?425,621.

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Of that, ?10,823 was spent in Northern Ireland -

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more than half of that with Belfast Telegraph owners,

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The biggest single spend was the ?282,000, which went

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on the advertising pages in the Metro - a freesheet

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Almost ?100,000 was spent with a Cambridgeshire company

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supplying promotional and advertising material.

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A further ?32,750 went to a Canadian IT and consultancy company.

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The DUP say they were given more by the group than they actually

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spent and the remainder - some ?9000 - was used by the party.

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We received ?435,000 and we spent over ?425,000 in the EU referendum

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campaign and we had around ?9,000 left and we transferred that to the

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normal funds for prounion campaigning and so we're giving

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total transparency on this. So does this donation

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raise any questions? Who are these people and why are

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they getting so much money to the DUP? Why did they decide that in

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order to help support Brexit, they wanted to give money to the

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Democratic unionists in Northern Ireland?

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The DUP say they have been transparent and say the issue

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of party funding needs to be addressed.

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We have revealed the details of the dollar for the referendum and the

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ball is in the Court of the other parties, will be to the same? The

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only other parties to spend money in the campaign by the SDLP and the TV,

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who spent under ?10,000. The issue of wider political funding has been

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raised on the campaign trail, some parties keeping their donations

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secret and others making it public. All parties say they

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support transparency. After the election we will see

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if words and actions match up. A lorry driver who was on the wrong

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side of the road when he collided with a van, killing the driver,

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has been jailed for nine months. Albertas Daskevicius is originally

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from Lithuania and now lives He was passing another lorry turning

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left when he struck the oncoming vehicle. Sean McElwee was driving

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between Strabane and, around ten o'clock on a per night in 2015 when

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he was suddenly confronted by every driver's nightmare, an articulated

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lorry bearing down on him on the wrong side of the road. There was

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just time for his father, a passenger, to shout, where is that

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man going? Before the terrible impact took his life. His father

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survived and was in court today to see the driver sentenced. Albertas

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Daskevicius is 51 and originally from Lithuania but with an address

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at Bawn Court in Ballykelly. He was jailed for nine months for causing

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death by careless driving. With a further nine months on licence. He

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had been initially caused with causing death by dangerous driving

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but later pleaded guilty to the lesser charge. The defence said

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there was no evidence his client had been speeding are using a mobile

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phone, he had not been drinking and the lorry was noteworthy. He said

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his client had not taken a calculated risk but that it was

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simply a terrible error of judgment with tragic consequences. At the

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time of the accident, Albertas Daskevicius had no insurance and he

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was given a separate nine-month sentence for that and banned from

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driving for ten years. Several members of Sean McElwee's family

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sobbed quietly in the public gallery as a prison officer put handcuffs on

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Albertas Daskevicius and led him away. The family declined to say

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anything as they left court. A man has been arrested

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in connection with the death The 48-year-old is accused of having

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and supplying drugs. The woman, who was in her 30s,

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was found in the Orior Park area. Mike Nesbitt admits his time in

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charge of the Ulster Unionist Party But he goes into next week's

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Assembly election hoping to emerge He's been talking to our political

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correspondent, Gareth Gordon. Whether it's votes for the party

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he leads or in the greenhouse with his wife, Mike Nesbitt

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is looking for growth. He and Lynda Bryans were once

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Northern Ireland's best-known So how does she think Mike Nesbitt

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the politician is doing? There have been several changes of

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career along the way and everyone he has made a success. And he is making

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a success of what he is doing right now so I support him. All political

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careers end in failure. So they say. Is this one of them? It is not over

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yet. And Mike Nesbitt says he's confident

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more success is on its way. I am used to people saying in the

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supermarket, but not people queueing up to talk to me, people stopping

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their cars in the middle of the street or a man driving a bus and

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stopping to shout encouragement at me so there is a different feel to

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this. People are more engaged and I would be surprised if the turnout is

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not up rather than down. He's lead the Ulster

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Unionists for five years. I challenge. Setting up the Victims

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Commissioner was difficult, they appointed four equal commissioners

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without consultation or morning. If there is any common thread to these

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things, what is a policy for the Victims Commissioner? For the Ulster

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Unionist Party? There was also people management. And in this job,

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people management is almost all-consuming. I want to do onions

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successfully. One seed he sowed recently

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was saying he would give his second The SDLP leader stopped short

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of returning the compliment. I think he came around to that we

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are thinking after a day or two and I am pleased that of people are

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thinking about this election, they are thinking about it other than

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terms of orange and green. The union is safe but it will be safer and

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more people are content and if they have a good devolved government

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working for the benefit of all people, whether Protestant or

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Catholic, national or unionist. Should you have joined the Alliance

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Party? No, I am unionist. The coming election may

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be his biggest challenge of all. By this time next week,

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the votes will have been cast and counting will be well underway

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in the Assembly election. We've been looking through the BBC

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archives and found that on this day in 1969,

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voters were going to the polls to elect MPs to the ill-fated

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Northern Ireland Parliament. All the signs are that voting in the

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highest political struggle in Northern Ireland's history will

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reach record levels. It was the first election to split

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the unionist vote and culminated in the resignation of the then

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Prime Minister, Terence O'Neill, a few months later after he almost

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lost his Bannside seat to Ian Back to the present day and ahead

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of this election next Thursday, we've been visiting various towns

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to gather the views of some voters. This evening, BBC Newsline's Mark

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Simpson has been on the doorsteps of Coalisland in the constituency

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of Mid Ulster. What do you make of what has

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happened at Stormont? Disgrace, but disgrace. There are a lot of issues

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to be sorted and in my view it is all one sided. The days of standing

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back and being locked over are long gone. It will not happen. In my

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view, anyway. For nationalists? Yes. Hello! How are you doing? Can I talk

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to you about the election? What is the big issue? Getting things are

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bad going again. That has to be everybody's priority. Stormont is a

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disgrace. That is what it is. It seems to be one-sided. The big issue

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is RHI. Equality. Are you going to vote? I have not decided. No. Why

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not? There is not much faith in politicians these days. Because they

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cannot agree. Two children fighting, you would separate them. Will you be

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voting? No. No. What about it? No. No. You will not be voting? No, no

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interest. People don't want the same old issues, they want to get on with

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their lives, they want more quality. Equality? Yes, equality, even with

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gay marriage, people don't want the churches running the country because

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that is what it seems like. That is what I call a doorbell! It has been

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a long time since the money has asked me for my vote. Somebody did

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that three years ago and I did because he wrapped my door.

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Politicians are not at the doors? Not mine. I want to see a quality

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and be able to get married in this country. I have the right like

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anybody else. And to be seen as not a second-class citizen because of my

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sexuality. If I was a politician rather than a journalist, what would

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you say? Get it sorted out! We are tired all the time of the same thing

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happening and no change. Everything should become clearer after polling

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day. The loss of another tree

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at the Dark Hedges - made famous by Game of Thrones -

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has led to fresh calls Only around 90 of the original 200

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trees are still standing. Our North East reporter,

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Sara Girvin, has been And another victim felled

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at the Dark Hedges. These trees have been

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here for more than 200 years, but just a few seconds on Game

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of Thrones saw them become More tourists means more vehicles

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and traffic is thought to be weakening the roots

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of the aging trees. These tourists agree

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something should be done. It is mother nature as well,

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something you need to look after. Protection is important to see this

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in the future. It is something we have to look after. He would not see

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this shutdown as a tourist destination but you have to take

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into account looking after the surroundings.

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There are proposals to close the road to traffic -

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Those who love this place say only an immediate change will guarantee

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These are our natural heritage and we must protect them, and building

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would have listed status, and these trees need to be listed and we must

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do all our power to ensure they are preserved and that should include

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restricting along this road. There are just two seasons

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lefts of Game of Thrones, but it's very much hoped

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the Dark Hedges will survive long after the programme that

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made them famous ends. An event for schoolgirls today in

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Belfast was aimed at changing that. Boys are still more likely

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than girls to study STEM subjects - science, technology,

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engineering and maths. As our education correspondent,

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Robbie Meredith, reports, a successful role model

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was the VIP. Today's experiment at

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Belfast Metropolitan College - Women are seen as not as clever but

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if we have a push more girls would do this because it is beneficial and

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we are just as clever. I don't think there should be preference for boys

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because girls are almost better. There has been an increasing number

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of girls taking STEM subjects at GCSE and A level in recent years,

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though many more boys When I started secondary school it

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was assumed girls were two domestic science and the boys were to

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science. No questions asked. That is what you did. I was not happy with

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that because I wanted to do science. Lurgan-born Professor

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Bell Burnell was once The award went to two men

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who worked alongside her. Although she doesn't put that down

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to sexism, she says attitudes If you look at other countries you

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will find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, science.

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Subjects like that. Something to do with the culture we have in the

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English speaking world about what is appropriate for each of the sexes.

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And it's women like her the next generation want to know about.

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If you look at the history of science it is male dominated. And to

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this day, men dominate this and go through it as a career and that can

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often be intimidating and harder for women to get in. There are not many

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role models in science for women to look up to. To think, I want to be

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like that, I want to do what they do. Because it is male dominated.

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Today's schoolgirls, tomorrow's scientists.

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For Ireland's rugby players it's their first home game in this

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They lie in second place in the table going into tomorrow's

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match against France at the Aviva Stadium.

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A win for Joe Schmidt's side would take them top of the table

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as leaders England don't play until Sunday.

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It promises to be an electric atmosphere in Dublin.

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The road to a third Six Nations title in four years has taken them

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to Scotland and Italy so far. Tomorrow, Joe Schmidt's side or in

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Dublin for the first time this year. It is great to be home, it is going

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to be quite a raucous environment. We have trained this week with

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signals instead of calls for some things because we believe it is

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going to be, the volume will be such that you will not be able to hear

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that sort of support. It lifts the team. It could be crucial against

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the French side who are known for the physical nature. Especially in

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the collision zone. The way we have performed well against France is

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getting physicality right. A massive French side with a lot of passion.

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That is the way they like to play and you must meet that and confront

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that and go beyond that. We cannot slip up, no second chances. They

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will put us under pressure and hopefully that will bring out the

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best. Trimble will win his 70th Irish Cup if called upon from an

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experienced Irish bench. Which could be the deciding factor tomorrow.

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Ulster take on Zebre in Italy on Sunday and Les Kiss has been able

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to name Jared Payne amongst the replacements in

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Payne has been out since he sustained a kidney injury

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while away on international duty in November, but he is

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Good news for both Ulster and, potentially, Ireland.

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Jonathan Rea begins the defence of his World Superbike title

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tomorrow as the new season begins with racing at Philip

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Rea, a back-to-back world champion with Kawasaki,

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is bidding to become the first rider ever to win three in a row.

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Carl Fogarty, who won four titles himself,

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is tipping Rea to get that special hat-trick.

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I feel he is the best rider Britain has got white knight in any

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challenger. And a really good package and a good team, he has

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changing like I did, too many times, it cost me. The same team, the same

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bike, and his talent is the reason he will win three in a row.

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Slaughtneil GAA club hope to make it an unprecedented treble

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when their hurlers attempt to match their football

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and camogie teams by making the All-Ireland club final.

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Tomorrow, Cuala from Dublin stand between them and the remarkable feat

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It is a young side that has had a lot of success at underage and

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elsewhere and they have come on leaps and bounds, getting over the

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hurdle of Ulster, this was massive having being pipped by crushing all

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recently but that galvanised us and we came back later. I am looking

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forward to the Cuala test and the challenge.

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Derry City play their first game of the new season

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in the Airtricity Premier tonight away to Bohemians.

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Tomorrow there's a full programme of fixtures

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Highlights of all of the games, including Glentoran v Linfield,

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Geoff Maskell has the weekend weather forecast.

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The weather is going downhill this weekend, like today. We started off

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on a promising note, the weather watcher was in Lambeg with this

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beautiful shot of the clear blue skies but it did not take long for

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those guys to cloud over and the rain to moving from the West and

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overnight. It will be a wet and windy night. I'll be at, one where

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we draw in milder air from the south-west. Not as cold tonight, no

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chance of frost, with all that rain. Quite breezy in terms of the North

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West headlines and we could see gale force winds and a wet and windy

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start to the weekend, this is a picture on Saturday morning as the

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rain continues to pile in and we can see those wind gauges, lively stuff.

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Once the rain goes through, we have the warmest temperatures and we get

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clearer skies through the afternoon. By the time we get to dusk,

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temperatures dropping away, maybe 7 degrees before dark. Secondly, the

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most usable part of the weekend in terms of getting out and about.

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Relatively chilly on Saturday to Sunday, temperatures dropping away,

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hovering above freezing in rural spots before the rain comes in.

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Lively weather systems in the Atlantic at the moment, tightly

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packed isobars sign of the strong winds we will see through the next

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readers. They will dry more rain through Saturday morning and a

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reasonably chilly feel to the day once that rain has gone through.

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Into next week, it will be still breezy but getting cooler so where

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we have seen temperatures in double figures through the weekend, by

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Monday, six or 7 degrees is more the case and it is not until the middle

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of next week that we start to see something more settled. Beautiful

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snowdrops. You can also keep in contact with us

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