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These are the headlines this Friday evening... | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
The DUP reveal how they got over ?400,000 for their Brexit | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
We examine the background of the Scottish businessman | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
A lorry driver who killed this man while on the wrong side of the road | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
We're knocking on doors in County Tyrone to find out | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
what people think of politicians with less than a week | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
Exploding some preconceptions about career choices for schoolgirls. | :00:45. | :00:58. | |
When I started secondary school it was sent the girls were two domestic | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
science and the boys would do science. No questions. | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
Ireland take on the French in Dublin in a crucial battle in this year's | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
And Saturday afternoon looks like the pick of the weekend. | :01:09. | :01:27. | |
After pressure to reveal details about the Brexit campaign, the DUP | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
has confirmed its pet a donation of over ?400,000, the donor was the | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Constitutional Research Council. A little-known group of pro-union | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
business people. Led by a Scottish Conservative, Richard Cook. The | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Electoral Commission published a much parties promoting leave and | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
remain spent on the referendum campaign. Stephen Walker reports. | :01:52. | :02:01. | |
Scottish Conservative Richard Cook is the man behind | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
the Constitutional Research Council - a group that has attracted little | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
A former Tory parliamentary candidate, he has a pro-union | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
This organisation made a decision that it thought that Brexit would be | :02:10. | :02:21. | |
better for the union and because of that it decided it wanted to invest | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
in the Brexit campaign, it had a lot of money, more than ?400,000, and it | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
started to look at where it could put that. | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
The breakdown of the DUP's spending provided by the Electoral Commission | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
shows that the party spent a total of ?425,621. | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
Of that, ?10,823 was spent in Northern Ireland - | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
more than half of that with Belfast Telegraph owners, | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
The biggest single spend was the ?282,000, which went | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
on the advertising pages in the Metro - a freesheet | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
Almost ?100,000 was spent with a Cambridgeshire company | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
supplying promotional and advertising material. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
A further ?32,750 went to a Canadian IT and consultancy company. | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
The DUP say they were given more by the group than they actually | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
spent and the remainder - some ?9000 - was used by the party. | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
We received ?435,000 and we spent over ?425,000 in the EU referendum | :03:28. | :03:41. | |
campaign and we had around ?9,000 left and we transferred that to the | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
normal funds for prounion campaigning and so we're giving | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
total transparency on this. So does this donation | :03:49. | :03:49. | |
raise any questions? Who are these people and why are | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
they getting so much money to the DUP? Why did they decide that in | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
order to help support Brexit, they wanted to give money to the | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Democratic unionists in Northern Ireland? | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
The DUP say they have been transparent and say the issue | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
of party funding needs to be addressed. | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
We have revealed the details of the dollar for the referendum and the | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
ball is in the Court of the other parties, will be to the same? The | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
only other parties to spend money in the campaign by the SDLP and the TV, | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
who spent under ?10,000. The issue of wider political funding has been | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
raised on the campaign trail, some parties keeping their donations | :04:39. | :04:39. | |
secret and others making it public. All parties say they | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
support transparency. After the election we will see | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
if words and actions match up. A lorry driver who was on the wrong | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
side of the road when he collided with a van, killing the driver, | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
has been jailed for nine months. Albertas Daskevicius is originally | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
from Lithuania and now lives He was passing another lorry turning | :05:01. | :05:13. | |
left when he struck the oncoming vehicle. Sean McElwee was driving | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
between Strabane and, around ten o'clock on a per night in 2015 when | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
he was suddenly confronted by every driver's nightmare, an articulated | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
lorry bearing down on him on the wrong side of the road. There was | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
just time for his father, a passenger, to shout, where is that | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
man going? Before the terrible impact took his life. His father | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
survived and was in court today to see the driver sentenced. Albertas | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Daskevicius is 51 and originally from Lithuania but with an address | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
at Bawn Court in Ballykelly. He was jailed for nine months for causing | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
death by careless driving. With a further nine months on licence. He | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
had been initially caused with causing death by dangerous driving | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
but later pleaded guilty to the lesser charge. The defence said | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
there was no evidence his client had been speeding are using a mobile | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
phone, he had not been drinking and the lorry was noteworthy. He said | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
his client had not taken a calculated risk but that it was | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
simply a terrible error of judgment with tragic consequences. At the | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
time of the accident, Albertas Daskevicius had no insurance and he | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
was given a separate nine-month sentence for that and banned from | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
driving for ten years. Several members of Sean McElwee's family | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
sobbed quietly in the public gallery as a prison officer put handcuffs on | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
Albertas Daskevicius and led him away. The family declined to say | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
anything as they left court. A man has been arrested | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
in connection with the death The 48-year-old is accused of having | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
and supplying drugs. The woman, who was in her 30s, | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
was found in the Orior Park area. Mike Nesbitt admits his time in | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
charge of the Ulster Unionist Party But he goes into next week's | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Assembly election hoping to emerge He's been talking to our political | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
correspondent, Gareth Gordon. Whether it's votes for the party | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
he leads or in the greenhouse with his wife, Mike Nesbitt | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
is looking for growth. He and Lynda Bryans were once | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
Northern Ireland's best-known So how does she think Mike Nesbitt | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
the politician is doing? There have been several changes of | :07:34. | :07:45. | |
career along the way and everyone he has made a success. And he is making | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
a success of what he is doing right now so I support him. All political | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
careers end in failure. So they say. Is this one of them? It is not over | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
yet. And Mike Nesbitt says he's confident | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
more success is on its way. I am used to people saying in the | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
supermarket, but not people queueing up to talk to me, people stopping | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
their cars in the middle of the street or a man driving a bus and | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
stopping to shout encouragement at me so there is a different feel to | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
this. People are more engaged and I would be surprised if the turnout is | :08:26. | :08:26. | |
not up rather than down. He's lead the Ulster | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
Unionists for five years. I challenge. Setting up the Victims | :08:30. | :08:44. | |
Commissioner was difficult, they appointed four equal commissioners | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
without consultation or morning. If there is any common thread to these | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
things, what is a policy for the Victims Commissioner? For the Ulster | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
Unionist Party? There was also people management. And in this job, | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
people management is almost all-consuming. I want to do onions | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
successfully. One seed he sowed recently | :09:09. | :09:09. | |
was saying he would give his second The SDLP leader stopped short | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
of returning the compliment. I think he came around to that we | :09:13. | :09:27. | |
are thinking after a day or two and I am pleased that of people are | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
thinking about this election, they are thinking about it other than | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
terms of orange and green. The union is safe but it will be safer and | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
more people are content and if they have a good devolved government | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
working for the benefit of all people, whether Protestant or | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Catholic, national or unionist. Should you have joined the Alliance | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
Party? No, I am unionist. The coming election may | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
be his biggest challenge of all. By this time next week, | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
the votes will have been cast and counting will be well underway | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
in the Assembly election. We've been looking through the BBC | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
archives and found that on this day in 1969, | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
voters were going to the polls to elect MPs to the ill-fated | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
Northern Ireland Parliament. All the signs are that voting in the | :10:08. | :10:19. | |
highest political struggle in Northern Ireland's history will | :10:20. | :10:19. | |
reach record levels. It was the first election to split | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
the unionist vote and culminated in the resignation of the then | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
Prime Minister, Terence O'Neill, a few months later after he almost | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
lost his Bannside seat to Ian Back to the present day and ahead | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
of this election next Thursday, we've been visiting various towns | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
to gather the views of some voters. This evening, BBC Newsline's Mark | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
Simpson has been on the doorsteps of Coalisland in the constituency | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
of Mid Ulster. What do you make of what has | :10:40. | :10:55. | |
happened at Stormont? Disgrace, but disgrace. There are a lot of issues | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
to be sorted and in my view it is all one sided. The days of standing | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
back and being locked over are long gone. It will not happen. In my | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
view, anyway. For nationalists? Yes. Hello! How are you doing? Can I talk | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
to you about the election? What is the big issue? Getting things are | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
bad going again. That has to be everybody's priority. Stormont is a | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
disgrace. That is what it is. It seems to be one-sided. The big issue | :11:34. | :11:45. | |
is RHI. Equality. Are you going to vote? I have not decided. No. Why | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
not? There is not much faith in politicians these days. Because they | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
cannot agree. Two children fighting, you would separate them. Will you be | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
voting? No. No. What about it? No. No. You will not be voting? No, no | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
interest. People don't want the same old issues, they want to get on with | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
their lives, they want more quality. Equality? Yes, equality, even with | :12:30. | :12:38. | |
gay marriage, people don't want the churches running the country because | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
that is what it seems like. That is what I call a doorbell! It has been | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
a long time since the money has asked me for my vote. Somebody did | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
that three years ago and I did because he wrapped my door. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
Politicians are not at the doors? Not mine. I want to see a quality | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
and be able to get married in this country. I have the right like | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
anybody else. And to be seen as not a second-class citizen because of my | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
sexuality. If I was a politician rather than a journalist, what would | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
you say? Get it sorted out! We are tired all the time of the same thing | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
happening and no change. Everything should become clearer after polling | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
day. The loss of another tree | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
at the Dark Hedges - made famous by Game of Thrones - | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
has led to fresh calls Only around 90 of the original 200 | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
trees are still standing. Our North East reporter, | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
Sara Girvin, has been And another victim felled | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
at the Dark Hedges. These trees have been | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
here for more than 200 years, but just a few seconds on Game | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
of Thrones saw them become More tourists means more vehicles | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
and traffic is thought to be weakening the roots | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
of the aging trees. These tourists agree | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
something should be done. It is mother nature as well, | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
something you need to look after. Protection is important to see this | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
in the future. It is something we have to look after. He would not see | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
this shutdown as a tourist destination but you have to take | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
into account looking after the surroundings. | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
There are proposals to close the road to traffic - | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
Those who love this place say only an immediate change will guarantee | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
These are our natural heritage and we must protect them, and building | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
would have listed status, and these trees need to be listed and we must | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
do all our power to ensure they are preserved and that should include | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
restricting along this road. There are just two seasons | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
lefts of Game of Thrones, but it's very much hoped | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
the Dark Hedges will survive long after the programme that | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
made them famous ends. An event for schoolgirls today in | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
Belfast was aimed at changing that. Boys are still more likely | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
than girls to study STEM subjects - science, technology, | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
engineering and maths. As our education correspondent, | :15:31. | :15:31. | |
Robbie Meredith, reports, a successful role model | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
was the VIP. Today's experiment at | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
Belfast Metropolitan College - Women are seen as not as clever but | :15:36. | :15:47. | |
if we have a push more girls would do this because it is beneficial and | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
we are just as clever. I don't think there should be preference for boys | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
because girls are almost better. There has been an increasing number | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
of girls taking STEM subjects at GCSE and A level in recent years, | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
though many more boys When I started secondary school it | :16:00. | :16:11. | |
was assumed girls were two domestic science and the boys were to | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
science. No questions asked. That is what you did. I was not happy with | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
that because I wanted to do science. Lurgan-born Professor | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
Bell Burnell was once The award went to two men | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
who worked alongside her. Although she doesn't put that down | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
to sexism, she says attitudes If you look at other countries you | :16:26. | :16:38. | |
will find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, science. | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
Subjects like that. Something to do with the culture we have in the | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
English speaking world about what is appropriate for each of the sexes. | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
And it's women like her the next generation want to know about. | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
If you look at the history of science it is male dominated. And to | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
this day, men dominate this and go through it as a career and that can | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
often be intimidating and harder for women to get in. There are not many | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
role models in science for women to look up to. To think, I want to be | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
like that, I want to do what they do. Because it is male dominated. | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
Today's schoolgirls, tomorrow's scientists. | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
For Ireland's rugby players it's their first home game in this | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
They lie in second place in the table going into tomorrow's | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
match against France at the Aviva Stadium. | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
A win for Joe Schmidt's side would take them top of the table | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
as leaders England don't play until Sunday. | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
It promises to be an electric atmosphere in Dublin. | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
The road to a third Six Nations title in four years has taken them | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
to Scotland and Italy so far. Tomorrow, Joe Schmidt's side or in | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
Dublin for the first time this year. It is great to be home, it is going | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
to be quite a raucous environment. We have trained this week with | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
signals instead of calls for some things because we believe it is | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
going to be, the volume will be such that you will not be able to hear | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
that sort of support. It lifts the team. It could be crucial against | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
the French side who are known for the physical nature. Especially in | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
the collision zone. The way we have performed well against France is | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
getting physicality right. A massive French side with a lot of passion. | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
That is the way they like to play and you must meet that and confront | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
that and go beyond that. We cannot slip up, no second chances. They | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
will put us under pressure and hopefully that will bring out the | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
best. Trimble will win his 70th Irish Cup if called upon from an | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
experienced Irish bench. Which could be the deciding factor tomorrow. | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Ulster take on Zebre in Italy on Sunday and Les Kiss has been able | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
to name Jared Payne amongst the replacements in | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
Payne has been out since he sustained a kidney injury | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
while away on international duty in November, but he is | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
Good news for both Ulster and, potentially, Ireland. | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
Jonathan Rea begins the defence of his World Superbike title | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
tomorrow as the new season begins with racing at Philip | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
Rea, a back-to-back world champion with Kawasaki, | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
is bidding to become the first rider ever to win three in a row. | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
Carl Fogarty, who won four titles himself, | :19:35. | :19:35. | |
is tipping Rea to get that special hat-trick. | :19:36. | :19:43. | |
I feel he is the best rider Britain has got white knight in any | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
challenger. And a really good package and a good team, he has | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
changing like I did, too many times, it cost me. The same team, the same | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
bike, and his talent is the reason he will win three in a row. | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
Slaughtneil GAA club hope to make it an unprecedented treble | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
when their hurlers attempt to match their football | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
and camogie teams by making the All-Ireland club final. | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
Tomorrow, Cuala from Dublin stand between them and the remarkable feat | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
It is a young side that has had a lot of success at underage and | :20:13. | :20:27. | |
elsewhere and they have come on leaps and bounds, getting over the | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
hurdle of Ulster, this was massive having being pipped by crushing all | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
recently but that galvanised us and we came back later. I am looking | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
forward to the Cuala test and the challenge. | :20:40. | :20:40. | |
Derry City play their first game of the new season | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
in the Airtricity Premier tonight away to Bohemians. | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
Tomorrow there's a full programme of fixtures | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
Highlights of all of the games, including Glentoran v Linfield, | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
Geoff Maskell has the weekend weather forecast. | :20:51. | :21:06. | |
The weather is going downhill this weekend, like today. We started off | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
on a promising note, the weather watcher was in Lambeg with this | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
beautiful shot of the clear blue skies but it did not take long for | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
those guys to cloud over and the rain to moving from the West and | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
overnight. It will be a wet and windy night. I'll be at, one where | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
we draw in milder air from the south-west. Not as cold tonight, no | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
chance of frost, with all that rain. Quite breezy in terms of the North | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
West headlines and we could see gale force winds and a wet and windy | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
start to the weekend, this is a picture on Saturday morning as the | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
rain continues to pile in and we can see those wind gauges, lively stuff. | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
Once the rain goes through, we have the warmest temperatures and we get | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
clearer skies through the afternoon. By the time we get to dusk, | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
temperatures dropping away, maybe 7 degrees before dark. Secondly, the | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
most usable part of the weekend in terms of getting out and about. | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
Relatively chilly on Saturday to Sunday, temperatures dropping away, | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
hovering above freezing in rural spots before the rain comes in. | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
Lively weather systems in the Atlantic at the moment, tightly | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
packed isobars sign of the strong winds we will see through the next | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
readers. They will dry more rain through Saturday morning and a | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
reasonably chilly feel to the day once that rain has gone through. | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
Into next week, it will be still breezy but getting cooler so where | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
we have seen temperatures in double figures through the weekend, by | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Monday, six or 7 degrees is more the case and it is not until the middle | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
of next week that we start to see something more settled. Beautiful | :23:01. | :23:01. | |
snowdrops. You can also keep in contact with us | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
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