12/02/2017 BBC Newsline

The woman who died following a two-vehicle crash

near Castledawson in Co Londonderry was 74-year-old Alice Smylie

from the Ballymena area. The crash happened on the Hillhead

Road near its junction with Creagh Road yesterday morning.

Three men were taken to hospital for treatment,

but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

Police in East Belfast say a crowd of more than 100 teenagers gathered

at a local park drinking alcohol last night.

The PSNI also found evidence of drug taking, as Aileen Moynagh reports.

It was in this playpark in East Belfast where teenagers aged

between 14 and 17 were gathered around 8pm yesterday evening.

Police say a large amount of alcohol was found,

and there was evidence of illegal drug misuse.

The PSNI also say that the young people were not just from Belfast,

Some parents and dog walkers using the park today were concerned

We've got three young children, so it's not great, because we use

It is a family park, and there are bottles and glass

It's not great for the safety of the kids.

It is scary, those of us who are parents bringing our

children are slightly older kids wanting to play.

Some of our older children, ten, 11, come here sometimes

on their own on their way home from school, you would be worried

Posting on the PSNI East Belfast Facebook page,

vigilant about the whereabouts of their children.

At the Bafta awards ceremony this evening, the animated film Kubo

and the Two Strings, which features 15-year-old

Art Parkinson from Donegal in the lead role, has won the Bafta

The film is nominated for two Oscars at the end of this month.

The Party By Northern Ireland writer and actor Conor MacNeill missed out

In GAA, it's been a disappointing weekend for Ulster teams

in the Allianz Football League, with just one win.

Donegal had a one-point victory over Roscommon in Division 1.

And in other games, there were draws for Monaghan against Cavan,

and last night Tyrone drew with All-Ireland champions

In Hurling, Antrim beat London, but Armagh lost to Kildare.

Rugby now, and Ireland lie in second place in the Six Nations table

after recording a convincing nine-try 63-10 victory

Nial Foster was there for BBC Newsline.

After a false start in Scotland last week, it was a much

They scored four tries in the first half to secure a bonus point

in a game that the boot from start to finish.

-- in a game that they've passed. -- they lost.

They grabbed two tries each in the opening 35 minutes.

The latter touching down with an historic try which secured

the first ever for a try bonus point recorded at the Six Nations.

Ireland were clinical when in possession,

as they dissected the Italian defence with ease.

The Man of the Match stormed through early in the second half

He wasn't the only Irishman to cross the white-wash three times.

But the score of the second period went to Garry Ringrose,

who ghosted his way through the Italian tacklers to help

Ireland leave with five points and confidence going into the next

fixture at home against France in two weeks' time.

With campaigning continuing for the Assembly election,

we've been on the doorsteps to find out your views.

For tomorrow night's programme, Tara Mills has been

Over the next few weeks, what would convince you to go out and exercise

your vote? Well, the only thing about it, if they promised they're

going to do something, do it. Not once they get in, forget about it.

See Tara's report from Fermanagh on BBC Newsline at 6:30pm.

Now let's get a look the weather forecast.

The cold weather has been accentuated by the brisk

Still quite windy to begin with. are getting a bit less cold

While we still have those winds, it will continue to feel chilly

A bit damp in places this evening, a wintry feature,

It clears overnight as that moves away toward the north.

Less cold air coming in behind, so temperatures are rising

in the morning, but it will feel cold in that wind.

For tomorrow, bright and breezy start, we still have a chilly wind,

and it will start out quite cloudy first thing before the cloud

More sunshine for the Republic of Ireland, also in England and Wales.

Some lovely sunshine here as well. Along the North Sea coast we have

cloud, bringing showers into the East of Scotland.

And where we have had snow over the Pennines, the air becomes

a little bit less cold we get mist and fog forming.

We have got that breeze on the chilly side. Same for Northern

Ireland, temperatures are bit better, 7-8 , bright spells and

sunshine but we have a keen south-easterly breeze and it will

continue to feel chilly. At least it's a dry start of the new week. We

continue to see things warming up with winds from the south-east. The

weather front on Tuesday brings rain, showers are talking get

behind. On Tuesday we are going to see rain moving in across Ireland

and Wales on Southwest. Still the brisk south-easterly winds making it

feel cold. Even the temperatures are starting to come up. Elsewhere, dry

and bright. Into Wednesday, the temperatures continue to rise in the

subway wind. Still a lot of dry and bright weather. -- by southerly

wind. First they mainly dry, with temperatures into double figures.

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