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for Casement - has the GAA done enough for residents living in the | :00:00. | :00:35. | |
shadow of its planned new stadium? Perhaps there are things we could | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
have done better. We ask the Sports Minister, Caral Ni | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Chuilin, for her view on the way forward. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Also on the programme: Ross Kemp's Extreme World documentary showed the | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
worst of last year's long hot summer - so what sort of impact do images | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
like these have outside Northern Ireland? | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
And here to share their thoughts on all of that and more are our | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
commentators, Professors Deirdre Heenan and Rick Wilford. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
And you can, of course, let us know what you think on Twitter. | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
A leading GAA official has told The View the organisation could have | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
done more to engage with residents opposed to the building of its new | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
?75 million stadium in West Belfast. Although it's already received | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
planning permission, residents are considering legal action which could | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
threaten the project - as Gareth Gordon has been finding out. | :01:29. | :01:46. | |
The sounds of summer will be no more in this Casement Park. Empty now | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
except for the work men stripping everything worth saving. But soon | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
Casement Park will be reborn. ?75 million worth of brand-new stadium. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
They, modern stop I good thing surely. It depends on who you ask? | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
It is an imaginable what this will look like. This man will live in the | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
shadow of the new stadium when it is built. The politicians are in | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
agreement that this is the right thing to do. We have been sacrificed | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
for the greater good, so to speak. You will be a way of the phrase, not | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
in my backyard this is assuming rights issue. | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
This is a justice issue. We need to have our rights upheld. Casement | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
Park is surrounded on three sides by housing. It is OK in its current low | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
rise estate, but perhaps not so when it re-emerges as a towering 38,000 | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
seat stadium. You do not care at all. We have not been told that this | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
is happening stop this person has invited the planning minister to | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
visit her home. We are not a statistic. This is our life. As yet | :03:36. | :03:49. | |
we have had no answer. We are so angry about all that. | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
Concerns here centre on this gateway at the rear of the ground. As far as | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
I know they plan to extend this gateway. Initially when we went to | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
the consultation meetings we were told that the exit would only be | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
used for emergency evacuation and that has not turned out to be the | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
case. There will be people exiting here. Also because there is a waste | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
compound within the corner people will be driving waste disposal | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
lorries to take away skips off whatever. There will be maintenance | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
vehicles. And if concerts go ahead we will be told that the lorries | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
that will be coming to set up will be using this as access. At night | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
there are ten or 12 cars parked. It is a narrow street. There are young | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
children. We just feel that our health and safety will be | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
compromise. Mark Durkin says he understands the | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
fears. So do his party representatives. We stand with the | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
citizens. We want to take this issue forward. There are issues that are | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
still outstanding. The people who have the greatest responsibility are | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
the GAA. It is beer project. Bat-macro it is their project we put | :05:24. | :05:34. | |
that to the GAA official. There are things you could always do | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
better. We could have done better in terms of engagement with the | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
residents. But the GAA have been transparent and open. We have not | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
$300. We have had a three-week consultation process. We went above | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
and beyond what we had to do because it was the right thing to do. It is | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
a matter of deep regret that we have members of the GAA live locally who | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
are opposed to this. I can assure them that GAA will do its best to | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
alleviate their concerns. What would you have done | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
differently? We would have spread the net wider. We would have ensured | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
there were updates directly from the GAA. That makes other alleviate that | :06:29. | :06:40. | |
some of the misinformation. Not only are they admitting they got some | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
things wrong, I understand the GAA is currently rethinking its in tyre | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
strategy where it might offer to buy some of their residence houses. -- | :06:49. | :07:03. | |
rethinking its entire strategy. I do not think we could continue | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
living here. Earlier I spoke to Caral Ni Chuilin. | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
I asked F the GAA could have done a better job. -- I asked her if the | :07:16. | :07:36. | |
GAA could have done a better job. Maybe in hindsight he could have | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
done things differently. I am more than happy with the consultation the | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
GAA dead. We need to build from here on in on what we could do better. As | :07:52. | :08:02. | |
long as the concerns are reasonable we need to try and meet some of | :08:03. | :08:15. | |
those concerns stop. It is always good to hold your hands | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
up if you can't do things differently. How can we make sure | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
that people will get round the table to get issues resolved? I am glad | :08:26. | :08:42. | |
that there is an attempt to meet and discuss the concerns. What more | :08:43. | :08:56. | |
light can you shed on that meeting that? Clearly the residents are not | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
happy. And meeting has been brokered. When will it happen? I | :09:05. | :09:17. | |
think the meeting will happen soon. I think it will be open enough that | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
people will talk about the concerns they have. Should the development | :09:23. | :09:34. | |
continue at this stage? Should the pause button be pressed? I have not | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
heard the residents say that they do not want the GAA facility not to be | :09:43. | :09:56. | |
in West Belfast. I have a Government commitment that I am determined to | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
meet. At the moment we have an eyesore. Now this respect to the | :10:07. | :10:16. | |
GAA. It needs an upgrade. We are investing a lot of money into an | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
area that has not seen investment. We are in providing employment. | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
There is loads of things that we can do. I am not seeing if this does not | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
happen it is the fault of the resident. Is it possible that this | :10:37. | :10:58. | |
will not happen? It will happen. I still have to go ahead with the | :10:59. | :11:08. | |
stadium. Are you saying there is no point in the residents consulting | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
gives you will spend the money anyway? Is there a serious | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
conversation going to be had between yourselves and the GAA to change the | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
plans as they are currently drawn up in terms of this deal of the | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
building and in terms of the numbers involved? Planning permission was | :11:27. | :11:40. | |
granted in December. I think the GAA and the residents will get round the | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
table to discuss a resolution. I do not think we will steal this down | :11:49. | :11:58. | |
stop. Have you spoken to your colleague about this? Mark and I | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
were at Casement Park the day the planning permission was announced. | :12:06. | :12:17. | |
The residents are very angry. That is for everyone to see. The minister | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
has put down conditions, that is being looked at by the design team. | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
There are still opportunities, where people are reasonable, and people | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
are asking for things to be done in a reasonable way to get resolution. | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
The residents spoke about concerns on axis, health and, loss of light | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
in their homes, it is the scale of the project that worries them. The | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
GAA said there might only be half a dozen occasions in the year where | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
the stadium is full, so why is a stadium with the capacity of 38,000 | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
seats being built when Ravenhill and Windsor Park are being developed | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
with the capacity of 18,000 each? Ravenhill, because of the nature of | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
the league, more games are probably played there, so with the solidity | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
is being divided, the capacity has increased. There is a field of | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
dreams aspect, build it and they will come. Is this a good way to | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
spend public money? Surely there must be a robust business case. | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
There must be a justification for 38,000 seat. There is a robust | :13:32. | :13:41. | |
case. This was agreed before I came into my post. There will be at least | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
five championship games per year. The locals are concerned that maybe | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
this business case which they have not been allowed to see at this | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
stage, involves a lot of concerts, with a bigger capacity that would | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
have a great bearing on the quality of their lives in and around the | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
development. That is what they think as part of the plan, but they | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
haven't been formally told that. I am investing as the Minister for | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
sport and sports facilities, the sports facilities and the governing | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
bodies need to make sure they have a good return for public money. I am | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
developing a stadium for sport, not for comments. It has been made clear | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
that this is primarily for the playing of GAA sports, but he would | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
not rule out the possibility that there might be concerts. Do you | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
think there could be significant numbers of concerts there are? I'm | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
not convinced at this stage it would be significant numbers of concerts, | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
but whatever happens, it is primarily for sporting activities, | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
it will not be more than 38,000. Your party is in a predicament, it | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
holds five out of six of the Stormont seat, it has a Westminster | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
seat, there is an argument that Sinn Fein has failed its constituents in | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
the way that this project has been handled, because a lot of them are | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
unhappy about the development and its current format, and they feel | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
let down. And I regret that, but I have heard from other constituents | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
in west Belfast to going to the banks and credit unions to get a | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
loan to send their family to America and Australia. It is a balancing | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
act, they do not want that to happen any more, they want employment | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
opportunities for their family in that area, in their area, and that | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
is right they are entitled to. Do you think this will be resolved in | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
the near future and it can develop with everyone's backing, because at | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
the moment, there could be a judicial review sought by the by the | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
residents, that would hold it up, would you be concerned about that? | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
It could, and I would be concerned, and it is important that we get this | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
resolved in a reasonable and practical way and move ahead as best | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
as possible. So you are confident that things could start in the | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
spring as planned? Yes, it could be done early in spring. The Sports | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
Minister, Caral Ni Chuilin, speaking to me earlier. Now, rioting, | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
protests and violence on our streets. Unfortunately we're used to | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
seeing it on our TV screens here, but this week those pictures | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
travelled much further afield. The actor turned journalist Ross Kemp | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
visited Northern Ireland last July at the height of the parades season, | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
and his Extreme World programme was broadcast on Tuesday night. But what | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
sort of message did it send out? And have we the right to complain if it | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
simply highlighted the problems that continue to spill onto our streets? | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
I'm joined in the studio by the East Belfast MP, Naomi Long, and from | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
London by the Independent's Travel Editor, Simon Calder, who spends a | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
lot of time here. Welcome to the programme, Simon, | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
firstly, what did you make of this programme? I really enjoyed it as a | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
piece of television, Ross Kemp is very likeable, I enjoyed his | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
commentary on it, but I felt that I was watching something from maybe 20 | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
years ago, and what worries me is that, while people who are regular | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
visitors, and I'm lucky enough to be one, they will think, gosh they must | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
have worked very hard to get quite so much grim looking footage. I'm | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
concerned that perhaps people in Britain will be looking at those and | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
thinking, Ho, they are still at it, good this week, and just some of the | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
lines in the commentary were very misleading. He says there is | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
evidence everywhere of the continuing conflict, about how much | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
worse things are getting, but there is not. I go to holidays on Northern | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
Ireland, and if there was evidence of continuing conflict, then I | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
wouldn't go on holidays there. Not a fairer reflection of life here, | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
you're saying? Well, you need to look at the title, it is containing | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
the word extreme in the title, he came to Northern Ireland and found | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
extremist quite successfully. I do not think anyone that knows Northern | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
Ireland will pay much attention to it. It was full of some mysteries, I | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
felt, it was never explained, for example, that the taxi driver who | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
was driving into the piece was and explaining the years of conflict was | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
somebody who does taxi Tours. -- driving him to the peace wall. | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
Another thing which I was watching, I wonder if the police service work, | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
he did not have a seat belt on the back of the taxi! Leaving aside the | :18:43. | :18:52. | |
health and the issues, do you think it was damaging to Northern Ireland? | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
If you were watching that across the water and you did not know this | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
place, what would you make of it? I think it was damaging in terms of | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
the perception for people that do not know Northern Ireland, the | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
question is, is it reflected of Northern Ireland of today, and no, | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
it is not. It did reflect that it was like last summer in those places | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
where he was, and if you hold up a mirror and you do not like what you | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
see, it is not the fault of the mirror. We provide that footage for | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
people to see. These were real events, he did not make it up. No, | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
he did not invent it, it was sensational, what happened last | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
summer was quite serious. It was striking, his sense of shock, that | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
these things were happening in Northern Ireland and they did not | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
make national news. It was particularly striking when the bomb | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
squad came to disarm the device. He said of this was happening in any | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
city in Great Britain, this would be national news, but here, it is just | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
another day. That betrays the sense of frustration that I have had for a | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
long time, that there is a sense of violence that is acceptable in | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
Northern Ireland, that we work around it and we put up with that, | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
but it should not be acceptable, and it is only when you see the shock | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
from someone like Ross Kemp who is useful to extreme things, that we | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
see how much work still needs to be done to fix this. Whether this may | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
be a small group and whether or not they are representative of broader | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
society, seven months on, the stand-off continues, and those | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
people have not gone away. Absolutely, and what is more | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
worrying, even though it is a small and I would argue, on representative | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
group of people in the programme, they are to some degree dictating | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
the pace of political change in Northern Ireland. It seems they are | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
the people that directs, particularly in unionism, how | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
quickly we can move, how much agreement and progress can be made. | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
The group does not need to be hugely representative to have a | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
disproportionate impact, I do think the visuals in the programme and the | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
impact it will have on people that are not familiar with the situation | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
will also have a disproportionate impact. I can only look at this from | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
someone that has travelled abroad myself, and I remember being in | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
Bolivia in South America and was trouble in the city where we were | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
meant to go to, and I was born in bread in trouble here as a young | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
person, and I did not go to that city, because I did not know what to | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
expect. But we have to do with the issues rather than castigate the | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
programme makers. What Ross Kemp was portraying on the programme flies in | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
the face of the work done by the tourism board to promote Northern | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
Ireland. What Naomi Long is saying, would it dissuade people from | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
actually coming here? They're well, I'm afraid, be a certain proportion | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
of the population who might be thinking, Northern Ireland, yes, not | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
heard much from their recently, and why don't we give it a go? Something | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
I am very aware of is that compared with pretty much every other region | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
in Europe, Northern Ireland gets far less tourism than it should do, | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
given the enormous range of attractions, everything from Titanic | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Belfast to the County Antrim coast, marvellous things to do, and far few | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
people going to see it. And of course, people are gradually | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
realising, there is a lot going on, and there we were talking about | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
Bolivia, whether our lots of places in Bolivia that you would happily go | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
to, and in the tourism mainstream in Northern Ireland, and I'm lucky | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
enough to go on holiday frequency in Northern Ireland, you simply do not | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
see any signs of sectarianism policy particularly want to go to the Falls | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
Road on the Shankill Road which is a very interesting political | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
education. It does concern me. There are things in the programme, it was | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
trying to up the tension by blurring out pretty much everything, even the | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
rental car that he was driving around in had the number plate | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
blurred out. There were lines were I thought, what is all this about? He | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
was talking about Derry/ Londonderry, walking around here, | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
you could be in the South of France and I thought, crikey, that is not | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
the County Derry I remember! Do you think he was stretching it? ! Yes, | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
but a good, entertaining programme, and that is the worrying thing. It | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
would be good if Northern Ireland can confront those things and say, | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
yes, these things did happen, and yes, it was made all the more | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
exciting for the viewers of sky one, but we cannot escape the fact that | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
these events took place, even though there wasn't a tourist for five | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
miles. And I hope that perhaps is things can improve as a result of | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
it. Finally, Simon, subtitles necessary or not? Oh, no, I thought, | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
what am I watching here, this is not Bolivia expect then I realised it | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
was Belfast. Politics in Northern Ireland, they look impenetrable to a | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
lot of people from outside, did this simply prompt a lot of people to | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
shrug their shoulders and say, pagan on all their houses, I do not have | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
the first notion of what is happening politically in Northern | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
Ireland and I do not care, I do not want to try to work it out? That | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
might be true for MPs in Westminster and a lot of people in Northern | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Ireland to feel the same way watching those programmes. The | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
resistance of despair of history repeating itself and people are wary | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
of that. It is also true with Simon says, there are many, many positive | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
things of Northern Ireland, we want to grow tourism and sent Belfast as | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
it best. We do not want one programme to cover all of that. If | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
you want to do that to its full potential, we have to deal with | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
underlying issues and instability is because they are a drag on society | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
and they stop us moving forward and create economic uncertainty and | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
political uncertainty. When you are offended by the subtitles? I was not | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
offended, but I did not think they were really needed, but I think | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
sometimes people get over sensitive. I was fine with it, but then, I am | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
from Belfast! Thank you. Letters hear what our commentators make of | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
the discussions tonight. They are quiet springs, as ever! Good evening | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
to you both. Let's talk about casement park, firstly. Is it | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
awkward for the GAA and the Minister that the local residents are | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
unhappy? It is awkward to have a row in their own backyard, but it is | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
understandable that people are sensitive about something being | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
built in the vicinity of their own homes and creating uncertainty, but | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
it is unfortunate that many people have written tirelessly on this | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
project and have seen through a vision and a blueprint and have | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
taken it through Northern Ireland bureaucracy, which is quite an | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
achievement in itself, and then to he had been torpedoed by a group of | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
residents... They should be listened to, but it is important that the GAA | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
would be flexible and buy up some of those homes, but it would be a shame | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
if the project did not go ahead when we have gotten this far. What about | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
the politics of it, it was an SDLP person that gave the planning | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
permission and it was a Sinn Fein minister on the programme tonight | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
drawing criticism from residents, it is quite an interesting situation? | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
It is a family squabble within a wider political family. Whether it | :26:56. | :27:07. | |
will play out electorally I doubt. The immediate impact is on very few | :27:08. | :27:20. | |
residents. It is unfortunate. It is going to be a jewel in the crown for | :27:21. | :27:30. | |
GAA. That may come unstuck because there will be a legal challenge. Let | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
us move on to the Ross Kemp documentary. Was it an unfair | :27:36. | :27:45. | |
representation? The clue was in the title. He came here to be | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
sensationalist. This was not staged. This is happening. It is damaging. | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
But it is compelling to see that this is how we argued in other | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
regions of the UK. The fact that we had to have subtitles as an | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
indicator of how Northern Ireland is viewed in other parts of the UK. Of | :28:09. | :28:17. | |
course there was no context and there was no subtleties. This does | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
not reflect life in Northern Ireland. It will not be used by the | :28:23. | :28:30. | |
tourist board in Northern Ireland. It was interesting when he smiled at | :28:31. | :28:38. | |
the end and said it cost ?25 million to police the riots, as if we have | :28:39. | :28:53. | |
not got that ourselves. Simon Calder was right. It will detail some | :28:54. | :29:00. | |
people from coming over. But it will be short term. But can the 12th | :29:01. | :29:10. | |
again this year we are likely to see similar events. It is a chronic | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
issue. What needs to be addressed are the underlying causes. It does | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
not do as any good. It was tabloid television. That is what it was | :29:22. | :29:32. | |
meant to be. People will have a passing interest. It only had 2000 | :29:33. | :29:42. | |
hits on YouTube. It has not gone viral. Nobody likes to have their | :29:43. | :29:57. | |
dirty linen in public. There were some interesting comments on social | :29:58. | :29:58. | |
media. stretching credibility. That was a | :29:59. | :30:24. | |
positive spin on things. grip would feel. Maybe that is what | :30:25. | :30:54. | |
we need. Banging heads together. Diplomatic banging of heads | :30:55. | :31:02. | |
together. The British Government and the Irish Government should be more | :31:03. | :31:11. | |
hands-on. It is time for that. If our own political leaders are not | :31:12. | :31:20. | |
providing leadership. The Battle of Wills between the | :31:21. | :31:29. | |
education Minister and the TUV reader. That was intriguing? It | :31:30. | :31:39. | |
touches on issues of protocol. What Jim Allister don't was he went and. | :31:40. | :32:03. | |
That was how they used to act. The ombudsman found in favour, saying | :32:04. | :32:10. | |
the response should have been more direct and more prompt. It is | :32:11. | :32:23. | |
indicative of the antipathy. It seems very childish. Is this | :32:24. | :32:33. | |
really a we to behave when you are an elected representative? Jim | :32:34. | :32:41. | |
Allister will not change the way things are done. And John O'Dowd | :32:42. | :32:47. | |
says there is no apology. Interesting nonetheless. Thank you. | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
That is all for now. That's it from The View for this week. I'll be back | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
with live coverage of Gerry Adams' speech to the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis on | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
Saturday night at eight o'clock on BBC Two - and Sunday Politics is at | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
11.35 here on BBC One. For now, though, bye bye. | :33:06. | :33:45. | |
be apologising. He refuses to engage with me I letter. It should have | :33:46. | :33:53. | |
been dealt with in a more mature fashion. | :33:54. | :33:59. |