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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor and Noel | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
The headlines this Wednesday evening. The teenager who took his | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
own life - the Prisoners' Ombudsman says he was locked up in his cell | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
for too long. Skeletons from centuries ago are to be reburied | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
after being unearthed at a former hospital in Omagh. Why mirror, | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
signal, manoeuvre and a sense of direction will soon be needed to | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
pass a driving test. Sex offenders living in the community - we've | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
exclusive access to a case meeting. An unusual visitor has been spotted | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
off the coast of Bangor. Join me live to find out what it is. And | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
the showers are back this evening. Will they ever go away? I'll have | :00:53. | :01:01. | |
all the weather details later. First to Allyn Baxter, the young | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
prisoner who hanged himself last year. A report by the Prisoners' | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Ombudsman says he was locked up in his cell for too long. The Prison | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Service has admitted it didn't do enough to save the 19 year-old. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
Allyn Baxter died last summer. He was one of ten prisoners to kill | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
themselves in the last three years. BBC Newsline's Will Leitch reports | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
on yet another investigation to highlight failures in care in our | :01:23. | :01:31. | |
jails. Foldable and troubled, before his death 19 year-old Allyn | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Baxter was detained at Hyde backward for three days. But he | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
came in with problems. He had a difficult childhood, losing his | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
mother to cancer when he was six and living with up to 12 different | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
foster families. He had a history of drug and alcohol abuse and self | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
harm and had spoken of suicide before. Prison staff did not know | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
about all of that and the fountain in his cell after he took his own | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
life. In the report on his death, the Ombudsman flatlines 18 areas of | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
concern, especially the fact that he was left in his cell for 22 | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
hours a day. She says that long periods of locked down in my view | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
do nothing to address the offending behaviour and are the enemy of the | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
vulnerable. That is the experience of 19 year-old Thomas then, two new | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
Allyn Baxter when that Hydebank himself. We are locked up 22 hours | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
a day. If you don't have a job to do. A job gets you out to associate | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
with people or you can talk. Bit easier, you're not in your cell | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
locked up and you are more likely not to harm yourself. There have | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
been 29 deaths in custody in Northern Ireland since the prisoner | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Ombudsman took up her post. 10 suicides and several since Allyn | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
Baxter's debt. No one is denying the need for reform in prisons but | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
with the loss of another vulnerable person in the system, many voices | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
asking when they welcome. The Northern Ireland Prison Service was | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
told in no uncertain terms by a prisoner review team this year that | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
it needs to change and the prisoner Ombudsman agrees. There are good | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
people in the service trying to make change and a number of | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
programmes have been developed. That isn't enough, we need a | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
comprehensive, high-level programme of change with high-level political | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
support if the Arc to address the fundamental problems that need to | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
be dealt with it changes to be achieved. At the prison service | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
they know there must be widespread change in the way they work. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
Fundamentally, the Prison Service is at a crossroads and we need to | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
change significantly, to move away from the practices of the past, | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
which were largely dominated by the response to the security situation | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
in Northern Ireland. During the time of the Maze prison and the | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
management of paramilitary prisoners. There have been other | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
debts at Hydebank since Allyn Baxter. The reports on those are | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
due in the coming months. What should be done to protect | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
vulnerable young people in custody? I'm joined by Koulla Yiasouma from | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
Include Youth, an organisation which works with youngsters who | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
have committed crime or are at risk of getting into trouble. The | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Ombudsman it damages the efforts of staff in trying to save this young | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
man's life. But when it comes to the prison system, in your | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
experience, how are these people being failed? In a number of ways. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
The Ombudsman report highlighted a number of issues, one of which was | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
when this young man came into custody there was insufficient | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
information about his needs. It was well known by a number of | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
professionals that he had drug and alcohol issues, he was very | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
vulnerable, but the information did not get through to the people who | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
had responsibility for looking after him. In the wake of his death | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
and other reports, the Prison Service admits it needs to do more | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
and it is making changes and has made changes. But were is a balance | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
between having a present for someone to go after committing a | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
crime and a mental health treatment about the balance, when people come | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
into custody, if they have mental health issues they need to be | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
looked after in a mental health facility what they need to have | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
specialist care. Our prisons are full of very vulnerable people. I | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
know some of them have done some awful things but that does not been | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
they should not have a duty of care. You have to be able to do both. | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
Prisons are full, particularly Hydebank, of young prisoners. There | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
are a lot of needs. We need to be able to look after them. Surely | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
treatment should start at a younger age? You will not get any argument | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
from me. It should start from very early on. But it does not. Is are | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
the political will to make that fundamental change to put those | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
treatment facilities into tears? There is political will. I have not | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
heard anybody, politicians or health care professionals, who says | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
we don't care about these people. Of course they do. But how to be | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
joined this up? How is it that when a young person commits a crime, | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
some agencies just say, it's not a problem? They're still young people | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
and they need services. This is a key recommendation of the report | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
that came out today. How do we joined-up services and share | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
information. Thank you for joining us this evening. We invited the | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
Prison Service to join us here in the studio to discuss the issues | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
involved, but they declined the offer. The remains of almost 80 | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
people discovered on the site of an old hospital in Omagh are to be re- | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
interred tomorrow. They were discovered during preparations to | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
build a new health unit. We're joined now by our reporter in Omagh, | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
Louise Cullen. This ad is being used to construct a new children's | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
respite care facility. That is nearly complete and will be ready | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
to open shortly. -- this site. This was the original site of the former | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
general hospital. And the Western Trust Survey best but did not | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
expect to find any new remains. Tomorrow, the cemetery will become | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
the final resting place for the remains of 79 people. It is | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
believed they date from the mid- 19th century, when a workhouse and | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
hospital occupied the, General Hospital site. Some believe they | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
should have been left to rest. annoyed me because initially I | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
realised one or two bodies had been found and had been properly dealt | :07:38. | :07:47. | |
with. That isn't in question. The fact was, the magnitude of this, 79, | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
do we continued digging with a bulldozer or digger. And find body | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
after body? This, in my opinion, must have been a graveyard in those | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
days. There was work carried out to identify burials on the old | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
hospital site. Construction work was confined to the footprint of | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
the old building and that is how the discovery of these remains was | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
unexpected. They were removed under the supervision of archaeologists | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
and police and environmental health authorities were advised. We have | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
sealed the stone from the old General Hospital, that was | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
demolished. And we will erect a memorial in memory of the people | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
that be returned back to, tomorrow. Given the nature of what this site | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
is being used for, Children's respite care, we are not there this | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
evening but on the Dublin Road in Armagh. The remains will be | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
reinterred by representatives of the former church has fallen. Thank | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
you. Following the instructions of a driving test examiner has always | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
been fairly nerve wracking, but now there's an extra challenge. Yes, in | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
the biggest change for 50 years, the test will include driving for | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
ten minutes to an agreed destination without any | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
instructions from the examiner. David Maxwell reports. If you have | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
been through the driving test you will know it can be nerve-racking. | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Even without the presence of television cameras. These young | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
drivers will have more to contend with if they do not manage to pass | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
today. From the end of June they will be a change in the test which | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
means that for 10 minutes, they will have to follow at pre-set | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
route without instructions from the examiner. The good news is that | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
getting lost does not mean feeling. We want to see people take | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
responsibility for what they're going and make decisions, when and | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
where they should change lanes and check mirrors, etc. For some who | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
have been through the test and field, it's an added burden. On the | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
day of the test you are extremely nervous. You will do the test and | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
will be panicking and down they will lead to travel by yourself. | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
What if you are in an unfamiliar area? You will not know where to go. | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
I am very nervous as it is. I am panicking. Instructors say this | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
isn't something to get worked up about. A lot of people are worried | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
about this. If they follow proper manoeuvres, speeding I'm looking | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
properly. They will not have any problem. It is the most significant | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
change to the test in 50 years and there could be more to come. I am | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
looking at other interventions to change the driving test so that any | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
person about to be qualified will be more fit and able to go onto the | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
roads, including motorways. Alex Attwood concedes that doing the | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
test is a daunting task. He confessed today that he probably | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
should have failed in 1977, when he did his. He stalled on a three- | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
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point turn but got away with it. Still to come! On the trail of a | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
humpback whale spotted metres from Bangor Marina. Join me at the US | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
Open golf championship. I have been talking to Rory McIlroy, who says | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
he is recce -- ready to what might -- ready to mount a major challenge. | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
Bus and rail fares are being frozen. Translink, which operates Metro, | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
Ulsterbus, Goldline, Northern Ireland Railways and the Enterprise, | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
says it hopes the move will help people budget in these difficult | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
economic times. The company says it's been able to freeze the prices | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
because of efficiencies. A police officer has gone on trial for rape | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
in Belfast. Gary Ervine, whose address was given as PSNI | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
headquarters, was off-duty when he met his alleged victim in a Belfast | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
nightclub in March 2009. He went back to her home in East Belfast | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
where he allegedly raped her while she was asleep. He denies one | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
charge of rape and two of sexual assault. For some people, housing | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
sex offenders in the community after prison is a recipe for | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
disaster. But the agencies who work with them say it helps reduce the | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
risk of re-offending. For the latest in our series on the | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
management of sex offenders, our home affairs correspondent, Vincent | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
Kearney, has been given unprecedented access into a | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
normally private meeting, where government agencies discuss the | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
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risk posed by an offender and how to deal with it. There are more | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
than 1100 registered sex offenders living in the community. After they | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
have served a prison sentence. The police and agencies who work with | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
than say that is the best way to reduce the risk of reoffending. At | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
says in the risk posed by a sex offender and how best to manage | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
that is discussed by a local area public protection panel. More than | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
20 meetings take place across Northern Ireland every month. The | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
one taking place today is attended by representatives from the police, | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
Probation Board, Housing Executive, social services and I lay adviser, | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
representing the views of the public. This is the first time | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
cameras have ever been allowed to film such a meeting. The name of | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
the offender being discussed has been changed to protect his | :13:11. | :13:20. | |
identity. Mr Black is to be managed within the agency for three years, | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
having been sentenced at court for offences against a female child | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
known to him. The prohibitions contained a Rolls follows... No | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
unsupervised contact with a child without social services approval | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
and he must not enter a relationship without informing the | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
risk manager. The police currently undertake the designated risk | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
manager role in this case. Until recently, Mr Black has been | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
engaging well. However, within the last few days, and yesterday in | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
particular, a number of issues have actually come to my attention. The | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
first is that Mr Black might have commenced a relationship with a | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
young woman. And she may actually be a single mother. When I went to | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
call with him yesterday, he was not there. He was not at his registered | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
address. The information from police today is a cause for concern. | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Social services have not given Mr Black approval for unsupervised | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
contact with any child. Moving on to the other concern, can you | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
clarify the current position? Black has applied for housing, he | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
applied on the 21st of you pull 2011 and his application has been | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
assessed and has been placed on the list. There are a number of | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
concerns regarding potential relationships, potential child | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
victim access... Like in the case of Mr Black, were sex offenders | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
live is a crucial part of risk management. It is also one of the | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
most controversial, because parents do not want a convicted sex | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
offender living near their families. I am a parent of two young boys and | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
I entirely understand the emotions. But the issue of housing cuts to | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
the nub of the challenge of public protection arrangements because it | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
is a balance between public protection and knowing what the | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
offender is and having them in an environment really can effectively | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
risk the risk against having them live somewhere where it will be | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
difficult to manage. The murder of eight year-old Sarah Palin by a sex | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
offender in Sussex seven years ago led to new laws in England and | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
Wales allowing parents to check whether someone with access to | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
their children is a chance sex offender. It is unlikely to be | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
introduced year. The environment in Northern Ireland is sadly different. | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
A number of people who are actively shooting people who are involved in | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
this type of behaviour. The murder of Attracta Harron demonstrated | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
that the risk of reoffending cannot be removed. Her killer, convicted | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
rapist Trevor Hamilton, had been released weeks earlier. He was | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
regarded as such a high risk, he was supposed to be the most closely | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
monitor sex offender at the time. The agency accepts that risks | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
cannot be completely removed. But they insist that housing offenders | :16:19. | :16:27. | |
in the community helps to reduce Tomorrow, we continue with the | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
experiences of a victim of a sex offender. | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
If you were looking out to sea in Bangor today you may have been | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a humpback whale, a rare sight. | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
There have only been three sightings of this a mammal off our | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
coast. When we got reports of ones, we jumped at the chance to see it. | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Natasha Sayee is on a boated just outside Bangor marina. Have you | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
seen it yet? I am afraid we are out of luck today. We have not been | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
able to spot it. We were lucky enough to come across a photograph | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
of it and you should be able to see it now. It shows you how far inland | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
the creature came, really within metres of the marina. You should be | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
able to see across my shoulder are a couple of the fishermen on the | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
walls of a harbour. Apparently they got a fright when this huge whale | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
surfaced and made massive noise. There was also a group of bird | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
watchers on this boat. They were heading out to the Copeland Islands. | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
They did not expect to see it at all. Tell us about it, what was it | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
like? We are very close in to the peer and someone on the boat just | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
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shouted, whale! There was an enormous splash. At first I thought | :17:59. | :18:09. | |
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-- solve the top end of the whale. It came up about half a dozen times. | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
We saw its tail at one stage as well. We were trying to get a | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
picture of it, which was very difficult. I am very proud of my | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
photograph. I was in touch today with a study group who check these | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
things right and they confirmed it was a humpback whale, from the | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
picture I took. It is only the third time it has been seen in | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
Northern Irish waters. The experts are analysing the photograph. They | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
say it is a young male, probably looking for food. If it is good, | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
they could come back. We are hoping to spot him this evening and if we | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
do, we will let you know. What size does he reckoned the | :18:56. | :19:05. | |
whale was? We know and what can be up to 40 metres long. -- we know a | :19:05. | :19:15. | |
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whale. I would estimate about 10 metres, very big. | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
I went whale spotting in Canada and never saw anything! | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
Another remarkable animal, smarter than your average bovine. A hidden | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
camera has amassed Daisy as the mastermind behind night time | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
escapes at a South Armagh farm. Her father installed a camera because | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
he thought cattle rustlers were behind the nocturnal ramblings. He | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
was amazed to see the conning tower had worked out how to who fitted to | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
freedom. -- becoming Cara had worked out how to have fitted to | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
freedom. The bovine Einstein! | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
If I asked you what you thought the average teenager would be up to, | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
going to council meetings would be one of the last things she would | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
think of. That is what a 19-year- old has been doing since his | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
election to Belfast City Council. Northern Ireland's young of cancer | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
there is still finding time to do teenage things. | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
For a new councillor, issues come thick and fast with lots of | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
decisions to make about the political game. Councillor Guy | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
Spence and knows that youth alone will not do in politics. He has to | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
impress. That means preparing for the challenges ahead and | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
considering all the options. He was elected for the DUP at the recent | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
elections, taking his place among veteran a city fathers. Already, he | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
has targets. He is paying for the next game! My friends would | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
probably say when I am over here, I would rather be in City Hall. I'm | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
just passionate about the area in which I live, passionate about | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
politics and Northern Ireland and promoting Northern Ireland, whether | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
it is a local or world level, depending on where politics takes | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
me. Sometimes even politics must give way to teenage pastimes. | :21:18. | :21:26. | |
just go bowling, to the cinema, play football and staff. He would | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
like me to call him councillor Spence but it is not going to | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
happen. On election day, he was also meeting his new constituents. | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
Just a few days later, he was back here at the University of Ulster in | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
Jordanstown, sitting his first-year exams in politics. Like teenagers | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
across Northern Ireland, he will spend the next few weeks waiting | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
for his exam results but for now, it is all politics. It is fantastic. | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
We walk into the council and I hope I am a breath of fresh air to | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
everyone, whether it is the girls in reception, the security guard | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
other councillors themselves. I hope to bring a bit of new ideas | :22:10. | :22:19. | |
and new perspective. I am in to win, you know! Elected with over 1,500 | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
votes in north Belfast, Councillor Spencer is looking forward into a | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
long career in politics. -- Councillor Spencer. | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
We will soon it not that enthusiasm out of him. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
It is the US Open at a man from the north coast is centre of the | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Congressional Country Club in Maryland. | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
It is the other one, this time worry McIlroy leads the charge, | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
hoping to take over from Graeme McDowell. -- Rory McIlroy. Despite | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
his master's map than, he says he is ready for the challenge. -- | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
Masters and knelt down. Evelyn it the US Open champion | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
enjoys watching Rory McIlroy play golf. He is one of the most | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
naturally gifted players in a game. He is confident about his chances. | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
I feel like my game is in good shape. I am not going to come in | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
and say it is OK. I have been playing well. I feel as if I am | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
playing similarly to the way I went into Augusta. M I can hit it well | :23:27. | :23:36. | |
and -- if I can hit it well and get some holes I will do well. The last | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
major Championship went horribly wrong. He blew the lead at Augusta | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
in dramatic fashion. Eight melted down which he is determined will | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
not leave any mental scars. A lot of questions will be asked of me if | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
I get myself into that position again, not just of myself, but from | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
other people. That is natural that people are going to question you | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
until you actually do it. I would love to be able to stand here on | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
Sunday night and talk to you and say, I did learn from its and what | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
I was telling me at the start of the week was the truth. I hope I | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
can get into position and try and get the win. And replicate the | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
achievement of Graeme McDowell and as -- as back to back Northern | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
Ireland champions. I have got my dad with me this week so it would | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
be a good Father's Day present for him. There is a lot of golf to play. | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
I feel that good coming into this week. Hopefully I will give it a | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
good go. The way it Rory McIlroy handled his US Masters experience | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
has in many ways endeared him even more to his huge number of fans in | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
America and if he triumphs here this weekend, there may be no more | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
popular winner. He is due a win and we wish him | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
well. Northern Ireland's record | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
goalscorer, David Healy, faces an uncertain future. He says he is | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
determined to fight his way back into the international squad. The | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
Olympic Games and Buster was in Belfast today encouraging locals to | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
volunteer for the torch relay, but he ended up fielding questions | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
about his future under Nigel Worthington. I spoke to Nigel and | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
he said I was not going to be in the squad. We had error discussion, | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
:25:47. | :25:48. | ||
I did not agree with what he said. I wanted to be in it. I respect him | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
because he is the manager, although I do not agree with him. He said to | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
me the door is always open and hopefully I can get myself fit, get | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
a club and show what I can do. Donegal Gaelic footballer, Michael | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
Murphy, will find out tomorrow whether he can play in the Ulster | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
semi-final against Tyrone. He was sent off for this off-the-ball | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
incident during Sunday's quarter- final win against Cavan but he is | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
hoping to get it overturned. He will attend an appeal hearing at | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
Croke Park tomorrow to argue his case. | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
The full story of day one of the Gulf tomorrow. | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
In gloomy start today with a lot of cloud, but it was not long before | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
the sun came out and attended just came up. County Down with the warm | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
spot today, temperatures reaching the dizzy heights of 22 Celsius. | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
This evening, temperatures are reluctant to drop off. Sunshine | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
around but there are some road showers as well. Many places | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
avoiding those showers. Clear spells and temperatures generally | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
holding. It is not a bad night for stargazers. The lunar eclipse takes | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
place tonight. Lit to the skies before 10pm and you might catch | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
something unusual. There could be mist and fog but it should not cost | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
too much bother. Thursday, we are back to the familiar combination of | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
sunshine and showers. The morning is the better half of the day, | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
perhaps the odd shower. It is not until the afternoon that they will | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
start to pep up and there will be some aggressive showers during the | :27:36. | :27:44. | |
afternoon, perhaps some thunder. As compensation sunshine as well. In | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
the sunshine, temperatures lifting to about 16 Celsius. When the | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
showers kick off temperatures will tumble. Sharratt gradually fading | :27:53. | :27:59. |