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Good evening, this is BBC Newsline, with Donna Traynor and Sarah | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
Travers. The headlines this Thursday evening. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
The Justice Minister asks the Law Society to investigate the | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
behaviour of a leading Belfast solicitor. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
An independent report criticises the Police Ombudsman for weak | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
leadership. Theo Walcott -- the inquiry into | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
the Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan murders. The police are accused of | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
interference. And the tax cuts have lest -- have | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
left restaurants here feeling the pinch. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
And why sport and politics don't mix. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Also on the programme, join me live on a treasure hunt in Enniskillen, | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
to discover if the Antiques Roadshow has unearthed a fortune. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
And as the showers fade, could things be settling down at last? | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
The Justice Minister has written to the Law Society urging them to | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
investigate the behaviour of a leading Belfast solicitor, which | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
has been described as an attempted smear of David Ford. Mr Ford | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
disclosed the move to the Assembly's Justice Committee after | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
details emerged of a leaked email said to have been written by | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
solicitor Kevin Winters. Our political editor, Mark Devenport, | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
has more. The Justice Department's attempt to | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
cut the legal aid payments it made two syllabuses and barristers has | :01:40. | :01:49. | |
caused widespread destruction in the courts. -- to solicitors. One | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
solicitor was prepared to take on a case at the new low rate but had to | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
withdraw after he could not secure the services of a barrister. In the | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
Justice Committee today, a DUP politician read out a leaked email | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
he claimed had been sent to a Law Society representative. This is the | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
P r o for the association. He got out an email from Kevin Winters, | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
saying, Well done on the radio this morning. The language was brilliant. | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
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It says that all, win. There is a series of exchanges between the | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
solicitor and a Mr Higgins, who I presume is a journalist. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
response, David Ford told committee members he had been contacted by | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
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two journalists asking about an alleged friendship between a | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
solicitor and his wife. It was put to me the suggestion of an alleged | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
friendship with Mr Bell's wife and that she was possibly a member of | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
the alliance prepare and decide -- had signed my pay before the | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
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election. I said this was rubbish. -- signed by paper for the election. | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
Jim Wells claimed that Kevin Winters's firm has received �16.5 | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
million in legal aid in the past few years. Another member described | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
the matter as a disturbing development, which appeared to be | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
an attempted smear against either the Justice Minister or the | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
solicitor, Gary Bell. In response, Kevin Winters said the Garrigill | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
issue is the subject of a complaint and a counter complaint, and as | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
such it will be entirely inappropriate for him to comment. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
He added that all parties involved should recognise the need for | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
extreme accuracy on these issues and any erroneous statements would | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
be the subject of litigation. The Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
has been subjected to withering criticism by an independent report, | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
which says his weak leadership has undermined the effectiveness of the | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
office. The report was ordered by the Justice Minister after a senior | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
aide to the Ombudsman, Sam Pollock, claimed government officials had | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
interfered with the work of the office. The report found some | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
interference but no systemic meddling. It also uncovered toxic | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
office politics at the highest levels of the organisation. Our | :04:27. | :04:36. | |
home affairs correspondent, Vincent Kearney, reports. | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
Sam Pollock is seen here on the right, walking alongside the Police | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Ombudsman, Al Hutchinson. His decision to resign and allegations | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
about how his office does its business led to two separate | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
inquiries. The former senior civil servant was appointed by David Ford | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
enabled to investigate some of those allegations. It was said that | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
senior government officials have meddled in the affairs of governors | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
of the office and had spread false and malicious allegations about Sam | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Pollock when he raised concerns about interference. Appearing | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
before the Justice Committee at Stormont today, the issue without | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
land. The outcome of the five-year review and the consequences of the | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
evaluation will be investigated. However, the report is far from a | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
clean bill of health. It paints the picture of an office in turmoil, | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
with a complete breakdown between the relationship between the | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
ombudsman and its two most senior members of staff, Sam Pollock and | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
the senior investigations officer. People are either at loggerheads | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
with each other or have no respect for each other and they expect a | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
large group of staff of function and deliver a strong service. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
says a document was leaked which was damaging to the reputation of | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
Sam Pollock. It was leaked to the director of investigations, a | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
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colleague Nenad -- a colleague Sam Pollock was in it problems with. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
You have stated very clearly that it was meddling and interference by | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
officials in this office but I don't think you flag d'etat in the | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
way you should have. The fear is damaged of relationships and morale. | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
The report says it is a drift towards an ineffective office. | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
Bennett said, this was damaging to decisive leadership. -- then it | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
said. Does this not damage relationships with the ombudsman? | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
disagree with that. This report and jaw evidence has completely and | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
utterly and totally shredded the credibility of the office ombudsmen. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
It has completely destroyed 10 years of work. The Justice Minister, | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
who ordered the inquiry, had Mr say. I think their bodies need to take | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
action in a number of areas. Firstly, it shows a short-term | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
response to government issues, which needs to be sorted out | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
immediately. In a statement, Al Hutchinson said he welcomed the | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
findings of the report and that there was no evidence of systemic | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
interference in the work of his office. But Sam Pollock has said he | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
does not accept there was no interference in operational issues. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
He also said he did not agree that interference was not systemic. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Other potentially more damaging allegations by his Sam Pollock | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
about a lack of independence between the office and the police | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
are subject to a separate inquiry. Its findings are expected to be | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
published in the near future. Next, more accusations of | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
government interference, this time in the workings of the Smithwick | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Tribunal in Dublin, which is looking at the murders of two RUC | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
officers. In letters to the Republic's Justice Minister, the | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
tribunal's chairman Judge Peter Smithwick said the politician's | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
public statements have led to witnesses reconsidering whether to | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
give evidence. Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Buchanan died in an IRA ambush as they returned from a meeting at | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
Dundalk Garda station in 1989. The tribunal is investigating | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
allegations that someone in the Gardai colluded in the murders. | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Our reporter Jennifer O'Leary has more now on the claims of | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
interference. Jennifer, what's the background to the correspondence? | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
In later May, the Irish Justice Minister announced he was imposing | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
a deadline on the work of the tribunal. An interim report has | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
been published today and the final report, due for the end of November | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
this year. That was used to a lot of people, including the chairman | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
of the tribunal, Peter Smithwick. He wrote a letter, essentially | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
saying, what are you doing imposing a deadline and giving a green light, | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
frustrating my work, because they know we are to wrap up, and also it | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
could have an impact on significant witnesses who may fear they do not | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
want to come forward. Outside his jurisdiction, witnesses cannot be | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
compelled to give evidence. He sent his letter to the minister and | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
there ensued correspondence, where the minister denied he was | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
interfering in the tribunal and he refused to revoke the government | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
decision not to impose the deadline and we know the terms of reference | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
were changed. It is particularly damaging, those accusations, that | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
the minister has threatened public confidence in the tribunal? | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
Absolutely. Fianna Fail, who were in power in 2005, they justice | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
spokesman accused the minister, saying, the minister is undermining | :10:25. | :10:34. | |
what he described as an expensive but crucial initiative. He said one | :10:34. | :10:43. | |
of the essential purposes of the report was to expose the | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
perpetrators. Where is the interim report, you might ask. We expected | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
to be published later this afternoon. The attention has now | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
focused on the political fall-out from the Minister Alan Shatter and | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
the reactions from political parties in Northern Ireland. | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
A 45-year-old man has been charged over comments posted on a social | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
networking site about the murder of Constable Ronan Kerr. The 25-year- | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
old was killed when a bomb exploded under his car in Omagh almost three | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
months ago. The man, who was arrested in Cookstown, is charged | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
with distributing material that's threatening or offensive. A | :11:16. | :11:26. | |
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condition of his bail is that he's not allowed to use a computer. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
We're heading into the height of the tourist season, but the | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
industry here says it's about to suffer another blow. From tomorrow, | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
restaurants, hotels and tourist venues in the Republic can charge a | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
lower rate of VAT. That'll make it less than half of what is charged | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
to customers here. BBC Newsline's Will Leitch reports. | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Lunch in a Dublin restaurant. From tomorrow, the bill will be | :11:50. | :12:00. | |
noticeably smaller. It is dropping to 9%. It will have a huge impact | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
and give people in the domestic market a feel-good factor to see | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
prices drop. For example, our three-course menu will go down. It | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
is a visible impact. Anything that can bring tourists into Ireland is | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
a good thing. The VAT rate in Northern Ireland's restaurants is | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
20%. With a reason dipping tourist numbers it is no surprise that | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
restaurant owners here are looking southwards and wishing for a | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
reduction, too. It gives them a huge advantage and we are very | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
jealous of what they're getting. We are paying 20%, and that is on a | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
total turnover. So if I sell you a fish dish at �12, the VAT man gets | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
to pounds of that straight away. Our profit on that dish will be | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
about 30 pence. So we are struggling. We need an VAT rate | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
similar to theirs. -- a VAT rate. Lowering the VAT rate could make | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
room for lowering prices and bring people through the door, and that | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
could be the difference between it keeping going and closing down | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
altogether. The group representing a hotels is worried as well. With | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
rates in France and Spain at five and 8%, these businesses cannot | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
compete. Our nearest neighbour has much lower rates and a domestic | :13:32. | :13:41. | |
competition is trading at 9%, so we are automatically at a disadvantage. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
This is BBC Newsline, and still to come on the programme. | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
Hollywood glamour in Belfast, as this stunning collection goes on | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
show. And what hidden treasures have been | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
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discovered at the Antiques One in every 91 children here lives | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
with relatives other than their parents. It is known as kinship | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
care. The situation often arises out of a traumatic or difficult | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
situation like death, prison or illness. One grandmother has been | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
telling me how she intervened when her daughter was mentally unwell to | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
prevent her grandchildren being taken into care, but now she feels | :14:21. | :14:30. | |
social services have left her with no support. | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
There was nobody else to step in to take care of my grandchildren can | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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stop as any grandmother would do, I went to take care of them, as any | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
grandmother would do. I had no money whatsoever and every door I | :14:52. | :15:00. | |
turn to was close to me when I went for help. I did approach social | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
services at one stage and say if my grandchildren were undernourished | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
could be out to visit me, and we're at that stage. It is so sad but I | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
had to screen and shout to get that help. If I had fostered them, but | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
support would have been there. So, if that lady had officially | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
fostered her grandchildren she would have had more help. That's a | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
big issue for a great number of people in a similar situation in | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
Northern Ireland. With me now is Jacqui Williamson from an | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
organisation called Kinship Care NI. This subject was raised at a | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
conference in Belfast today organised by the Community | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
Foundation for Northern Ireland, raising a topic, Jacqui, not widely | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
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discussed before? Today we spent talking about different issues and | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
kinship care was one of them. One in 19 children here that within | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
this kinship care arrangement. We had the opportunity to raise the | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
issue today public paid. You have personal experience of kinship care. | :16:06. | :16:15. | |
Tunnels your story. I am a kinship care myself. By that after my knees. | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
I grew up in the care system in Northern Ireland, but before I went | :16:18. | :16:27. | |
into care I live - - lived with my grandmother. Now affect care I can | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
understand the importance of keeping children within their own | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
families and communities. But you feel there should be more done to | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
help. There is a Bill going through Parliament that should make things | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
better? It should do. The the bill is going through the House of | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
Commons at the moment. We want to see more than that for kinship | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
carers in Northern Ireland. We want better support, respite support for | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
people who do this. The thank you. The glamour of Hollywood USA has | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
come to Belfast. Costumes worn in movies by Elizabeth Taylor and Al | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
Pacino are on display in the Ulster Museum from tomorrow. And from the | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
small screen exhibits included Colin Firth's suit worn in that | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
famous scene in Pride And Prejudice. Our arts correspondent, Maggie | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
Taggart, gives us a sneak preview. And the Ulster Museum has captured | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
that movies there it here in this exhibition with a red carpet and | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
the very first costume that you see is a Hollywood one, worn by | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
Elizabeth Taylor in 1988. The first part of the exhibition is about | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
wedding dresses. This one is from pride and prejudice. This was | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
warned by Meryl Streep. But this one up here, tell me what this one | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
is from, how Lennon Bonham-Carter or in a Frankenstein? That's right, | :17:58. | :18:06. | |
it is true the at magnificent dress. Their exact attention to detail is | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
just stunning. The pride and prejudice wedding dresses here just | :18:09. | :18:19. | |
as it was warned on-screen. Fans of Lark Rise to candle for concede two | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
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outfits worn in the popular series. So now we have a complete contrast | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
in the colour. What is this one? This is the dress that Minnie | :18:35. | :18:45. | |
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Driver wore in Phantom of the opera. It has a beautiful colour. You also | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
have something from the King's speech. Yes, we are amazed and | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
delighted that we were able to get these costumes. They have not been | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
seen that the public before so we are lucky to have them. The Queen's | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
Film Theatre has joined in, too. There are some great films shown | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
throughout the case - - course of the exhibition. For us it was a | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
chance to highlight its the popularity of costume drama as a | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
genre. This outfit is a show- stopper. It is the one worn by | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
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We are off to Enniskillen now where people have been clearing out their | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
attics in the hope of finding some hidden treasure. That's because the | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
BBC's Antiques Roadshow is in town at the Castle Coole National Trust | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
property. Our district journalist Julian Fowler is there for us. | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
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Julian, did you uncover any bits of treasure in your house? | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
I'll be asking an expert in a moment. The 18th century mansion | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
here is a magnificent background for the Antiques Roadshow, now in | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
its 34th series. More than 2,000 people were here today hoping for a | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
big valuation. The last time the programme was in Enniskillen was 20 | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
years ago when there was one of those classic moments which the | :20:18. | :20:28. | |
programme has become famous for. The Antiques Roadshow used to visit | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
sports halls rather than stately homes. In 1990 Frank Mick Fealty | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
turned up at this painting bought for �2. It had been used as a | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
dartboard, but it was revealed to be rare and valuable. He is | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
collected and this is a very good one. I would say it is probably | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
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worth between �10,000 and �15,000. Who through the dark?! Today the | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
show return to for Mamma looking for more exciting discoveries. | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
always have there is going to be some amazing what it for up pounds | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
and it is worth �10,000 moment! There is always something pretty | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
spectacular that comes along. queues formed early this morning | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
with people of thing but an old family heirloom could be worth a | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
fortune. We have brought to pictures and we were thinking they | :21:37. | :21:45. | |
might be worth quite a lot. Are you hoping it is? Yes. Just curious, | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
really. I like to know what things are worth. For some it is finding | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
out the history of an object in a little about, but for the millions | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
of viewers to tune in each Sunday night it is the agony and ecstasy | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
of the moment when the expert reveals what it is worth. He'd just | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
said it was made of alabaster. If it had been made of marble it would | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
be worth an awful lot more. Did you find your fortune? I will be going | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
back to work and so temper! course, there is always the | :22:23. | :22:32. | |
sentimental value if there is no monetary value. Eric, any big | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
discoveries? We have had a good time today. I have no idea what my | :22:37. | :22:45. | |
colleagues are doing. I think I saw most of the 2000 people. A lady | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
came in with the collection of compacts and I'm told by my | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
colleague that those 500 compacts were worth the best part of a | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
hundred �1,000! Jewellery, they have done well today. We had a | :23:01. | :23:09. | |
diamond brooch that was valued at around �12,000. Silver, not so via | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
a silver. Ian Pickford has had a great day. We had some church | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
silver from James the second, �70,000 to �80,000. Very briefly, | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
is that worth anything? It is a lovely piece of jewellery which | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
dates from 1900. 9 carat gold. Not a huge amount of money come about | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
�100. It does go to show that antique jewellery can be affordable. | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
Thank you very much for joining us. Looks like it will be spending my | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
fortune on my summer holiday just yet. | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
The US Open champion Rory McIlroy has been giving some golfing tips | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
to two formidable players - in the political arena! He was a guest | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
this morning of the First and Deputy First Ministers and, as Dan | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
Stanton reports, they have a lot to learn - when it comes to golf, of | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
course! It has been a whirlwind of | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
engagements for golf's man of the moment. Today it was meeting that | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
ministers and the PhotoShop - - photo-shoot at Stormont. Then it | :24:23. | :24:33. | |
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was time for some practice for our top politicians. Let's see your | :24:36. | :24:46. | |
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grip. That snot grape! What Is Your Handicap Mr Robinson? The golf club. | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
It all went quiet when people prepare for the all-important shot | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
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from Martin McGuinness. The staff enjoyed the moment. How | :25:08. | :25:16. | |
does it feel to be at Stormont, Rory? Great. It is no first-time | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
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here. So, another highlight for Rory McIlroy, who is still enjoying | :25:28. | :25:38. | |
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his time off before the next big competition. | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
Fergal Gregory, 12-year-old swimmer from Crossmaglen, has won and gold | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
medal at the Special Olympics. Earlier Martin who'd won silver in | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
the shot put competition. That brings the total metal - - medal | :25:58. | :26:07. | |
tally for Northern Ireland up to 36! Well done to Angie Phillips. I | :26:07. | :26:17. | |
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won't tell me what age she is today, It looks like the weather is going | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
to settle down a little bit. Not huge amount of sunshine, but not a | :26:27. | :26:35. | |
lot of rain, I do. There were a few showers this morning, drifting | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
their way eastwards. For many a bus the evening will be the best part | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
of the day. Through the night the cloud will start to close him once | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
again and we could see some mist and hill fog, particularly in the | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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north-west. For most of us it will Into tomorrow, it does look like we | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
will hold on to a lot of cloud, probably more so than today. They | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
could be a few spots of drizzle, but that will fade away and leaving | :27:15. | :27:25. | |
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us with dry weather. It will not be a bad day on the north coast. The | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
best chance of a few Brits in the cloud will be in the north coast | :27:31. | :27:41. | |
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and parts of County Antrim in County Down. The winds are light. | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
If you suffer from hay fever, the pollen levels are rising. Heading | :27:49. | :27:52. |