:00:04. > :00:11.David Dunseith in his comfort zone, preparing to move others out of
:00:11. > :00:14.theirs. Good afternoon, once again, from me, David Dunseith. For 20
:00:14. > :00:18.years, he presented the popular Talkback programme on Radio Ulster
:00:18. > :00:22.and his voice was among that the most recognisable in local
:00:22. > :00:29.broadcasting. I don't think anyone can quite appreciate now, because
:00:29. > :00:35.we're so used to the format of radio, that he was such an expert.
:00:35. > :00:38.He did get at some of the most difficult times, he did it in
:00:38. > :00:42.trying circumstances at any broadcaster has had to deal with.
:00:42. > :00:45.Londonderry boy was a policeman before entering journalism in the
:00:45. > :00:50.1970s, working for Ulster Television and then moving on to
:00:51. > :00:55.the BBC in the late 1980s. thing I learned most from working
:00:55. > :00:57.with David was respect. From the highest to the lowest, he always
:00:57. > :01:03.respected the people he was interviewing and more than anything
:01:03. > :01:09.else, he respected the audience. Even those politicians put through
:01:09. > :01:15.the wringer have fond memories of him. I arrived late, ran from here
:01:15. > :01:19.in the City Hall into the BBC, up the stairs, into the studio and I
:01:19. > :01:29.thought, at least they would give me time that to get my breath back.
:01:29. > :01:32.
:01:32. > :01:36.He left me, he asked a question and he sat back and smiled! I can well
:01:36. > :01:41.recall going in to do an interview and coming in with some officials
:01:41. > :01:45.and he said to me, I know you, you live in our local community, you
:01:45. > :01:50.don't need all of that but I am going to ask you that he was
:01:50. > :01:55.absolutely right because he always wanted to talk to you as the person,
:01:55. > :01:59.not some high-falutin policies because David was very much a
:01:59. > :02:02.person of the people. It was very many years into his career when I
:02:03. > :02:10.learned he was a former member of the RUC and given the animosity
:02:10. > :02:13.between republicans and the RUC, it was all the more credit to him, but
:02:13. > :02:19.he was totally professional in the way in which he dealt with all the
:02:19. > :02:26.political parties, made no exceptions whatsoever. Of course,
:02:26. > :02:30.he was from Derry, there was at Londonderry? When David Dunseith
:02:30. > :02:35.retired, he was presenting the seven days programme but he will be
:02:35. > :02:42.remembered as the voice of Talkback, a programme he left in 2009,
:02:42. > :02:47.signing off with the words of another folk hero. What do I say?
:02:47. > :02:55.There's a song, a Woody Guthrie song, so long, it's been good to
:02:55. > :03:02.know you. Got to be drifting along. A former journalist and BBC manager,
:03:02. > :03:06.Robin Walsh, knew David throughout his many years in broadcasting. He
:03:06. > :03:11.will be quite embarrassed that we would have this adulation for him
:03:11. > :03:14.today but what are your reflections of him? I think he would be hugely
:03:14. > :03:22.embarrassed, I have to reflect that I don't think I have ever
:03:22. > :03:26.encountered such a huge outpouring of sympathy, support, marvellous
:03:26. > :03:30.tributes and admiration for any local broadcaster, or you have to
:03:30. > :03:35.do is look at the local papers, this programme, Radio all day, on
:03:35. > :03:38.all channels. He did have longevity in his career but what part of his
:03:38. > :03:44.character, his broadcasting character, did you think made him
:03:44. > :03:50.stand out above others? Total integrity, Denis Murray said it
:03:50. > :03:56.there, a man full of integrity. David went back, right from the
:03:56. > :04:00.grip of the civil rights movement in the mid-Sixties, saw the birth
:04:00. > :04:04.of the peace process and its development and I don't think any
:04:04. > :04:09.other broadcaster has gone 40 years tracking of the complexity and
:04:09. > :04:15.twists and turns and situation here. What he did was, he brought a
:04:15. > :04:18.calmness to the whole thing. His mission was to inform and explain,
:04:18. > :04:23.this he did brilliantly and I do think this community owes him a
:04:23. > :04:28.huge debt of gratitude. He called Talkback the People's Parliament,
:04:28. > :04:32.it was a platform for the people to air their views. Fairness should be
:04:32. > :04:36.a core ingredient of every journalist, it difficult was that
:04:36. > :04:41.in such contentious times during his career? I don't think it was
:04:41. > :04:44.difficult at all because it came naturally to him and going back to
:04:44. > :04:47.the tributes and the top of his relationship with the audience on
:04:47. > :04:51.Talkback, I think the thing that would have pleased him most of all,
:04:51. > :05:00.he would have been delighted about the political tributes, but those
:05:00. > :05:05.tributes from members of the public. His public had a mutual respect for
:05:05. > :05:09.each other. It wasn't all politics, he had agreed to wry sense of
:05:09. > :05:13.humour and that obviously came across in his broadcasts. That was
:05:13. > :05:17.the delight of the man, he could switch from this serious, the very
:05:17. > :05:25.troublesome stuff that he had to report and explain, to the light
:05:25. > :05:27.touch. That came naturally and David was a natural broadcaster.
:05:27. > :05:30.The Social Development Minister, Nelson McCausland, has asked the
:05:30. > :05:34.Housing Executive not to suspend its contract with one of its main
:05:34. > :05:44.repair companies, Red Sky. Earlier this year, the Housing Executive
:05:44. > :05:44.
:05:44. > :05:48.terminated all its maintenance contracts with the company.
:05:48. > :05:52.In April, Red Sky of workers protested about the termination of
:05:52. > :05:55.the contract which pushed the company into administration. The
:05:55. > :05:59.East Belfast based from carrying out maintenance jobs on most
:05:59. > :06:03.Housing Executive properties in the City, the contract was worth about
:06:03. > :06:06.�8 million a year. The Housing Executive ended all its repair
:06:06. > :06:10.contracts with the company after it carried out an investigation into
:06:10. > :06:15.its work practices which included allegations of overcharging. It
:06:15. > :06:19.gave BIC the company three months' notice. Red sky strenuously denied
:06:19. > :06:23.the allegations. Today the DUP Minister Nelson McCausland said
:06:23. > :06:29.because of a number of ongoing investigations at the Housing
:06:29. > :06:33.Executive, he had concerns about the contract's process. Issues are
:06:33. > :06:38.emerging and it is not just one district or one contract, that
:06:38. > :06:41.raises question in my mind - is there something here that is
:06:41. > :06:48.endemic within the organisation? short time after the contract was
:06:48. > :06:52.terminated, Red Sky it went into administration, some politicians
:06:52. > :06:57.including Robin Newton, expressed concern at the potential loss of
:06:57. > :07:03.400 jobs at the company. Everyone is concerned about jobs, of course
:07:03. > :07:06.they are. But the issue here is about an issue of public confidence,
:07:06. > :07:10.an issue about ensuring the contracts are properly managed and
:07:10. > :07:13.monitored and that has not always been the case. The evidence for
:07:13. > :07:17.that is very clear. Now the minister has asked the Housing
:07:17. > :07:22.Executive not to terminate its contract with Red Sky and instead,
:07:22. > :07:30.let it run for another eight weeks and suspend any action to award
:07:31. > :07:32.other contractors to allow for a new system to be put in place.
:07:33. > :07:37.The Housing Executive have said they have received no written
:07:37. > :07:40.instructions from the minister and said they have dealt with any
:07:40. > :07:43.failures in contract match it. Sinn Fein have accused Sammy Wilson
:07:43. > :07:46.of breaking the ministerial code. They say he has made public his
:07:46. > :07:49.review of the appointments of Stormont's special advisers before
:07:49. > :07:51.the executive has considered his findings. The minister who heads
:07:51. > :08:01.the department of finance and personnel looked at these
:08:01. > :08:04.
:08:04. > :08:06.appointments after the outcry over the culture minister's aide.
:08:06. > :08:11.When a former IRA prisoner appointed her former paramilitary
:08:11. > :08:15.leader in jail as her special adviser, she created a public
:08:15. > :08:20.outcry. Mary McCardle was imprisoned for life for her part in
:08:20. > :08:26.the murder of Mary Travers and the attempted murder of her father, Tom
:08:26. > :08:30.Travers as they left Sunday Mass in April 1984. As the family and
:08:30. > :08:33.victim groups cried foul over the appointment, Peter Robinson asked
:08:33. > :08:39.his finance minister to review ministerial appointments. Sammy
:08:39. > :08:43.Wilson has now finished his report and circulated to ministers. He
:08:43. > :08:47.says that in future, there should be an audit trail showing he was
:08:47. > :08:51.shortlisted for the job and what criteria were used. A minister
:08:51. > :08:55.should be able to justify why an adviser was chosen, for example,
:08:55. > :08:59.what were their educational achievements and qualifications?
:08:59. > :09:03.Most controversially of all, he said there should be at betting
:09:03. > :09:08.procedure included the security one, appropriate to the civil service
:09:08. > :09:12.level of the grade for an adviser. They were designed to ensure there
:09:12. > :09:16.is confidence in the people who are appointed to these positions, they
:09:16. > :09:21.are well paid, public positions. There are certain restrictions that
:09:21. > :09:25.you cannot put on, for example, people's political persuasions
:09:26. > :09:29.because they are political advisers and therefore, you got to make some
:09:29. > :09:33.allowance for that but by and large, we have tried to mirror what would
:09:33. > :09:36.happen for people who are appointed of crude in the civil service.
:09:36. > :09:40.Finance Minister says if the measures were in force, Mary
:09:40. > :09:44.McCardle would not have been appointed. But to come into
:09:44. > :09:48.operation, Sinn Fein needs to support them. That is extremely
:09:48. > :09:51.unlikely because so many of their advisers, past and present, have a
:09:51. > :09:56.paramilitary past. Sinn Fein sources have accused Sammy Wilson
:09:56. > :10:00.of breaking the ministerial code by going public on his recommendations
:10:00. > :10:05.on the TUV's Jim Allister has described Sammy Wilson's proposals
:10:05. > :10:09.as bluster. Still to come on the programme: A
:10:09. > :10:19.teenage girl who died in the Blitz, remembered 70 years on by her five
:10:19. > :10:20.
:10:20. > :10:25.sisters. Arsonists have destroyed an Orange
:10:25. > :10:34.Hall in County Fermanagh. The blaze at Roslea was started in the early
:10:34. > :10:39.hours of this morning. Salvaging what they can from the
:10:39. > :10:44.ashes. This Orange Hall went up in flames around 6am this morning. The
:10:44. > :10:48.heat is still radiating off the walls here inside the hall. The
:10:48. > :10:52.thought is that the fire began in the lean-to outside where the oil
:10:52. > :10:56.tank is highest. The flames caught quickly, went into the roof and the
:10:56. > :11:04.building was engulfed. Locals cannot believe what has happened.
:11:04. > :11:14.Just devastated. We were here a week ago doing flower arranging and
:11:14. > :11:16.
:11:16. > :11:17.it's unbelievable, the carnage. band parade which is marked every
:11:17. > :11:21.year as a contentious parade by the Parades Commission and we believe
:11:21. > :11:25.that this is an attempt to deliberately raised tensions in the
:11:25. > :11:30.area prior to that banned parade. The attack so close to the border
:11:30. > :11:35.has been condemned by both sides of the community. This is wrong. In my
:11:35. > :11:40.belly, this is sectarian, whether it is in an Orange Hall, or at GAA
:11:40. > :11:43.hall. It does nothing to help community relations in this area.
:11:43. > :11:47.The hall was slightly damaged in an attack last it over and those
:11:47. > :11:52.repairs should have started today, instead of members here
:11:52. > :11:56.contemplating demolition but say they are determined to rebuild.
:11:56. > :11:59.The elderly mother of two IRA men killed by the SAS has told
:11:59. > :12:04.dissident republicans that the war is over and they should end the
:12:05. > :12:07.campaign. Patsy Devine was speaking after a pipebomb was found at the
:12:07. > :12:17.perimeter fence of Strabane's police station close to a play park
:12:17. > :12:18.
:12:18. > :12:23.and to her home. A pipe bomb was discovered at the
:12:23. > :12:27.perimeter fence of Strabane police station around teatime yesterday.
:12:27. > :12:32.The PSNI believe it was thrown between 3pm and 4pm yesterday
:12:32. > :12:36.morning. All day, children were playing in a nearby park. This is a
:12:36. > :12:40.play area, there was a gentleman who spoke to us yesterday to tell
:12:40. > :12:44.us he was down here with his two children, playing unaware that 50
:12:44. > :12:48.yards away was a viable explosive device. If the children had lived
:12:48. > :12:52.at that, this would have been a fatality. This is unbelievable that
:12:52. > :12:56.people would sink to such levels. The attack happened close to the
:12:56. > :13:05.home of a well-known republican family. 82 year-old Patsy Devine
:13:05. > :13:13.lost her two sons in 1985. The IRA men were killed by the SAS. I said
:13:13. > :13:18.it before, I said get themselves on, the war is over. Get themselves a
:13:18. > :13:23.job and stock that carry on. It is a disgrace, the people don't want
:13:23. > :13:29.it any more. We're fed up with that. It has to come to an end some way.
:13:29. > :13:34.It's all old people who live here. It's only a small minority and
:13:34. > :13:38.until they realise that, they're going nowhere. They're only causing
:13:38. > :13:42.hardship to their own people. is your message to them? Have a bit
:13:42. > :13:46.of sense and wise up. Police in the town have issued an appeal for
:13:46. > :13:56.information, they want to hear from anyone who knows any suspicious
:13:56. > :14:00.activity in or around the park in A motor dealership in Ballymena
:14:00. > :14:06.that was exposed by this programme for the illegal act of clocking
:14:06. > :14:12.cars has been fined for breaking consumer laws. In December 2009,
:14:12. > :14:17.seven Towers Autos offered to sell two cars that had had their mileage
:14:17. > :14:23.put back. In one case, more than 100,000 miles had been taken off.
:14:23. > :14:28.The firm was fined �400,000. When our reporters went undercover, they
:14:28. > :14:31.uncovered evidence that clocked cars were still being sold there.
:14:31. > :14:34.A commemoration to mark the 95th anniversary of the Battle of the
:14:34. > :14:38.Somme has taken place at Belfast city Hall. The ceremony was led by
:14:38. > :14:42.the deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast, Ruth Patterson of the DUP. 24
:14:42. > :14:45.wreaths were left at the cenotaph. Earlier this morning, the Lord
:14:45. > :14:47.Mayor, Sinn Fein's Niall O Donnghaile, left a wreath of
:14:47. > :14:50.laurels at the monument, continuing his party's policy of not attending
:14:50. > :14:54.the main commemoration. Today marked another high-profile
:14:54. > :14:56.event for the Lord Mayor, who took office just over a month ago. Since
:14:56. > :14:59.becoming a city's youngest first citizen, he sparked controversy
:14:59. > :15:05.over symbols at the City Hall and has dealt with disturbances in his
:15:05. > :15:15.home patch in the Short Strand. Earlier this week, our political
:15:15. > :15:18.editor, Mark Davenport, spent a day with him.
:15:18. > :15:23.One other fringe benefits of being mayor is that you get an official
:15:23. > :15:27.car. One of the big drawback is your day start early and finishes
:15:27. > :15:34.late. On behalf of Belfast City Council I am delighted to welcome
:15:34. > :15:40.you all... Nahla Dolly -- Niall O Donnghaile's first engagement is a
:15:40. > :15:46.seminar, ben Amy do with his staff, then he greets the Deputy Prime
:15:46. > :15:50.Minister of the ones war-torn country of Kosovo. If things had
:15:50. > :15:55.worked out differently, instead of putting on and take off his chain
:15:55. > :15:59.of office, he could have been a member of the Youth Forum, who are
:15:59. > :16:04.setting up an event in the City Hall. One of the Unionist veterans
:16:04. > :16:07.said he had a overcoats older than the mayor. The that says something
:16:07. > :16:13.about the Mail or the older politicians who cannot accept him?
:16:13. > :16:21.It says something about the older politicians. It is old men in grey
:16:21. > :16:24.suits and we need to change that. He stirred controversy by taking
:16:24. > :16:28.down pictures of the Queen Mother and Prince Charles from the wall of
:16:28. > :16:33.his parlour and replacing them with the proclamation made during the
:16:33. > :16:39.Easter rising. Predictably, Unionists were not impressed.
:16:39. > :16:44.People talk about of breath of fresh air, but you are not a breath
:16:44. > :16:49.of fresh air if you throw out portraits because they happen to be
:16:49. > :16:54.the royal family. Young people can his boys old attitudes. The mayor
:16:54. > :16:58.is unapologetic, saying he left other pictures of the royal family
:16:58. > :17:03.in place and says members of the DUP are not talking to him. What
:17:03. > :17:06.about the criticism that despite his tender years, his politics is
:17:06. > :17:12.the old-fashioned republicanism passed on by his parents, both IRA
:17:12. > :17:17.prisoners? Both were political prisoners during the 1970s. I was
:17:17. > :17:21.born into a republican family but not indoctrinated into
:17:22. > :17:26.republicanism. We were a house that was great for debate and at many
:17:26. > :17:31.times we had conflicting views, like many families do. We were
:17:31. > :17:36.great ones for having those discussions around the dinner table.
:17:36. > :17:39.The big item on the agenda is a visit to East Belfast by the Irish
:17:39. > :17:44.President, Mary McAleese. Significant at any stage but all
:17:44. > :17:50.the more so in the wake of recent trouble. In the short straw of
:17:50. > :17:54.Trinity Centre, she is a big draw but there is no doubt as the
:17:54. > :17:58.affection for the local boy made good. He is a nice lad and very
:17:58. > :18:03.friendly. He could be anybody's grandson and we are all proud of
:18:03. > :18:08.him. He proved his mettle by accompanying the present across to
:18:08. > :18:12.the underside of the peace line. Then it is off to a Gaelic Club in
:18:12. > :18:16.west Belfast. The day is not much more than halfway done with
:18:16. > :18:20.engagements at a plumbers' awards ceremony and a four-day festival
:18:20. > :18:26.still to fulfil, so the mayor will not be home until late into the
:18:26. > :18:29.evening. A hard life but a good life!
:18:29. > :18:32.Five sisters who were evacuated during the Belfast Blitz 70 years
:18:32. > :18:35.ago returned today to pay tribute to another sister who died in the
:18:35. > :18:44.raids. The women, who now live in Dublin, laid a wreath in memory of
:18:44. > :18:49.Susan Henry, who was killed when a bomb hit a house in Unity Street.
:18:49. > :18:54.The air raids on Belfast in 1941 killed more than 1,000 people and
:18:54. > :19:01.caused widespread devastation. Among the dead, 16-year-old Susan
:19:01. > :19:07.Henry, killed alongside her aunt. We were in Randalstown and we did
:19:07. > :19:12.not know where she was. We got a telegram to say she was missing. My
:19:12. > :19:16.mother came to Belfast to see if she could find her body. The fire
:19:16. > :19:20.brigade men told her to go home. it was the second tragedy to hit
:19:21. > :19:24.the family. Less than six months earlier, their father was killed at
:19:24. > :19:29.sea. The traumatised youngsters were taken to live with relatives
:19:29. > :19:36.in Dublin. We used to stand in the middle and we would not move if we
:19:36. > :19:46.heard a plane. I had to come out and bring as in, we were frightened.
:19:46. > :19:47.
:19:47. > :19:53.There was more tragedy to come. younger brother was only three. He
:19:53. > :19:58.pulled a cup of tea over his jumper, he was in hospital from the
:19:58. > :20:02.Wednesday and on the Friday, he got convulsions and it was as a result
:20:02. > :20:09.of the air raid and the bombing that he died. Such was the impact
:20:09. > :20:14.on the family that the impact of 1941 were never discussed. 70 years
:20:14. > :20:19.after Susan Henry died, her sisters came back to lay a wreath in her
:20:19. > :20:23.memory. It is emotional but it is wonderful, absolutely wonderful.
:20:23. > :20:27.Not that it is going to help anyone, but it is great to think they are
:20:27. > :20:30.remembered. The names of all of those who died during the Second
:20:30. > :20:34.World War bombings are on show at the Northern Ireland war memorial.
:20:34. > :20:37.For the Henry sisters, it remembers -- it marks a time in their lives
:20:37. > :20:42.they would run a forget. The Liverpool football manager,
:20:43. > :20:48.Kenny Dalglish, became a doctor in Belfast today. With that and the
:20:48. > :20:53.rest of today's sport, here's Mark. The latest footnote in a hefty CV
:20:53. > :20:56.reads "Kenneth Matheson Dalglish, Doctor of Science". The honorary
:20:56. > :21:06.degree was conferred upon him by the University of Ulster for his
:21:06. > :21:10.services to football and charity. The man from humble beginnings look
:21:10. > :21:14.awkward on centre-stage in Belfast and was. With his wife looking on,
:21:14. > :21:20.he used the occasion to highlight an event which has left an
:21:20. > :21:25.indelible mark on Liverpool Football Club. The Hillsborough
:21:25. > :21:28.disaster, where 96 people lost their lives. The families are still
:21:28. > :21:35.waiting for justice which hopefully we will have sooner rather than
:21:35. > :21:39.later. Until this moment, few in attendance were actually aware that
:21:39. > :21:43.Scotland's most capped player was being honoured at all. I didn't
:21:43. > :21:53.know anyone famous was going to be here. It was nice to see him. He is
:21:53. > :21:58.
:21:58. > :22:05.no Alex Ferguson. Any advice? have served other people well. It
:22:05. > :22:08.is very humbling. As whether Liverpool football club should move
:22:08. > :22:14.to a camp -- a move to a new site from Anfield, this was Kenny's
:22:14. > :22:18.contribution. The nostalgic decision would be to stay at
:22:18. > :22:22.Anfield, the other decision is build a new one. It is possible,
:22:23. > :22:32.let's favour Anfield because of the history. If they can redevelop it
:22:32. > :22:35.and extend it, for me, I would not have any problem. If he gets his
:22:36. > :22:37.way they will be staying there. This year's Foyle and Milk Cup
:22:38. > :22:40.competitions received a financial boost this evening. Tourism
:22:40. > :22:42.Minister, Arlene Foster, has announced that a one-off funding
:22:43. > :22:46.package is to be provided for both of this year's tournaments
:22:46. > :22:48.following a decision of the Northern Ireland Executive.
:22:48. > :22:54.This Sunday sees Armagh contest a first provincial hurling final
:22:54. > :22:57.since 1945. The team is largely drawn from Middletown and few
:22:57. > :23:01.outside of the border town expect an upset against hotly fancied
:23:01. > :23:11.Antrim. Thomas Niblock has been to meet the hurlers who aim to make
:23:11. > :23:14.
:23:14. > :23:18.history. You gave me 100%! When you mention
:23:18. > :23:24.hurling in Ulster you perhaps think of the glens of Antrim, where the
:23:24. > :23:28.sport is a form of religion. Or even the Ards Peninsula, a hotbed
:23:28. > :23:32.of hurling in County Down. What you do not probably associate with
:23:32. > :23:39.hurling in Ulster is Middletown, but you probably should. This
:23:39. > :23:46.Sunday, the County Armagh village will have no less than 13 players
:23:46. > :23:50.involved in the Ulster final. is a dream come true. If someone
:23:50. > :23:54.said we would be in a Ulster final, we would have laughed at them and
:23:54. > :24:00.call them crazy. It is a great honour and I'm looking forward to
:24:00. > :24:04.it. I do not think it is any surprise to the guys down here and
:24:04. > :24:09.to ourselves, who are part of the panel. There has been a lot of work
:24:09. > :24:12.put in in terms of development, not only at senior level but also
:24:12. > :24:16.coming up through the ranks. Especially after the minor final
:24:17. > :24:21.and under 21 final, we feel this is a natural progression. That stems
:24:21. > :24:28.from under 40 level, where Middletown won an All-Ireland under
:24:28. > :24:33.each title. Many represented our match in their semi-final victory
:24:33. > :24:38.over Down, the best possible tonic for hurling in the Orchard County.
:24:38. > :24:42.For people to say boys from the club playing in an Ulster final, or
:24:42. > :24:46.boys from other clubs, it is a big lift. Whenever I was younger we
:24:46. > :24:54.would ever have dreamt of getting close to the Ulster final. It is a
:24:54. > :24:57.great lift from them. Middletown will be hoping it is not a case of
:24:57. > :25:04.unlucky 30. They hope to deny Antrim the 10th Ulster Championship
:25:04. > :25:08.in a row. The match is live on BBC Radio
:25:08. > :25:11.Ulster medium-weight on Sunday. It's been quite a day for Northern
:25:11. > :25:14.Irish athletes in Athens at the Special Olympics World Summer Games.
:25:14. > :25:16.Newry's Joyce Haughian won gold in the ladies' bowling. Oliver Magee
:25:16. > :25:19.from Lisburn has also taken gold, in the bocce. And Dungannon's
:25:19. > :25:28.Patrick Donnelly, citing Rory McIlroy as his inspiration, has won
:25:28. > :25:33.gold in the golf competition. Well done all three.
:25:33. > :25:35.They have been sweeping all before them this week, well done!
:25:35. > :25:38.And what better way to end this lovely Friday afternoon than
:25:38. > :25:43.sitting on the grass in front of Belfast's City Hall, or watching
:25:43. > :25:46.the men's semi-finals at Wimbledon? If you missed it today, the final
:25:46. > :25:50.will be broadcast here on Sunday and it looks like the weather won't
:25:50. > :26:00.let us down, even if our hopes of a British champion do... It will also
:26:00. > :26:00.
:26:00. > :26:04.show at the Olympic Games and other It is not often we can watch
:26:04. > :26:08.Wimbledon outdoors. We should be able to catch the women's and men's
:26:08. > :26:13.finals. I cannot always guarantee sunshine but certainly there will
:26:13. > :26:21.not be rain. There was a little rain this morning. Bat has been
:26:21. > :26:24.fizzling away. There has been cloud in the sky. I would not be
:26:24. > :26:30.surprised to see patches of blue along the north coast towards
:26:30. > :26:34.Portstewart and even inland areas brighter than they have been. A
:26:34. > :26:40.fine and dry end to the day and a dry night to come. There will be
:26:40. > :26:46.clear spells around with patches of card coming and going. Temperatures
:26:46. > :26:52.staying into double figures for most of us. Into the weekend, it is
:26:52. > :26:57.getting warmer. It will not be sparkling blue sky all the time.
:26:58. > :27:04.High cloud is threatening, to allow some brightness through. Tomorrow
:27:04. > :27:11.starts out dry and bright rather than Sunday. Inland, we have to
:27:11. > :27:17.watch the clouds. It all starts to bubble up and build in the
:27:17. > :27:23.afternoon. It will stay dry and food quite warm. The best of the
:27:23. > :27:29.brightness around the coast, parts of Antrim and Down. Tomorrow would
:27:29. > :27:32.be a good day for a wedding or going out and about. Not good use
:27:32. > :27:36.tomorrow if you someone from hayfever. The pollen levels are
:27:36. > :27:44.very high and will stay high into Sunday, even though they will be
:27:44. > :27:49.cloud edging in. But we have a week when the assistant edging in. It
:27:49. > :27:54.might just threaten the odd spot of drizzle to spoil things in the West.
:27:54. > :27:59.Moored right and wet weather. The cloud will start to roll in but