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