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Good evening. Welcome to BBC Newsline. The headlines: | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
The multi-million pound prostitution trade in Northern | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Ireland - we have a special report. A Spanish student gets four years | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
for dropping a concrete block on to a police officer's head. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
The decommissioning body's final report - the governments aren't | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
given an inventory of weapons put beyond use. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Fascinating footage of the opening of Stormont - but why was Prince | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
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Edward so unhappy? And the increasing cloud is not a | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
good sign - tomorrow will be a very different day. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Northern Ireland now has a greater demand for prostitutes than other | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
parts of Europe, according to the police. Men are spending as much as | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
half a million pounds a week in brothels. Police say gangs are | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
capitalising on that growing demand and are bringing in women from | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
abroad every day. Some are being held against their will. Our | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
reporter has been investigating and has this exclusive report. | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Prostitution is hidden, often behind advertisements for escorts. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
It is a big money industry here now. So big, it now much as other parts | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
of Europe. There is a significant demand here for prostitutes. That | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
is larger than the other parts of the UK or Europe. It can still be | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
found on street corners in the dark but mostly now, in homes and | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
apartments, and in daylight. That just in cities. Brothels and | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
prostitution services can be found across the Northern Ireland, more | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
than ever. Around 88, in cities and many times. Some of the women are | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
local. Free movement across borders has allowed others to come from | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
abroad, willingly. Police believe many are here are cropped -- | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
against their will, victims of sex trafficking, controlled by gangs. | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
They try and identified a market. We are seeing people from outside | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
the UK coming to Northern Ireland to set up brothels and bring | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
prostitutes and traffic persons into service the market. Demand is | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
driving supply. Just a click of a computer away. Every day, according | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
to the police, you girls are riding here. Some are hoping for a new | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
life, but for many, not the new Stade they expected. We have had | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
cases from China, sub-Saharan Africa, cases from West Africa. | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
People have arrived with the promise of a job, for example as a | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
nanny, but there is no such job and very quickly they are forced into | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
the sex trade. It is a very difficult situation for individuals | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
who some may find themselves in a nightmare situation, being in the | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
sex trade against their will. the girls, and, so does the money. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
-- as the girls come in. For every of the brothels in Northern Ireland, | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
is an average of two prostitutes. That is 176 prostitutes operating | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
daily, each averaging five climbs every day. That is up to 880 men in | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
Northern Ireland using prostitution services every day. Liffe, around | :03:55. | :04:03. | |
�80 for half an hour. -- the fee. The combined potential daily | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
earnings for prostitutes and sex gangs, of her �70,000. -- over. In | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
a week, almost half a million pounds here is spent on | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
prostitution. Over the last couple of years, the police here have | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
rescued dozens of people caught up in prostitution against their will. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
They were found to be traumatised and very afraid. What has happened | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
to the people who were controlling them? Based on prosecutions and | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
convictions, very little. If all these women are being rescued yeah | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
there are few prosecutions and convictions, it does not look good | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
for the police? The primary objective is to rescue | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
victims. The secondary objective is to prosecute offenders. Trying to | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
get enough evidence is extremely difficult. Organised crime groups | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
know this. If they are caught in possession of firearms or drugs | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
they know they will be prosecuted and possibly convicted, but they | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
know it is difficult for us to get evidence for human trafficking. | :05:04. | :05:14. | |
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That is why they are making towards that. There's denied is the busiest | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
night for prostitution. Why? Police believe men come into town with | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
their partners and when they go late night shopping, they go to | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
meet prostitutes. 88 brothels that the police know | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
about. Those figures do not really the women, people behind those | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
figures? I suppose apart from the statistics, which are shocking in | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
their own right, what will concentrate the minds of the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
viewers is the human tragedy. Much of the sex trade in Northern | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
Ireland is trafficking, were gangs are bringing in people from abroad | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
into Northern Ireland and then hiring them out for six. There may | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
be a perception that that is something that happens somewhere | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
else at another time. The reality is, it is happening here and now. | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
What other police doing to try to prevent it? If over the last two | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
years, the police have rescued dozens of people who have been held | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
captive and held in horrific and terrifying conditions. The next | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
obvious question is, what happens to the people controlling them? The | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
reality is very little. There have been few convictions or | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
prosecutions. The difficulty is, Windies Rehman are rescued, -- when | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
these women are rescued, they cannot speak English, and they are | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
so traumatised and afraid for themselves and families in whatever | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
country they emanated from, they cannot or are not willing to co- | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
operate. The problem remains. Here in Northern Ireland, it is growing. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
A student from Spain has been given four years in jail after dropping a | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
concrete block on to a police woman's head in riots in Ardoyne | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
over 12th July last year. Sentencing Roger Costa, the judge | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
said it was a cowardly attack carried out in an orgy of violence. | :07:11. | :07:20. | |
Six others also involved in the rioting appeared in court today. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
This footage was taking just seconds after a concrete block was | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
dropped on to a female police officer. This is the man who did it, | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
29 year-old Roger Costa, from Spain. He was here studying English and | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
said he went to take pictures because he had an interest in | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
politics. But his was one of the most serious acts of violence and | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
today, he answered for it in court. The judge gave him credit for | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
coming forward when he could have stayed in Spain. He said Northern | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
Ireland had welcomed Costa and that welcome had been poorly repaid and | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
sentenced him to four years, saying he still owes a debt to our society. | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
Six others appeared in the dock, all charged with rioting, aged from | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
18 to 45 and some from north Belfast, but others from as far | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
away as Ballymena and Kilkeel. Sentences ranged from committee | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
service to a year in jail. Nobody wants to see this on our streets. | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
We do not want young people to become criminalised, particularly | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
where that is the result of being encouraged by others to become | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
involved in violence. I would urge any boy who is considering to | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
become involved in this behaviour to step back and think of the | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
consequences. Bagging up the message was the judge, he said the | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
sentences were just not punishment but a to tenants -- deterrent. It | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
doesn't others also charged with involvement are due in court | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
tomorrow. -- 12 others. The DUP has criticised the | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
Independent Decommissioning Body for not providing a full breakdown | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
of the weapons handed in or destroyed by terrorist groups. In | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
its final report published today, the IICD gives an account of the | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
commissioning events, details the key factors that enabled the | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
Commission to do its job and highlights the lessons learnt. Full | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
details of the weapons decommissioned will be given to the | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
US State Department for safekeeping and not to the British and Irish | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
governments, as was originally the plan. That is what the head of the | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
decommissioning body, General John de Chastelain, had to say in | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
October 2003, when the IRA refused to allow him to make public details | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
of the weapons it had just decommissioned. | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
My colleague and I examined each individual Oram and assured | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
ourselves it was in operational condition. We made an inventory of | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
the ammunition and explosive material and put together an | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
inventory which along with the previous inventory, will be handed | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
over to the previous -- to the two governments when we reached the end | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
of the process. John de Chastelain. With me now is Vincent Kearney. The | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
DUP said that people have a right to know what the inventory is. The | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
plan was never to make it public, even in the beginning? That is | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
correct. Throughout the process, the details of what had been the | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
commission was shrouded in secrecy because of the paramilitary | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
organisations involved. We heard the general said the original plan | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
was for a full inventory to be given to the British and Irish | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
governments at the end of the process. It would then have been up | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
to them to decide if and when to make those details public. | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
Certainly no guarantees that they would have done so. Undoubtedly | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
they would have come under serious pressure, particularly from | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
Unionists, to make that public. The goalposts have now been moved to | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
Washington, where details are kept under lock and key. That is a | :10:47. | :10:57. | |
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surprising move. Why be changed in Plan? Giving it kiss -- it says it | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
believes that doing this now would be unhelpful to give peace process. | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
The commission says it believes revealing details of what | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
paramilitary weapons were be commissioned might encourage | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
attacks on those groups, and it does not want to be -- discourage | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
future acts of taking weapons at of commission. Will we ever know what | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
was destroyed? The commission said the US State Department has agreed | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
to keep the documents under lock and key until such times as the | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
British and Irish governments make a joint written request for those | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
details to be given to them. In a big government is in any way | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
nervous about the possible political implications, they will | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
not agree to sign a joint request asking for the details. I do not | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
think we will see them any time soon. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
A pipe bomb device has been discovered in Glengormley. An army | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
robot is examining the object, which was discovered in Harmin Park. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
A number of homes have been evacuated and residents have been | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
advised to stay indoors. Still to come... | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
A good yarn for the sheep shearers, the market for wool is picking up. | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
And we have rare pictures of the opening of Stormont and speak to | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
the man who reported on the royal occasion. | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
The chairman of the Assembly's Social Development Committee, Alex | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Maskey, has asked the minister to give a fuller explanation as to why | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
he has intervened in the dispute between Housing Executive and Red | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
Sky. The decision by the Housing Executive to end its �8 million | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
maintenance and repair contract with the East Belfast company was | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
greeted with protests. Last week, the DUP minister, Nelson McCausland, | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
told Housing Executive to reinstate the company until a new system for | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
awarding contracts is put in place. Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey says he | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
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I once the minister to come clean on this manner. Had a number of his | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
senior colleagues have met with him and lobbied on behalf of this | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
company. It is very shaky legal ground and that is why I want the | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
minister to come clean and give the public are transparent explanation | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
as to what is the basis of his intervention. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
The funeral has taken place of our colleague, the broadcaster, David | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
Dunseith, who died last week. The Deputy First Minister, Martin | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
McGuinness, was one of several politicians who attended Requiem | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Mass at the Star of the Sea church in Strangford. Dozens of colleagues | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
past and present were in the congregation. | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Tributes have been paid to the former leader of the Alliance Party, | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
Sir Oliver Napier, who died at the weekend following an illness. He | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
was 75. Shane Harrison looks back at his career. | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
If the Alliance Party was founded in 1970 hymen and women who | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
rejected what was happening on the streets of Northern Ireland. They | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
wanted a new, moderate party that would appeal across the religious | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
divide, tea-party that believed there should be no change to | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
Northern Ireland's positions in the UK until a majority wanted it. | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
Oliver Napier, a Catholic solicitor was the first leader. What we are | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
doing today is forming an alternative reform, political | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
programme and party. To push through and to continue the | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
reformation of Northern Ireland. 1974 as a result of the power- | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
sharing agreement, he became the legal minister and head of the | :14:45. | :14:55. | |
Office of legal reform. We want nothing to do with them forced | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
powers in any undemocratic Government in Stormont. But his | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
ministerial period was, like the agreement of brief, because of the | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Ulster Workers Council strike and the results of the 1974 General | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
Election. In 1979, Mr Napier, who would be knighted, campaigned in | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
the General Election for a Westminster as these -- seat in | :15:19. | :15:28. | |
east Belfast. I am hopeful and quite confident that I am going to | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
win this seat. But it wasn't to be, are though he came within less than | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
1000 votes of defeating Peter Robinson, who would hold the seat | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
until Naomi long's victory for the alliance in the 2010 general | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
elections. I want to thank those who went through the Alliance Party | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
before me who built the basics on what this victory has been | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
delivered. He resigned as the party leader in 1984. But he returns to | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
the political fray, standing twice in North Down in the 1990s. Do I | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
wish to get out of semi-retirement and knock on doors for RFU weeks? | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
Not particularly. Not particularly. But I feel it is my duty. Again he | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
was unsuccessful, but he was admired and popular across the | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
political divide. Not just as a politician but for his work in | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
integrated education. Sir Oliver Napier, who died at the | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
weekend. Next a local product that | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
surprisingly may be helping our economic recovery and that's wool. | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
With demand for wool and products made from wool increasing sharply, | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
the market has reached a 25-year high. Our rural affairs | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
correspondent, Martin Cassidy, has been looking at the spin off for | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
the farming and carpet industry. And he's spent the day with wool | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
producers at a major sheep farming event in Ballymena. | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
Hundreds of sheep farmers have gathered in Ballymena for the | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
National sheep Association annual event. He is more than just a good | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
weather attracting the farmers, because a wool industry which has | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
gone through some tough times is finally on the off. It is sheering | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
times and on farms across Northern Ireland, the wool is being gathered | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
in. It has taken the sheep a year to produce its crop, but in a | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
little over a minute, the fleece is expertly removed. The price they | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
receive for the wool depends on the market. There are no grants or | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
subsidies. But the value of wool has been rising, reaching a 25 year | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
high. A few years ago the wool Czech barely cover the cost of the | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
shearing, but for as little as �1 office, it is now worth three to �4. | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
It it is a source of income. Northern Ireland, wool is a good | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
supplier for the carpet industry. And that is where most of the wool | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
in Northern Ireland goes, and it does fetch a premium. Just like the | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
sheep farmers in this fans, this cock at face in Portadown has had | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
to battle through the recession and face up to competition in the | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
market for wooden floors. But now they are busy again, filling export | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
orders for hotels and cruise ships. We have found the export market | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
very strong this year, particularly in America. The Middle East, again | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
the market we went into recently is paying dividends and the cruise- | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
ship market, which is one of our strongest, we are finding it very | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
strong. Encouraged by the recovery, the company and then -- plans to | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
invest up to �5 million, building a new factory in Portadown. And it | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
means another source of income and may help stem the decline in the | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
local flock which has fallen to Merck -- below one million. If | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
you're looking for somebody special in terms of wool production, what | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
about the Wensleydale? The face from a sheet like this can now make | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
a 30 to �40, no wonder farmers are once again looking at the | :19:08. | :19:16. | |
specialist will producers. -- wool. All this week on BBC Newsline we'll | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
be taking a look at some rarely seen footage, providing a priceless | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
glimpse into the past. The British Pathe newsreels were | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
shown in cinemas from early last century until the 1970s and the | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
archive contains some remarkable scenes from our local history. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Chris Page has been delving through the films. Tonight he begins with | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
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the opening of one of our best known buildings. The house in the | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
Hills celebrates its 80th birthday next year. News crews are like us | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
are familiar sight, but when the building opened there were few | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
cameras about. The archive you're our Battersea is fascinating. | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
There was pompons ceremony from the start. The foundation stone was | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
laid by the Governor-General on what was then as an unremarkable | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
hillside in 1928. Four years later, the Prince of Wales who was to | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
become King Edward VII came to Belfast to open Parliament | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
Buildings at Stormont. There were lots of celebrations. | :20:23. | :20:32. | |
And thousands of people gathered here on that day in 1932. Among | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
them was a 21-year-old journalist who has only just retired from | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
writing. James Kelly is 100 years old but he remembers Stormont's | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
grand opening very well. Each step they went up, the crowd cheered and | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
the Prince had to acknowledge it. So it took him some time to get up | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
all of these steps and into the house where he was to speak and | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
read a speech. James was in such as building when the Prince spoke to | :21:04. | :21:14. | |
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There was a mishap during the speech and it was not recorded, but | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
it is etched in James Kelly's memory. A woman, a waitress came | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
along the corridor carrying a big tray full of crockery. She just | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
reached where the prince was sitting and she slipped and fell. | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
All of this crockery rolled along and the woman ran away. So the | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
prince, seen here saluting was annoyed, but that wasn't the only | :21:50. | :21:58. | |
reason why. Apparently the Prince of Wales, Prince Edward left London | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
after a blazing row with his father to open Stormont. He was very much | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
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the unsmiling Prince, saluting but It is easy to see the newsreel did | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
not reflect the real shape of Northern Ireland's society. There | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
is a sense of a kind of model kind of society in Northern Ireland | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
focused on Unionism. There's no sense of the nationalist minority. | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
The divisions were there. In spite of everything that has passed since, | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
parliamentarians are sitting at Stormont again and the Finn -- the | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
building is famous all over the world. | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
That was how the story of Stormont began and on BBC Newsline, a series | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
featuring these films has just started. Tomorrow will be looking | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
at what famous visitors have made of Northern Ireland over the years. | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
Sport next and Antrim are the Ulster hurling champions. They beat | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
an Armagh team that were making their first appearance in a | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
provincial final since 1946. Antrim now face Limerick for a place in | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
the All-Ireland quarter-final. Ulster champions for a 10 | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
successive year. Antrim were over whelming favourites. They have the | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
perfect start. They looked comfortable throughout the first | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
half, scoring with ease as they look for a starting spot against | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
Limerick. It took Armagh 65 years to make it to its final and they | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
tested Antrim until the end, but Antrim won by eight points. It is | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
absolutely brilliant to see Armagh to come and reach the final. But | :23:57. | :24:07. | |
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they knew it would be a great final. It may be flattered Antrim a bit, | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
but there was only a couple of points in it with only 10 minutes | :24:15. | :24:25. | |
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to go. It was nice to be here. We are on the rise and I do firmly | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
believe we will be back. 2-20, 22- 12 the final score. The Ulster | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
Championship remains in the Antrim dressing room. | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
At 9:00pm tonight here on BBC One, don't miss 'Rory's Major | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
Breakthrough'. A programme from Stephen Watson with exclusive | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
behind-the-scenes footage of Rory McIlroy's triumph at the US Open. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
Here we see Rory leaving the Congressional course, the night he | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
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won the tournament. We'll have you Rory. -- we love you | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
Rory. His first morning as a major | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
champion. And it is an early start. As the papers arrive, he is already | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
in the hotel foyer or with his father. I remember Darren Clarke | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
ringing me at 5am and I had not been deferred yet, just to say well | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
done. I was catching a flight to Cape Cod. He had promised to play | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
in a golf day hosted by one of his sponsors. You see in the picture, | :25:49. | :25:57. | |
of me and my father, embracing each other. It was just fantastic. It is | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
something we will never forget. is living the jet-set life now, | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
boxing, tennis, where will it all end. | :26:05. | :26:14. | |
We just about held on to the fine weather after the glorious weekend. | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
I think for most of us, at some stage we had scenes like this. Lots | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
of blue sky and sunshine. The nights were impressive as well. | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
This photograph shows summertime phenomenon of a clear night, ice | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
crystals high up in the atmosphere and they light up when the sun | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
drops beneath the horizon. You can see more of those images on a | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Facebook page. We are unlikely to see any of that | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
tonight because we have lower cloud edging in. It has been creeping in | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
through the course of the day. Still warm out there this evening. | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
The breeze is picking up and the club continues to increase. For | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
many of us it will end up a wet and for some, a windy night. By the | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
time it gets to dawn, heavy and persistent spells of rain, but it | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
is a warm night. It will brighten up but it is not too good to begin | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
with. In morning rush-hour, it will be wet and soggy. A lot of surface | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
water and spray on the roads, in particular for the Eastern Counties | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
where it is likely to be windy for a time Bostock it could take a good | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
part of the money before we get rid of the rain from County Down, | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
perhaps Belfast and parts of County Antrim. Brighter skies do | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
eventually reached the east. Still patches of blue and the risk of | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
showers breaking out. I think they will move along quite quickly. | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
Temperatures are not too bad tomorrow. A little bit fresher by | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
the time we get to Wednesday. Again some sunshine and showers which are | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
likely to be slower moving because the winds are light up. Pretty much | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
the same story through the rest of the week. Bright spells and showers | :28:08. | :28:11. |