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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor and Noel | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
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Thompson. The headlines this Tuesday evening: the multi-million- | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
pound contract row. On the trail of the prostitution | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
trade operating in broad daylight in Belfast city centre. Racist | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
bullying in the classroom - schools are accused of not doing enough to | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
stop it. Our series of rare archive films continues. And it may have | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
brightened after the wet start, but don't be putting the umbrellas away | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
The row between the Housing Executive and the Housing Minister | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
over the cancellation of a muti- million pound maintenance contact | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
deepened today and is threatening to spill over into a meeting of | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
Stormont Executive later in the week. The Housing Executive has | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
described the minister Nelson McCausland's actions as | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
"incomprehernsible". The Minister has alleged there is a pattern of | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
overcharging in the public housing body which he wants investigated. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
We will be hearing shortly from the former DSD Minster Alex Attwood, | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
who was in office when a contract was ended. But first this from our | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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business correspondent Kevin Magee. Then get this how the staff of this | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
company greeted the news that the multi-million pound contract had | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
been pulled. The Housing Executive said it had made the decision after | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
uncovering clear evidence of significant overcharging, something | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
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the company no-one denies. The -- something the company denies. Red | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
sky then went into administration. The Housing Minister says there is | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
clear evidence around issues of double charging for work involving | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
more than one contractor, and he has ordered an investigation. | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
seems that when you turn over stones, you never know what you | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
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will find. An internal Menno -- memo described the contract as | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
incomprehensible. Could also talked-about conversations taking | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
place with the former senior management of the company. The memo | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
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The Housing Executive paper also said it believes former senior | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
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management at the Red Sky could get Jim Alastair said that there was | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
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It is thought the entire issue could be raised for discussion at | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
this week's meeting of the Stormont Executive. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
We did ask the minister Nelson McCausland to come on the programme, | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
but he was not available. Alex Attwood of the SDLP was the | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Minister in charge of social development when the Housing | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
Executive cancelled its contact with Red Sky in April. He says he's | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
taken aback by Nelson McCausland's decisions. Why? I believe the | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
housing Executive had an extensive, exhaustive inquiry into the affairs | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
of red sky, and as minister, I was entirely satisfied with the cause | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
of action that terminating the contract was the right thing to do. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
But it wasn't the only contractor or where questions were raised. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
This is why the minister wants a new independent forensic | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
investigation. It is for Nelson McCausland to explain why two years | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
of investigation led to termination, and turned on its head after two | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
months. What is his evidence for so doing? If he does have concerns | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
about other contractors, and I did, there was never any occasion when | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
the scale and the magnitude of the claims and allegations against A | :05:02. | :05:12. | |
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red Sky work made against others. After alleged meetings involving | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
DUP officials and ministers and members, the contract that red sky | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
have not challenge the termination of was reinstated. What are you | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
referring? I am asking Nelson McCausland where is the evidence | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
that leads to his conclusion that a Contractor around whom there are | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
serious allegations of overcharging and lack of performance should be | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
reinstated. How does that serve the tenant's interest? Is it not a | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
responsible act by the Minister to not create a vacuum, and as you | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
said, continued to repair houses, to have his independent forensic | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
examination? He clearly thinks that there are still queries over some | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
of the contractors. There was another independent investigation | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
that led to termination. The Housing Executive should consider | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
his viewpoint, but that did not contradict the fact that there is a | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
pool of evidence of overcharging and lack of performance at A red | :06:22. | :06:31. | |
sky, and that doesn't mean that they should now be reinstated. I | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
think that Nelson McCausland and other ministers need to consider | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
very quickly and more appropriate response to the situation. So you | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
will raise this at the next Executive meeting? I have kept my | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
counsel, and have tried and a number of occasions to meet of | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
Nelson McCausland. This has come to nothing. Consequently, I advised | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
the First Minister this afternoon that I want this raised at annual | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
business on Thursday's Executive meeting. -- any other business. A | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
lot of other issues could be raised that I have not raised to date. The | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
DUP need to save what is going on and do just as change their course. | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
The minister has made his decision. He was a new investigation. You are | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
looking for under a rule that and disregarded? I was a very robust | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Minister. I initiated a number and encouraged a number of inquiries in | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
the housing Executive in order to ensure that the tenons were served, | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
the public was protected. I agree with any minister who says to any | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
party, you must perform better. I agree with Nelson McCausland in | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
that regard. What I do not agree is that you can turn on your head two | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
years of a rented -- forensic investigation that led sq to | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
conclusions that even Red Sky have not challenged. This course is | :08:09. | :08:19. | |
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folly at its mildest. Radio Ulster's Talkback programme | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
has decided to try to find out how much it would take to set up an | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
appointment with a prosecutor, following our article last night on | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
this subject. It didn't take long, did it? What I euphemistically | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
known as escort websites, we found one called Belfast escorts, and we | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
saw a list of names, numbers and photographs of girls advertising | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
their services. We tried a couple of numbers, but eventually I got | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
through to a girl who called herself Natasha. I asked if I could | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
make an appointment at lunchtime, and she told me where she was, said | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
if I went to Queen's Bridge, that she would then tell me, if I called | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
her, of where to go next. So we set off, and I rang her and she gave me | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
further directions, about five minutes' walk from Queen's Bridge. | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
We won't identify exactly where the apartment was, but I walked towards | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
there. When I got there, she gave me achy coach for the gate to her | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
apartment block, which are punched in. It was reasonably modern, | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
reasonably close to the centre of the city. When I got to the front | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
door of the communal building, I opened the door, they did here a | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
baby crying, which suggests there are perhaps families living in that | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
block. I rang her again and asked to which number apartment she lived | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
in, and she said No. 36. I went to the door, and indeed there was | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
Natasha, not the same girl on the website, but from the greeting that | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
she gave to me, without doubt, the girl who I had been speaking to on | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
the phone. At that point, I intimated that I had just received | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
a phone call, and I made my excuses and left. When I left the apartment | :10:18. | :10:27. | |
block, I left Mark -- looked at my phone. The time was 1237, 37 | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
minutes after we had set ourselves this challenge to find a prostitute | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
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in Belfast, I had met with one face-to-face. | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
A 21-year-old man has been jailed for four years for throwing a | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
petrol bomb at police during a riot in north Belfast on July 12th last | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
year. Hugh Martin from Jamaica Road in the city pleaded guilty to the | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
charge. His defence lawyer Declan Quinn asked for him not to be | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
jailed, claiming that Martin had been "sucked in" to the violence. | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
Judge Tom Burgess said he had to jail Mr Martin because of the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
serious nature of the offence and the fact that he'd launched a | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
potentially lethal weapon at police. Ten other people were also | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
sentenced today for their part in the riots. | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
The DUP MP Ian Paisley says he's written to the Attorney General to | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
ask if a Spanish student jailed yesterday for attempted grievous | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
bodily harm can be retried on a more serious charge. 29-year-old | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Rodger Costa, who admitted dropping a concrete block on a policewoman's | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
head in rioting in Ardoyne last year, was jailed for four years. Mr | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Paisley says he's outraged that the Public Prosecution Service went for | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
a lesser charge. Racist bullying in our schools is | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
said to be replacing sectarianism. The Northern Ireland Council for | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Ethnic Minorities questioned children who are are Asian, black, | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
mixed race or of Eastern European origin. It found that more than | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
half of them are being bullied, and that many schools aren't able to | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
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deal with it. This report from 10-year-old Pauline and her mum are | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
well settled and a new home. But when they arrived from Poland two | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
years ago, she was badly bullied. They were saying bad words to me. | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
They were trying to bully me. They were saying, go back to your own | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
country, and things like that. do you think they were picking a | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
new? Because I am from a different country. I belong to Poland, and I | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
am a different person. Sooner than name-calling turns to violence, and | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
their home was attacked. Her mum said that was the last straw. | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
was really sad, and I wanted to go back to my country. I have no | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
family, no friends, everything is new. It was really bad time for us. | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Pauline says her school was not at fault, and she was helped by | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
teachers, but the report says not all victims can rely on support | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
from the school. Many have responded very effectively and | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
treat racist bullying very seriously. Unfortunately others are | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
either unable to deal with racist bullying, or not quite sure how to | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
go about it, and in some cases, schools are unwilling to even | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
acknowledge that there is a problem, never mind confronted. So what | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
needs to be done to tackle the issue? The Department need to look | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
at the specific issues. They need to look at good practice, but the | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
trainee and the information in for teachers, and I also need to have | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
some kind of monitoring system to start with so they can see how | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
prevalent the problem is, and they can look at ways of tackling that | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
problem. The Department of Education says it has no plans to | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
create specific guidance on racist bullying because it is working to | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
prevent bullying in all its forms. Paulina is now happy in school, the | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
bullying has stopped and she has this advice for other children are | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
going for it. I would say, tell the people and they might help you, and | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
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tell the teachers. And tell your Still to come on the programme: why | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
was Winston Churchill at Queen's University? Politicians will be | :14:25. | :14:34. | |
replaced with the public as storeman throws open its doors. The | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
vice chancellor of the University of Ulster has urged the Stormont | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
Executive to approve the expansion of the Magee Campus in Londonderry. | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Richard Barnett was speaking at the summer graduation at the Millennium | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
Forum in Derry. He warned of the catastrophic consequences for | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Northern Ireland if universities continue to be underfunded. He said | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
the cap on student numbers should be lifted. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
The central message is the case for the expansion of education in | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
Ireland it is stronger today than it has ever been. It is strongest | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
in Derry. The reason for that is we have a relatively small higher | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
education sector here. We have got away with that because so many of | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
our people have gone to Scotland to study. We know now that these there | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
will be up to �9,000. Many people will not be able to afford. They | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
will want to study close to home, but clearly there is a cap on the | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
number of places here. It is important we give those people the | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
opportunity to study here. Now for the second part of our series | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
looking at the British Pathe film archive. Northern Ireland has | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
plenty of famous visitors these days, but only decades ago, few | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
VIPs made the trip to our shores. Pathe cameras did, though, capture | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
some remarkable moments featuring two of the best-known figures of | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
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Winston Churchill may have been best known for his brave war | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
leadership, but he could mess about with students as well. This is | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
Queen's university rag week in 1926. Churchill was Chancellor of the | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
Exchequer. He was presented with hat. In the spirit of rag week, he | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
newly cut off someone's beard. He went through Belfast on a horse. -- | :16:31. | :16:41. | |
Churchill kept up his links with Northern Ireland throughout his | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
life. He was given the highest order by two of the bigger cities. | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
It is a great pleasure. I am delighted to become a Freeman of | :16:57. | :17:07. | |
Belfast and Londonderry. It is all the greater because of the | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
distinguished company who have come over here to give it to me. From | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
one great wartime leader to another. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
Franklin Roosevelt. She visited in 1942. Most of her trip was spent in | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
Derry. It was an important American naval base at the time. She was the | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
woman who created the modern image of the First Lady. There would have | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
been at tremendous sense of being cared for her as part of the | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
American personnel here were concerned. It is doubtful if many | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
of them would have recognise there, because there was no television. | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
is believed that these are the only moving pictures of her visit. Her | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
priority was meeting American servicemen, but she did what on the | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
Derry walls. She also dropped into this Red Cross Hospital in Belfast. | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
She has a diary description of coming to Belfast, she got a | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
hospital was a very grim place, very shoeless. She was sorry she | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
did not have time to visit all wards, because American GIs would | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
have relished a visit. Eleanor Roosevelt and Winston Churchill | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
were right standings these people. This really seen footage shows that | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
while they were making their mark on global history, they left an | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
imprint on local history. Stormont is throwing open its doors, to the | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
public, that is, not politicians. The tourist industry has welcomed | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
new hourly guided tours, which should see visitor numbers to the | :18:54. | :19:03. | |
house on the hill soar. The benches were more sparse than | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
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usual, and the speaker was being ignored. The public are queuing up | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
to take place of absent politicians. This is Martin McGuinness up there. | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
Until now, you had to be a special guest to tour the buildings, but | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
from this week, you turn up on the hour and away you go. This building | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
is more like a leisure centre or a library than a court house, in the | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
sense that we are not here to keep you out, we want you to come over | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
the door as citizens and engage. We want to remove the mystery of | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
decision-making, politics, public life. The tourist industry is | :19:53. | :20:01. | |
impressed. It was a closed shop of four, and we have a lot of people | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
staying from Europe and America are who want to see this part of | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
history. It was very difficult to do so before. You would not suggest | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
that as a place to go before, whereas now it is definitely one of | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
the top attractions. It is very pleasant and open for everybody for | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
public viewing. This building is really nice. Her it was very | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
amazing, and a very interesting. I learned about the political | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
situation in Northern Ireland. Westminster could learn a lot from | :20:35. | :20:43. | |
this. It is a lot more open. We do not have that in the UK. The guides | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
cannot answer every question. not know. The tour has continued | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
through the summer. They will even continue when the politicians are | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
back, I'll be at less frequently. It is three, which is cheaper than | :21:04. | :21:14. | |
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Westminster. -- it is free. Ireland's cricketers were glad the | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
sunshine daymare, because rain delayed the start of the second | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
Intercontinental Cup game between Ireland and Namibia. Play | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
eventually got under way after lunch, reduced to 38 overs per side. | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Namibia won the toss, batted first and some very big hitting by their | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
tail got them up to a total of 175 all out. John Monie took three | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
wickets for 31 runs. Moments ago, they reach that the target with | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
just two wickets lost. Donegal manager Jim McGuinness has | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
expressed his disappointment with his own county board for not | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
postponing club fixtures in the run-up to the Ulster final against | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
Derry. McGuinness will now be without defender Leo McLoone for | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
the final after the player fractured his eye socket in a club | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
match on Sunday. Obviously in an Ulster final you | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
want your top players available to you, and he has worked very hard to | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
get back into the fray, and it is very unfortunate. It is unfortunate | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
for him more than anybody. He misses out now, and for us, we have | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
to move on and prepare as best as we can for the final. American | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
football is by far and away the biggest sport in the United States, | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
and it is starting to gain popularity here across the Atlantic. | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Northern Ireland currently has three amateur sides, and all of | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
them are currently trying to battle through to the big showpiece final | :22:42. | :22:52. | |
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It is not your average changing room. It is not your average strep. | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
That is because this is the home to one of only three American football | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
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teams locally. In Northern Ireland there is three teams. We also have | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
another seven teams down in Dublin. They play in the league as well. At | :23:21. | :23:30. | |
the end of it, we have a full season, and a final. The American | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
equivalent is known throughout the world at the Superbowl, but on our | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
doorstep we have the Shamrock Bowl. It is the Shamrock Bowl. The same | :23:39. | :23:48. | |
sort of premise. It is the end of the season game in Dublin. It is a | :23:48. | :23:57. | |
big deal for us. We have two games here and then the play-offs. The | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
last game of the play-offs is the Shamrock Bowl. Whether the reach | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
the coveted shamrock or not, there is one side of the sport which | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
keeps bringing the players back. once you get involved in the | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
contact, they enjoy the physical game, the logistics of it, there is | :24:15. | :24:25. | |
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a lot more work strategy than soccer. It is more physical. | :24:28. | :24:36. | |
American football could be the sport for you. Some ski area | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
looking for people there. -- scary looking. Ireland's Special Olympics | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
squad have return from a very successful summer games in Athens. | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
The team landed back today in Dublin airport with a total medal | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
haul of 107. 41 of those medals were won by Northern Irish athletes, | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
including the youngest gold medallist, 12 year-old Fergal | :24:54. | :25:02. | |
Gregory, swimmer from Crossmaglen. Absolutely amazing. Brilliant | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
atmosphere here. Everybody cheered them on. Just brilliant, I am so | :25:07. | :25:17. | |
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proud of him. I am so glad to have him warm. Very good Northern | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
Ireland's netball team lost 75-33 to Australia today at the world | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
championships in Singapore, but win tomorrow against Samoa and they are | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
in the quarter-finals. Finally, the new US Open champion Rory McIlroy | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
is the European Tour's golfer of the month for June. He now heads to | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Sandwich for the Open Championship, but former world number one Tiger | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
Woods confirmed today he will not be there due to a leg injury. | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
We will bring you all the big interviews with in Rory McIlroy and | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
Darren Clarke. If you mess that the documentary last night, it was a | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
good watch and you can catch it on good watch and you can catch it on | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
the website. Now the latest on the weather. All good things come to | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
end, and that is what has happened in the last 24 hours. There is more | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
unsettled weather heading our way as we go through the rest of the | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
week. At least it has been better than the first have, when we had | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
the weather front pushing very and giving us a great man cloudy start. | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
We will have sharp showers edging their way in. For central and | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
eastern areas it will be dry. Some brightness around but you cannot | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
last that -- count on that last into the night. The showers will be | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
popping up. They will become persistent rather than heavy. There | :26:48. | :26:56. | |
will be the order moderate burst here and they are. Tomorrow is a | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
mixture of bright spells and showers. First thing in the morning | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
we are looking at more cloud and sunshine. Here will be drier than | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
it will be further north. Even when it does, there are more showers to | :27:15. | :27:25. | |
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come. Probably staying quite cloudy. The further side you goal, it is | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
where we will see the brightest spells, but also potentially the | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
heaviest showers. With lighter win tomorrow, it could be quite slow | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
moving and prolonged. Gaps in between, but the breeze is likely | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
north-westerly tomorrow. It will be a fresher feeling today. The low- | :27:45. | :27:49. |