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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor and Noel | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
Thompson. The headlines this Wednesday evening. A woman sues the | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
man alleged to have been the most high-ranking agent within the IRA. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
The police look for the body of an infant under the yard of a house in | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Ballyclare. The Housing Minister denies financial links between his | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
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party and the Red Sky company. Sky have not contributed to the DUP. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
A company is fined over an accident that left a father-of-four with | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
severe brain injuries. A big development plan for Bangor, but | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
will the government deliver? And the Met Office is warning of heavy | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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downpours tomorrow and Friday may not be much better. A woman who | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
claims she was interrogated and falsely imprisoned by a man alleged | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
to be the most high-ranking agent within the IRA has launched legal | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
action against him. Fred Scappaticci is accused of being a | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
senior member of an IRA unit which killed suspected informers - a | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
claim he denies. The alleged victim is also suing the Ministry of | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Defence and the PSNI - she claims they knew what was happening. Our | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
home affairs correspondent, Vincent Kearney, has this exclusive report. | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
Bharat Killea was Barack to one agent within the ranks of the IRA | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
and claims she was a victim of another. Fred Scappaticci, a man | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
said to have been codenamed Stakeknife and was alleged to be to | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
be the most high-ranking informer in the IRA. She claims police and | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
the Ministry of Defence knowingly allowed her to be interrogated and | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
threatened by a man acting as an agent of the state. Margaret Keeley | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
has launched legal action against them and is now also taking action | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
against Fred Scappaticci. She claims damages for personal | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
injuries, false imprisonment, assault and battery. Over three | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
days in 1994, detectives at Castlereagh questioned Margaret | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
Keeley about an attack on a senior RUC officer. They also questioned | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
her then husband, who uses the name Kevin Fulton and operated as an | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
agent within the ranks of the IRA. When released, the I Ray Porter to | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
a house in the New Lodge area of North Belfast and interrogated her | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
for two days. She did not want to appear on camera but agreed to | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
speak to the BBC. She says she has no doubt about who was calling the | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
shots during the IRA interrogation. A man accused of being a senior | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
member of the IRA's notorious Internal Security Unit, which | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
hunted down and killed suspected informers. Freddy Scappaticci. A | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
how did you recognise him? I knew him from Dundalk. And I saw a | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
photograph of him. I said, that's him. He was one of the ones that | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
was interrogating me. He interrogated me twice. On two | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
different occasions. How did you react when you find out, when you | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
heard the allegations that the man who interrogated you was an agent | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
working for the state? I could not believe it. It's unreal, he should | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
be brought to justice for what he has done to people and myself. | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
initial request to include Scappaticci in Margaret Keeley's | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
legal action was refused but that decision was overturned on appeal. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
In he said went, Mr Justice McCloskey said the allegations give | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
rise to acute public concern and interest. It raised the spectre of | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
a grave and profound assault on the rule of law and an affront to | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
public conscience. This is the man at the centre of the case. The | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
grandson of an Italian immigrant who came to Northern Ireland in | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
search of work, Fred Scappaticci was a bricklayer who is accused of | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
feeding as secret double life. He has a better than the past two | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
being a republican but has denied claims that he was an IRA informer. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
I am Fred Scappaticci. I'm sitting today with my solicitor. I am | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
telling you that I am not guilty of any of these allegations. I was | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
involved in the republican movement. 13 years ago. But I have no | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
involvement this past 13 years. Fred Scappaticci's West Belfast | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
solicitor has been given an writ stating that his client is being | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
sued and giving him two weeks to respond. A solicitor acting for | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
Margaret Keeley says the case is unprecedented. It is hugely | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
significant. The first time that case of this picture and indeed, | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
quoting the judge, that is what he confirmed. Fred Scappaticci's | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
solicitor confirmed that a writ has been served and said the | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
allegations would be vigorously denied. The police have been | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
searching the garden of a house in Ballyclare because of information | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
that the body of an infant is buried there. The search is in its | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
third day and our district journalist, Ciara Riddell, is at | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
the scene. What do you know? search continued all day at this | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
house behind me, you can see the police car at Hawthorn Way in | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
Ballyclare. It started on Monday morning at around 11:00am when | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
police received information that the body of an infant or baby might | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
be buried at the back of this house. The person who give this | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
information did not say from what we understand how long ago this had | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
happened but we know it isn't linked to the current occupants of | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
the house. The rent the house at the moment and were sent away from | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
their home on Monday when the operation began. Over the past | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
three days this has been a hive of activity. I have seen sniffer dogs | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
coming in and out, a forensic team going in and erecting a tent at the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
back of the yard. As well as that, police have been searching using | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
equipment given to them by Queen's University. So there is a lot going | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
on and from what I understand, nothing has been found as yet. The | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
operation it ended one hour ago when the police officers left. But | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
this is still very much a crime scene. From what I understand, they | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
will return tomorrow to continue. Thank you. The row between the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Housing Executive and DUP minister Nelson McCausland shows no signs of | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
letting up. It's believed the Housing Executive is refusing to | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
give in to the minister's demand that the company Red Sky be | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
reinstated as its main repair and maintenance contractor. The | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Executive dropped Red Sky in April following claims of poor | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
workmanship and overcharging. But Mr McCausland wants the company to | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
be kept on until a new system for awarding contracts is put in place. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
He rejects any suggestions of improper connections between the | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
DUP and Red Sky bosses. This afternoon his party issued a | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
statement on the matter. It said: There is not and never has been any | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
inappropriate relationship between Red Sky and the DUP. Anyone who | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
suggests otherwise should be prepared to stand over their | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
malicious claims in court rather than trading in innuendo and smear. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
The party said it would be negligent for any elected | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
representative not to regularly engage with a major employer in | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
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their constituency. The party's East Belfast representatives are | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
rightly concerned at 400 jobs being jeopardised, particularly when | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
there is more than a whiff of sectarian motivation. The DUP went | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
on to say: Fraud and corruption will not be tolerated in any arm's | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
length body and that includes the Housing Executive. With the latest | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
developments, here's our political correspondent, Gareth Gordon. These | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
union members believe Nelson McCausland's attack on a Housing | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
Executive is an attack on them. is about time Mr McCausland give up | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
presiding in this building and that he did the decent thing and | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
resigned. The Minister stands by his allegations but rejects claims | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
of inappropriate relationships between Red Sky and his party, | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
including allegations that members have attended dinner parties at the | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
home of the company honour. Do you know anything about dinner parties? | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Nothing. But I would not be surprised if at some time a | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
politician happens to have a meal with the businessman, just as | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
people have dinners with people from the BBC. Does that caused the | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
problem? I have been at dinners with all sorts of people. I have | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
had ice-cream with the mayor of Bangor. On all sorts of occasions | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
and all sorts of meetings. You know that isn't the type of dinner or | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
meeting that people are talking about? That is my challenge to the | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
person who is making this charge. To come up with a real challenge, | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
out or else withdraw. Would you be surprised that the claim was | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
correct? I am waiting to hear anything for that individual. In | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
due course, I'm sure he will find himself in difficulties. Bar Red | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
Sky funding the DUP? Red Sky have not contributed to the DUP. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Categorically, Red Sky do not contribute to the coffers of the | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
DUP? When I ask, I was told they had not. The Minister was asked | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
directly about the allegations by a picture of the community which | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
oversees his department. I put to the Minister directly that he or | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
his party have any interest with Red Sky and he assured me that | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
isn't the case and I have listened and accepted that from the Minister | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
and I have no difficulty repeating that on his behalf. My concern is | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
that the issue around a company which has been found guilty of | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
serious breaches of contract with the Housing Executive would be | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
somehow allowed to continue providing a service for a period of | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
time. This affair is now firmly in the political arena and retains the | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
potential to cause difficulties around the Executive table. Were it | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
will surely be released tomorrow. Our business correspondent, Kevin | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
Magee, is here. Nobody is backing down, Kevin? The latest development | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
is that the board of the Housing Executive have responded to the | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
minister's request that this contract with Red Sky should be | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
terminated and I understand the board of the Housing Executive have | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
made it clear and in no uncertain terms that they will not be ending | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
this contract with --. They have spell that out in the response. A | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
three-month notice period had been given to Red Sky and that expires | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
next week and my understanding is that the executive have people and | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
other contractors in the wings, waiting to take over. The Minister | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
has an option, he can apply to the Executive and tell them that they | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
have to issue, he can tell them they have to do what he says but my | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
understanding is they are threatening a judicial review. We | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
have a major stand off and that is unusual in the public sector. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
contract was ended after a long investigation and to have some of | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
the reports? This pile of documents goes to the absolute core of this | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
dispute. 12 inches. I got these and there are hundreds of pages. These | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
are what the executive says is evidence, that Red Sky was | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
overcharging and the evidence is in here and the company have been | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
asking for payments for work that was not finished and had not even | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
been carried out. The executive say that if we go along with what the | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
Minister has asked, we are turning our back on this body of evidence, | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
which took two years together. sign of resolution? Well, the | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Minister goes on holiday on Friday, the Stormont Executive meets | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
tomorrow, the contract is due to expire next week. So, I think that | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
time is running out but there is no end in sight. Thank you. You're | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
watching BBC Newsline. Still to come on the programme. Is the gap | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
in Bangor's smile finally going to get some repair work? Did Shorts | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
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design the first double-decker passenger jet? A Dungannon company | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
has been fined 25,000 for breaching health and safety law in an | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
incident which left one of its workers with serious brain injuries. | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
A judge said that 42 year-old Lucas Da Costa is close to being in a | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
vegetative state. He was struck by falling pallets at the Linden Food | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
factory. Natasha Sayee reports. The 42 year-old worked as a palace | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
truck-driver in a warehouse at the factory and was asked to lift some | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
palates but was not warned that they were not suitable for his | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
truck and when he moved them, the load behind, stacked five metres | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
high, collapsed on top of him. Mr Da Costa is originally from East | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
Timor work and has four children, all under 10. He is now a living | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
apart from his family at this nursing home, where he receives | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
specialist care and, despite surgery, he remains severely | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
disabled. The family are completely devastated, as you can imagine. The | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
trial judge said that Mr de Costa has been left close to a vegetative | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
state. You can imagine the impact, the devastating impact this has on | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
the family. The managing director of London foods, seen here in the | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
navy tie, released a statement, saying the accident was distressing, | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
the company's health and safety manager also said safety at the | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
factory is a priority. The judge said it was a tragic incident in | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
which Mr de Costa had suffered serious debilitating injuries that | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
would be with him for the rest of his life. But he said that London | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
foods is a responsible company which takes up and safety seriously | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
and had gone the extra mile to insure that accidents like this | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
don't happen again. The company was fined �25,000 and the Dacosta | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
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Residents in Crossgar are in need of a Pied Piper. They're facing the | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
nightmare of a rat infestation. No one knows where the rat have come | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
from. Will Leach reports. You can go upstairs, but don't dare | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
climb into the attic for fear of what you might catch. The owners of | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
this house, he did not want to appear on camera, are horrified by | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
what they have heard at night, and the tell-tale signs of rats. I know | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
residents has a baby and they cost about four in their attic. Another | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
resident has been having some dying in her house from the poison. It is | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
on going in every house. These houses are clean and tidy and well | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
kept and the owners have lived here for years. In recent weeks they | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
have been troubled with a plague of rats. The local cats have been | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
catching them and leaving them out for their owners. The owners are | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
not so thrilled about that. She will try Cap fit, but only when she | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
cannot get a rat. Spot is a champion rat-catcher. This morning, | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
Northern Ireland Water sent a camera it down this -- calm it down | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
this manhole. Owners noticed a foul smell. Local people think it may be | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
connected to works to build new series in the area. There has never | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
been his problem and in the space of a few weeks, we have been | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
invested. I think the wrath are running from cover from the | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
roadworks. Hopefully it will be temporary. There is no proof that | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
this sewer works are the cause but extra poison has been laid as a | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
precaution. Down Council aren't involved, but up until now, the | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
cats and the best hope. -- are involved. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Proposals about the regeneration of Bangor over the next 15 years have | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
been unveiled. There are ideas were Queen's Parade, which has been | :16:28. | :16:37. | |
derelict for years. Nothing concrete as such yet? These are all | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
plants, plans for a new hotel, a theatre, apartments, shops, | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
businesses, retail units, improving the look of the town centre. Also | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
plans to redevelop Queen's Parade. It has been a gap in buying a's | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
smile for several years. The Government's has yet to make any | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
financial announcement and commit to any redevelopment in the town. | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
Joining me now is the town centre manager. What do traders think? | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
There is cynicism and frustration, but that is with the general | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
economy. It is not just the government that have to step | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
forward but the private sector as well. What we have in Bangor is an | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
excellent partnership between the business community and the | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
different agencies that can make this move forward. This blot on the | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
landscape, how has it affected investment? There is no doubt there | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
has been an investment hiatus. Different retailers that would have | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
liked to come here would have liked to come to Queen's Parade and want | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
to go into a nice, shiny unit of a certain size and are not getting it. | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
Also joining me is the mayor of North Down. How confident argued | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
that the Government will deliver financially? I am confident. We had | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
a meeting before the launch. We raised this and money is earmarked | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
within the programme for a big capital works on the street. | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
that is the Minister for Social Development? What will this master | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
plan mean for the town? The first thing we have to do is move on. Ms | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
a Marks the Queen's Parade development. -- this and locks. It | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
is key to the town centre. If we get that moving other things will | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
follow. I spoke to the developer. They are confident and one to press | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
ahead. They say all being well, they hope to cut the first sod in | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
the next two or three years. For the next in our reports | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
featuring rarely seen footage from the Pathe film archive, the early | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
days of moving pictures were also the early days and the aviation | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
industry. We look at how Northern Ireland has taken to the skies over | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
the years, starting with a new threat from 1939. | :19:19. | :19:27. | |
Neville Chamberlain visits Northern Ireland... Neville Chamberlain's | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
the wife of windows in an airfield. The military showed off what it can | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
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do in the air. Faster and faster still! 72 years later, what was | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
pseudonym airfield is now home to George Best Belfast City Airport. - | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
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- SEN ham. Also, one of the leading manufacturing bases for aircraft. | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
The revolutionary jet aircraft goes through its trials. It is the | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
forerunner of bigger aircraft which will probe the secrets of flying. | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
The Short Brothers set trends for the aviation industry throughout | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
their 75 years in Belfast. It was BOP by bombardier in 1989. This | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
shows one of their big projects in 1953. It is hoped the plane was set | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
new records. I think that sherbet was well ahead of its time. Shorts | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
Brothers was testing advanced concepts. These days, we are | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
interested in exploring new materials for the construction of | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
the wing. In his senior, there was the worst air crash ever to happen | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
in Northern Ireland. -- in the same year. 27 people were killed when | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
the air law and her a -- airliner crashed at Nutts Corner. Shorts had | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
been developed in a 1930s, pioneering air travel. They knew | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
had the accident at Nutts Corner, when the plane crashed killing 27 | :21:19. | :21:27. | |
people. The disaster did not discourage engineers. This news 3 | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
features a model of a double-decker passenger aircraft, not unlike the | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
Airbus A 380. Could Shorts have come up with this? Shorts were | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
interested in turning this into a commercial airliner for passengers. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
There was so much space that there was great opportunity for a double | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
decker Configuration. It did not make it to the market. Products | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
like the A three D have brought that to the market. -- A380. It | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
shows how advanced Shorts Brothers was. Tomorrow night, we will take a | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
look at one of Belfast's other great industries, shipbuilding. | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
Local netballers have been creating history at the world championships | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
in Singapore. Stephen Watson will tell us everything. | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Northern Ireland are three to the World Cup quarter-finals. They meet | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
-- they beat Samoa have to make it through to the last eight for the | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
first time. The reward is a clash against England on Friday. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
It is official, it is the best result in the history of Northern | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
Ireland netball. Eliane rise's side tore up the script against Samoa to | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
lead them 31-17 at half-time. At half-time they were even more | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
impressive. Noleen Lennon, who plays for Belfast, stole the show | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
as she landed a whopping 47 of Northern Ireland's total of 66 | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
goals and was named player of the match. To put this achievement in | :23:16. | :23:24. | |
context, Northern Ireland failed to qualify in 2007 and have never | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
before contested a quarter-final. Samoan, quarter-finalists at the | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
last two World Cups, could not match the agility of the girls in | :23:37. | :23:45. | |
green. So comprehensive a performance that their coach left | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
to a venture as all 12 squad members were given the run out. | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
England will be an altogether different proposition. | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
The Irish Football Association, the G A and Ulster Rugby came other | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
under one umbrella in north Belfast today. It provided a platform for | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
children from the north of the city to try out something new. | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
Their game of three hands was a big day out for primary-school children | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
from north Belfast. Today is about giving the kids the opportunity of | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
the other community and sport is a powerful tool to facilitate that | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
dialogue and save space. There are kids who have never played some of | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
these games before. They are having a bit of fun with the children who | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
probably only live a couple of hundred yards away it but they have | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
never seen them before. There are seven primary schools here today. | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
If you watch them, you can see the enthusiasm in all three sports. | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
That Teva thighs this age group, how they treat sport. -- Qaeda eyes. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Sport can be a vehicle for integration. They gave their all. | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
They broke down barriers. In a fun- filled environment it brings and | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
the best in people. If someone smiles at you use smile back. | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Linfield have started their pre- season build-up. Last night they | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
entertained Kilmarnock at Windsor Park. Linfield took the lead | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
through Peter Thompson but they eventually went on to lose 3-1, who | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
are managed by Kenny shoots. Linfield 1 meet Rangers in | :25:40. | :25:50. | |
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preparation for their Champions' League qualifier later this month. | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
Well done to the gold medallist at the UK junior swimming | :25:56. | :26:06. | |
No pressure is in charge and over the next day or two it will be | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
drifting overhead. Most of us will be prone to heavy and prolonged | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
downpours. We have already seen some of those today across County | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
Antrim, to Rome, Londonderry and Donegal. They have moved away that | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
we have seen it thunderstorms developing here. Not to a much | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
across the south and south-east, but it will be their turn as well. | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
We have rain coming from the south of Ireland. It gradually slips | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
northwards through the evening, affecting Armagh, County Antrim, | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
Belfast, and the odd heavy thundery first likely here as well. The West | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
may avoid the worst of the rain. As we head into tomorrow, heavy | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
downpours on the way. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning. | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
Some of the downpours could give a lot of rain in a short space of | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
time. Tomorrow morning, the showery rain in the West. Eight news in | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
roads and we get from a heavy showers developing towards the east. | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
Almost anywhere catching the show was as we go through the course of | :27:24. | :27:34. | |
the afternoon. There could be 15-20 mm in a short space of time. It can | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
be unpleasant to drive in. Right Gabs in between and temperatures | :27:38. | :27:45. |