:00:38. > :00:43.Living with the aftermath of the Lurgan hijackings.
:00:43. > :00:47.The villages said no to a dump, but planners have said yes. I am live
:00:47. > :00:53.in County Antrim to find out what happens next of stock Graeme
:00:53. > :00:58.McDowell finds his form in Scotland just ahead of the championship.
:00:58. > :01:03.And not as many lively showers for the weekend but there will be some.
:01:03. > :01:08.Join me for the details. Every time you book a return flight
:01:08. > :01:13.to Britain, the Chancellor at �24 in air passenger duty. For a
:01:13. > :01:18.similar flight from the Republic, the tax is just 3 and euros that is
:01:18. > :01:24.due to be abolished. A committee of MPs have added its weight for calls
:01:24. > :01:29.for Northern Ireland to be exempted from UK tax.
:01:29. > :01:33.It is holiday time and travellers are in full flight, literally, at
:01:33. > :01:37.Belfast International Airport. An expensive business even if they are
:01:37. > :01:42.not leaving the country, made worse by air passenger duty which they
:01:42. > :01:47.think is unfair. I travel pretty often and I think it is a disgrace.
:01:47. > :01:51.It is absolutely atrocious so it is. We should have the same flight
:01:51. > :01:57.prices as everywhere else, especially in July and August.
:01:57. > :02:01.People can't afford to go away on family holidays. Holidays may be a
:02:01. > :02:07.luxury but millions of lives cannot be avoided because of the small
:02:07. > :02:11.matter of the Irish Sea. This point was made strongly to the Northern
:02:11. > :02:15.Ireland committee. I think it is this than -- scandal that domestic
:02:15. > :02:23.aviation, where it is the necessity as it is in Northern Ireland,
:02:23. > :02:28.passengers pay twice. You go online to book a flight but when you click
:02:28. > :02:35.through, you discover it ends up as so much more. Tax is a big part of
:02:35. > :02:39.that. �24 on every return UK flight and MPs say that his attacks simply
:02:39. > :02:43.on living in Northern Ireland. think the Treasury needs to
:02:43. > :02:47.recognise that were it -- that we are not pleading a special case for
:02:47. > :02:51.the sake of it. We are saying there is something significantly
:02:51. > :02:55.different between us, or Wales, Scotland and England and that is
:02:55. > :02:59.that we have A-C between us. Passengers must use air to travel -
:02:59. > :03:04.- we have the Irish Sea between us. We need to see the tax burden
:03:04. > :03:08.removed because otherwise business and tourism will suffer here.
:03:08. > :03:15.Because Dublin is so much cheaper, the tax is also threatening
:03:15. > :03:22.Northern Ireland's only Atlantic air route. There are fears it could
:03:22. > :03:27.have even wider negative effects. Air passenger duty as it currently
:03:27. > :03:32.stands is a major economic barrier to sustaining the level of access
:03:32. > :03:36.that we currently have and that access is very important for direct
:03:36. > :03:40.inward investment and poor truism but equally it is a major
:03:40. > :03:44.disincentive to new carriers coming into the market and looking at
:03:44. > :03:49.Northern Ireland as the destination. Current Treasury projections
:03:49. > :03:52.suggest tax is going up, not down. We will have to wait until the
:03:52. > :03:56.autumn to find if the idea of making Northern Ireland as special
:03:56. > :03:59.case is going to fly. Almost half a million pounds of
:03:59. > :04:03.taxpayers' money has been spent investigating the collapse of a
:04:03. > :04:10.quango. The Northern Ireland Events Company, which was the subject of
:04:10. > :04:16.BBC News lined revelations, folded with the deaths of �1.7 million
:04:16. > :04:20.five years ago -- folded with depth. But an official investigation has
:04:21. > :04:25.still to complete its work. An Elton John concert organised by
:04:25. > :04:31.the Northern Ireland Events Company. The events company collapsed four
:04:31. > :04:34.years ago with debts of that least �1.7 million, despite receiving
:04:34. > :04:38.between two and �3 million a year from taxpayers. Investigations
:04:38. > :04:42.revealed irregular loans and payments as well as a breakdown of
:04:43. > :04:49.accountability between the Council of Arts and Leisure has and the
:04:49. > :04:54.board that ran the company. Subsequently there was an
:04:54. > :04:59.investigation of the quango but that investigation has cost
:04:59. > :05:03.�474,000 to date. Surprised is an understatement. We have already had
:05:03. > :05:06.the scandal of the overspend and waste in their Northern Ireland
:05:06. > :05:10.Events Company and now we have a new scandal, of the money that has
:05:10. > :05:15.been spent to investigate a scandal! Half-a-million pounds
:05:15. > :05:20.nearly, and still being spent, with no idea as to when this is going to
:05:20. > :05:24.be finalised. This afternoon, the Department of Enterprise and
:05:24. > :05:27.creative Investment says it hopes a draft report will be ready by June
:05:27. > :05:33.next year. Several vehicles were burned out in Craigavon last night
:05:33. > :05:35.when trouble flared near Brownlow's Drumbeg estate. The area has seen
:05:35. > :05:39.regular outbreaks of rioting and hijackings in recent times and as
:05:39. > :05:44.Gordon Adair's been finding out, it is proving a big headache for local
:05:44. > :05:50.people. Delivery drivers, tradespeople,
:05:50. > :05:54.utility providers, private motorists. It seems nobody was safe
:05:54. > :06:00.from the rioters in the Brownlow every year last night, yet perhaps
:06:00. > :06:07.the people being hurt most are their own neighbours, particularly
:06:07. > :06:12.the vulnerable, such as pensioners. There has not been any bosses
:06:13. > :06:16.appear for six weeks and they are paying a six quid round trip into
:06:16. > :06:23.Lurgan two or three times a week. That is a lot of money from their
:06:23. > :06:30.pensions. Some people have linked the -- problems to this man, the
:06:30. > :06:35.Sinn Fein republican president, but most of the rating has been in
:06:36. > :06:39.central Craigavon, particularly the Drumbeg area. These people have no
:06:39. > :06:42.politics in them to me, they are just thugs. I would like them to
:06:42. > :06:50.tell us why they are doing this and what they think they can achieve
:06:51. > :06:55.from burning a car. What will that do for their cause? People need to
:06:55. > :07:02.think. It is only misery and hardship that is being imposed on
:07:02. > :07:06.their own communities and people. There are small kids of that place.
:07:06. > :07:14.It is nerve-racking. No one ever knows what is going to happen next
:07:14. > :07:20.or when this is going to flare up. This afternoon, some of the burned-
:07:20. > :07:24.out vehicles were still smouldering. For the elderly and vulnerable
:07:24. > :07:29.living in this area, perhaps what has really gone up in smoke
:07:29. > :07:32.recently is their sense of security and peace in their own homes.
:07:32. > :07:34.Lifetime bans from ladies' Gaelic football have been given to two
:07:34. > :07:40.people allegedly involved in trouble following a senior final in
:07:41. > :07:43.County Tyrone two weeks ago. A referee and County Board official
:07:44. > :07:49.were knocked unconscious after the final whistle was blown at the game
:07:49. > :07:54.in Beragh. The police say a criminal investigation into one of
:07:54. > :07:57.the assaults is still going on. A former IRA man jailed for the
:07:57. > :08:03.attempted murder of a UDR soldier 30 years ago has won the first
:08:03. > :08:05.round of a legal challenge against his conviction. 52-year-old Gerry
:08:05. > :08:10.McGeough from Dungannon, seen here before his sentencing last February,
:08:10. > :08:14.is serving 20 years for trying to kill Sammy Brush in 1981. The UDR
:08:14. > :08:17.man was ambushed as he was delivering post near Aughnacloy.
:08:17. > :08:21.Today the High Court agreed he could apply for a special pardon
:08:21. > :08:27.from the Queen. This is BBC Newsline. Still to
:08:27. > :08:31.come: Tarzan and the pond in Dublin through?
:08:32. > :08:36.And where Ireland's recession have led to success for London's Gaelic
:08:36. > :08:39.football team. A County Tyrone man has been
:08:39. > :08:43.ordered to demolish a barn he converted because he didn't have
:08:43. > :08:48.permission to do the work. Fergal O'Neill from Ardboe has also been
:08:48. > :08:56.fined. But he says it's a historic site and should be preserved.
:08:56. > :09:01.Louise Cullen has been finding out more.
:09:01. > :09:06.If Walls Could Talk, the stones would have a story to tell. The
:09:06. > :09:10.Bonn dates from 1820, when it is believed there were independent
:09:10. > :09:16.Orange lodges in the area. They rose against the landowners but
:09:16. > :09:20.were forced out. The 19th -- the 18th 78 rebellion, a lot of history
:09:20. > :09:25.attached and I would like to preserve it. But now, the barn
:09:25. > :09:29.could be facing demolition. The Planning Service decided it was an
:09:29. > :09:33.unauthorised dwelling. I submitted planning applications at the start
:09:33. > :09:39.and it lingered on for a couple of years and the application was
:09:39. > :09:42.refused. Now I have landed in court with a demolition of the building.
:09:42. > :09:47.It is not the first time a building on this side has had to be
:09:47. > :09:51.demolished. This is what remains of another old outhouse which Mr Neal
:09:51. > :09:55.says was already falling down when he started to repair its roof. Then
:09:55. > :10:00.he was served with an enforcement notice and had to demolish what was
:10:00. > :10:05.next. This row of terraced houses, converted from barracks a few years
:10:05. > :10:09.ago, is also under threat of demolition. Somebody is doing right
:10:09. > :10:14.by tidying the building up and trying to make it into something
:10:14. > :10:18.functional, and diversifying it into farming because the farm was
:10:18. > :10:25.too small, if I had to have realised I would have probably
:10:25. > :10:29.stayed out of it. But the original fine of �20,000 was reduced to
:10:29. > :10:33.�10,000 after an appeal. He was given 26 weeks to pay but the order
:10:33. > :10:39.to demolish still stands. The legal wrangle over the bar continues on
:10:39. > :10:42.Monday. -- Bonn.
:10:42. > :10:47.People in the village of Parkgate were angry about a decision to
:10:47. > :10:50.recommend approval for a quarry to be used as a dump for building and
:10:50. > :10:56.construction waste. Residents claim the area will not
:10:56. > :11:01.be able to cope with the extra traffic. Our Environment
:11:01. > :11:05.Correspondent is in Parkgate. I am indeed. The road behind me
:11:05. > :11:11.leads up to the quarry about half a mile away. That is where they want
:11:11. > :11:16.to put the dump. Local people are very much against it. I am joined
:11:16. > :11:22.by the local MLA. At the end of the day, this is a quarry far away.
:11:22. > :11:26.What harm will it do? It is no harm and it is good use of a quarry from
:11:26. > :11:30.an environmental point of view but we have one lorry every three
:11:30. > :11:36.minutes coming through Parkgate. It can't handle it. The planners
:11:36. > :11:39.should have listened and given the public a chance to have their say.
:11:39. > :11:46.The last environment ministers signed this off without checking.
:11:46. > :11:50.Also with me is a local resident. Brendan, at the end of the day, the
:11:50. > :11:54.quarry is half-a-mile away. What is it you are concerned about?
:11:54. > :12:00.fundamental thing for me and the other residents in Parkgate is the
:12:00. > :12:03.volume of traffic. It is over 150 lorries a day in and out of a very
:12:03. > :12:07.small village of a couple of hundred people and the dangers of
:12:07. > :12:13.that alone, given the by queues and the horses and the people who go
:12:13. > :12:18.out walking, it is health and safety. The people who want to
:12:18. > :12:22.convert it into a dump, they are saying they have talked to local
:12:22. > :12:28.people and tried to bring them in as best they can and it will create
:12:28. > :12:32.jobs for local people. Jobs are good. The fundamental issue is the
:12:32. > :12:36.road safety issue. It is the whole thing of the size of the village,
:12:36. > :12:40.the size of the road and the volume of traffic and smoke and dirt that
:12:40. > :12:44.will come from mad and the effect it will have on the village and the
:12:44. > :12:51.people. At the end of the day, it has been recommended that the plans
:12:51. > :12:56.go through. What happens next careers -- what happens next you
:12:56. > :13:00.might it is possible to stop. will be put in front of the council.
:13:00. > :13:07.They can come with the legal points. But they have been trying to get
:13:07. > :13:10.the plans to assist 2005. Is this not just dragging it out? It is but
:13:10. > :13:14.there are changes to the plans to try to get it through this time.
:13:14. > :13:18.Local people have not had the chance to challenge them and the
:13:18. > :13:23.ideas that have been put in place do not work. This is something that
:13:23. > :13:28.will have to go back to the planners for a final decision.
:13:28. > :13:31.In a few minutes we will rummaged renews archives again and
:13:31. > :13:34.discovered the Irish version of the Olympic Games here!
:13:34. > :13:42.And Stephen Watson has been rummaging among the sporting
:13:42. > :13:47.Graeme McDowell appears to be finding form at just the right time
:13:47. > :13:51.with next week's Open Championship at Sandwich fast approaching. Today
:13:51. > :13:54.he carded a second round 64, eight under par, to give himself the
:13:54. > :14:00.chance of a second Scottish Open title in four years. Nial Foster
:14:00. > :14:04.reports. Graeme McDowell return to his form
:14:04. > :14:14.of 2010 at the Castle Stuart Golf Links, scoring six birdies and an
:14:14. > :14:17.
:14:17. > :14:24.eagle. He made his way steadily up the leaderboard throughout the day.
:14:24. > :14:34.And it wasn't just his putting which was on form. His approach
:14:34. > :14:41.
:14:41. > :14:47.shots where. With a few more birdies, Graeme McDowell, the 20
:14:47. > :14:51.late champion, was able to finish eight under for the day to grab a
:14:51. > :14:54.share of the clubhouse lead. Mixed fortunes for Northern
:14:54. > :14:57.Ireland's clubs in the first round qualifying for the Europa League.
:14:57. > :15:01.Cliftonville were knocked out but Glentoran squeezed through over two
:15:01. > :15:05.legs in a thriller at the Oval. Welsh side TNS scored the only goal
:15:05. > :15:09.of the game in the fourth minute at Solitude, sealing a 2-1 win on
:15:09. > :15:11.aggregate over the Reds. But at the Oval, Glentoran scored two
:15:11. > :15:13.spectacular goals from distance, the first from Richard Clarke.
:15:13. > :15:19.Renova of Macedonia equalised before Martin Murray's wonder
:15:19. > :15:22.strike made it 2-1 on the night, 3- 3 on aggregate. It went to
:15:22. > :15:25.penalties, with Glens keeper Aaron Hogg the hero, the Glens winning
:15:25. > :15:27.the shootout 3-2.$$NEWLINE It's a big clash at Brandywell tonight as
:15:27. > :15:37.Derry City play host to league leaders and current champions
:15:37. > :15:38.
:15:38. > :15:41.Shamrock Rovers. A lot of focus will be on one of City's rising
:15:41. > :15:51.stars who has a posse of clubs watching his progress, including
:15:51. > :16:01.
:16:01. > :16:05.Everton and Celtic. Here's our In only his first season, Derry
:16:05. > :16:12.City winger James Maclean has made quite an impact without standing
:16:12. > :16:15.goes like this. The modest lad says he is flattered by all the
:16:15. > :16:25.attention, but just wants to concentrate on playing his best for
:16:25. > :16:29.City. Other clubs are interested. So far he has been linked with a
:16:29. > :16:33.host of teams, including Premiership clubs at Everton and
:16:33. > :16:37.Wigan, as well as West Ham, Blackpool and Reading from the
:16:37. > :16:43.championship. Scottish giants Celtic say they are also keeping an
:16:43. > :16:48.eye on him. They know all about the talent at the brandy wealth, having
:16:48. > :16:52.signed players from there before. The City boss, whose young team are
:16:52. > :16:58.only four points behind sham at Rover's, has urged the Northern
:16:58. > :17:03.Ireland identity to closer look. -- Shamrock Rovers. He should be in
:17:03. > :17:06.Northern Ireland team now. He has captained the Under 21 squad and he
:17:06. > :17:10.has, without doubt, been the best player in the League of Ireland
:17:10. > :17:14.this season. Derry City football club has confirmed that at least
:17:14. > :17:18.two Premiership clubs, and a number of championship side, will be here
:17:18. > :17:23.this evening to watch the game. He now seems only a matter of time
:17:23. > :17:28.before he is transferred to a cross-Channel club. I great career
:17:28. > :17:31.move for him and potentially lucrative for Derry City.
:17:31. > :17:35.Now, the last time London won a championship game it was against
:17:35. > :17:37.County Leitrim back in 1977. That was until a fortnight ago when the
:17:37. > :17:40.exiles knocked Fermanagh out of the 2011 championship. Tomorrow they
:17:40. > :17:43.aim for back-to-back championship wins, for the first time ever in
:17:43. > :17:52.the qualifiers and, as Thomas Niblock reports, it's not just hard
:17:52. > :17:57.work that's helped Londons gaelic footballers.
:17:57. > :18:03.Training three times a week, drawing against Male and defeating
:18:03. > :18:08.for a manner. London means business and 2011. The players are not that
:18:08. > :18:10.familiar with photos and press interviews, but when they achieved
:18:10. > :18:17.their first championship win in 20 years a fortnight ago, they had
:18:17. > :18:20.been in the spotlight. Another reason for the success: immigration.
:18:20. > :18:25.Immigration has helped us over here. It is made everything more
:18:25. > :18:33.competitive, made up training better and a team stronger. We are
:18:33. > :18:38.very welcome to people coming over. Since 20 or late, they have lost
:18:38. > :18:44.around 3500 players due to emigration. Here the 1600 players
:18:44. > :18:52.who have already emigrated in 2010. The reason they are leaving the
:18:52. > :18:56.shores of Ireland is quite simple: there are no jobs back home. I have
:18:56. > :19:01.the rest of my life to settle down there. I am enjoying it too much
:19:01. > :19:09.here. As a primary school teacher, there is not much work for me in
:19:09. > :19:15.the north of Ireland. I applied two years ago to do my degree over here
:19:15. > :19:21.and luckily I got in. A year later, there are still none, so I got a
:19:21. > :19:28.job and Colchester's years. I have a permanent job, so I am here
:19:28. > :19:36.because of that. If there was a job opportunity back home would be
:19:36. > :19:41.taken? Yes. Tomorrow. They had both played into county football but
:19:41. > :19:47.have left Ireland because of work. Other players have recently moved
:19:47. > :19:49.to the United States in search for a job. Bad news at home but good
:19:49. > :19:52.news abroad. Northern Ireland's netball team
:19:52. > :19:54.have lost their quarter-final against England at the World
:19:54. > :19:58.Championships in Singapore. Although Northern Ireland started
:19:58. > :20:00.well, England, ranked third in the world, were always going to be a
:20:00. > :20:07.tough prospect, and their slick passing and movement soon took
:20:07. > :20:10.their toll. The final score was an emphatic 87-16 win for the English.
:20:10. > :20:13.However, the lowest that Northern Ireland can now finish in the
:20:13. > :20:17.tournament is eighth, which will be their best ever showing at the
:20:17. > :20:20.tournament. But there's better news in Hockey.
:20:20. > :20:22.Ireland beat the United States 6-2 last night in Lille in the Men's
:20:22. > :20:28.Champions Challenge. They face Russia in the semi-finals of the
:20:28. > :20:30.tournament tomorrow. From present day sport to some
:20:30. > :20:36.sporting nostalgia, and the last in our series featuring newsreels from
:20:36. > :20:40.the British Pathe film archive. In the 1920s and 30s, Ireland hosted
:20:40. > :20:43.an international multi-sports competition every four years. It
:20:43. > :20:46.wasn't the Olympics, it was the Tailteann Games, open to athletes
:20:46. > :20:56.of Irish ancestry. Chris Page has been looking at some rarely seen
:20:56. > :21:02.
:21:02. > :21:05.There isn't much reference to it in the history books, but this was one
:21:05. > :21:11.of the biggest international sporting events of the 1920s. It
:21:11. > :21:17.was held in Dublin. The first Tailteann Games took place in 1924,
:21:17. > :21:22.6500 people took part, more than competed in the Olympics that year.
:21:22. > :21:28.The Irish three straight had only been independent for three years.
:21:28. > :21:33.The games for the government's way of making a point. They were saying
:21:33. > :21:36.we have our own identity and they were showing it off to the world.
:21:36. > :21:41.The Tailteann Games were inspired by an ancient festival. Their
:21:41. > :21:44.original game started nearly 4000 years ago, possibly in County Leith.
:21:44. > :21:48.The modern Games featured everything from billiards to
:21:48. > :21:58.motorboat racing. For the people of Dublin, everywhere was turned into
:21:58. > :21:59.
:21:59. > :22:02.a venue. There was motorbike and cart and even airplay the racing. -
:22:02. > :22:06.- airplane. I think my favourite sporting events from the entire
:22:06. > :22:11.Games was the staging of the swimming competitions. The man who
:22:11. > :22:19.won most of them as a man called Johnnie Wise Miller, who is known
:22:19. > :22:25.to most is Tarzan. They were held in the pond in Dublin Zoo, so
:22:25. > :22:29.Tarzan won a swimming competition in Dublin Zoo. He went on to win
:22:29. > :22:36.three Olympic golds in the same year. He was one of many athletes
:22:36. > :22:42.who stopped in Dublin on the way to their Paris Olympics. This high
:22:42. > :22:48.jumper also won an Olympic and Tarzan double. Some of the medals
:22:48. > :22:53.are kept in the Croke Park Museum. Apart from this, the games have
:22:53. > :22:57.been largely forgotten. It was a marvellous and momentous moment in
:22:57. > :23:02.Irish history. It is neglected and forgotten and that is a terrible
:23:02. > :23:07.pity, because when you look back and read the newspaper reports, you
:23:07. > :23:11.see what a stunning achievement they wear, and what fun it be
:23:11. > :23:17.provided for people at a time when there was not much fun. The Games
:23:17. > :23:22.were held again in 1928 and 1932, but the success of 1924 was not
:23:22. > :23:26.repeated. The Tarzan faded into obscurity, but this city shows how
:23:26. > :23:30.it made a new nation proud. Chris has been trawling through
:23:30. > :23:37.those Pathe archives and so can you. All of the newsreels are free to
:23:37. > :23:47.view on the internet. The website view on the internet. The website
:23:47. > :23:49.
:23:49. > :23:53.address is britishpathe.com. Should get those games up again and
:23:53. > :23:55.guarantee are some more medals. The heavy showers have been
:23:55. > :23:58.creating some dramatic skies, like this over Strangford Lough and
:23:58. > :24:07.Scrabo Tower. So, can we expect more over the weekend? Angie
:24:07. > :24:11.Phillips has the weather: I wouldn't bet the umbrella this
:24:11. > :24:17.weekend. There will still be showers around but not as intense
:24:17. > :24:23.as lately. As we have seen, at there were some still around today.
:24:23. > :24:27.Not so much in the north but the South was definitely clapped.
:24:27. > :24:35.Further south, County Kildare was caught beneath some pretty
:24:35. > :24:43.prolonged showers. Still a few showers around particularly
:24:43. > :24:48.tomorrow, but they should clear by Sunday. Back to today, another
:24:48. > :24:54.scene of a rather threatening shower on the beach. Showers will
:24:54. > :24:58.tend to drift away south, and these off leaving many with a dry up, a
:24:58. > :25:08.brighter end to the day. Not particularly chilly in the towns
:25:08. > :25:10.
:25:10. > :25:15.around the coast, around 10 Celsius or 11 Celsius. Into the weekend,
:25:15. > :25:25.we're looking at some bright spells, with still a few showers but fewer
:25:25. > :25:27.
:25:27. > :25:34.in number. As we head into the afternoon, the showers will be more
:25:34. > :25:38.frequent across the eastern side, perhaps in Belfast or County Antrim,
:25:39. > :25:44.but nothing compared to the last few days. Temperatures around 19
:25:44. > :25:53.Celsius in the south-east, a little fresher towards the coast. Some
:25:53. > :25:57.dire weather pushing him. It may be possible to have a barbecue
:25:57. > :26:01.tomorrow evening but there will be some showers still lingering.
:26:01. > :26:11.Tomorrow night, are mostly dry night, with temperatures still on
:26:11. > :26:12.