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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Noel Thompson and Donna | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
Traynor. The headlines this Monday evening: | 0:00:15 | 0:00:20 | |
The two-day downpour brings flooding misery to many homes. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
There will be further heavy pulses of rain in the west this evening | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
before the wind and the rain eventually eases. I'll have the | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
latest. A 60-year-old man dies after being | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
assaulted outside a city centre taxi rank. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
The Prison Service at watershed - a report calls for radical change, | 0:00:34 | 0:00:40 | |
including up to 600 redundancies. Northern Ireland's golfers lead the | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
European Ryder Cup standings. We hear from the player who is top of | 0:00:44 | 0:00:53 | |
For two days now heavy downpours have brought misery to many, with | 0:00:53 | 0:00:58 | |
homes and businesses flooded and roads blocked. We've reports | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
tonight of roads flooded and traffic queues from Keady to | 0:01:00 | 0:01:08 | |
Lisburn to Maghera. Later in the programme we'll hear how home | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
insurers are reacting to this latest deluge and, of course, we | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
will have a detailed weather forecast. First Mervyn Jess has | 0:01:15 | 0:01:24 | |
visited some of the worst hit areas. Guy in after last night's floods, | 0:01:24 | 0:01:29 | |
what was left of this kitchen and living room was being put in the | 0:01:29 | 0:01:36 | |
bin and taken away. The water was just running through the back of | 0:01:36 | 0:01:40 | |
the house, right out through the front. Several houses here were | 0:01:40 | 0:01:45 | |
swamped. But first they realise something was wrong was when they | 0:01:45 | 0:01:51 | |
noticed water pouring through the backdoor key holes. The water was 4 | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
ft deep. Once the manhole was opened it was like a geyser. All of | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
the raw sewage was out and coming into the house. Yesterday's more or | 0:02:00 | 0:02:08 | |
less constant rain damaged disc care home in County Antrim. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:18 | |
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Householders struggled to keep the floods at bay. This morning | 0:02:21 | 0:02:25 | |
following trees blocked several Brits, as did landslides like this | 0:02:25 | 0:02:32 | |
one near Ballyclare. Just outside Maghera, part of the roadside was | 0:02:32 | 0:02:42 | |
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simply washed away into a field. This railway bridge had a problem | 0:02:45 | 0:02:50 | |
with the level of the water underneath it. A row of cottages, | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
most of them occupied by pensioners, was flooded for the second time in | 0:02:55 | 0:03:01 | |
a week. Ironically they are blaming ongoing work to improve and near by | 0:03:01 | 0:03:07 | |
storm drain. Last week was worse. We have never had anything like | 0:03:07 | 0:03:17 | |
this, since they started the strain out here. The carpet is up and | 0:03:17 | 0:03:27 | |
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you're back down to stone floors. For us to put another good car put | 0:03:27 | 0:03:32 | |
down their, but to put a carpet down there again and in another two | 0:03:32 | 0:03:38 | |
weeks, what is going to happen? He will pay for at that time? I don't | 0:03:38 | 0:03:43 | |
care what it looks like, he can stay that way until those boys are | 0:03:43 | 0:03:52 | |
finished working out there. These homeowners had the rivers agency | 0:03:52 | 0:03:59 | |
out to look at the nearby river. Meanwhile, Deborah Beck is facing | 0:03:59 | 0:04:05 | |
up to living with the aftermath of the flood. I have anarchistic ten- | 0:04:05 | 0:04:11 | |
year-old son. He has to stay here. His routine cannot be broken. I | 0:04:11 | 0:04:17 | |
couldn't even begin to make him a lunch, so he is upstairs Africa, | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
because of all the noise. I have been offered to go to a hostel, but | 0:04:22 | 0:04:28 | |
it is not feasible to take my son out of his home. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:33 | |
With the rain still falling, those most at risk are standing by with | 0:04:33 | 0:04:37 | |
sandbags at the ready. Let's go live to the County Down | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
coast to see what's happening there. Our district journalist Claire | 0:04:39 | 0:04:49 | |
Savage is in Portaferry. Clearly very wet and windy. The weather is | 0:04:49 | 0:04:54 | |
absolutely miserable here. It has been raining throughout most of | 0:04:54 | 0:05:00 | |
today. We have seen a lot of surface water on the roads. If | 0:05:01 | 0:05:07 | |
motorists have been exercising care for fear of aquaplaning. I have | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
reports of standing water across Northern Ireland. You in the | 0:05:11 | 0:05:16 | |
peninsula tonight we are expecting winds of up to 45 miles an hour. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:24 | |
The weather has not been that bad compared to other places. The road | 0:05:24 | 0:05:30 | |
was still passable down to port - - down to Portaferry. The ferry is | 0:05:30 | 0:05:40 | |
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running as usual. We are hopefully over the worst of it here. Let's | 0:05:40 | 0:05:45 | |
get more detail on all this rain. Lindsey Armstrong has been tracking | 0:05:45 | 0:05:55 | |
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And number of factors have contributed to where we are now. It | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
is the amount of rainfall that has fallen in a very short space of | 0:06:00 | 0:06:07 | |
time. 24 mm in the last day. There has been no real break from the | 0:06:08 | 0:06:14 | |
rain. From 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, it moved in quickly. A | 0:06:14 | 0:06:24 | |
small reprieve, but then more rain The police have started a murder | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
investigation following the death of a man in Belfast. Joe O'Neill, | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
from the west of the city, had been assaulted and died in hospital this | 0:06:30 | 0:06:40 | |
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morning. Kevin Sharkey reports. Joe O'Neill assisting multiple head | 0:06:44 | 0:06:49 | |
injuries. This is where the attack happened, close to did did this end | 0:06:49 | 0:06:57 | |
of the Falls Road. The family are absolutely traumatised. Their | 0:06:57 | 0:07:02 | |
father and their husband went out to work and just did not come home. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:11 | |
I knew him from the area. A lovely family. A lovely quiet family. His | 0:07:11 | 0:07:16 | |
children would often be out on the street playing. They were a well- | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
respected family. The police - - at the police have confirmed that a | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
34-year-old man has been charged in connection with the incident. He | 0:07:25 | 0:07:30 | |
was charged with grievous bodily harm before the victim died last | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
night. Joe O'Neill Riad his family in West Belfast and worked in this | 0:07:35 | 0:07:39 | |
bar and was assaulted just a short distance away. The police now want | 0:07:39 | 0:07:45 | |
to hear from anyone he was in this King Street area, or Castle Street | 0:07:45 | 0:07:51 | |
area at about 1:15am yesterday morning. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
A watershed for the prison service - that's how David Ford described a | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
report published today which recommends the most fundamental | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
reforms in the history of the system. The proposals include a | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
redundancy scheme that could mean up to 600 prison officers will lose | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
their jobs, at a cost of at least �20 million. Our Home Affairs | 0:08:05 | 0:08:15 | |
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correspondent, Vincent Kearney, reports. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:22 | |
There are almost 1800 people in prison here, the highest level in | 0:08:22 | 0:08:27 | |
many years. The prison system is the most expensive in the UK, but | 0:08:27 | 0:08:32 | |
also has been labelled the least effective. The latest reports | 0:08:32 | 0:08:37 | |
published today recommends the most radical reforms in the history of | 0:08:37 | 0:08:41 | |
the Prison Service. They include a redundancy scheme that could see up | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
to 600 prison officers lose their jobs with about 300 new staff | 0:08:46 | 0:08:51 | |
recruited under new terms and under or salaries. Publishing the report, | 0:08:51 | 0:08:57 | |
David Ford acknowledged the scale of reforms needed. It is clear that | 0:08:57 | 0:09:01 | |
lasting reform on this scale will take time. We cannot expect | 0:09:01 | 0:09:05 | |
fundamental change to happen overnight. Before appealing to all | 0:09:05 | 0:09:12 | |
political parties to support the changes. I now look to colleagues | 0:09:12 | 0:09:16 | |
to lend their weight and support to making the strategy happen. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
hopes of cross-party support were short-lived. Some politicians | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
attacked the proposal to introduce a time limit for prisoners to be | 0:09:25 | 0:09:30 | |
held on romance before trial. A number of Unionists claimed this | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
could lead to potentially dangerous criminals being automatically | 0:09:34 | 0:09:39 | |
released after a year. This statement this morning from the | 0:09:39 | 0:09:44 | |
minister reads more like a criminal's charter Thanatos about | 0:09:44 | 0:09:50 | |
anything else. The report has all the smell of the Patten report | 0:09:50 | 0:09:55 | |
around it. It strikes me that this report has more to do with the | 0:09:55 | 0:09:59 | |
comfort of the prisoners than it has to do with looking after the | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
victims. The opera of the reports later issued a statement saying it | 0:10:04 | 0:10:10 | |
did not contain a recommendation to release prisoners after a year. She | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
also urged the pigeon service to act quickly to implement the | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
proposed changes. One of the things we said at the end of the | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
introduction was what we did not want was to distribute to result in | 0:10:21 | 0:10:25 | |
a report but no change because there is history of that. For that | 0:10:25 | 0:10:29 | |
reason we're saying that although the whole change programme will | 0:10:29 | 0:10:34 | |
take a long time, the next six months are crucial in pitting the | 0:10:34 | 0:10:41 | |
foundations in place. Details of the redundancy package for prison | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
officers are still being finalised. It is understood the total cost | 0:10:44 | 0:10:49 | |
will be at least �20 million. Still to come on the programme: The | 0:10:49 | 0:10:59 | |
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baby milk bank that's running short of vital supplies. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:09 | |
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The end of the local motor biking The lawyer... a case of the | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
Jennifer Gardai murder trial goes on. Jennifer Cardy's disappearance | 0:11:24 | 0:11:30 | |
on the trot of August 1981 sparked this you'd search operation. 30 | 0:11:30 | 0:11:35 | |
years on Scottish serial killer Robert Brack stands accused of | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
murdering her that day, but his defence say the jury cannot even be | 0:11:39 | 0:11:44 | |
sure he was in Northern Ireland, let alone that he killed her. His | 0:11:44 | 0:11:48 | |
defence said that the prosecution would try to put a square peg into | 0:11:48 | 0:11:54 | |
a round hole. Opportunity is the key in this case, he said, and on | 0:11:54 | 0:12:00 | |
this the prosecution case is weak, flimsy and unsatisfactory. He also | 0:12:00 | 0:12:06 | |
claimed that there were striking differences between Robert Black's | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
three known killings and that of Jennifer. He said Jennifer had not | 0:12:09 | 0:12:12 | |
been dressed as he liked his victims to be dressed and that when | 0:12:12 | 0:12:17 | |
her body was recovered her shoes were still in place. He said | 0:12:17 | 0:12:21 | |
missing shoes were a tell-tale sign that Black had been at the scene of | 0:12:21 | 0:12:27 | |
a crime. The shoes were always removed. He said that this was a | 0:12:27 | 0:12:30 | |
difficult and emotional case, but said they had to make the decision | 0:12:30 | 0:12:34 | |
could lead, calmly and dispassionately, even if they had | 0:12:34 | 0:12:38 | |
the utmost sympathy for Jennifer's family and none at all for Robert | 0:12:38 | 0:12:42 | |
Black. Maybe some or all of you would like to convict him because | 0:12:42 | 0:12:47 | |
of what you know about him, but you don't decide verdicts on a motion. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:56 | |
The judge will begin his summing up tomorrow. | 0:12:56 | 0:13:03 | |
And just how many have used the new Peace Bridge in Londonderry so far? | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
A detective investigating the death of a police officer 37 years ago | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
says he is confident a review of the case will uncover fresh | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
evidence. Inspector Bill Elliott was shot by Republicans from the | 0:13:11 | 0:13:15 | |
Official IRA at the scene of a bank robbery in 1974. The author and | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
screenwriter Ronan Bennett, who was then aged 18, was jailed for the | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
murder. His conviction was overturned a year later. A senior | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
police officer says he believes they can make progress despite the | 0:13:23 | 0:13:33 | |
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During the process, some opportunities were identified and | 0:13:34 | 0:13:39 | |
as a result, the case will be reopened for investigation and it | 0:13:39 | 0:13:42 | |
is my view that there are people out there who will have information | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
that might assist the investigation. People do know who is involved and | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
I would appeal to those people to come forward with information in | 0:13:50 | 0:13:54 | |
order that the suspects can be proper for the court. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
If you have spent the weekend brushing water out of your house or | 0:13:58 | 0:14:00 | |
business, what help can you expect from the insurance company? Our | 0:14:00 | 0:14:09 | |
consumer correspondent joins us. Perhaps you have already had a | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
flooding experience but it does affect insurance, doesn't it? | 0:14:12 | 0:14:16 | |
As if clearing up after a flood is not bad enough, the sting in the | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
tail comes when you try and renew your insurance. Most of us these | 0:14:19 | 0:14:25 | |
days use price comparison sites on the internet. But if you have had a | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
flood and made a claim, you may find it more difficult to get | 0:14:28 | 0:14:37 | |
insured next time around. insurance companies do all used the | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
technology to find out what the risk is. That somebody was seeking | 0:14:41 | 0:14:46 | |
insurance through a search engine and you were asked the question, | 0:14:46 | 0:14:51 | |
high close you are to a watercourse. The chances are you may still | 0:14:51 | 0:15:01 | |
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receive a rejection but he may still receive insurance. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:06 | |
These weather events are becoming more and more frequent? A higher | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
premium or a larger excess. That means in your next policy you may | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
have to agree to foot more of the bill yourself if the house if | 0:15:13 | 0:15:16 | |
flooded again. In some cases the excess may run into thousands of | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
pounds. The insurance industry says the cost of flood damage has | 0:15:19 | 0:15:29 | |
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increased sharply. It is an increasing phenomenon, certainly in | 0:15:30 | 0:15:38 | |
terms of frequency of their event and cost of events. In total UK | 0:15:38 | 0:15:43 | |
terms, costs have increased over 200% in the equivalent period in | 0:15:44 | 0:15:49 | |
the last century so it is an increasing problem. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:51 | |
The cost of household insurance hasn't been increasing as fast as | 0:15:51 | 0:15:55 | |
motor premiums. Home insurance is a a very competitive sector of the | 0:15:55 | 0:16:05 | |
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market. A vital service helping premature | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
and seriously ill babies is desperately looking for help from | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
new mothers. The human milk bank in Irvinestown helps babies in | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
neonatal units across Ireland by supplying donated breast milk to | 0:16:20 | 0:16:27 | |
babies who cannot be fed by their own mothers. But supplies have been | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
hit because with people under financial pressures, many women who | 0:16:30 | 0:16:40 | |
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would have been donors have returned to work sooner. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:47 | |
These babies are thriving but six- month-old baby Lily needed some | 0:16:47 | 0:16:54 | |
help at the start of her life. was born with erratic breathing and | 0:16:54 | 0:16:58 | |
she went to the neonatal unit and she had some Donna milker their, | 0:16:58 | 0:17:02 | |
hence the reason that I would like to give a little bit back as well. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:06 | |
Jackie has now become a donor for the human milk bank in Irvinestown. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:12 | |
It helps sick babies in hospitals all over Ireland. Where helping | 0:17:12 | 0:17:18 | |
lots of babies, some of them very premature. One baby we are helping, | 0:17:18 | 0:17:24 | |
her mother has cancer and is unfit to feed. We have another bum who | 0:17:24 | 0:17:29 | |
has been involved in a car accident and she is having done a milk for | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
her baby because she is still in intensive care. Breast love this | 0:17:32 | 0:17:36 | |
also given to babies who have heart surgery as it helps prevent | 0:17:36 | 0:17:42 | |
infection. So far this year, donors have helped more than 400 babies | 0:17:42 | 0:17:47 | |
including 35 sets of twins and six sets of triplets. But while there | 0:17:47 | 0:17:51 | |
have been plenty of mum's willing to donate to the bank, the economic | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
downturn is having an impact. At this time of year, the freezer | 0:17:55 | 0:18:03 | |
should be full of milk but as you can see, the shelves are empty. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:10 | |
also ask for a minimum donation of three litres because lots of mums | 0:18:10 | 0:18:15 | |
have to go back to work up much earlier. Often they can be that | 0:18:15 | 0:18:18 | |
main breadwinner and just for them to provide three litres and then | 0:18:18 | 0:18:25 | |
managed to get back to work, they are doing fantastic work. More new | 0:18:25 | 0:18:30 | |
mums are desperately needed to keep this life-saving service running. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
Feeding your own baby is a struggle at the start to get used to it so | 0:18:33 | 0:18:37 | |
if you can help somebody in the meantime until they get over an | 0:18:37 | 0:18:42 | |
illness or anything, it would be brilliant. If baby Lily could speak, | 0:18:42 | 0:18:49 | |
I am sure she would say thank you to the donor mums who helped her. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
A golfer from Northern Ireland leads the European Ryder Cup points | 0:18:52 | 0:19:00 | |
standings and it may not be the one you think. Here's Stephen Watson. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
Not our major champions Roy McIlory, Darren Clarke or Graeme McDowell | 0:19:03 | 0:19:06 | |
but Belfast's Michael Hoey who made a flying visit back on today after | 0:19:06 | 0:19:11 | |
a top 20 finish at the Castello Masters in Spain yesterday. He | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
recently won the prestigious Dunhill Links tournament at St | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
Andrews and today leapfrogged McIlory into the number one | 0:19:16 | 0:19:26 | |
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European Ryder Cup position. Hopefully this time next year, I | 0:19:26 | 0:19:32 | |
will be on top of the Ryder Cup list. List. Dunhill was a massive | 0:19:32 | 0:19:37 | |
amount of money and last week I was top 20 so I have now played in two | 0:19:37 | 0:19:42 | |
major championships against the best players in the world and | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
travelling with Rory, Graham and Darren, so is a huge boost my | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
confidence. The local motorcycling season came | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
to an end at the weekend with the traditional Sunflower Trophy event | 0:19:51 | 0:19:54 | |
at Bishopscourt. Ian Lowry from Moira upset the odds to win a hat- | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
trick of races. One of Northern Ireland's best-ever riders rolled | 0:19:58 | 0:20:07 | |
back the years to stand on the top step of the podium. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
Feeling the chill at the sunflower, the end-of-season finale isn't | 0:20:11 | 0:20:15 | |
famous for its pleasant conditions but it does bring together the best | 0:20:15 | 0:20:20 | |
local racers along with a few big name of visitors. Ian Laurie was | 0:20:20 | 0:20:29 | |
the man at the meeting beating world racers. His margin of victory | 0:20:29 | 0:20:32 | |
was comfortable, he took full advantage of his team-mate's | 0:20:32 | 0:20:40 | |
misfortune. It's a pity that my team-mate got hurt. He has no be | 0:20:40 | 0:20:43 | |
broken if Europe's. He had an accident coming out of the last | 0:20:43 | 0:20:47 | |
turn up but it is great for me to win this. I have come off the back | 0:20:47 | 0:20:51 | |
of two difficult seasons so to come back and right of my old team with | 0:20:51 | 0:20:56 | |
all the guys that I know well, it is fantastic and it is good to come | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
and do it in front of the home crowd. He wasn't the only man with | 0:21:00 | 0:21:05 | |
a smile on his face. 48 year-old journey McWilliams cut through the | 0:21:05 | 0:21:09 | |
field in the Super twin race like enthusiastic teenager. The former | 0:21:10 | 0:21:13 | |
grand prix racer went from last to first on a bike he had ever run | 0:21:13 | 0:21:19 | |
before. Not even in practice. Once a racer, always a racer. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
There's a familiar look to the top of local footballs Carling | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
Premiership. The Champions Linfield moved back into first position, | 0:21:24 | 0:21:34 | |
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jumping above Portadown who they beat at Windsor Park. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:39 | |
Champions Linfield got to a flier, thanks to the school on five | 0:21:39 | 0:21:49 | |
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minutes. Portadown had plenty of chances of their own. They went | 0:21:49 | 0:21:55 | |
close on a number of occasions before Robert's 5th goal of the | 0:21:55 | 0:22:00 | |
season, sending the blues clear at the top. Across town, Crusaders | 0:22:00 | 0:22:10 | |
travelled to Cliftonville a. They went in front after just 18 minutes. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:17 | |
Crusaders Martin Donnelly levelled matters on the half-hour mark. The | 0:22:17 | 0:22:24 | |
win was secured here. Sending the solitude to crowd berserk in the | 0:22:24 | 0:22:31 | |
process! Glentoran are still eight points of the top spot despite a 5- | 0:22:31 | 0:22:35 | |
0 demolition of Dungannon. Coleraine got back to winning ways | 0:22:35 | 0:22:40 | |
on Saturday, easing to a 3-1 win over Lisburn Distillery. It doesn't | 0:22:40 | 0:22:46 | |
get any easier for or Glenavon as they went down 2-1 away to Donegal | 0:22:46 | 0:22:50 | |
Celtic. Phil Coulter. Loughgiel of Antrim have confirmed | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
their status at the summit of club hurling in Ulster. They retained | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
their provincial title with a 16 point win over down champions | 0:22:56 | 0:23:04 | |
Ballycran. It would have taken a hearty soul | 0:23:04 | 0:23:08 | |
to venture up Belfast's first win yesterday, never mind watch or play | 0:23:08 | 0:23:15 | |
a game of hurling but under floodlights at 3pm in the afternoon, | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
it was Ballycran who were eventually dazzled as Loughgiel, | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
wearing red, overwhelmed their opponents with a dominant second | 0:23:22 | 0:23:28 | |
half display. The goals merely added to the glass. It takes the | 0:23:28 | 0:23:33 | |
Antrim men to a second consecutive All-Ireland semi-final and answers | 0:23:33 | 0:23:39 | |
some of their critics. We are no longer tied with the jokers. We | 0:23:39 | 0:23:45 | |
have won two titles in a row. is no doubt that they want to go a | 0:23:45 | 0:23:49 | |
step further than last year. We weren't so far away last year but | 0:23:49 | 0:23:53 | |
we are going to put a massive effort into this this year and we | 0:23:53 | 0:23:57 | |
can sit back and watch the Munster championship and see who replay. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:01 | |
Until then, there will be a little celebration but plenty of hard work | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
on the training field. The Belfast Giants are still top of | 0:24:05 | 0:24:08 | |
the ice hockey's elite League after one win and one defeat at the | 0:24:08 | 0:24:18 | |
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weekend. The peace bridge in Londonderry has | 0:24:20 | 0:24:24 | |
proved to be a big success since opening in the summer. The numbers | 0:24:24 | 0:24:28 | |
crossing the bridge has exceeded all expectations. Can you guess how | 0:24:28 | 0:24:34 | |
many? With the answer, here is Keiron Tourish. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:38 | |
Count Dracula helped celebrate the fact that two UN and 50,000 people | 0:24:38 | 0:24:42 | |
have now used the peace bridge and that this year's Hallowe'en | 0:24:42 | 0:24:45 | |
celebrations that will be a treat for spectators at the fireworks | 0:24:45 | 0:24:50 | |
display. It will be absolutely fantastic. There will be restricted | 0:24:50 | 0:24:54 | |
numbers on the bridge for safety reasons but it will provide a | 0:24:54 | 0:24:58 | |
superb vantage point. Since it opened, the bridge has proved an | 0:24:58 | 0:25:03 | |
outstanding success with walkers, joggers and cyclists, even a few | 0:25:03 | 0:25:07 | |
happy couples celebrated part of their big day here. Some have | 0:25:08 | 0:25:12 | |
fallen foul of the rules and created a bit of a stink though we | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
will not point an accusing finger at anyone. Locals have taken it to | 0:25:15 | 0:25:21 | |
the bridge. I think it is excellent, it has connected the two sides. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:26 | |
is terrific, we used in most days. It is not very good for the | 0:25:26 | 0:25:30 | |
hairstyle, though! I think it is terrific, it has been a great asset | 0:25:30 | 0:25:36 | |
to the city. Lots of people are using it. If you want to witness | 0:25:36 | 0:25:41 | |
the fireworks are from the new peace bridge, you had better get | 0:25:41 | 0:25:46 | |
here early, it is on a first-come, first-served basis. You never know | 0:25:46 | 0:25:56 | |
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who you meet! A good news is that we are going to | 0:25:58 | 0:26:02 | |
get some release from this rain that has been falling quite heavily | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
right through the weekend and into today. The bad news is, not before | 0:26:06 | 0:26:11 | |
there will be further heavy pulses of rain in County Fermanagh and | 0:26:11 | 0:26:16 | |
Londonderry. Here is the picture from earlier on. With a break from | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
the weekend rain, this next system of wet weather pitches in from the | 0:26:19 | 0:26:26 | |
east, developing into heavy pulses. That was coupled with gale-force | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
winds so that not to the edge of the temperatures and those heavy | 0:26:29 | 0:26:35 | |
pulses of rain continued to track westwards to the course of today. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
Unsurprisingly, the Met Office's weather warning will last until the | 0:26:38 | 0:26:43 | |
end of today because of further heavy rain coming. A good this rain | 0:26:43 | 0:26:46 | |
in County Londonderry and Fermanagh, right through to the end of the | 0:26:46 | 0:26:50 | |
evening. Then the wet weather will clear a way to the north-west and | 0:26:50 | 0:26:54 | |
the wind will start to die down, too. Apart from sunspots of a night, | 0:26:54 | 0:26:59 | |
will be left with a relatively dry evening and mild temperatures. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:03 | |
Tomorrow, that paves the way for a much better day, we are looking at | 0:27:03 | 0:27:07 | |
a drier set up with scattered showers and less structured rain. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:11 | |
Some good spells of about whether to begin with, then some showers | 0:27:11 | 0:27:16 | |
developing as we approach lunchtime. Drier in County Fermanagh and the | 0:27:16 | 0:27:19 | |
north Antrim coast and a much better day compared to today. The | 0:27:19 | 0:27:22 | |
shares will eventually ease away from the East altogether and the | 0:27:23 | 0:27:28 | |
winds are down as well, helping temperatures feel much milder. The | 0:27:28 | 0:27:32 | |
showers will ease the way through teatime and we will be left with a | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
try evening, paving the way for a comparatively better day come | 0:27:35 | 0:27:40 | |
Wednesday. What's more sunshine on Wednesday with far fewer shares. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:45 | |
Temperatures still on the mild side. There's do is looking very similar | 0:27:45 | 0:27:50 | |
to Wednesday and then on Friday we say hello to high pressure and long, | 0:27:50 | 0:27:56 |