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All the sudden, we are confronted with the off almost of those last | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
few hours and what she would have had to have suffered. But we have | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
the relief of knowing that the perpetrator of this gruesome, | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
horrible crime has been brought to justice. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
The parents of Jennifer Cardy. After 30 years, they now know what | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
happened in her final hours. They now know the man who murdered their | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
daughter has been convicted. Today, a jury found the paedophile and | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
serial killer Robert Black guilty of abducting, abusing and murdering | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
the nine year old who was last seen taking her new bicycle down a | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
country road near her home in Ballinderry. She was the first of | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
his four known murder victims. On BBC Newsline, we hear more about | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
the man whose trial has reminded the public of the horrific death | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
that shocked Northern Ireland in 1981. And we talk to a brother of | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
another of the children he killed. For the Cardy family, the torment | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
has never left them. Jennifer's parents sat through every day of | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
the five week trial at Armagh Courthouse. From there, here is our | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
District Journalist. Being led from Armagh Courthouse, | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
the serial killer who boasted to the police of his sick fantasies. | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
would be driving along and would see a young girl. I would get out | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
and talk to them. Try to persuade her to get into the van. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
listening detectives soon came to suspect that what they were hearing | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
was no fantasy. This was an horrific retelling, accorded | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
confession, I have just what Robert Black had done to Jennifer Cardy in | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
the summer of 1981. Today, the jury unanimously found him guilty of | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
kidnap and murder. In another part of the interview, he describes the | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
location of his so-called fantasy. It is a chilling and newly perfect | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
description of the spot where she disappeared. It was a narrow road. | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
It was going downhill. At the bottom of the hill, the road curved | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
doorway. There was a house set back from the road a bit. It was the | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
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only house in sight. 430 years, -- for the past 30 years, my family | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
have never tried to understand or think of what happened in the last | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
hours of her life. All of a sudden, we are consulted with the -- we're | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
confronted with the awful mess of those last few hours and what she | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
would have had to have suffered. That has been truly or fall for | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
each and every one of us. A painful six weeks, a painful 30 years. | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
Robert Black stole the life of our daughter, Jennifer. But Robert | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
Black did not steal the lives of me and my family. We have lived a | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
happy, prosperous life. But we must Jennifer each and every day. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Jennifer was that happiest little girl that I have ever known. She | :03:22. | :03:31. | |
was so innocent. She was just so happy. And she loved her family. | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
She had a lovely thought almost beyond her nine years. -- fought | :03:39. | :03:48. | |
for almost. Andrew and I will never forget her. She is ever remember it | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
and always messed. -- remembered. Robert Black set out from this | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
house in London in 1981. Jennifer Cardy was cycling the lanes near | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
her home in Ballinderry. There worlds collided the following day | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
with the most horrific consequences available -- imaginable for | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
Jennifer and her family. When the house was searched in 1990, they | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
found items of clothing and child pornography, offering a glimpse | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
into his life. At first, he denied even being in Northern Ireland on | :04:38. | :04:48. | |
the day that the girl disappeared. But this receipt proved that he was. | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
I think Robert Black is a lost cause to humanity. The details of | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
his crimes that we have heard over the last six weeks speak far more | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
eloquently about him than anything I could save. The story of this man | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
does not end today. There are lines of inquiry we still have an we're | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
looking at. Robert Black is an National case and it has to be | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
looked at in a national perspective. At the moment, the PSNI are the | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
guardians of the case and we brought all of the evidence over | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
from England several years ago. I think there is probably more to do | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
with Robert Black. Our reporter is still at the | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
courthouse for us this evening. He has been following this trial since | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
the start and in a moment we'll hear more from him. First, this | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
report into the background to one of the most shocking criminal cases | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
in Northern Ireland's history. This was a senseless murder that | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
had that power to shock, even in the darkest days of the Troubles. | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
What should have been an ordinary afternoon in August of 1981, as | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
this reconstruction showed, turned to tragedy. Nine-year-old Jennifer | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
set off from her house on her new bicycle to visit her friend. She | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
never arrived. When the bike was found dumped in this field not far | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
from the family home, fears for her safety grounds. What followed was | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
one of Northern Ireland's biggest ever searches. Hundreds of people | :06:21. | :06:30. | |
joined police and soldiers to call me area for clues. Among them -- to | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
comb the area for clues. Among them, this politician. Everyone was | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
shocked that a child could disappear. We were searching | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
everywhere. It was soul-destroying that there was no sign of her at | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
all. People really felt for the family. Facing every parent's worst | :06:53. | :07:03. | |
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nightmare, Andrew and Patricia Kadi maid appeals -- made appeals for | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
news of their daughter. You tried to face the inevitable, but carry | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
hope with you. Six days after she was abducted, sexually assaulted | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
and murdered by Robert Black, her body was found by two duck hunters | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
here. Robert lack of been used the nearby road for deliveries. He | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
admitted to police that he was in Northern Ireland on the day that | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
Jennifer went missing. Petrol receipts proved that that was the | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
case. At her funeral, tributes were paid to Jennifer as a lively and | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
bright little girl. But the minister who took the service says | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
the family were left with unanswered questions at that time. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
They were devastated. They were showing signs of shock and | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
devastation from the beginning. When they heard that she had been | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
found in water, lying face downward, there were all sorts of concerns as | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
to what might have happened to her. But Jennifer Cardy was not the | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
first are the last of the victims of Robert Black. The 64-year-old | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
had a long history of sexually abusing young girls. In 1982, he | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
killed again. This time, 11-year- old Susan Maxwell in the Scottish | :08:28. | :08:37. | |
borders. I year later, Caroline Hogg disappeared from her home in | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
Edinburgh. The five-year-old was later found dead in a bit. 10-year- | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
old Sarah Harper from Leeds was murdered in 1986, her body | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
abandoned in a river. These deaths sparked one of the biggest joint | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
police investigations in British criminal history. Still, Robert | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
Black evaded capture. But his murder trial ended in 1990, when he | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
abducted a six-year-old girl in Scotland. The child was rescued, | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
but the incident led police to Robert Black. He was later | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
convicted and given several life sentences. For those who | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
investigated his crimes and had an insight into the mind of the serial | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
killer, the picture is unnerving. Co-operative individual, in a sense. | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
But very close and controlled. At Coltness and somewhat empty eyes I | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
have to say. Very striking eyes which engaged you. He wouldn't | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
respond to canal material, but any time you became close to any of the | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
key issues you that you were exploring, he would stare at you. | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
And he would stare for long periods of time. The families of the other | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
victims know what the family of Jennifer Cardy are going through. | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
The brother of Susan Maxwell say that there has not been closer, | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
they just try to deal with the loss every day. There will be a tiny | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
element of relief for the family of Jennifer Cardy. But he is in jail | :10:16. | :10:26. | |
and he will rot there. It will not bring Jennifer back. It will not | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
really make a difference to the gap in their lives left by her loss. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
Jennifer Cardy would have -- have lived, she would be 40 years old, | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
perhaps with a family of her own. But Robert Claudy stole her future | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
and for that he is paying the price. -- Robert Black stole her future. | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
Our reporter is in Armagh for us now. All of the people in the court | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
house have heard this trial. It is a conclusion of many long police | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
and legal powers. It is. When the verdicts were read | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
out today, there was an audible gasp of relief and emotion from the | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
family. You could almost here 30 years of grief and pain. They | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
hugged each other. They also hard to the legal teams. I saw hardened | :11:25. | :11:35. | |
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detectives trying to struggle with their emotions. In some cases, the | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
commitment has out lasted and dominated entire careers. The | :11:40. | :11:50. | |
prosecution was led by a long- standing legal expert. Today, a | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
senior detective came out of retirement specifically to prepare | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
this case. Robert or, a retired Scottish detective, made his way | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
over for the verdict. This trial was unusual in the sense | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
that the murderous past of Robert Black was revealed to the jury. | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
Yes, the senior investigating officer talks about this case and | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
the lessons that can be learned from it. One of those key lessons | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
is that you don't always need a silver bullet of evidence. If you | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
can tie together the various strands to make an narrative so | :12:30. | :12:39. | |
compelling that it simply cannot be resisted... In this case, there was | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
the signature and recorded confession. Other police forces up | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
and down the country will now be looking to with fresh eyes at | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
Robert Black and what he might have done. A few days ago, I was | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
speaking to a detective who worked long and hard for many years over | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
this case. People said that Robert Black was never going to be | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
released from jail. He said, you always have to remember that at the | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
bottom of this case is a dead little girl. From the day that she | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
is taken away, she deserves justice. Today, she got that. | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
You are watching BBC Newsline. Still to come on the programme: | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Allegations of child abuse at two psychiatric hospitals. We talk to a | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
man who says he was a victim. And voting is well under way in the | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
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Republic to decide who will succeed A man who says he was abused at | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Lissue Children's Hospital in Lisburn has given BBC Newsline a | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
harrowing account of his time there. The man lived at Lissue in the late | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
1970s. Yesterday, the Irish News published details of a confidential | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
report into claims that staff sexually and physically abused | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
young patients at the hospital. Chris Page is here. This man has | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
told you some horrific stories? certainly has, he was at Lissue for | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
two years, 1970s seven until 1979. Although he was fairly young, this | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
happened a long time ago, his memories are very sharp, perhaps | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
because of a horror of the abuse. He does not want to be identified. | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
The main memories I have got are basically the staff were terrible. | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
They were always hitting people, and me personally. I got beaten a | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
lot, sometimes because they did not eat any dinner. Or if I did | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
something stupid. I got a beating or thrown against a wall. Or thrown | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
across the table. Basically, that was the physical side. Very | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
difficult to listen to. And did he say that many others were abused? | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
He thinks 10 other children were in the psychiatric unit at that time | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
and he was not the only one being abused. He remembers that abuse | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
happened often. There was nearly four five of us that got it. We | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
were treated badly. If you did not do what the staff told to, then | :15:27. | :15:35. | |
made you do things and you always got whatever. There were always | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
five of us. The only way I can say this is that any time there was a | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
window broken or if somebody drew on the walls with a felt-tip pen or | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
whatever, there was only one of us that would have been the one dried | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
out. And punished for it. He is the first person to have spoken | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
publicly since the Irish News published details of a confidential | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
report into allegations at the hospital yesterday. That report | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
look into claims that abuse was widespread at Lissue and Forster | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
Green Hospital in South Belfast. The police have issued a statement | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
saying they received a copy of the reviews carried out by various | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
health authorities in July and they have asked for more information and | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
many victims should contact them. Thank you. Two men have appeared in | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
court in Newry charged with the murder of Jonathan Graham in the | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
city in 2005. They were also charged with possession of a | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
shotgun and cartridges. Our district journalist, Francis Gorman, | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
reports. 20 year-old Jonathan Graham was hit at close range as he | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
parked his car outside his home in Ardcarn Park. He died later in the | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. The attack was one of four | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
shootings in the area within the space of minutes. Appearing | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
together in the dock were 55 year- old Gerard Hall from de Molly Road | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
in Newry and 33 year-old James McEvoy from Tom Daley Park in the | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
city. Both men were arrested and interviewed at the time of the | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
murders six and a hat years ago. Hall was released but like a boy | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
was charged with the murder of Mr Graham and spent one year in prison | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
before the Public Prosecution Service decided to withdraw the | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
case. But today the court heard that new CCTV evidence showed a car | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
with the registration similar to one mentioned by a wet this she | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
says she saw the accused in on the night of the shootings. The | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
district judge refused both men bail on the grounds that they might | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
interfere with witnesses, flee the jurisdiction and the fact that | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
police are looking for a third suspect in connection with the | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
murder. Both men were remanded in custody to appear via videolink on | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
23rd November. In the Republic there's less than four hours left | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
to decide who will be the next Irish President. Just over three | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
million people are eligible to cast their ballot to pick who will be | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
the ninth head of state. BBC Newsline is in Dublin tomorrow and | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
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Saturday for the results. Mark Devenport is there tonight. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
reports tonight from the polling stations indicate that voting was | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
fairly slow to start with at turn out earlier this evening at | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
anything between 20% and 30%. Did that reflect any lack of interest | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
among voters in the seven candidates to succeed Mary McAleese, | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
including Martin McGuinness? Or is it a case of voters waiting for the | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
traditional teatime rush before turning out to vote. Here is Julie | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
Kirby... With her bags almost packed and over one week to go | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
before she leaves office, Mary McAleese made her choice as to who | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
should follow her into it are a senator on a 9 o'clock this morning. | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
Botha's around the country have been doing the same since polling | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
bounce up and. -- Aras an Uachtarain. Turnouts in | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
presidential elections are usually lower than in general elections but | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
this has been an extraordinary contest. The record number of | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
candidates fighting the most divisive and bitter campaign in | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
modern electoral history. Her will emerge the victor might not | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
officially be known until Saturday. People are being asked to vote on | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
to a constitutional referendums. One is a proposal to beef up the | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
powers of parliamentary committees to allow them to hold committees | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
into matters of public interest and the other allows the Government to | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
reduce the pay of judges. There is a by-election in west Dublin to | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
fill the Dail seat left vacant by the death of Brian Adam. The | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
counting of ballots from the 43 constituencies begins tomorrow at 9 | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
o'clock. What the results relate to Dublin Castle. Because there are so | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
many candidates, it will be evening time before early figures for the | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
first clouds are known. -- counts. I am joined by the Irish | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
Independent columnist, Sam Smyth. Has the bitterness of the contest | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
been a turn-off for turn-on? Turn- off. The quality of the candidates | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
might also be contributing but people are not particularly happy | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
about this election, I believe they're not particularly enthused | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
by any of the seven candidates and certainly, the nature of the | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
campaign is probably the dirtiest election campaign of any sort, even | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
in general elections, been the history of the state. Normally by | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
the stage, the opinion polls can give you a good idea of who is in | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
the lead. The front runner was Sean Gallagher but this last minute | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
attack by Martin McGuinness, has that from everything in the air? | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
The bookies are making Michael D Higgins the odds-on favourite by | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
some stretch. What is is based on? People saying, that was really | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
damaging attack. Nobody knows, no figures, it is anecdotal. Most | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
people seem to except at John Gallagher was damaged but some of | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
the smarter people say, this could be a very tight contest on Saturday. | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
Thank you very much. The putting stations close at 10pm and we will | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
have more for you on Newsline tomorrow as the counting begins at | :21:31. | :21:39. | |
Dublin Castle. Thank you. To Family Focus next and news of a home | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
visiting programme running in the South Eastern area helping | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
vulnerable new parents. It's all about early intervention and starts | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
when the young mother is pregnant and continues until the baby is two. | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
The Colin area of West Belfast is one area running the programme and | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
I have been to meet one of the mothers taking part, Rory McIlroy | :21:53. | :22:02. | |
Danielle lives in Colin Glen, one of the most deprived communities in | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
the South Eastern Trust. Many of the young parents have experienced | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
a wide range of problems, including mental health issues, drug and | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
alcohol abuse and a history of involvement with social services. | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
The parenting programme aims to improve attachment and empathy | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
between parents and babies, which will hopefully prevent the need for | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
greater social services involvement. Intensive and sustainable home | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
visiting from early in pregnancy were we can really make a | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
difference. And that continues until the child is two years old. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
That is a long period of time were you are with the family and not | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
just the mother and father, but the wider family. So that you are | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
identifying needs and are able to scrape away at the surface and | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
expose the needs that are really going to make a difference in the | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
lives of these families. Danielle was 19 when she became pregnant. | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
Since the birth, she has had a lot more to cope with and was a victim | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
of domestic violence. She has found the programme extremely beneficial, | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
not only for her son's development but for her own self-belief. | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
self-esteem was at rock bottom when I had my son through personal | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
circumstances. Having this network around May and being able to talk | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
freely and get what I need off my chest and have impartial advice | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
given to me, that built up my self- esteem. Danielle has got her life | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
on track and to her experiences have spurred her on to help others. | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
Inspired by the support she has received through the programme, she | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
hopes to become a social worker. And good luck to her. Stephen | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
Watson is here with more on that. He's playing for the biggest ever | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
first prize in professional golf. The winner of the Shanghai Masters | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
earns $2 million. McIlroy currently leads the tournament. The 22 year- | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
old certainly seems to be a favourite amongst the local fans. | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
He is one shot ahead of the field after an eight under par 64. This | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
approach was one of the highlights of his round. The US Open Champion | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
was also red hot on the greens. This was one of five birdies during | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
his back nine. Going very well. Another Rory is in the spotlight | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
today. This one is even younger. 19 year-old Cliftonville footballer | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Rory Donnelly scored a hat-trick for his club last night to help | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
beat Linfield 6-2. The win earned Cliftonville a place in the final | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
of next month's Paddy Power County Antrim Shield. And I am afraid we | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
cannot bring you the schools. We will have to move on to motor | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
Cycling. -- those goals. Eugene Laverty has signed a two-year deal | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
to ride with Aprilia in the World Superbike Championship next year. | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
He'll partner former champion Max Biaggi in the factory team. If you | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
log onto the website, you can see all of those goals from the County | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
Antrim Shield semi-final last night. Sorry we could not bring them to | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
you. Something of a technical glitch. Now let's get some weather | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
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news with Cecilia Daly. I have been It was a very nice day, | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
particularly across parts of the East. And we were lucky enough to | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
get a picture. This is the old Robinson and Cleaver building in | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
the centre of town. Send your pictures to as... The best sunshine | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
was an Eastern Counties. Some speckled cloud at times had in the | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
sun. One or two showers around but they have gone so clear skies are | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
the main feature for tonight and it will stay dry. But Chile. | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
Katesbridge might have temperatures very close to freezing. There could | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
be a touch of frost tomorrow morning, cold start with mist | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
lingering in the valleys but otherwise most refined of pleasant | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
sunshine around in the morning. Light went to begin with but the | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
breeze picking up and that will make it feel cooler. Lunchtime, dry | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
everywhere, temperatures down on today. 12 or 13 degrees. Fairly | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
sunny skies through the early part of the afternoon. Some cloud and | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
rain will push in from the Atlantic. The middle of the afternoon, we | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
start to see cloudier skies, making it feel cool. Splashes of rain | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
moving into the West by the end of the day. Still trying the East but | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
the breeze is picking up and that cloudy damp weather will affect all | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
parts tomorrow evening and tomorrow night. Temperatures tomorrow night | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
substantially higher, at 10 and 11 degrees. Cole tonight and matter | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
tomorrow. That takes us into the weekend. Dry in the east but there | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
will be more unsettled weather pushing in. Bad weather front could | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
bring heavy rains two parts to the wet -- heavy rain to parts of the | :27:15. | :27:24. | |
West. But what seems across the West like this, we will have to | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
keep an eye on the rainfall both this weekend and into the beginning | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
of next week. Some matter whether it through the weekend and into | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
next week. No alerts, strong winds but temperatures on the rise. | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
you for that. The headlines... Jennifer Cardy was murdered 30 | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
years ago. Today, serial child killer Robert Black was convicted | :27:50. | :27:54. |